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  • Re: The TA Rides Again!

    [quote user="DumbByAssociation"][quote user="boomzilla"]So what did you tell him?[/quote] I didn't - it wasn't me he asked. The person he spoke with literally said "Launch Firefox, put the address in the address bar..."[/quote] "So when you say 'Launch Firefox' ... how do you do that?"
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by Fjp on 05-16-2013
  • Re: We dont need no stinkin tables, we got sys.dual

    [quote user="Buttembly Coder"][quote user="Aspirist"]URGENCIA TIME[/quote] Why would they translate one word and not the other? Or am I missing something?[/quote] Yes, you are. "URGENCIA" is the column name (and has no meaning to the SQL system); "TIME" is the type (and is a keyword, so not ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by Fjp on 05-03-2013
  • Re: Check if a datefield is really a datefield

    [quote user="Buttembly Coder"][quote user="Lorne Kates"] [quote user="mr_seeker"] "Well, i had to make sure that it didnt break oracle."[/quote]  ... that which is already broken. {laugh track, freeze frame} [/quote] Last month we were setting up a pair of dev laptops, and installing the Usual ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by Fjp on 05-02-2013
  • Re: Representative ... Query

    Which table are R and RT in? ST and SB? I suspect that the answers are MM and MSL respectively. In which case you might get better performance by restructuring the query to do separate sub-selects and then combining. Something like SELECT ... FROM (SELECT MID, MT from dbo.MM WHERE ((RT = 0 AND R = AU(0,0)) OR (RT = 2 ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by Fjp on 04-26-2013
  • Re: reverse functional programming

    Unless I've misread it (which, given its verbosity and the minuscule amount of time I've been prepared to spend, is quite possible) the program does a known, and fairly substantial, amount of work and outputs the time taken to do it. Looks like a benchmarking program to me. Not necessarily the best one ever produced, mind you, and with ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by Fjp on 04-15-2013
  • Re: "We are a combination of Facebook + Blogger + Etsy + PayPal"

    I'd bet serious money that this is a scam. The marketing-speak is so nonspecific that it says essentially nothing. Anyone responding is likely to find that there are upfront fees payable and (after a long delay) no job at the end of the process - because there's no company doing any actual recruiting.
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by Fjp on 04-14-2013
  • Re: But I want it online!

    Yes, but what if we need to rerun a job from, say, August 1992? We can't afford to wait while you fetch that stuff back from archive tape ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by Fjp on 03-29-2013
  • Re: Electronic Flowers?

    Had to visit their website to see that, yes, it really does say "... our fresh flowers guarantee gives you piece of mind our flowers are always of the upmost quality."
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by Fjp on 03-16-2013
  • Re: Dead Code?

    [quote user="OzPeter"][quote user="TheRider"]Yes. The list will always contain exactly two items at that point. I forgot to post the preceding two lines, which are as follows: final int t_resultSize = t_TestList.size(); assertEquals(2, t_resultSize);[/quote]So what happens if the assertion fails? And if you ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by Fjp on 02-07-2013
  • Re: Spot the WTFs

    [quote user="Soviut"]... My guess is the developer read that the visibility property isn't supported fully on some older browsers so they wanted to be "extra sure". [/quote] My guess (based purely on the order of the settings) is that they tried visibility:hidden but found that it caused an unwanted blank area, so not ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by Fjp on 01-13-2013
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