The good thing about StackOverflow is the ability to promote the good content, downvote the WTF fodder, and provide your own answer if none of the existing ones are sufficient.
Erick
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RE: StackOverflow WTF
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RE: StackOverflow WTF
@morbiuswilters said:
This model worked for Digg and Reddit, making them the quality news sources they are today!
Blame the community, not the website. I can only hope that the common competence of programmers occupying the SO community is able to judge good code from bad.
Latest posts made by Erick
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RE: StackOverflow WTF
@morbiuswilters said:
This model worked for Digg and Reddit, making them the quality news sources they are today!
Blame the community, not the website. I can only hope that the common competence of programmers occupying the SO community is able to judge good code from bad. -
RE: StackOverflow WTF
The good thing about StackOverflow is the ability to promote the good content, downvote the WTF fodder, and provide your own answer if none of the existing ones are sufficient.
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RE: Non-representative line
@DogmaBites said:
So, your debugger didn't have conditional breakpoints? That's unfortunate.
I'm just lazy. You get to choose which is more unfortunate.
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RE: Non-representative line
@morbiuswilters said:
$var = $var; // NEEDS ATTENTION: may have been used for some specific purpose
I've used something similar for debugging a specific section of a loop:
if (number == 2010)
number = 2010; // Breakpoint here
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RE: 20 mins...
So you're there to talk about the importance of Disaster Recovery strategies. Then they waste the next 7½ hours dealing with ... disaster recovery. Then the CEO tells you he doesn't need to hear about ways to mitigate risk and improve disaster recovery.
Sounds like they have everything already figured out.
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RE: Welcome to Second Life
@Faxmachinen said:
I can't sell my Lindens for USDs without a paid account
Try SL Exchange. I've found they offer better L$ to USD rates than SL's LindEX, and you can then have the USD's sent to your Paypal account for a minor fee.
I believe you can do it without needing a paid account.
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RE: Welcome to Second Life
Funny, I just recently got into working with LSL.
The 16K limit is the most annoying thing I've run into so far. It pretty much mandates that anything relatively complex will result in the need to split the logic up among many scripts that run in parallel.
As a result, it's kind of like an interconnected set of event-driven finite state machines. A somewhat refreshing change from writing linear programs.
Despite LSL's clunkiness and inefficiency, it's still a usable programming language. In a large community of non-programmers who own a lot of in-game currency, knowing how to program has the potential to be lucrative. -
RE: Official Membership Thread -- Just Reply Here!
I'm joining the club as well.
Oh Oracle, how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways...
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The empty string is null. This feature rotted my brain to the point that I assumed it was true for other databases. In working with a SQL Server DB, documentation told me that when inserting rows to a certain table, a certain column should be blank. I made it null. The application failed because it was looking for the empty string, not null. Grrr, why can't everyone pick a standard?
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While attempting to come up with a query for a report, I needed to perform a full outer join between two tables. I run my query and get "SQL command not properly ended." I check the query umpteen times and wonder why it's flagging the outer join as the cause for the error. Can you guess? The query was against an Oracle 8i DB, which didn't have support for outer, inner, or any "join" phrasing other than the (+) style join. So how was I to do my full outer join?
SELECT BLAH FROM A, B WHERE A.FOO = B.FOO (+) UNION SELECT BLAH FROM A, B WHERE A.FOO (+) = B.FOO
So instead of having a nice, clean, query I have to violate the DRY principle for the sake of an older DB. -
Installing Oracle 11g on my new machine and seeing it refuse to support the aforementioned 8i DB. Sigh. 10g is as high as I can go.
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When attempting to install 10g, when I didn't pick the right flavor of installer, I got a friendly error message that was great fun to show to my coworkers:
Abnormal Program Termination. An internal error has occured. Please provide the following files to Oracle Support: "Unknown" "Unknown" "Unknown"
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RE: Dad will never know!
Cameron: Ferris? It's not working.
Ferris looks up.
Cameron: The game isn't coming off, running it in reverse.
Ferris: I thought that might be a problem. We have to open the case, delete it by hand.
Cameron: No, forget it. I've got to take a stand. I put up with everything. My old man pushes me around. I never say anything. He's not the problem.
I'm the problem.
I've got to take a stand.
I've got to take a stand against him.
I am not going to sit on my ass
as the events that affect me unfold
to determine the course of my life.
I'm going to take a stand and defend it.
Right or wrong,
I'm going to defend it.I'm so sick of this shit.
I can't stand him
and I hate this goddamn computer.Who do you love? You love a computer.
* CARNAGE ENSUES *
Cameron: Shit ... I formatted the shit out of it.
Good.
My father will see what I did.
I can't hide this.He'll come home
and he'll have to deal with me.I don't care. I really don't.
I'm just tired of being afraid.
The hell with him.
I can't wait to see the look
on his face!