Here's the answer. I have no idea what it means, though, the name itself is too repulsive to warrant a click.
Posts made by arh
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RE: We need a graphic to describe this
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We need a graphic to describe this
It's apparently very popular to have icons that represent an action, and you're supposed to intuitively understand what the icon represents. Great idea, but not always executed very well.
The Azure management portal is such a place, when navigating menus they hide the text and show only icons. It's annoying to have to re-check what the icons mean, and sometimes they change. But this, today, was too much to bear.
Bonus points if you manage to guess what it means.
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RE: Do you work too much?
Not to spoil the fun, I love watching this fight just as much as anyone else, but this TED talk makes a very interesting point in regards to the developing world going industrial and all, and might benefit your discussion: http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine
Disclaimer: I hate it everytime someone wants me to watch a video that's more than 5min, but this was actually worth it.
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RE: Do you work too much?
@flabdablet said:
Did you not know that it's your patriotic duty to consume?
How come a Kindle edition is not available for purchase? Maybe they ran out of copies..
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RE: Do you work too much?
You don't have to alter the society in any way to do this. It's basically as simple as working part-time or in periods. At least where I live, general unemployment rate is pretty low and it's not uncommon to work less because you want more time for your kids, hobbies or whatever, and employers are generally ok with it. It's a life choice, not a social reform.
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RE: Do you work too much?
@flabdablet said:
What should be happening in this, the Age of Machines, is that we all get paid to work on weekends and remain free to pursue our own interests Monday through Friday. The fact that this is not how things are is an indictment on our organizational methods.
If you are content with the living standards of the 60s or 70s, it shouldn't be much of a problem. The reason you still have to work so much is because you want this big house, this nice car, maybe an extra car, a fancy phone, breast implants for your wife and ecological lettuce hand-picked by exotic virgins. Sticking to the basics is way cheaper now than it used to be.
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RE: Do you work too much?
@TheCPUWizard said:
Everything is relative.... Is 80 to 100 hours per week too much?? Probably for most.
37.5 hrs is per week is the norm where I live, and I would say that anything more for an extended amount of time would be too much -- but it all depends on how hard the work is and what needs you have, of course.
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RE: Bad casting choice
@morbiuswilters said:
Sadly, we will be seeing WTFs like this into the 2060s because C will never just die already.
This, so very very much. With all the security issues, memory leaks etc you would think by now most modern software would be written using managed code or something that makes it impossible for a out of bounds index to give you root control over the computer. But no.
Just look at Objective C. Whopee, another C language etching into the skull of a new generation, ensuring that in 20 years, someone will reinvent the garbage collector, call it something new and be hailed as a genius by their fellow idiots.
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Frist and welcome then die
This is a cry for help.
- I get the "Frist! And welcome" e-mail, check that it's not covert spam and click the link
- I try to sign in repeatedly, but it doesn't work (invalid credentials). Signing on/off works on normal site, so I assume it's a separate account for some Disqus-like network or something.
- I try to create a new profile. Site doesn't complain until I click submit, where it complains that the e-mail is already in use.
- LastPass has already saved my new password for this site.
- Now I don't dare to log off on TDWTF and realize I'll soon be gone.
If anyone have the option of resetting my password, please please do so..
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RE: Had to use IE to contact Google's sales team
Updated to Version 32.0.1700.76 m, problem is still there. Seems like there has to be a configuration issue on my side, somehow. Normally, backspace doesn't go back when a text field has focus, only on this page. Could it be because it is in a lightbox or something? So happy I'm not a front end developer..
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RE: Had to use IE to contact Google's sales team
@El_Heffe said:
. . . . half of it is drop-down lists and the rest is just first name, last name, email, phone number, company name and zip code. You can't type that without needing to use the backspace key?
I see an urgent need to defend my honor here. If you click next, they ask you more in detail what you would like to know. That's where I was hit. Which also means I filled in name, e-mail, company etc every time before the horror of backspace hit me.
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RE: Had to use IE to contact Google's sales team
@skotl said:
I just tried completing the form in Chrome 31.0.1650.63 and backspace worked as intended in the text fields. However, pressing backspace on a drop down (why would you do that?) does take you back to the previous page.
I have 31.0.1650.63 m, so that's the exact same version (except the m, whatever that is). Win 8.1. I pressed backspace in a normal text field.
On my mac at home I've got Version 31.0.1650.63, without the m. Everything works without a hitch.
