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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 :)
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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.
Oh man - I'm still laughing! My favorite is clippy sucking ribbons through an auto formatted straw.
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After having a hard time with an ERP, which I had to use on rare occasion, and which required a password that I always forgot and which was PITA to enter due to an horror GUI, I entered "TaMereLaPute_12" as new password when retrying for the 100th time (hey passphrase, very secure :rolleyes:). So far so good. By the next login, I blocked the system and had to call an admin, and in the debugging steps he finally could read my password in clear text. :-O And then I was glad he was German and did not understand it. :-O Note to self: Never use abuse as passwords.
The last wo companies I have worked for have had names that can be expressed as three characters, so for passwords, I'd occasionally enter xxxSUX1. If pressed, I'd say it stood for "xxx Seeks User eXcellence"
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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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.
One of our assemblies works with asset classes across multiple apps. Naturally, like all coders, we tend to abbreviate and so rather than writing methods and events like "Asset_Reclaclulate_OnHand" we would write it as "A**_Onhand", which is fine until you get the "Asset_Wipe_From_Temp" and the ever-popular "Clean_Asset" methods, which I don't think I need to tell you how they were named.. These actually stayed in place for 10 years before the company was purchased and code reviews began to be shared across global teams.. Suddenly we have a swatch of change items for classic naming conventions.. Curious, that. Still my favorite has to be our first calculation timing class, R.E.F.T. which we told management was "reclacluate every flagged topic", but every one knows means "Recalc every friggin thing". That acronym is still proudly intact. ;)
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After having a hard time with an ERP, which I had to use on rare occasion, and which required a password that I always forgot and which was PITA to enter due to an horror GUI, I entered "TaMereLaPute_12" as new password when retrying for the 100th time (hey passphrase, very secure :rolleyes:). So far so good. By the next login, I blocked the system and had to call an admin, and in the debugging steps he finally could read my password in clear text. :-O And then I was glad he was German and did not understand it. :-O Note to self: Never use abuse as passwords.
My first full-time job we had logins to both our local system and various scattered mainframes which belonged to our major client. The mainframes required a monthly password change and were strict about not reusing old passwords. After a few months of this I started using profanities as passwords. Then one day, we had a group of new hires. For various reasons the only way they could train to use the mainframe system was to borrow other people's accounts, and so my dirty password secret was out. I've also learned the hard way that certain things should never, EVER be used as passwords. For a brief moment, I used 'rm -rf /' as my password. On a Linux system. Which I had root access to. And often had multiple open console windows, some of them with aforementioned root access. It was only a matter of time before I tried to enter my password while being distracted and having input focus on the wrong console window. :sigh: Luckily, we had a full system backup and the server wasn't in production yet.
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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.
Coding colleague of mine (the boss and co-owner even) 3-4 years ago made a placeholder text that ended up getting the Minister of Church involved... We develop a web based servicedesk application, where endusers can report various problems they might have. For each ticket there's two tracks of communication, one internally between the tech people, and of course one between the tech people and the enduser. One type of setup is to send mails to the enduser and/or whoever is responsible for solving the issue. Any change, and a mail is send advising of this. I think you can already guess where this is going... :cool: One of our clients (still ;P ) is the Church Ministry using the servicedesk to support all the priests (and their secretaries and what not) in the country. They one day requested a new mail template, which my colleague sat about implementing, doing a few tests etc. One of the test messages (intended for the internal tech communication track) was "The user is a bloody idiot" (which ironically ofc was true for 95% of the userbase, when it came to anything IT). I guess he saw that it worked, and simply copy pasted the template to the *external* communication track as well (to the endusers), instead of the standard "Dear {insertendusername}" - Your typical brainfart when stressed X| Lo and behold, this was discovered (rather quickly) when a rather upset (female) priest contacted the people actually doing the support, asking for an explanation for that message... Long story short, this particular priest must have been rather well connected (and having plenty of time...) and the "case" got all the way to the Minister of Church, eventually resulting in my colleague (and boss) actually having to write the "nice lady" a personal apology on request of the Minister of Church. So - Be careful what text you use in those innocent placeholder test cases, or you might end up having to deal with a well connected little old lady with too much time on her hands :omg: We naturally tease him with this at any opportune moment this day still, no later than today in fact :laugh:
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After having a hard time with an ERP, which I had to use on rare occasion, and which required a password that I always forgot and which was PITA to enter due to an horror GUI, I entered "TaMereLaPute_12" as new password when retrying for the 100th time (hey passphrase, very secure :rolleyes:). So far so good. By the next login, I blocked the system and had to call an admin, and in the debugging steps he finally could read my password in clear text. :-O And then I was glad he was German and did not understand it. :-O Note to self: Never use abuse as passwords.
Rage wrote: I entered "TaMereLaPute_12" as new password Not remembering enough of my high school Spanish, I looked up "ta mere la pute". One web page said that "ta mère la pute" in French translates to "don't be late" Given the context I kept looking and found that (1) while it is French, (2) it isn't advice :)
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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 was once writing Windows Kernel code for a PHD to test his "theories" about defeating an Anti-virus's static file scanning abilities. So in the hook for ZwReadFile, I had it read the number of bytes the real file had and then return the word "Dick" repeated 4/nBytes times. I thought it was hilarious, until he realized I was flooding the return buffer with dicks. Also, when I am debugging something for the 10 trillionth time, I tend to make my debug messages something along the lines of "STUPID FUCKING SHIT!". Sometimes I even forget to remove them before showing them to the PIs. Oops!