Snoofle, Once everything calms down you will have to tell us what the long term ramifications are.

Impressive, I did not even know you could do that.  Once I think I have seen the level of crazy stuff people can do with PHP, someone comes along and one ups it.

[quote user="Cassidy"][quote user="ubersoldat"]This is one of the topics which I was never taught in college, which struck me as a rather very bad thing. [/quote]  Ditto, but I think my college days preceeded code versioning systems. I've since been shown how to branch (but not told why and when I should do so) and ...

Trust me, don't under estimate people's ability to mess up branching.  I have had to deal with some seriously messed up branching.

[quote user="nic"]I'm demonstrating my technical ignorance, but as someone who has just graduated and have just noticed myself writing nearly exactly that above code style, what should I be doing instead? I have a list of variables that I need to access from other classes. So I've just been setting the variables as 'public ...

I hope that the 'deal of the day' was for 95% off.

I am personally holding off any judgement for or against Windows 8 until I use it for myself, which I have no idea when that will occur.

[quote user="Qwerty"][quote user="Weng"]Apparently my grip on reality is too tight. [/quote] Yep, I've seen that one before. Mostly when talking to HR. I don't even get emails from Sales.[/quote]Great quote, I am so going to have to make this my sig.

[quote user="Weng"] Actually, it's really delicious. We made more money with the fuckup than we would have without - the only thing we lost is face with the client because they had to take a compliance hit. You see, the cause was ENTIRELY on them changing the file. What we produced isn't what was specified, but there was ...

[quote user="blakeyrat"]Another bitch about modding: every comment I get on Workshop is like "I like your mod but instead of what it does it should do X, Y, and Z. I like it but I'd like it better if it did X, Y and Z." And I always reply, "if you want to make your own mod based on mine, feel free. I'll even give ...