but seven fucking thousand (7,000) database queries
So that is how you pronounce the comma in numbers.
but seven fucking thousand (7,000) database queries
Why no LANGUAGE_INDIAN then?
#define BIG_INDIAN 4
#define LITTLE_INDIAN 5
google fails miserably at recognizing the typo and translates "Flensburg" in this case with "Dover". WTF?
@bgodot said:
Yep, a 'Byte' is simply the smallest addressable unit of memory, if I recall correctly, there even was a system that could vary from 5-12 bits in a byte, depending on configuration options...
It would have been interesting if recent computers had moved to 32 bit bytes, as a bridge to 64 bit, there is little modern useful data that fits in 8 bits anyway, 32 bits for an RGBA color, 32 bits for a full unicode char, etc. you could store 4x as much data, while still using 32 bit addressing, which also means that pointers would be one 'byte' as well.
While the rest is bitching you for using 32 bits to store a character (Unicode is limited to 31 bits, by the way, and at the moment uses 21, I think), they seem to feel rather hot about that, I'd like to point out that in modern architectures a pointer would be two bytes...
And that 4 chars definitely do not have to take up 128 bits, unless you're doing something wrong.
This is turning very quickly into a forum where 5 people are bitching about the forum, and the rest doesn't have a clue what it's about, while the OP gets buried. What a refreshing way to kill a forum.
At least it's not Java's Date, DateTime, Time or Calendar object...
I've only seen Swype. I hate autocorrect. I didn't spend half my life doing NLP to get my text garbled by a bit of code that was state of the art in 1979. But since even the Highest Council of Pedantic Dickweedery seems positive, I'll give Swype a try.
Because to everybody except coders, OR === XOR.
That was the whole idea, wasn't it? To enable people to search and avoid undesirable results. Now you get pictures of sharks, not even toting lasers, and as an added bonus "great breasts" does show NSFW content.
In the localized version (google.nl), they also remove "tieten" (literal translation of "tits"), but if you search for "grote memmen" you do get results, and if you search for "great tits" or "tetas gordas", they remove it. So there is one big list of blocked words?
This is worthy of a WTF.
I remember helping someone with a bizarre regexp in PHP that required 13 backslashes in the end.
If there's any truth in the idea that the tokens in iconographic scripts symbolize the significant, then it means an armada of sail ships, on their way to the west to attack the eternal enemy.
Check your Video BIOS.Seriously though, it can only be enabled via chrome://flags, right? So it's an experimental feature, no wonder it breaks.
If it can break, don't let users enable it. And not getting text rendering right in a browser, how incompetent is that? Next thing you know, they not longer know how to support jpg.
Oldest file: 13 Jul, 1987. It's a sound sample that could play on a Mac SE, and it's from the movie 2001, A Space Odyssey.
here's what you guys did to our mailing list: http://imgur.com/EDRQhjx
The Google Docs Offline team also contacted us
Now there's TRWTF.
It's pathetic. It's almost as if someone just wants to make money out of it and doesn't care about the effects or the results. It's almost as if you live in Western Europe's most corrupt country.
@mallard said:
Well, IMHO, the best way to "report" this problem would be to actually DOS a couple* of flights. Through Tor of course, don't want them tracking you down and arresting you as a "cyber terrorist"...
No, you don't want to do that, since it increases the price for people who do want to go on that flight and it might also increase revenues for the airline company. So you're hurting the innocent and pleasing the guilty. Seems wrong to me.
Just write them a letter, like you know, snail mail? Usually, larger companies have a decent staff that responds to these letters and they might actually find the IT-department responsible.
Aaah. See, it says if you hold your mouse over the link button: Hyperlink <a>. So I just added that plus an href, and it formatted nicely in the preview window, which made me think it had recognized the link. Well, did it ever. So here's the link: http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/36300/how-can-i-make-this-mess-of-java-for-loops-faster
Mmm, got it to work in the above post. Should have checked.
@PJH said:
@jamesn said:What does TDEMSYR stand for?http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/20520/236493.aspx#236493
Or if your search-foo is really letting you down at the moment, A previous thread from hell.
TTITIS, you know?
Apart from the truly horrible boolean == false, your version is a lot better.
@Sutherlands said:
NOOOOOOOO! That's like 5KB! THINK OF THE MOBILE USERS!
Indeed. And it's a good meme too!
@ratchet freak said:
TRWTF is that upper management didn't careUnfortunately, it's not uncommon. They can't be bothered with mundane details and a mere trifle of a million dollars. They've got to have the vision, lead by example, stay ahead of the mission and leverage the upcoming synergizing merger. I worked at a place where "upper management" would change their strategy every 6 months and come down with entirely different plans, almost canceling everything. Two years after I left, they're still doing that. The company just survives on customers paying yearly license fees. Amazing.
Many organizations hire when An Important Task has to be Accomplished. Once that task has been accomplished, the people hired are still around. They feel important (hey, they've Accomplished The Imporant Task), so now feel like they have to do something else. So they start inventing new measures, reorganizations, laws, whatever the organization's meta-process likes. That usually ends up with hiring more people.
Mozilla has volunteers. These are usually worse than normal employees, because they don't get hired by qualification, and you can't fire them. And ... they're not driven by money, but by feeling that they make an important contribution to society. But that feeling is not served by moving an icon by one or two pixels. Nope. It has to be Something Important, something that befits their feeling of grandeur. So another redesign is born. And since they know what's best for you, it won't be optional.
Mozilla needs a dictator. And a damn good one too.
Word's grammar checker is based on relatively old parsing technology. It tries to analyze a sentence by eliminating incorrect combinations locally, based on (guesses of) the lexical categories and sometimes on strings. The problem is that that only works when the sentence is grammatical. So, for ungrammatical sentences, you need heuristics. Strict heuristics mean many false alarms, lax heuristics means many unspotted errors. It works reasonably well, and improving it is pretty costly.
BTW, I hope "wiping out that damn passive voice" was ironic, because it doesn't make sense at all.
Don't follow mindless advice about avoiding the passive. Most people that tell you to couldn't identify a passive voice if it stripped naked, painted itself pink, and started dancing on a harpsichord while singing "the passive voice is here again". In most cases, the passive is perfectly acceptable. In case you want to have quotes on that, check LanguageLog, e.g. http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4169, http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3897, or http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2922
@DaveK said:
The resulting screenshots were each produced by one iteration of simulation.
You're not even trying, are you?
Ehem, the passive transformation does not affect the complement but only the verbs from the same (matrix) clause as the subject (that can disappear) and the object (which becomes the new subject). Since there is no nominal object, the closest is probably: The only reason for the passive voice to be used is if it has been tried to hide something, which is, erm, plain ugly.