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RE: Apple Mail fail
@DrakeSmith said:
With OS X being based on Unix, I thought it would be some kind of law that you couldn't change anything for decades if ever at all.
The graphical user interface changes, however once you start up the terminal window even an old professor in his 70s will feel right at home. My father switched from PC to Mac and was thrilled he finally got a "workstation" (although he couldn't find the 8-inch disk drive). Many I know use macs for the same reason.
Personally, I use Mac because I at first got one for free, and then because I find it refreshing to use one OS at work and one at home. Gets kind of boring to have the same everywhere. However, it should be noted I'm probably one of the few people that thought it was fun when they inverted the scroll wheel.
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Had to use IE to contact Google's sales team
So I'm trying to contact Google's sales team in order to get a quote for the Maps API: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/business/?hl=en
Pressing "contact us" opens a form in which, when using Chrome, backspace is interpreted as "go back" even when inside a text field. I have no idea how they managed that. However, it's really hard to write something without using backspace; that instinct is apparently embedded on a subconscious level.
So I had to use IE, for a change. And now I'm really afraid every time I use a form.
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RE: Stronger together
@Dogsworth said:
Is he a non-native English speaker? That would get you an F in any class I've ever been in. All that random punctuation makes my head spin.
Yes, he was non-native. But he was still way beyond anything acceptable, often it was so bad it was difficult to comprehend what he was trying to say. He was really into crafting these "moments" and "emotions", and kind of let everything else slide.
One day, he made us gather around him where he had a speech about the merging of the companies, and how we would work hard to overcome all hurdles. He compared us to the people of Israel and their journey through the desert, looking for the promised lands. Now guess who's Moses. -
Stronger together
I'm having a lazy day at the office, so I dug up an old e-mail from a CEO some years ago. We were merging with another company and had a "kick off" at a hotel with workshops and good food to boost morale. He came up with all sorts of crazy games (one of them having all of us write down what type of animal we were and let the person next to us read it out loud). Anyway:
From: CEO
Date: xx
To: Everyone
Subject: Stronger together.
Dear team,
Thank you very much for pleasant conversations, meetings and feedbacks yesterday.
My belief on us as a team, our competence and experience, are even stronger.
I am confident that we are in pole position in this growing market.
In this phase there is and will be many questions – please do not hesitate to contact my at any times.
The only thing you risk – is stupid answers:)
I want all of you to know, especially my new team members, that my goal for each of you, is that you reach your fully potential as a human being. Only by this, we excel as an unique company. Then we will make a difference out in the market, and win in the competitor race.
For your inspiration only, I want to share with you one of my favorite videos on youtube with Will Smith. (Yes it can be over the top – but I like it – and believe in the attitude). Please have a look when it suits you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfWGoLj1JCM
All the best
Make a good weekend!
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RE: SQL Azure
@Ronald said:
Extended properties are a lousy way to document a database. The typical and more effective way to do it is to use the proper features in your database IDE (like SSDT) or any other modeling/design tool that maintains a separate repository for metadata.
If you use SQL Azure I strongly suggest to rely on SSDT, it can be configured to target any version of SQL Server (including Azure) when you run the build, and it has advanced features for pre- or post-deployment scripts so you can load/update master data if needed. The deployment features also allow you to ignore stuff that may cause problems but that you missed in code review, like conflicting collations. It's free and immensely superior to Management Studio for design, coding and deployment.
SSDT looks really nice. I'll check that out. However, the great thing about extended properties/comments is that the documentation stays with the database. When you jump into some system some other people made, you might not have the IDE files and whatnot. It all depends on the environment and users. With table comments, five or ten years down the road people can still see what is what. It's simple and works great for all system sizes.
Databases tend to be painfully neglected in far too many environments, and having to rely on external tools to document it just makes it that bit worse. You have JavaDoc for Java, XMLDoc for .NET and all these fancy things. You even had PLDoc for PL/SQL, for what it was worth, when it existed. Reading a codebase and building documentation files from that is worth its weight in gold. Moving documentation out of the code/original system is a decision you make, for better or worse, but disallowing documentation in the database has no point and will definitely make things more difficult.
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SQL Azure
Ok, so we're moving stuff to the cloud. Great, I love it, there's very little not to love about the concept. Azure is cheap and nice and suddenly you end up getting married before inspecting the goods thoroughly first.
