Only two backers, for $3. Actually, this restores my faith in Kickstarter.
Posts made by GoatRider
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RE: YOU MISSED YOUR DEADLINE to fund TIMECUBE!
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RE: Your bill is £30.5...
I had a friend who used to write the amount of his rent check in the format "only five hundred and not a penny more" instead of no/100
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RE: Efficient shipping
Isn't that the route they took in the movie "A Bridge Too Far"? Operation Market-Garden?
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RE: Quick recruitment
@Mason Wheeler said:
@configurator said:
We were googling "bavarian brasserie"
Did anyone else misread that as "bavarian brassiere" and figure that the link would be NSFW?
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RE: Quick recruitment
@blakeyrat said:
@configurator said:
proper English
What is that? We don't have "language cops" like the French, so there is no such thing.
You haven't met my sister-in-law.
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RE: It's a Safe Thing to Do
Good analogy, DCRoss. Walls are partitions, right?
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RE: Negative Count
Defensive programming. There could be a bug either in the list code or the use of it where the count could go negative, for example when something is deleted too many times. I've been bitten by bugs like that, you never forget.
Personally, I would have used "x.Count<1"
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RE: Electronic Flowers?
My mother once put "Red Hats" on her christmas list, since she had joined a group of women called the "Red Hat Society". So I gave her a copy of Red Hat Linux. But she works in IT so I knew she would appreciate the joke.
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RE: How far out of synch can it get?
@blakeyrat said:
typing in a 25-digit Microsoft OEM code takes me 7 tries.
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RE: Maths... they do still teach it in schools, right?
Don't feed the trolls. It's deliberately intended to be ambiguous, so you'll comment on it. They are trolling for comments and likes. Accounts with a lot of comments and likes are valuable to advertisers.
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RE: Dead Code?
Isn't it the break statement that makes it only execute once? The number of items in the list is then irrelevant.
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RE: The 44MB getter
That's the first line of the function. Most likely, the profiler just does it by function. So it could be somewhere else in the function that is leaking.
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RE: History : how injections were prevented by NukeSentinel add-on for PHPNuke
@DOA said:
Back in the day I used to write godawful non-OO PHP4 code which I later had to maintain.
Now, like Will Rogers once said, there are three kinds of men:
The ones that learn by reading.
The few who learn by observation.
The rest of them have to touch an electric fence.I pretty much wrapped that fence wire around my privates.
And then there are scientists, who after touching the electric fence say "I wonder if that happens every time..." -
RE: It's like there really are infinite monkeys and they have produced every possible variation
IIRC, back when I was programming on the commodore Pet, 'true' was -1 because the only instruction on the 6502 that could jump based on something you just loaded into the accumulator was "CMP", which would jump if the sign bit was set.
But that was 30 years ago, and a lot of bits have gone under the bridge since then and I could remember it wrong. -
RE: Macs don't crash!
All computers crash. Perhaps some more than others, but it's impossible to get an objective measurment. It really depends on what you do with it, and also the quality of the outside software you happen to be using.
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RE: Comments that piss me off
What's even worse are comments that are obsolete and wrong. I inherited some code once where the previous programmer would cut and paste a block of code, including comments, and change what it does without changing the comments. Those comments are of negative value.
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RE: Fancy a walk?
@The poop of DOOM said:
Wait, 13 minutes for a 861m walk? Are you a) crippled, b) a newly-born that knows only to crawl, c) so morbidly fat you waggle more than you walk, d) an elderly with a walking rack?
If you use the displayed route, you'd have to be speedy gonzales! -
RE: But it's in the logs
@Megaman22 said:
@tchize said:
Add a 17th server:
the log server that gather all logs :)
One log to rule them all,
One log to find them,
One log to bring them all,
and in the server bind them
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RE: Another tag mess
@gobes said:
Btw, what are all these '3D' all over the
place?
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RE: Online Poker / Playing Against The Computer
@RTapeLoadingError said:
(I remember a backgammon game I had on the Amiga where the computer always seemed to manage to throw the exact dice combination when it needed to.)
Back when I was in college, I played a lot of backgammon with the denizens of the math department computer lab. I got accused of cheating a lot, and I knew I wasn't cheating. The thing is, to play backgammon well, you take the bad rolls and use them to set you up so that more of the rolls in the future are good. It seems like you're getting a lot more "good" rolls. So to a novice, you seem consistently lucky.I don't play poker well enough to know if there's an effect like this in poker. I would't be surprised though, computers can handle complicated statistical calculations like this a lot better than a human.
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RE: Formatting rant, plus more
@Qwerty said:
@CaptainCaveman said:
mimick 'code collapse' features you see on IDEs that will expand/collpase chucks of code by brackets
Great idea! Can I use that? Or is that part of your employer's IP?
We did that back in the bad old days of 8k commodore PETs, when every additional statement stacked on a line saved you 5 bytes. And 1 letter variables were a byte shorter than the alternative, 2 letter variables. We had a script that would do that, and strip out REM statements, before publishing.
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RE: Another day at the office
Easiest way to get around register_globals being off:
extract($_REQUEST);