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Posts made by Xyro
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You are the CSS to my HTML
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RE: An observation about language barriers
@Jayman said:
I also cannot get the hang of the "to be" language form. (i.e. the car needs washed, the lawn needs mowed, etc.)
It wonders me how that's even wrong!! Everyone else just needs educated. -
RE: An observation about language barriers
@Jayman said:
(Yes, two of us grew up in rural PA and have a PA Dutch dialect.)
Brother! Leave us throw the both over here a harvest party once! -
RE: It worked so we just left it
@dhromed said:
Home-grown ORM! Fantastic.
...where the "M" stands for(function(marray) {
var randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * marray.length);
return marray[randomIndex];
})(["Mutation", "Massacre", "Misdirection", "Malevolence", "Monstrosity", "Molestation", "Malediction"]); -
RE: A circumflex a circumflex a circumflex a circumflex a circumflex a circumflex a circumflex a circumflex
@boomzilla said:
@Hmmmm said:
@boomzilla said:
This sentance has three errors
FTFY
FTFTFY
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RE: An observation about language barriers
@pjt33 said:
Thanks. The terms I would use are "joined-up" and, probably, some cognate of "print". (I'm not sure that I've ever wanted to use a standalone adjective to describe non-joined-up handwriting, but the verb for writing like that is definitely "print").
Internally I name them "loopy" and "scratchy".
According to my Google search, [url=https://www.google.com/search?q=define:cursive]cursive[/url] is "Written with the characters joined," as well as "adj., sort of cursing, i.e., 'Oh, fiddlesticks,' or 'H-E-double toothpicks.'" I was unaware of the latter.
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RE: An observation about language barriers
@taustin said:
It's a lot harder to type with an accent.
It seems you've never had an email conversation with a mainframe programmer...
(You know when school teachers randomly switch between cursive and manuscript in handwritten comments? And it makes it all just a jumble of scratch marks and loops? It's like that.) -
RE: What else can WTF mean?
[url=http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Log.html#wtf(java.lang.String, java.lang.Throwable)]What a Terrible Failure![/url]
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RE: Is this a new Google scam?
@dhromed said:
@Xyro said:
s/.de/.com/
this links to the google main book page again, except in Dutch.
Interesting. I feel compelled to create a spreadsheet of the different behaviors we've seen so far cross-referenced with locale... But that's too much like real work, and avoiding that is the reason I'm hear in the first place. Solution failure. -
RE: Cowboy website writers, perhaps?
Once I played a football video game with some mad announcer guy... or something like that? Anyway, it was really confusing. Bowling is much better.
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RE: Is this a new Google scam?
[url=http://books.google.com/books?id=mmjVIC6WolgC&pg=PT90&lpg=PT90&dq=Don%E2%80%99t+pessimize+prematurely&source=bl&ots=ccStKQfJWd&sig=CirZT0c8Hx06Iez8ytAYC6QRFrE&sa=X&ei=XaZkUI7ZFcXIsgbmv4CYBw&ved=0CFUQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Don%E2%80%99t%20pessimize%20prematurely&f=false]s/.de/.com/[/url]
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RE: I hate Eclipse, Adobe, JBoss, and everything related to Java.
@lethalronin27 said:
I'd rather read a really long line of code and know exactly which object is calling which method [...]
@blakeyrat said:
I think if a language feature can be abused to write bad unreadable code, it eventually will be abused to write bad unreadable code, and therefore it should either be redesigned or removed.
We've almost come full circle back to Java!
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RE: IOS 6 Maps
@blakeyrat said:
Ok first of all, only the biggest douche in doucheland types "whilst".
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RE: We're SDLC compliant
N.B. MEMO, 2012-09-25:
New policy:
PROBLEM SOLVED.
Per auditing requirements, when handling chemicals we cannot handle, do not handle the chemicals. -
RE: Steam WTF: "You have to wait, but WE WON'T TELL YOU!"
@blakeyrat said:
You know everybody else on Earth is using that controller to play Battlefield 3, right?
Uhm... Actually, I, for one, do not use that controller to play Battlefield 3. I would have my own controller, if I played that game at all, which I do not, because I do not own it.Bam, QED. Xyro: 1, blakeyrat: 0.
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RE: I hate Eclipse, Adobe, JBoss, and everything related to Java.
XML magic is becoming less prevalent as $frameworks move to annotation-based magic. For what it's worth.
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RE: Mixed-endianness
@Lorne Kates said:
The future will make fun of us? Good thing we aren't leaving a trillion petabytes of sorted, collated and searchable pieces of quickly-staledated and highly socio-economic sensitive pieces of culture strewn about a medium that's designed to hold onto information redundantly for eternity.
With our names attached to it.
