Posts made by WTF
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RE: You *will* be chipped. Whether you like it or not.
@Gąska said in You *will* be chipped. Whether you like it or not.:
@BernieTheBernie with or without a 100 page primer on political situation in Poland necessary to understand what this meme is about?
With, please.
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RE: General Wtf- Newbie here- no coding just fucked phone...
Aaaaah, beautiful. I really miss this about the old CS site - it doesn't seem to happen as much now - when some poor, passing stranger would misguidedly post obvious homework, random bollocks, some vague request for help, or thinly disguised spam with a hyperlink, and attract a flurry of scathing sarcasm in return. It truly warms my cockles.
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RE: I heard you like tables...
@boomzilla said in I heard you like tables...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in I heard you like tables...:
Ugly, but mostly functional in a early 2000's sort of way.
Um, actually, I really like that layout. Like...when I go to this sort of page I want to do something. But there's always some "news" story type thing there and the meat is hidden down at the bottom of the page or behind a menu or whatever.
Just show me the stuff!
100%. And so few people seem to agree. Glitz, newsdumps & shiny distractions can all just fuck off please so I can see what I need to get to quickly and easily.
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Goodbye TDWTF Forums
Another one bites the dust. Bit of a non-entity, so who cares really. Even on the old Forum, even though I'd been a reader since 2004 & a member since 2006, I only had about 150 posts. But it was good fun. Whereas what this is, is shit.
So I'm kind of indifferent about, well, most of the technical issues with this discourse thing. I generally agree with the whole, "if you can post, then post" thing. To be honest I don’t even mind the infinite scrolling that much. Its annoyingly slow on the mobile and juddery even on the PC, but meh, I can live with it.
I don't suppose this post will make any difference to anything, but WTF, might as well make my exit interview observations.
I'll diverge a little. My StackOverflow account, also about 5 years old I think, has only around 25-30 reputation even though I use the site for reference quite a lot (3-6 times / month roughly). And that’s because of this:
I find it for the first time via google and it provides a sound answer to my problem without the expert sex change nonsense - brilliant! I can even upvote the guy who posted the answer! ... need to make an account. Ok no problem. Now, upvote. What? WTF? I need to ask subjectively good questions or provide subjectively good answers before I’m allowed to say “thanks” to this guy for a good answer? And you will arbitrarily decide at what point I’m allowed to do that, how many fucking gold stars the teacher gives out before I can pat someone on the back for being helpful. Right, screw that.
Some time later, I read an answer to a SQL question that’s dangerous – in some circumstances it won’t behave in a manor that fixes the actual problem – Downvote! Oh. Right. Some higher arbitrary amount of fucking gold stars. Never mind – comment to warn people. What? What the fucking fuck? Another fucking stupid arbitrary limit before I can even make comments?!? So also then, I can’t even ask people to elaborate if I think I can fix their problem until … oh forget it. I’m not a moron, I don’t like to be treated like one by some cock running a FAQ site.
You get the idea. Some people seem to relish the whole Stack reputation thing (Jon Skeet, heh), I fucking hate it for the micromanaging, patronising, horrible bullshit nonsense that it is. You can’t do that yet, you need to suck a few more cocks before we’ll let you do this, teacher doesn't like you enough yet. And the e-peen waving, and bickering over rep. – someone else’s arbitrary counter! - truly dreadful.
And now it’s infected what used to be my favourite forum. Patronising yellow pop-ups telling me how to post, limits to what I can do within certain time frames because the community doesn't like/trust/whatever me enough yet (in the software author’s megalomanic opinion), maximum thresholds on how often I can do the other. Et-fucking-cetera.
Maybe I’m a dinosaur, but it’s a toxic trend, and I want nothing more to do with it. It's very sad, but I suppose, "all good things".
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RE: The links that weren't
Hmmm. The working one, presumably from "ironing Service in a box".
http://www.ironingservice.net/platinumironingservice/index.html
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RE: Find and Replace, by way of Ctrl+F, Ctrl+V
What the ... I don't even ....
This is a WTF I had to double check because I simply did not believe it. But fuck me, it's really true. My god Microsoft - Here's an idea for you - why not, erm, remove keyboard input from Visual Studio? And create a pointy-clicky interface instead for entering syntax instead? Keyboards are so fucking last decade.
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RE: Discourse vs. Community Server
WTF is this fucking discourse bullshit? Good god it's fucking painful.
