Cranky Coder's Lorem Ipsum
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Found this forgotten gem in one of my unfinished application guides. I must have been having a good day. :doh: :-O
Blah freakin blah blah this, blah frogging blah blah that.
You should blah blah and use blah effin blah.
Clippy sucks blah blah ribbons through an auto formatted straw.- Damn
- Dammit
- Dammit all.
Anybody else use creative or colorful “place holders" or comments that reflect the mood of the day? [Edit] Add missing apostrophe to subject title
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Found this forgotten gem in one of my unfinished application guides. I must have been having a good day. :doh: :-O
Blah freakin blah blah this, blah frogging blah blah that.
You should blah blah and use blah effin blah.
Clippy sucks blah blah ribbons through an auto formatted straw.- Damn
- Dammit
- Dammit all.
Anybody else use creative or colorful “place holders" or comments that reflect the mood of the day? [Edit] Add missing apostrophe to subject title
It was broke, so I fixed it.
While still in school working on a c++ program for class, I got frustrated for a minute and created an error message that read " MR. Instructor is a freakin pain in the ass and a damn slave driver" I did know that he had a good sense of humor before I did it though...
Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF! Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow. You can't scare me, I have children.
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Found this forgotten gem in one of my unfinished application guides. I must have been having a good day. :doh: :-O
Blah freakin blah blah this, blah frogging blah blah that.
You should blah blah and use blah effin blah.
Clippy sucks blah blah ribbons through an auto formatted straw.- Damn
- Dammit
- Dammit all.
Anybody else use creative or colorful “place holders" or comments that reflect the mood of the day? [Edit] Add missing apostrophe to subject title
It was broke, so I fixed it.
The other day I was working with some javascript code, and for some reason jQuery wasn't liking this code:
var someFancyElement = jQuery("#" + someFancyElementId)[0];
I thought it had something to do with the @ symbol in the element ID, so I tried changing the @ to a _, but that didn't work... finally I gave up and tried the "old-school" method:
var someFancyElement = document.getElementById(someFancyElementId); // jquery y u no work?!?
Somehow that worked, and I wound up copying that line to a few other places where jQuery wasn't quite working the way I expected...
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Found this forgotten gem in one of my unfinished application guides. I must have been having a good day. :doh: :-O
Blah freakin blah blah this, blah frogging blah blah that.
You should blah blah and use blah effin blah.
Clippy sucks blah blah ribbons through an auto formatted straw.- Damn
- Dammit
- Dammit all.
Anybody else use creative or colorful “place holders" or comments that reflect the mood of the day? [Edit] Add missing apostrophe to subject title
It was broke, so I fixed it.
I created an Access front end to an adhoc colour catalogue production system I had written: On each user creating their 100th catalogue a picture of Cliff Richard is displayed together with the words "Congratulations and Celebrations" - it went down well with the users. The other was purely innocent and accidental - the accounts(debtors) department was staffed mainly by women and I created a piece of code that exported data for them on a daily basis - it was only after a few months that I noticed a possible misunderstanding in the name of the procedure - DebtorsExport.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
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I's laughing. Pre-gin pedantry just makes the juniper-juice taste so good! :-D ttfn
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
Pre-gin pedantry
All is good, enjoy the juniper-juice. :)
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I created an Access front end to an adhoc colour catalogue production system I had written: On each user creating their 100th catalogue a picture of Cliff Richard is displayed together with the words "Congratulations and Celebrations" - it went down well with the users. The other was purely innocent and accidental - the accounts(debtors) department was staffed mainly by women and I created a piece of code that exported data for them on a daily basis - it was only after a few months that I noticed a possible misunderstanding in the name of the procedure - DebtorsExport.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
ExpertsExchange! :)
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
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ExpertsExchange! :)
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
Thanks - you know I never spotted that one before and yet it is so obvious. Is that site still going strong? - I always used to navigate away from it as fast as I could as it always wanted money or a subscription - what a pita it was!