@dhromed said:
@Xyro said:
USE PURPLE DILDO
You quietly walk over to the dark part of the wall and feel your way around to pick up the dildo.=(
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RE: Ponzi
I've been offered those kinds of schemes a few times. Very recently, I was offered it with a modern twist: you "pay", via clicks, to join a web group which basically exists to defraud Google ads by browsing each other's monetized sites via social media links in order to generate false impressions.
The simple way I've found of getting them to shut up and leave me alone is to ask them, "Where is the money generated?". Well, actually, that question alone doesn't do a lot of good, since you usually have to explain it, and sometimes the explanation trails off into non-zero-sum economic theory. But after a small chat, once they realize they themselves can't figure out where the money is really coming from or how it's being created, they stop to think long enough for me to move on.
(Once, that technique didn't quite work, as instead I was begged to go to some seminar meeting that would explain everything, promise. I asked him flat out why he couldn't explain it himself, but he just kept going on about the seminar. I wanted to attend in order to be a disruptive troll jerk slash hero, but I already had plans...)
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RE: Bringing a window back on-screen
I don't always use Windows
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RE: YouTube's content ID system. AGAIN.
@boomzilla said:
That's fair. But a car analogy would have been much better.
Oh, hey, speaking of cars, I was playing a video game the other day that involved using a car. You'd be in the car and driving around and doing stuff. It was pretty fun. Have you guys played this one? -
RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
@boomzilla said:
@SpectateSwamp said:
Knowledge should be short and to the point. Like this thread.
This is the funniest thing anyone has said in this thread for at least 600 posts.I laughed out loud.
Now for the sobering question: Is Spectate intentionally using humor?
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RE: Decrypt this code! (+high school computer security)
@MiffTheFox said:
Filed under: It's a piece of cake to have a safe network / when the way is hazy / you gotta do the admin by the book / you know you can't be lazy
If you use some cheap security,
the LAN will turn out crazy
But if you do the admin by the book
AAAANOOOOO THANKS FOR GETTING THAT STUCK IN MY HEAD I was sober and clean for nearly a year now and NOW IT'S BACK AAAAARRG -
RE: Decrypt this code! (+high school computer security)
I guess I had a good computer teacher, then. He challenged the tech-savvy among us to bypass the security for 20 bonus points. (Not that any of the tech-savvy needed them.) I won the challenge, but I swore I wouldn't reveal how.
I will, however, give a hint on how I figured it out: it involved looking up the software's name on Google!
Sadly, he only gave me 15 bonus points since all I did was look up known vulnerabilities. I think he learned more from that than I did, though. The following year, security was much much more difficult to bypass.
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RE: Circular Error Handler
@boomzilla said:
Can you elaborate here? What else would you want to log? Seems like excessive logging could lead to nightmares, privacy-wise.
Log every critical process! Anything that goes to IPC, anything that enters an important region, anything that handles risk. Think of the data as being passed in a bucket through a bucket brigade. Everyone in that line needs to say "Got it!" when they are handled the bucket. You don't need to shout out which fingers are holding the handle (except maybe if being passed to an arthritic member), and you of course don't want to expose sensitive data, but otherwise I strongly advocate to use sufficient logging so that you can always tell what is happening to your data and where.
If a process hangs, or takes an unusually long time, or incorrectly accepts bad values, etc, you need to know where and why. And if your data is being processed correctly, and everything is fast and shiny, you need to know that too! Even if it requires another process to purge off old logs every so often.
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RE: Mixed-endianness
@topspin said:
@blakeyrat said:
The real WTF.
What? The??
I can't be arsed to read the whole article, but WHY THE FUCK is that in there? That definitely is the real WTF you found there.
Yeah! That's totally upside-down! WTF!!!
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RE: The schemas don't need to match
Taking inspiration from an old Dilbert which I can't manage to find at the moment, if you didn't implement the stupid and kept the XML the same, would boss+1 even know..?
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RE: Mixed-endianness
It certainly prevents naive developers from making any assumptions. That's almost a good thing!
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RE: Yay! Passwords!
sql.excute("ALTER USER " + getParam("user") + " IDENTIFIED BY " + getParam("password").reverse());
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RE: Team Foundation Server Express 2012
@bridget99 said:
I fundamentally misunderstand source control
I was about to respond to this, but then I saw that it was bridget who wrote it. My compulsion has deflated.I'll just watch someone else respond instead.
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RE: Has anybody ever done a usability study on the Linux CLI interface?
@dhromed said:
@Xyro said:
Explain this discrepancy.
It's because the numbers are different.
But they shouldn't be different. I don't want them to be different. -
RE: Has anybody ever done a usability study on the Linux CLI interface?