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RE: Long Life bug : Do not use the letter 'j'
@Snooder said:
I LIKE monopoly. Mostly because I like being a capitalist selfish prick, and monopoly is a great way to explore that particular fantasy. Backroom deals, secret collusion, cornering a market and using your iron control to crush all the upstarts who dare to trespass on your property... It's an amazing game.
Nicely put - that was kind of my point. The game itself is ... meh. But what brings it alive is the human interaction - the deals & collusions (and depending on who you are playing with, watching out for cheats and thieves, which may or may not be "acceptable" (friendly family game vs bunch-of-mates game)). So when you port it over to a device, which is often done with just the core rules in tact, you lose almost everything that makes the game fun.Back in a previous life I used to play MTG like an addict, when it was very new. Someone introduced me to the online game, fucking hated it. Completely soulless, and like certain online Multiplayer games*, riddled with retards and fucking idiots.
*Some online games seemed to really suffer from retard overload, and some seemed to largely avoid it. Dunno if that's still true these days. Never could figure out the common factor - what made the retards flock to one over the other.
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RE: Long Life bug : Do not use the letter 'j'
@mikeTheLiar said:
Ahem. Allow me to correct myself. It's worth 10 points in a mobile version that resembles but is legally distinct from Scrabble.
Ahh I see. Personally, I've never seen the attraction to board games / card games etc. in electronic form - even the ones that lend themselves to it such as chess & poker. As for the likes of Monopoly - nice way to rip the soul out of a product. (this is of course the old fart in me talking again).
I wonder what made them think Scrabble's judgement that J was 8 not 10 was off. Have they re-scored many other letters?
@dkf said:
I believe that might also depend on what language you're using. I'm informed that Z is much lower scoring in Polish, for example.
Very true, [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions[/url]. And since I was the one being sarcastic about Pedantry, I suppose I should have qualified this.
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RE: Long Life bug : Do not use the letter 'j'
@mikeTheLiar said:
@Snooder said:
I'm shocked. In this hive of pedantry, no-one has yet picked up on the fact that this is wrong. J of course being worth 8 points, not 10.Why do we even have that useless letter anyway if nobody actually uses it?
It's worth 10 points in Scrabble.
(Or maybe I'm the only sad bastard that still plays scrabble occasionally. With a proper physical board and everything.)
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
@bridget99 said:
@SpectateSwamp said:
Blast through those wedding videos!
Are you implying that you sit around and watch wedding videos in fast forward? That's pretty wack even by the standards of this thread.
Really? I thought it was one of the more sensible comments (again, by relative standards). Wedding/Holiday videos you're obliged to watch are best view at around 8x speed I find.
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RE: Garmany
@Tiggrrr42 said:
Isle of Wight is a city
Priceless. But look carefully, I think you mean the Isle of Wright? -
RE: Chrome on Windows 8 is a trainwreck
@PJH said:
While I acknowledge that ME is seen as a piece of festering shit that no-one liked, ever, I have to say I'm in the minority in that I never had any problems for the however many months I was using it.
With hindsight, I never did figure out what I was doing wrong for it to work...
Interesting ... I thought I was in a minority of 1 here. I used ME for about 18 months and everything just worked. Often wondered what I was doing (or not doing?) that made ME perfectly fine for me whilst everyone else was bitching about it. -
RE: Protecting the truly important stuff
@morbiuswilters said:
I'm going to go ahead and say it: I don't believe you. The whole time, I've had my suspicions you are making this up, but this is the last straw.
Yeah I thought the same right after the "Crazy CEO at the meeting" post. But then I thought, if he really does post verifiable facts after leaving then, you know, benefit of the doubt; there is one of my previous employers bordering on policies nearly this fucked up.
And either way, it makes a damn funny story.
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RE: Protecting the truly important stuff
@drurowin said:
@eViLegion said:
@drurowin said:
"cunting" and "munting" too. No, it's going to be like I was writing a report for an employment tribunal, so it's going to be very boring and factual and only contain a few swear words.Once I'm out of there, I'm going to be writing up my whole door-to-door experience with these guys, unredacted, and post it to another forum I'm a member of, but I'll link it here.
Oooh... in your report, make sure you use the words "cunt", "cunts", "cuntface" and "cunted" gratuitously. I like those words, and I can't think of a more appropriate situation for them to be delivered liberally.
Boring or not, I can't wait. This has been one of the most entertaining threads I've read on the sidebar for a while. What's your notice period (how long do we have to wait?)
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RE: Are you clickier than a 4th grader?
