[quote user="boomzilla"][quote user="lucas"] They start at zero because mathematicians start counting at zero, coming from a maths heavy background I find it makes sense. [/quote] Bullshit. Mathematicians count from 1 just like anyone else. Zero based indexing comes from pointer arithmetic. If you're working at ...

[quote user="Lorne Kates"][quote user="joe.edwards"] What you want is min-width:5000%[/quote]  min-width isn't supported in IE. Which gets back to the OP's original point. [/quote] It has been since IE7. If you're still devving for IE6, my condolences. [edit] Okay, sorry. Someone already said that. ...

[quote user="snoofle"] private void checkAndSetValue(String []items) { for (int i=0; i<items.length; i++) { String[] item = items[i].split(","); // ToDo: add null check if (item[0].equals(VALUE1)) setValue(item); else if (item[0].equals(VALUE2)) setValue(item); else if ...

[quote user="havokk"]That is because Computer Science is not the study of programming; any more than Astronomy is the study of Telescopes.[/quote] True, but a good astronomer should know and be able to use his tools. I'm in my fourth year of CS and utterly amazed at how some people still have trouble with basic programming after a ...

TL;DR version of this whole thread: both Windows and Linux have their advantages, quirks and WTF's

[quote user="henke37"]Remind me again why we still use it.[/quote] Because Alex hates OSS and community server stopped being free in 2009. Seriously, even PHPBB or something is better than this.

[quote user="Ragnax"]Most modern hard drives will have native command queuing (NCQ) enabled by default, in which case a spontaneous power loss can introduce file system corruption when anything is still residing in the drive's queue.[/quote] This is 100% unrelated to NCQ. NCQ simply allows the disk to execute commands in the queue ...

Well, at least they're replacing it in a few days, according to the large red header with warning sings in it... (trans: You can reply to our housing selection untill wednesday 19 december 12 AM. Our new website goes live on 20 december, but there will not be any offers because of the holidays. See also the message at Current)

[quote user="mihi"][quote user="TGV"]At least it's not Java's Date, DateTime, Time or Calendar object... [/quote] It shares a few WTFs with Java's Date object. But if JodaTime gets into JDK8, will JavaScript get JodaTime then too? :) JodaTime is definitely the most consistent Date/Time API i've ever seen ...

[quote user="ubersoldat"]Another bug HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = "image/Jpeg"; Disregarding the type (Jpeg != jpeg)[/quote] No it's not. MIME types are case-insensitive (altough you'd better stick to lowercase since not all implementations adhere)