@GNU Pepper said:
HN is the DeviantART of developer side projects.
So there's quite a lot of really awesome code on it?
@GNU Pepper said:
HN is the DeviantART of developer side projects.
So there's quite a lot of really awesome code on it?
@gu3st said:
That works on files.. I can't select a block of text here in this compose area and say "Send to Email" can I?That sounds hideously invasive on the OS's part. Is copy/paste really such a cognitive burden now?
@gu3st said:
The fun part about OS X. Everything has a "Share" option. You selected text in your IDE and right clicked? Oh, you can share that by Email or Twitter! You opened a picture of your dick and want to send it to your GF/Wife. Right click -> Share -> BOOM!It does, via the "Send to" menu. Which is even better, because AFAIK third-party programs aren't allowed to put their shit in it.
It's like magic. Kinda dumbfounding too that Windows doesn't have useful shit like that.
@snoofle said:
I'm going to use that; I don't know when, but I AM going to use it!
You've never heard that expression? It's... uhh... pretty common.
On the bright side, this guys is now essentially unfireable. He should have some fun with that.
@snoofle said:
Why oh why do people write code like this?Because somebody made fun of them for writing code that was clear, but verbose.
@blakeyrat said:
It's the trade-off. Is it worth $25 * 6 domains to save myself the annoyance?
Considering how often, readily, and vociferously you become annoyed, I'm going to say yes.
@TwelveBaud said:
The now-unsupported Motorola Devour supported inertial navigation using its gyroscopes and accelerometers, and now that those are standard equipment on phones the only reason not to support it is sheer laziness on the baseband developers' part.
Or, gee, maybe because the accelerometers in cell phones are entirely inadequate for performing inertial navigation.
@blakeyrat said:
@JimLahey said:And HIS point was that his (presumably tech industry) coworkers are so gormless that they can't Google their own damn error messages.paste their error message into googleIf you have to paste it into Google, it's a badly-written error message. That was kind of my point.
I've never heard of "pointcuts" before this thread. Took about five Wikipedia articles to even begin to make sense of it.
@snoofle said:
I am going to put a stop to this lunacy shortly.This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.
@MiffTheFox said:
@Weng said:Sorry, you failed your Detect Sarcasm roll.So tired of the endless Cleartype/AA/etc. arguments. Can we just go back to fucking vector monitors already?Because everyone loves bulky CRTs!
That's nothing when you've lived in the same town as one of these plants:
@Cassidy said:
eating != swallowing.
Uh, yes, it is. Otherwise you're just chewing. Or at best, tasting.
When it comes to acronym cluelessness, I'll take "Woodward Takeout Food" over "Worse Than Failure" any day.
@TGV said:
That's some high quality trolling. Wow. I see how you did it. Nothing as explosive as a moral issue, so you hop on it, make a bold statement contradiction the common sentiment, and, bang!, you're a successful troll.
Of all
the stupid shit in his post, you single out the most reasoned part to go
into screeching flailing spittle-spewing mode over?
@havokk said:
I got the impression from realmerlyn's post that they are one of those open-source zealots, thus my comment.
You know that "open-source zealot" is Randal Schwartz, right? (or someone impersonating him)
I still use PSP 7 for lightweight image manipulation (which, unless you're a professional graphic artist, is going to be 99% of what you ever need to do). PSP 8 and beyond were horrendous bloatware.
Never had any activation issues either. Must have been something Corel introduced.
@Jeremy D. Pavleck said:
@Master Chief said:It works fine on Windows 7. Why wouldn't it? Vista and 64-bit multi-core CPUs were already commonplace when it was released.Assuming Fallout works today.Not on Windows 7, it doesn't.
@operagost said:
At least those chimps could be trained to make the right choice when presented with numerals. Sales people... not so much.
Big numbers ARE candy to sales chimps.
There was a primate intelligence study done years ago where they would place two plates full of candy in front of a chimpanzee. One plate would have obviously more candy than the other. The chimps were trained to choose a plate, and would get to keep the plate that they didn't pick. Despite multiple trials in which the chimps came to fully understand the rules of the exercise, they couldn't stop themselves from choosing the plate with the most candy.