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
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Thanks - you know I never spotted that one before and yet it is so obvious. Is that site still going strong? - I always used to navigate away from it as fast as I could as it always wanted money or a subscription - what a pita it was!
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
I still occasionally click on one of their dang links when doing ye ole Google search. And just as quickly backpedal away.
Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF! Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow. You can't scare me, I have children.
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I imagine, being a lecturer and presumably a bit of a Radio 4 listener, he would have been more offended by your use of "shouldn't of" than your use of "b****cks". I learned that lesson the hard way too. I used to log out of my Unix system by typing "f*** off", whereupon the system would reply with an equally charming "p*** off" and then log me off. I was demoing my work to my postdoc supervisor, and totally forgot where I was, so at the end I logged off in my normal puerile way. My supervisor helpfully suggested that I should try and avoid doing that in front of our business partners.
I was once demoing a new reporting function on a system for the key IT people of our European networks when I clicked on the button and a report window popped up saying "Fuck of you cunt!" Fortunately they were suitably impressed by the new functionality to ignore the profanity.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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I still occasionally click on one of their dang links when doing ye ole Google search. And just as quickly backpedal away.
Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF! Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow. You can't scare me, I have children.
I think it was Wizardzz who pointed out that you can just scroll past the "pay to see" answers to see the answers. I thought that was funny. I have to admit that like the answers you get here though, or should I say I like the answers in the Q&A. If you ask a good question you get good informed answers. :cool:
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I think it was Wizardzz who pointed out that you can just scroll past the "pay to see" answers to see the answers. I thought that was funny. I have to admit that like the answers you get here though, or should I say I like the answers in the Q&A. If you ask a good question you get good informed answers. :cool:
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I still occasionally click on one of their dang links when doing ye ole Google search. And just as quickly backpedal away.
Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF! Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow. You can't scare me, I have children.
Haven't heard of the trick? Click one of their links (Open in the same tab), hit the Back button, and you should see a link next to the search result, giving you the option to never see ExpertSexChange results again... Like me, you'll practically forget that site even exists :)
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels) -
Found this forgotten gem in one of my unfinished application guides. I must have been having a good day. :doh: :-O
Blah freakin blah blah this, blah frogging blah blah that.
You should blah blah and use blah effin blah.
Clippy sucks blah blah ribbons through an auto formatted straw.- Damn
- Dammit
- Dammit all.
Anybody else use creative or colorful “place holders" or comments that reflect the mood of the day? [Edit] Add missing apostrophe to subject title
It was broke, so I fixed it.
I'd have left out the edit. I was almost tempted to downvote you for pandering to the grammar cranks. :-D
Pete
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I'd have left out the edit. I was almost tempted to downvote you for pandering to the grammar cranks. :-D
Pete
Peter Mulholland wrote:
pandering to the grammar cranks
Pandering to pedants, funny. Would that be pedandering? I hadn't looked at it that way, thanks for your candor and for not downvoting my post. I guess it comes from working with programmer/developers prior to becomming one myself. It was easier to placate them and be able to move along rather than attempt to get them to focus on the actual subject. I had spent entire meetings with people discussing some insignificant detail about grammer or sentence structure that didn't contribute anything to the project. After one such meeting a participant remarked about how so-and-so had an eye for detail. I told that person, that's not an eye for detail, that's called nit-picking.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Found this forgotten gem in one of my unfinished application guides. I must have been having a good day. :doh: :-O
Blah freakin blah blah this, blah frogging blah blah that.
You should blah blah and use blah effin blah.
Clippy sucks blah blah ribbons through an auto formatted straw.- Damn
- Dammit
- Dammit all.
Anybody else use creative or colorful “place holders" or comments that reflect the mood of the day? [Edit] Add missing apostrophe to subject title
It was broke, so I fixed it.
Not my own - but when I was picking up development on a VB3 app (yes, a *few* years ago), my boss had apparently been experimenting with using MS Word help files. Interested, I opened the help file and found the following text: "Ha ha, you need help you big baby!" This coming from the man who had Hanlon's razor printed and posted next to his desk...