Let's deploy to Azure. Guess what: SQL Server in Azure doesn't support extended properties. WTF???? And why is that? No word. Exactly HOW do you expect me to document my database? MS Office??? And MS fanboys try to sugarcoat it by saying "well, most people don't use extended properties anyways". WHAT THE HELL IS THIS UNPROFESSIONAL SHITTY ATTITUDE. Do I look like a script kiddie with a MySQL T-shirt? This is on the level of XCode not have automatic streamlined support for class and method documentation. Are we going back in time?? Seriously???? Why do people accept this?
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RE: Insurance..
@Fjp said:
But what you really need to know is not where the "war zones" are now, but where they will be when you are on your trip. You need to ask the CIA, not your insurer.
True, but the insurance company should at the very least tell me which list they use, and point me to it.
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Insurance..
I'm travelling outside civilization this fall, so I went online to buy some insurance. The insurance was valid worldwide, except in "war zones". Since there's a bit of "social unrest" where I'm going I tried finding out where those zones were. The website didn't say, and when I called customer service I was put on hold for 10 minutes before I got an "uh... we'll have to call you back". That was yesterday. Also, they have unlimited hospital coverage, but illnesses only up to ~$850. Whatever that means.
Are there really so few people who read the terms, even the insurance company forgets them? Reminds me about the time I tried reading the license agreement for Adobe Flash and was greeted with a PDF in Urdu.
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RE: Yes, Wolfram|Alpha, that's exactly what I meant.
@SEMI-HYBRID code said:
btw what is the correct form - "offcourse" or "of course"?
Saying "Of course" would not be totally off course.
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RE: Horny
This thread has all you'll ever need: workplace sex, racism and gay bashing. And it even passes through content filters. Have we invented something special here?
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RE: Horny
What is it with you americans and the racism thing, seriously? From outside it seems like you run around screaming every time someone with darker skin is involved in something, either to let the world know that you ferociously support this guy and that his coleur is totally irrelevant to you in any way (Is he black? I didn't even notice!!), or you hate his guts and pretend like there's another reason for it (I don't mind them blacks, but it's kind of a strainer to see them on the street). In my eyes, it's kind of discriminating either way.
Anyway, didn't you replace the N-word with the M-word?
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Horny
A recent event made me want to post this, so here goes:
An episode from a previous boss, let's call her Beatrix. We were sitting in a meeting with a client.
Beatrix: Say, have you got a new skirt?
Client: Oh, yes I have, I'm wearing it first time today actually.
Beatrix: Wow, that is really nice, really sexy. I bet you get a lot of attention! (haha) What do you think, arh? Isn't she sexy?
arh: Uhm..
Beatrix: Yeah, you really like it, don't you! Look at him! He's getting really horny now! He's totally turned on!!
I even had to follow her out afterwards. You can imagine how embarassing that was. Uh, "see you?". Thankfully, I didn't.
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RE: Twl
I have the following to admit:
- I think QR codes are totally overused.
- However, sometimes they can be practical (vCard QR codes. Sometimes. Rarely).
- We often to QR generation on clients' campaigns. So you could say I've got part of the guilt in this.
- I actually think Ben L's QR is rather neat.
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RE: Twl
Here's his demo for how convenient TWL is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbr8dVS-8vc
(it shows how you can download chrome by typing C H R O M E with the on-screen keyboard)
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RE: Twl
According to "About" they're one engineer and one "Biz Dev". Why am I not surprised they have no designer?
The page is ugly, the interface is bad and it all reeks of amateur hour. But seriously, it wouldn't surprise me if they were able to sell some Twls in their local area. When you think about it, they're not that much worse than your average braindead "app company".
Judging from the pictures, I think he wants to nail her. And apparently, you can join too!
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RE: My name is Corky and I work for The Free Software Foundation
@beginner_ said:
minified JS is archaic BS
Not for mobile sites, where those extra kbs can be the difference between life and death, especially during rush hour when the net is crammed.
Speaking of which, when will the "use JavaScript to make our mobile site 'tactile' and 'cool'"-trend going to end? When even SlashDot is bitten by the bug, who knows where this is going..
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RE: My name is Corky and I work for The Free Software Foundation
I've always been skeptical to long-bearded IT-gurus, especially those who are past 50 and still have baby soft skin.
For some reason I really don't want to know how he smells.
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RE: My name is Corky and I work at SAP
Pictures! Pictures!
Can you profile me too?
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RE: My name is Corky and I work at SAP
@morbiuswilters said:
@drurowin said:
I know a person who's gotten it into his head he's disabled because of this shit. It makes me fucking depressed to see him expect to fail at everything he does because someone told him he was "disabled". WELL HE IS NOW, YOU FUCKERS, BECAUSE HE DIDN'T MEET YOUR FUCKING EXPECTATIONS OF A QUIET SHEEP WHO WILL SHUT UP WHILE YOU TEXT TONIGHT'S DATE DURING CLASS.
