@blakeyrat said in The "Huh?!" thread:
Why do you think the ad is associated with a keyword at all?
It's obviously ".com", which is in bold. Duh.
@blakeyrat said in The "Huh?!" thread:
Why do you think the ad is associated with a keyword at all?
It's obviously ".com", which is in bold. Duh.
This one:
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Or "FRITS".
That popup almost made me rethink posting, so it's almost doing its job, I guess.
@blakeyrat said:
Are you saying Onyx is a reference to something other than the mineral onyx?Let the boys be boys.
@PSWorx said:
Derp! Nevermind then...It was news to me, too.
@PSWorx said:
I'm not an expert of Wikipedia, but is it normal for trolls to have a whole category dedicated to their sockpuppets?
This one is still jacked up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciszka_Arnsztajnowa
Here's a snippet from the "view source":
It's weird, because the old version renders OK now. Maybe the script was disabled, or the link was visited 2000 times?
A user named "Earth Exploding Live" has apparently hijacked several Wikipedia articles. I wanted to look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrissey (don't ask), but instead all I got was a message stating
"Earth Exploding Live sends friendly greetings to readers of this article. This message will be taken down within 24 hours if the link specified gets at least 2000 hits. Thank you."
Apparently this user has done this to several other articles. I wonder if this exploit is related to the mechanism of the SOPA blackout.
Cool. You can repurpose it as a tree bench when desktops go obsolete.
Who the fuck are you and why do you have so may forum posts?
@blakeyrat said:
But wait, don't you live in a country where the government is stealing all of Hitler's "cult-of-personality" tactics?
Cory Glover is running some third-world country now?
@nonpartisan said:
My choice is to leave them alone so they don't shoot at me. "Freedom of speech" doesn't mean "freedom from consequences."
Last time I checked, shooting at someone for expressing opinions is illegal. We're never completely free from the actions of scofflaws. However, laws are in place to deter such things.
@morbiuswilters said:
@Zylon said:I see a pattern here. I think you can generalize this property to all threads are better until anyone starts posting in them.It's not an attack, it's a diagnosis. This was a better thread before you began posting in it. You are an obnoxious, thread-shitting irritant. Apparently deliberately, so you can hardly cry about it when you get called on it.It was also a better thread before you started posting in it. If you don't have anything useful to say, shut your mouth.
@morbiuswilters said:
@frits said:Sorry, thought I washed all of the blackface off..What smells like shoe polish?
Wait- are you Nagesh?
What smells like shoe polish?
@C-Octothorpe said:
When you have lemons, throw a lemon party!
FTFY
@Cassidy said:
Funny British humor...@Someone You Know said:
@JvdL said:Liverpudlian soap factory of a systemIs this an English expression,I suspect there's some snark about Scousers (Liverpudlians) not being large soap-users, hence the suitability of chosing such a location for that particular industry.
See also: solar-powered sunlamps, waterproof teabags, soluble umbrellas...
My title is "Computer Scientist", although my duties are closer to "Systems Engineer".
@nonpartisan said:
Did you add those numbers up? What's 10% + 60% + 30% + 10%?
Yeah. 110%. Sports coaches and TV would lead me to believe that's synonymous with "all".
@hhaamu said:
@boomzilla said:
Or salmiakki equivalent.What sort of salmiakki hasn't he gotten yet? It's tough making out the products from the picture. (I guess most of them have already expired so it shouldn't matter too much.)
Salmiakki expires?
Ha ha! You guys are all so angry about an easily fixable mistake.
@blakeyrat said:
Feh who would ever expect to see a COLON in a book title. Crazy edge-case.
Only medical journals, or books about Spanish surnames.
@morbiuswilters said:
@da Doctah said:FTFYFTFY.@frits said:
True Americans are cowboys.SomeIndiansnative AmericansSouth Asians are cowboys too:
@morbiuswilters said:
Also, I fucked your wife.
Thank you! She's been fucking me for years.
*dah dum tish*
@blakeyrat said:
@ekolis said:True that. Bridget refuses to service the message loop in one of her programs, and refuses to fix it because she says Microsoft is to blame.@bridget99 said:Guys Bridget is the worst programmer on this forum, anything she says is anti-advice. Do the opposite of it.educated to worship false gods (OOP, maintainability)OOP and maintainability are false gods? What, are you a COBOL programmer with 40 years of experience or something? Granted OOP can be overdone, but at the very least surely maintainability is a GOOD thing...
Expert Systems: Are they good or are they whack?
True Americans are cowboys.
Good Point: They are always the team lead.
Bad Point: They are the only team member.
@Mason Wheeler said:
@morbiuswilters said:
The entire point of this site is to call out shitty software;No, it's not. It's to call out horrible code. (And occasionally details of the working environments that produce such, but that's not the point here.) Do you have a sample or three from Linux (or other open-source projects) you can point to?
Shouldn't be too hard to find if they're all as terrible as you say. The code's right there for anyone to see; hearing you talk, you should practically be able to throw a dart at the codebase and have it land right in the middle of a big, stinking pile of WTFery. So what'cha got for us?
