The programmer doesn't realize how HARD a problem translation is.
DWalker59
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RE: "I wish to take input from a user in japanese"
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RE: So, you say you're a professor, right?
@blakeyrat said:
@this_code_sucks said:
I respectfully disagree with you on the PK name. If I am doing a join, I was the PK name and FK name to match, and it's obvious why you would want a FK to have the table name.
Stupid. You should alias the tables in your query.You should NOT alias tables in your query, or especially, in joins. Many people do that, but it only serves to obscure the names of the tables being joined. Aliasing table names all over the place makes code harder for humans to read.
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RE: Autodesk Softimage Mod Tool brings the rageface
Funny how everyone likes to slag IE, and preach about Chrome etc., when in this case IE downloaded the installer file perfectly while Chrome kept screwing it up. I'm just sayin'.
I'm not religous about my choice of browsers. And in spite of the fact tha tI'm a professional programmer, I find that IE works great for me.
And I hate, hate, hate software that wants to install into the root of C:\ in a folder without spaces. As someone already said, we have only had spaces in folder names for, what, 17 years now? It's high time we stopped putting up with broken installers that don't follow the standards.
If the programmers can't figure out how to install to a folder name that contains spaces, what other hacks have they done that may fail if your system doesn't match the programmer's computer in odd respects? Such as number of monitors, location of the Temp folder, phase of the moon, etc.
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RE: The Excel Syndrome
Excel is a great product, but like anything else, it can be overused. It is NOT the solution to every problem. I like Excel; I happen to keep a small phone list (about 40 phone numbers) in a spreadsheet, which is printed and sits next to my phone, and gets updated about once every 6 months or so. It holds the phone numbers that I call frequently along with other info that doesn't fit into Outlook's contact list very well.
I have also dealt with large Excel spreadsheets (workbooks) with 100 to 150 worksheets per file, and custom macros. And spreadsheets where the 65,000 row limit is a problem. (That one was replaced with SQL and C#.)
As a thought experiment, think about all of the code that goes into implementing Excel, the product... and how long it would take to re-create this from scratch. (Here's a test: Implement Excel in C#.) I am impressed with the product. There are a few competitors, but as far as I know, none of the competitors can handle all of the features of the VBA object model or its replacement, VSTO or whatever it's called.
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RE: Email Not working
@havokk said:
When you are dealing with muscle memory situations, there have to be very compelling reasons for change.
Thought experience - consider if a car manufacturer changed the indicator so that moving the stalk up indicated to the right instead of to the left.
As for the Lenovo keyboards, I also believe the person who thought the Fn key should be bottom left should be severly beaten with old SCSI cables. Apart from that issue I have no problems with Lenovo laptop keyboards. As for this freaking HP EliteBook, that's another story...
In the US of A, where the "stalk" is generally on the left side of the steering column, moving it up DOES indicate that you're turning right and not left. Did you get this backwards, or is the thing on the other side in some countries?
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RE: Stories of inappropriate visuals...
@Zadkiel said:
Oh, thanks for the correction
So, an example of correct usage would be:
"2003 called, it wants ITS meme back, you pedantic little shit"
Right?
Zadkiel
Yes, that's correct. Did you think it was wrong?
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RE: Windows TF 7 takes over an hour to install updates
Any time I get a new computer from a vendor, especially one with lots of crapware, I format the disk drive and reinstall the OS from the DVD (or CD). You have to get all of the drivers, but Windows 7 is very good about this.
My Windows 7 computers that have an SSD boot in 8 seconds. SSDs are still kind of expensive (but they are now under $200 for an Intel 80 GB X-25M). Well worth the investment.
My Windows 7 computers that don't have an SSD boot in 35 to 45 seconds. If a PC with W7 takes 5 minutes to start up, then it's seriously screwed up. Blame the added software, or the roaming profiles, not the OS itself.
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RE: Engineered Insanity
I HATE, HATE, HATE software that makes it hard for me to disable or remove from startup if I so choose. It's my computer, dammit, and I'll remove software from startup if I want to. And the method of having it not start up on every boot should be EASY, or I'll uninstall the whole thing.
Bah.
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RE: When semantic extraction goes horribly, horribly wrong
I hate those sites that create search tags to try to sell you anything that anyone has ever searched for. You end up with sites offering to sell you stuff like "discount bad memory crashes" and "best prices on uncorrectable memory errors!".
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RE: Before the internet...
The x.25 application is magically going to know when you cross an international boundary twice (instead of crossing an international boundary once)? The distances are not that great, are they?
Could you have simulated the same distance as Amsterdam to Brussels, completely within your own country? (I can't tell without consulting a map.)
Instead of saying "topology", which was 100% corrrect, I might have said "if you don't want to travel and don't want to install the application remotely, then, once the data crosses a boundary to get OUT of this country, it has to cross the same boundary again to get back in".