If he wasn't able to deal with a moderate amount of social pressure, then he probably was disabled somehow. If his response to being told he had a disability was "Ok, I guess I give up on succeeding" then, well, he probably wasn't going to succeed much in the first place.
Interesting, I hate personality tests because I'm afraid to "fall into" whatever category they decide I'm in (i.e. conform to the stereotype). It seems to me like it's a very typical human trait to alter your behaviour to meet society's expectations. Makes me very happy for growing up as an arrogant little brat who refused to do what my teacher told me to before he could prove that his method was better, that I couldn't care less about sport idols and wore whatever I wanted. I guess that goes for many of us here, but in RL the norm seems to be a bit different.
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RE: My name is Corky and I work at SAP
@drurowin said:
@Ronald said:
@drurowin said:
I know a person who's gotten it into his head he's disabled because of this shit.
I know a guy who farts a lot but because it's caused by a medical condition he thinks he does not have to apologize when it happens in public. Seriously.
By disabled I means suffers from severe depression, afraid to even attend a job interview because he's been told all his life he's "disabled". He wants to be normal.
I have a friend just like that. His entire upbringing his parents were overly concerned and he he ended up buying into it. Ok, so he had difficulties concentrating, so what? People are different, we all have our things, but that doesn't mean we're unable to make a living in this seriously varied society. Took him many years to "recover", now he has a great job and things are running smoothly. Sure, he can't get a driver's license since he might tune out and crash into a wall. Big deal, he takes the bus.
Sometimes, people just care too much or are too afraid of the world to just relax a little and enjoy life.
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RE: My name is Corky and I work at SAP
@Ben L. said:
@Ronald said:
@Ben L. said:
@arh said:
For some strange reason I felt very compelled to share that I come from a family of autism/aspbergers, and that I hate hate hate Neill Degrasse Tyson.
One of those three MS WORD SPELLCHECK DOT EXE underlines is not like the others
Neil deGrasse Tyson does not have a lowercase g in it at any point.Oops, my bad. Guess he's a great guy then.
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RE: My name is Corky and I work at SAP
For some strange reason I felt very compelled to share that I come from a family of autism/aspbergers, and that I hate hate hate Neill Degrasse Tyson.
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RE: Java developer says he built basic office suite in 30 days
@Ronald said:
@morbiuswilters said:
StarOfficeOpenOfficeLibreOffice has had a decade and still hasn't managed to build a basic office suite in Java..FTFY and I'm pretty sure there is already a new fork in the making. Possibly FreeOffice or something like that.
When will they understand that anything called LibreOffice will never, ever gain a lot of popularity? Seriously, what is it with open source projects and stupid naming?
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RE: Now that we have sufficiently beaten Go into the ground, what about Dart?
I've never understood why anyone would make a new language just because it's "a bit cool".
I can understand why people would go to great lengths to use something else than JavaScript for larger web applications, but why would you then make things like type safety optional? Having to design tons of IDE integration to make your new language palatable?
For christ's sake, why not just make a Java2JS converter? Then you've already got proper development tools, tons of libraries and existing community support. But I guess that's not l33t enough, you want something new, some cool stuff only you and a few select buddies know.
Seriously, what a wasted potential.
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RE: Dinosaurs according to Genesis
@eViLegion said:
I wasn't actually trolling. I hold this opinion openly in real life at any religious people who mention their religion to me (I leave them alone if they stay quiet about it).
So free speech applies only when it's non-religious? I could understand it if missionaries were pestering you, but just by mentioning religion? And how far does your definition of religion reach? C# vs Java, Oracle vs Google, not to mention international politics, art, etiquette..?
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RE: Dinosaurs according to Genesis
@GNU Pepper said:
@Salamander said:
You're assuming the only reason people respond to trolls is out of anger and not something like boredom or just to see how hilariously insane the troll's statements can become.
Doesn't sound like the ingredients for the epitome of discussion to me https://images.encyclopediadramatica.se/5/52/Trolling101.png
So basically you're saying we're morons?
@eViLegion said:
Fuck you and your stupid beliefs.
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RE: Dinosaurs according to Genesis
@Salamander said:
You're assuming the only reason people respond to trolls is out of anger and not something like boredom or just to see how hilariously insane the troll's statements can become.