@Lorne Kates said:
Given the utter retarditude of the premise and execution, this means either that the researchers are right at this very moment spending grant money on some ground-up monkey spleens that they'll snort out of a hooker/co-ed (cause there's a difference, right?) eyeball-- or there's some fantastic double-blind switcheroo meta-experiment going on for which this jizz-curtain is just a veil.
Now, why can't your front page articles contain such eloquent prose?
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RE: Excel clears the undo stack?
@Tae Wong said:
You can necro-bump this post as the undo buffer is not cleared on Excel 2007 and the latest version of Excel.
Older versions of Excel can also clear the undo buffer when AutoFilter is enabled/disabled or an spell check is started.
Well, I'm glad they fixed that.
Now try this (in the latest version of Excel):
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Create a macro to do something utterly trivial (like make current selection bold).
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Type some shit into some cells
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Run the macro.
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Undo.
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RE: The DBA is dead; Long Live the DBA
@ubersoldat said:
So, you've got two DBA's who don't know how to restore a database to prior state? You've got a lead DBA who doesn't work with a rollback policy (yes, you can rollback on a drop)?
I would have fired the DBA's and the persons who interviewed and hired this people.
+1. Especially, the [b]lead[/b] DBA doesn't know if/how to rollback/restore a dropped table, so asks a junior. Really?
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RE: SQL Server WTF
@HonoreDB said:
Right, that actually makes sense. When there's no definition of R_ID in the scope of the select, it goes up a level. Which is the behavior you'd want in some cases, like UPDATE foo SET foo1 = 28 WHERE foo2 IN ( SELECT func1(foo3,bar1) FROM bar);
That's exactly what it does. The mantra: Always qualify your field names to avoid ambiguity. This post is a classic example of why.
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RE: Database schema
@ammoQ said:
@Zagyg said:
An appreciation of which websites to ask such generalized questions and which not to.
Guess which type this is.
I don't know a single website where such a question would be appreciated, but if there is, I bet the answers can't be trusted.
You know, you're right, it would never (very rarely?) be appreciated, but I have seen a few examples of people (albeit probably irritated people) humouring the posters of this sort of shit and at least attempting to find out what they actually mean/want and trying to assist. Most often on SSC (although sods law I can't find any examples right now).
Here, they're quite rightly just going to be mocked or ignored
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RE: What you say? or: meaningless chatterboxes on their way
It's obvious, look at the first entry. The system has become sentient and has consumed the totality of all published literature, ever, and is now BORED.
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RE: Real Life WTF - Badly Engineered Sink.
@_bugmenot_ said:
The other wtf is that there are staff who are there every day for replacing the coffee in the machines, delivering new milk, replenishing the spoons and napkins. They are there nearly every hour. They do not, however, clean the sinks.
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RE: A small WTF
@Zylon said:
That's me fucked then, I almost always reply to amusing sarcasm with the same, regardless of whether it's in dissent or concurrence. Thanks for clarifying the rules of humour though.@Eternal Density said:
No, I think you're one one suffering from Whooooosh Syndrome. Read derula's post again and tell me you think it's 100% serious.
Any non-zero quantity of serious in response to a post that was 100% in jest counts as an automatic fail. Sorry.
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RE: Vodafone has an important message for me
[Juvenile Mode] I guess it depends on how you interpret (0). I mean, it could be, heheh, a bit rude [/Juvenile Mode]
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RE: Database schema
An appreciation of which websites to ask such generalized questions and which not to.
Guess which type this is.
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RE: Marketing - by - Insult
@morbiuswilters said:
@tster said:
@spike_tt said:
...Marketing by blackmail...
Then one day I got an email from them basically saying "You haven't asked us to print any pictures recently. Unless you order some pictures through us within the next 30 days we will close your account."
I mailed them back "I'm not scared of you. Do your worst".
WTF? Blackmail would be if they said that some of the pictures you uploaded were incriminating or embarrassing and that if you didn't use their service they would send them to the police/your friends. The fact that you think they were trying to intimidate you bothers me, perhaps you suffer from paranoia.
Seriously, WTF? I thought about replying but just didn't have the fight in me. A service that gives you a warning that they will remove your personal info* if you don't generate revenue for them within a reasonable timeframe? My God, the bastards! Hotmail (or whatever-the-fuck it is called this week) has been blackmailing me for years!
* While typing this I realized this is almost the opposite of blackmail. They aren't keeping your personal info around forever like, say, Google.