Here I was, thinking this site was for making lame jokes and trolling like a sucker.
"Open sores"? More like "open soars"; amirite?!
@Anketam said:
Yep. We had a sales 'manager' (read: field salesman) that would tell customers he can get new hardware/software features added to products that had already been designed. At no additional cost. Then he'd complain to upper management that he can't sell product because engineering refused to add whatever expensive feature he promised.@KattMan said:
Every company should have your sales team.Unless of course you have salesmen under estimating the costs to do the work, and are thus selling products at under the costs to make said product. I believe there was a daily wtf article here many years back about that happening. I will see if I can find it.Remember good software doesn't attract customers, marketing salesmen attract customers.
Good software keeps customers with low overhead. Bad software keeps customers with high overhead. Remember, your company probably already sees IT as a cost area rather than profit, when IT can actually enable profit if used properly.
@blakeyrat said:
@frits said:I liked Seinfeld more when they added Danny Devito to the cast.Eh, that Latka character was just an offensive stereotype.
I just went to the "Taxi" wikipedia page. I didn't realize that Tony Danza played himself way back then too.
@Zylon said:
@boomzilla said:
I've never liked Seinfeld. It has the fatal flaw, for me, that most sitcoms have. The neurotic characters and the plots that rely on stupid miscommunications or someone trying to get away with something stupid by hoping nobody notices something obvious.It's hardly a flaw when it's something that the writers are doing deliberately and so obviously that they even have the characters directly address how stupid someone is being. You may not like it, but it's not a flaw. The entire series was a calculated deconstruction of conventional sitcoms. It was the self-described show about nothing. There were never any "very special episodes", and the characters explicitly never learned anything from their mistakes. It was glorious.
I liked Seinfeld more when they added Danny Devito to the cast.
@PJH said:
@Sutherlands said:It's one of the places where it's still legal, unlike - say - Florida, New York, France, and Canada.@Renan said:
australian midget tossing championship.*intrigued*
May I offer an alternative? AFAIK, toddler tossing is legal most anywhere.
@blakeyrat said:
But for a control like that, it should be paired with a textbox so you can put in a more specific value than the slider/dial allows.
More specific than 5,2, or 1?
@blakeyrat said:
You pull out the pliers, but they don’t have those serrated surfaces; it’s flat and smooth. That’s less useful, but it still turns bolts well enough, so whatever.
Who wrote this, Primitive Pete?
@da Doctah said:
@Nagesh said:
I think White Castle is place of fiction for movie. Is it real like McDonald?
It's real, and it's spectacular.
The burgers are affecionately known as "gut grenades" locally.
@serguey123 said:
Are they any good? (I have tasted some soy related products and besides soy sauce they were really bad)Black bean burgers are much better.
@Rhywden said:
@Anketam said:Technically you don't need flour, either.@serguey123 said:
@morbiuswilters said:Don't be mixing vegan and vegetarian. vegans are actual vegetarians, vegetarians are vegan wanna'be.double cheeseburgers (vegetarian, of course).?? How can a cheeseburger be vegetarian? Bread is not a vegetable, nor cheese, nor some of the additives and saucesI'm not sure how you're baking bread, but ours over here is primarily made from flour and water. You don't need milk and you don't need animal fats to make bread. You also don't need yeast.
Yay embedded device code!?
I've maintained projects with this type of defensive commenting, and let me tell you it's no laughing matter. With projects like this, any change requires full regression testing.
@morbiuswilters said:
@da Doctah said:I once scored a dozen or so ten-foot RS232 cables when my employer decided to convert what had been a storage room to office cubicles and basically let everyone in the place have their pick of the old tech. Also a huge stack of empty 3-ring binders that I handed out to relatives for scrapbooking. Friend of mine got a microfiche reader.Wow, RS232 cables, 3-ring binders and a microfiche reader.. sounds like you really hit the jackpot.
@PJH said:
@boomzilla said:@blakeyrat said:Isn't LinkedIn just one huge job board? With a bit of ego-stroking/DSW on the side, à la "I've got 10,000 friends on FaceBook/Twitter"?... I have a network. Why do you need any job board at all?That aside, I get tons of leads from LinkedIn.
I like how LinkedIn feels they have a service worth paying for.
@morbiuswilters said:
@blakeyrat said:To ask what I admit may be a very stupid question, why are you looking for IT jobs on Craigslist?I agree with OzPeter, craigslist is a great place for IT job listings. Really, most of the other job boards (Monster, Dice) suck..
I use indeed. It aggregates results from all of those sources plus company websites.
@Cassidy said:
I thought Green Mile was a great film, but after reading the books can see how some was missed out.
I read the books first (as they came out, actually), and still really enjoyed the movie. I find it helps if there is a long break between when you read the book and when you watch the film.
@Cassidy said:
Not seen "Thinner" as a movie. Much cop? Or will I be disappointed with this one also?
From what I remember, the plot was fairly consistent with the book. However, the movie was really badly done. It might be enjoyable in an ironic way.
@erikal said:
@dhromed said:
No power?How the fuck am I supposed to play Ass Creed?
The way we used to do it: outside.
In my day we called it "jailbreak".