@nonpartisan said:
The copyright says 1990, but the date template is for 20xx. Explain this discrepancy. -
RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
What's the surprise? Or will we have to wait for it?
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RE: But we have to stick to our budget!
@Cassidy said:
what alternative ticketing systems have people had experience with?
Emails. And phone calls for escalation. Remedy tickets generally degrade to this anyway, but it works much smoother form the get-go.
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RE: Only one person can use the db at a time
@Speakerphone Dude said:
Technically he said: "what if deity$ is null" which implies that we may not be able to know.
Heretic!! You worship at the alter of SQL!! -
RE: But we have to stick to our budget!
@PJH said:
Footprints
I am so sorry for you!They were the ones that bought out and still sell the awful Remedy system. bllaaaaugh
For those not familiar with it, it's a monstrously resource-intensive entity-attribute-value-esque ticketing/helpdesk-type application. It feels like it was made in VB5. And it hates scrollwheels.
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RE: The data is in which table?
@zelmak said:
The bad thing is that you have NO IDEA what other WTFs this guy's created before he got fired.
That is why I read these forums every weekday! -
RE: Representative Line
@Someone You Know said:
@dhromed said:
@Someone You Know said:
a tupled god
Then I became a polytheist
BURN PAGAN BURNIf it's a 3-tuple singular god, then it's actually not pagan at all!
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RE: The data is in which table?
@mott555 said:
They're also very good at specifications. But it's sort of like that saying about following the letter of the law but not the spirit. You'll give them specs and they'll get the feature or project done, and it will work. But only with the test/example data you provided with the specs. Any deviation in input and the whole thing burns like a Colorado wildfire.
I too have noticed this phenomenon several times with offshore developers. I don't understand it. What's worse, it hasn't made us any better at making specs or test cases. So we're all doomed.I don't understand to what to attribute the expectation discrepancy. Communication, language barrier? Poor workplace culture? Just plain lazy developers? But it's so rampant. Is it a side-effect of the lack of context given to the offshores? Do we all just suck at explaining what we want from them? Perhaps developers are just as bad as clients as non-developers? Whatever the reason, I wish we didn't rely on them so much.
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RE: Yet another sleep
I understand!
All solids are dry, because they are not liquid.
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RE: Gmail is the real wtf
@blakeyrat said:
PROTIP: Other things that read as "the person typing this is a douchebag":
1) "I, for one"
2) Sentences starting with "Actually,"
3) Sentences starting with "Uhm,"This is a very good list. Every once in a while at work, I'm copied on a intensely passive-aggressive email that ends with a smiley face. My opinions of the sender is sealed as soon as I see it.
Combining these, and spicing it with a personal pet peeve, we get something such as
"Uhm, actually, I, for one, think you're a douchebag, brah :)" -
RE: Yet another sleep
@dhromed said:
All ice is dry! Your heat melts its surface and makes it wet!
What if you dump water over the ice? Eh? Eh?? -
RE: Has anybody ever done a usability study on the Linux CLI interface?
Ah, I see, yes, this is a delightful thread.
Personally, I like the insert key on the keyboard. Any keyboard without a dedicated insert or sysrq key is just dumb.
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
2012 doomsday is just about a quarter away. Has there been any advancements on saving the planet (and thus SSDS)? Or was that already taken care of?
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RE: Has anybody ever done a usability study on the Linux CLI interface?
Wtf, where did this thread come from? I'm not going to read five pages of infantile ranting, but I still have an irrational desire to toss in my invaluable opinion. Anyone wish to summarize? Or can we just skip to the part were we talk about video games?
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RE: Chicken and egg dependency
@Cassidy said:
@Xyro said:
The Java runtime library, rt.jar, contains 815 packages on my Java 7 environment.
Packages, or Classes?Packages. The class count is 18,830. (That includes inner and anonymous classes.)
jar -tf rt.jar | wc -l
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RE: Chicken and egg dependency
@Ben L. said:
If a short-lived Java program uses hundreds of packages, something is wrong.
This made me curious, so I counted.Loading the java program enough to call
java -version
, which is about as minimal a meaningful load of the Java runtime as you can get, requires 28 packages. The Java runtime library, rt.jar, contains 815 packages on my Java 7 environment.Here are teh codez:
java -verbose:class -version | perl -e 'while(<>){next unless /Loaded/; $_=(split/ /)[1]; s/\.[^.]+$//; $p{$_}=1;} @p = sort keys %p; print join("\n", @p), "\n", scalar(@p), " packages.\n"'
jar -tf /opt/java7/jre/lib/rt.jar | perl -e 'while(<>){s!\/[^/]+$!!; $p{$_}=1;} @p = sort keys %p; print join("\n", @p), "\n", scalar(@p), " packages.\n"'
This is using Oracle's JVM in an HP-UX environment.