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Peter Mulholland wrote:
pandering to the grammar cranks
Pandering to pedants, funny. Would that be pedandering? I hadn't looked at it that way, thanks for your candor and for not downvoting my post. I guess it comes from working with programmer/developers prior to becomming one myself. It was easier to placate them and be able to move along rather than attempt to get them to focus on the actual subject. I had spent entire meetings with people discussing some insignificant detail about grammer or sentence structure that didn't contribute anything to the project. After one such meeting a participant remarked about how so-and-so had an eye for detail. I told that person, that's not an eye for detail, that's called nit-picking.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
There are programmers who aren't pedants? I guess it must be those "semicolons? eh, sure, if you like, or not, whatever," JavaScript people, or maybe the natives of viSUAL BAsIc or some other case-insensitive language. I bet all of us who came up on C are the annoying type who will spot your missing apostrophes every time.
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There are programmers who aren't pedants? I guess it must be those "semicolons? eh, sure, if you like, or not, whatever," JavaScript people, or maybe the natives of viSUAL BAsIc or some other case-insensitive language. I bet all of us who came up on C are the annoying type who will spot your missing apostrophes every time.
I started on Fortran, which was case insensitive. Then I studied C and then C++ and I've worked in C++ for about 13 years. I find the guys flapping on about apostrophes are irritating pains in the arse.
Pete
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There are programmers who aren't pedants? I guess it must be those "semicolons? eh, sure, if you like, or not, whatever," JavaScript people, or maybe the natives of viSUAL BAsIc or some other case-insensitive language. I bet all of us who came up on C are the annoying type who will spot your missing apostrophes every time.
Trajan McGill wrote:
There are programmers who aren't pedants?
I'm glad you said that. :laugh: I tend to think of stuff like this as a time to choose your battles situation. If it's important to them but not to me, I'll let them "win". They're happy and I don't have to discuss the subtle nuances of possessive apostrophes. :)
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I was once demoing a new reporting function on a system for the key IT people of our European networks when I clicked on the button and a report window popped up saying "Fuck of you cunt!" Fortunately they were suitably impressed by the new functionality to ignore the profanity.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
On the IBM systems we used to type DO BLOW at the command console. It would return with B**W JOB NOT FOUND. But at one time I was doing a conveyor system that used what I called "The Tunnel of Laser" to read the labels on the cartons. The client had a low opinion of their workers and didn't want to strain their brains by requiring the labels to be in any particular orientation. So as long as the label wasn't on the bottom, they wanted the scanners to read it. Usually we subcontract the scanner work, but the client wanted to save money and contracted them directly. (Best mistake on their part, they'd come to us and complain about the scanners and we'd say, "Not our problem.") The scanning system consisted of three omni-directional scanners arranged in an inverted "U" shape over the conveyor belt. Augmented by four scanners in the corners, a scanner in the front and a scanner in the back. All the scanners were tied to a controller box that tried to make sense of the inputs and then send my conveyor controller/accounting computer a label string (RS-422!). On the front of the controller box, it had an LED display that showed "CLUSTER SCAN" and the last label read. The scanner contractor was having all sorts of grief trying to make that monster work. They had an update, but did not have an EPROM burner to install it. Turns out my team did and we offered to burn the update for them. I peeked into the image and found "CLUSTER SCAN" in the clear. For a few minutes, we seriously considered changing "SCAN" to "F**K" to express our feeling about their Frankenstein monster. (We couldn't work until they worked.) But in the end, we remained professionals and burned it correctly. However if we had had a spare EPROM...
Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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Haven't heard of the trick? Click one of their links (Open in the same tab), hit the Back button, and you should see a link next to the search result, giving you the option to never see ExpertSexChange results again... Like me, you'll practically forget that site even exists :)
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)In 'hosts' file: 127.0.0.1 www.experts-exchange.com
They will never have seen anything like us them there. - M. Spirito