I have to say I'm a little surprised by these replies. Admittedly "blackmail" is extreme and semantically inaccurate (but possibly just used for exaggerative comic effect), but surely you do agree that effectively saying "Hello, unless you use our service very soon whether you need to or not, we are going to make it harder for you to use us in the future by removing details that cost us virtually nothing to maintain." is pretty fucking stupid? It wouldn't endear them to me to be sure.
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She sells sea shells on the sea shore....
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RE: Please help!
[Sorry about previous deleted attempt, Forum Software really is TRWTF]
I'm probably doing homework, god help me, but the below (untested) should more or less work:
select
T.id -
(
select isnull(max(id), 0)
from YourTable T1
where T1.id < T.id
and T1.v = 1
) -1
from YourTable T
where t.v =1EDIT: (assumes id column is unique consecutive numbers, but if not adapt accordingly)
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RE: Deadlines
@DOA said:
I hope that job pays
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RE: If you are Ulises Cortes, don't worry
@DaveK said:
Hint: There are a lot of other grouphub.com domains.
Forgive if this is profoundly ignorant (not my area, etc etc), but aren't these people at the various grouphub.com domains going to be receiving lots of emails anyway as various search engine spiders/bots skim over this lot? -
RE: Calendar WTF
I'm curious, is it a consistent error? Does the small "previous month" box actually show the "next month" calendar for every main month throughout the year?
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RE: CHEAP WOW GOLD!!!
Heh, doing my good Samaritan reporting abuse bit against todays deluge of Cheap Nike bullshit spam I nearly reported this on auto pilot; what stopped me was catching the "community server blows goats" tag just as the report page loaded!!
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RE: Bullshit Ad
There was a previous thread bemoaning the fact the ad looked like a TDWTF article in disguise. Yup, fooled me....
(Also, move to General? Hardly a sidebar WTF article.)
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RE: The Blades Department
@docca said:
I swear I did close the department of blades and did not store it into the hands of a child!
I bet you let the brush tip both East and West though! Go on admit it, you did, didn't you? -
RE: Why is everyone so damned lousy at paying me?
@Weng said:
jackass 15-year-old niece
@Weng said:mentally challenged 10-year-old nephew
Do you have a dickhead uncle to complete the set? -
RE: Ctrl Alt Tab in Excel
Peculiar. Works fine for me at work (XP Pro, Excel 2007). Some sort of keyboard oddity?
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RE: The KKK uses Windows (NSFW)
@OzPeter said:
@Lingerance said:
@OzPeter said:
I and about 5000 of my closest friends
Real life isn't like Myspace. You can't have 5000 closest friends.
Considering the size of the viewing compound, the number of people involved and that the real life event predated Myspace by an Internet lifetime (5 years at least) I would tend to disagree with you.
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RE: Google maps conspiracy!
@tdittmar said:
OK, three possibilities: a) you need glasses, b) in Ireland, not all fingers are called fingers or c) this is some joke I don't get. I'm going for a), but it may as well be c)
I'm fairly sure it's b), on the basis one of the appendages is a thumb. Mind you,@Wikipedia said:
English dictionaries describe finger as meaning either one of the five digits including the thumb, or one of the four excluding the thumb (in which case they are numbered from 1 to 4 starting with the index finger closest to the thumb). Linguistically, it appears that the original sense was to include the thumb as a finger.
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RE: This is only the beginning...
@zzo38 said:
is just install DOS and then write programs for the functions they need
@zzo38 said:These softwares may not be considered "user-friendly" by today's standards, but "user-friendly" is useless anyways
@zzo38 said:... etc ...
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RE: VISTA Memory Requirements - really?
@dhromed said:
I'd have to miss Vista's _________
That neat little tool that lets you sort out disc partitions on the fly. (Yeah, which was probably available in XP as a Service Pack or feature pack download or something. I don't know, I'm just a lowly DBA drone.)
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RE: Unnecessary sign
Yeah I've seen more of this kind of shit creeping in on UK roads too. Most of them leave me thinking along the lines of "if you didn't realise that already, WTF are you doing driving? And you probably can't read anyway."
One of my favourites (paraphrasing from memory) was along the lines of "do not proceed when barrier is down" right in front of a fucking great barrier arm across the road. "REALLY? SO I'M NOT ON A HOLLYWOOD STUNT SET!?". [/rant] -
RE: The economy is so bad, even sponges are affected
@RayS said:
These buses date from about 1990, and I believe have been washed twice since.
Yes indeed, I recall the indignity of having to use these jokers between Luton and Dunstable for a while a few years back; the windows so shit-stained you literally couldn't see out of them, and sounding like they were about to simultaneously break down and fall apart at any moment.