Yeah! So don't come here talking about internet 101, you're the ones who need to read books and stuff! Besides, it's not my fault, it's my genes. Feed me!
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RE: Dinosaurs according to Genesis
@OldCrow said:
Let's not flood the Sidebar with another argument on evolution, shall we?
Hullo, chaps! I just beat my wife bloody today, she burned the bacon, that slut. But let's not talk about my violent views on women!
Seriously, in what scenario could you possibly envisage this argument not happen?
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RE: Becoming *that* vendor
I've never understood employers who advertise unlimited vacation, free Fußball, free ice cream (Dreamhost, that's you - what on earth are you thinking), etc - literally any "unlimited" perk. Massages are great, so is free lunch, but anything that tries to tickle the old part of your brain that wants to feast indefinitely on honey and milk doesn't seem like the way to go to get great employees and avoid the rotten ones (i.e. avoid those who want to work at your place because of the apparent 365/yr vacation).
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RE: Becoming *that* vendor
@Alex Papadimoulis said:
"These so-called silos are teams, and this is how teams work in big enterprises. They deliver things to other teams. Our devs write poor code, our release engineers write poor instructions, and our ops write poor scripts. If you think having them collaborate will help, you just don't get it."
The rest of the presentation/demo was pretty awkward, with plenty of similar objections. They just kept saying "I don't see how this could work." Fortunately, our "champion" was pretty impressed and said he'll be working to push things through anyway. So… hopefully we'll get a sale against the teams' wishes… and be that vendor that everyone hates.
You know, I kind of agree with your potential customer here. I used to work at a place full of office shittiness, and it got even worse when one of the "gurus" pushed the entire Atlassian catalog. It's like buying a sniper rifle before you can handle slingshots. I don't really know that much about your product, but if I was presented something like this in a McShitty corporation I'd also think no, god no, don't give the devs another excuse for their incompetence (i.e.: "so that's why our code sucks! We need this product to fix it!").
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RE: Fallback
In my previous job I met a guy who had been coding telecom equipment in assembly. He made large blobs of NOP instructions scattered around in between code. Why? Because he thought compile-time variables and labels were impacting performance -- so he calculated and hard coded the byte offset of each jump. Ergo, no updates could shuffle around the old code, so it had to be meticulously placed in a suitable pool of NOPs in the existing binary.
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RE: Heroku
@aihtdikh said:
@morbiuswilters said:
Millions of people listen to Taylor Swift. What the fuck is your point? Most people are stupider than cattle, just less delicious.
Morbs, quit spouting your ignorant opinions all over the place.
At least half of all people are definitely at least as delicious as cow; some possibly more.I agree, most people would do excellent as burgers.
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RE: So I just took a few placement tests for my worthless Computer Science major
I don't have any degree at all. I did however attend university a couple of years. Although I dropped out because I thought the professors were mostly idiots, I did learn a lot of interesting stuff that's still with me to this day -- and even though my grades were somewhat at the middle, I easily outperform any of my peers who now have a masters degree. Because I care deeply about what I do, and I don't teach myself something only to forget it when the exams are over.
Here's my 2 cents trying to balance the discussion: Going to university/trade school whatever is just one way of learning. For some it's the best way, others are more suited for self-education or learning by doing. What's best for you might not be best for someone else (not to mention that the quality of teaching seems to differ enormously between institutions). It isn't about what team you're on, it's about YOU and your attitude towards what you're doing. The usual, simple stuff. -
RE: Old bug, new twist
The bugs can get really worked up by displays. If you ever get a fly on you monitor, don't shoo it away. Instead, position the mouse pointer under it. And start moving the mouse pointer again. They really get obsessed by and start to follow it.
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RE: Representative line: int gender
@jasmine2501 said:
@morbiuswilters said:
Yes, let's expend precious healthcare IT resources so the guy who mutilated his dick doesn't have to question the wisdom of that decision.
Since this kind of ignorance is prevalent and can only be fixed by waiting for the idiots to die, I think yes, it would be cheaper to fix the software.
Seriously, did you really expect not to get trolled? This is the virtual pillory, where extra blank lines in your code more than qualifies for severe mockery. On top of that, just mentioning anything even remotely related to penises is like pouring sheep's blood in a tank of already agitated sharks.
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RE: Representative line: int gender
@morbiuswilters said:
Here's 80% of the people on TDWTF:
{ true, true, false, true, true, Int64.MaxValue }
Now you just made me spit all over my screen.