Those chimpanzees went on to be hired as Snoofle's sales force.
@fatbull said:
That's it. Good comments on that story too. Kind of depressing to be reminded how nice the comment threads used to be before the trolls took over.@Zylon said:
Speaking of jobs that shouldn't exist, I've been trying to find an old DWTF about a guy whose entire job consisted of literally cutting up directory listings with scissors and pasting them into a log book, or something like that.
@DaveK said:
My post links to itself, and therefore illustrates recursion better.Your post links to itself, and therefore illustrates an infinite loop. Good day sir.
@blakeyrat said:
@atipico said:Oh look everyone, it's our precious little rebel snowflake.open-source (that's an institution-wide requirement)Found the WTF.
Speaking of jobs that shouldn't exist, I've been trying to find an old DWTF about a guy whose entire job consisted of literally cutting up directory listings with scissors and pasting them into a log book, or something like that.
@dhromed said:
@snoofle said:
I was just at that meeting on an FYI basis. All I did was ask a question. I don't hate them - yet.It's cool, it just appeared as if there was this strong us vs them mentality and things got all West Side Story real fast.
West Side Story, or The Warriors?
"Userss... come out and play-ayy...." *clink* *clink* *clink*
@da Doctah said:
I've often said that "Staples" is the worst possible name for a provider of office supplies. Picture this (which has actually happened to me): your stapler runs empty, so you go to the supply closet for a fresh box of staples to reload it. Open up the cabinet, and every box inside, regardless of size, shape or contents, has the word "Staples" plastered across it in huge red letters.Uhm, since the boxes apparently weren't labeled with their contents, you would have been screwed no matter what store they were bought from.
@snoofle said:
One of our databases is named tables (nobody who still works here knows why).Because that's what a database *IS*, doi. It's self-documenting!
Most *nix CLI tools are exceptionally usable. They are not, however, particularly discoverable/learnable. The latter is what's causing the difficulty here.
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@snoofle said:
we could divert 3 developers and get this done and tested in 2 weeks.
My boss figures we can have this done by tomorrow
Ah, the good old "Take your estimate, double it, then bump it up to the next largest unit of measure" estimation method.
@boomzilla said:
What's the over-under on how long this bout of cognitive dissonance will last?
The problem here isn't cognitive dissonance, but rather the ABSENCE of cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is good-- it's the brain's way of letting you know you're trying to hold simultaneously conflicting thoughts.
@da Doctah said:
I wonder if they know that "valve" is what the Brits call a "vacuum tube".
"Valve" is what the Brits call a "valve". They also apply the term to vacuum tubes in a metaphorical sense, since they act as an electronic valve.
@El_Heffe said:
Valve job? Is that better or worse than a RIM job?
Considering that Valve is worth billions, and is per-employee more profitable than Google and Apple, that's a fairly spectacularly stupid question.
@boomzilla said:
Hmm...previous stories suggest that you guys have a variant of a Developmestuction environment.
-1000 for even attempting to use that awful abortion of a neologism.
@C-Octothorpe said:
Odd. That's what my wife says whenever I try to agrue with her.
Agrue: To simultaneously argue and agree with someone, in the dark, where you will probably be eaten.
@Sutherlands said:
And if you wanted to go on a shooting spree, why bother stealing a gun?Why wouldn't you?
@Lorne Kates said:
Will you settle for a clueboard?
Why settle when you can get a cluebat for only pennies more a day?
@boomzilla said:
But what about something like Folding@home. That's another something that happens in the Cloud, but with stuff other than server farms.
Nah that's "cloudsourcing".
There, the ultimate obnoxious buzzword.
@lethalronin27 said:
So TRWTF is marketing. Too bad it's so effective...
Too bad it's so effective... what?
Try finishing your sentences next time,smart guy.
@dhromed said:
Closer. It's the combination of DPI and the device being held a typical distance from the viewer's face, thus exceeding the angular resolution of the human eye.@JoeCool said:
instead of just saying 960×640 pixel resolution screen.The distinguishing factor of a Retina display is the dpi, not the dimensions in pixels.