Fun fact: in South Africa we use both scales: short for English and long for Afrikaans.

What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

On an unrelated note: I think the web filtering software used by the company I work for is a poorly-written steaming pile of crap. After posting a reply in this thread, I get a blockpage telling me that I cannot view CP because it allows YouTube. This, of course, is because CP redirects me to the message I posted with a permalink containing the word "youtube" in the URL, and this is enough to confuse the filter.

What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

GuyThiebaut wrote:

Basically if you have an animal they will come and film you as that is what youtube is for...

If you don't have an animal you can try acting like an animal.

What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

Looking at the reputation graph, I see a rather steep climb in the Organiser reputation. Most of it was gained over the course of about one month, and the steep climb stopped directly after achieving Platinum status, which gives the user the privilege to approve/disapprove a pending article (gold already gives that privilege, so that may not have been the goal). So I agree with you: it is very suspicious. Also, regardless of suspicion level, I am uneasy with a user who has contributed next to nothing to the site having article approval privileges. I want to report for abuse, but I think I'll wait and see what others have to say, in case I missed something.

What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

Slightly off-topic: This handy infographic shows a brief summary of the tipping etiquette of various countries.

What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

For some reason I can't seem to figure out what you actually have at the back of the car. Help me out?

What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

selling int

What? You have to buy ints now? Guess I'll switch over to floating point numbers before Apple sues me.

What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

I guess the programmers were smoking some Scala on the job.

What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

And then there's those of us who don't give an elephant about any "classic books" list and just read whatever catches our attention. Because life's too short to care about what other people think you should read.

What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

Well, you posted the quote, so obviously you broke Google.

What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

I Googled the quote. The first hit was an IMDB page. The next three were links to Lounge posts, but not one of them was in this thread. :confused:

What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

Nice! Did you get a new "Anthill Inside" sticker?

What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

I don't want to tell you you're wrong... but I know he's alive.

What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

Was that ever a real rumour? I thought it was just The IT Crowd poking fun at the silly things people would believe.

What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

That's interesting. I did not realize that. Do you mean that some languages' implementations of pseudorandom number generators uses fixed seeds, or that some implementations of the Java Virtual Machine uses fixed seeds by default?

What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

I was in a training course last week where the below code was used as part of an example. It was described as a method that would generate a unique ID and add the specified prefix to it.

public static String generateId(String prefix)
{
int randomNumber = new Random().nextInt();

String id = Integer.toString(randomNumber);

if(id.startsWith("-"))
{
    id = id.replace('-', '3');
    id = prefix + id;
}

return id;

}

Apart from the flaws that I'm sure you'll spot, I should point out that this was in the context of server-side code that forms part of a workflow. So depending on how often the workflow executes, it could be likely that multiple instances of the workflow would execute at the same time and generate the same "unique" ID.

What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

I wanted to see what he said about your dog, but he's gone already. That makes me SoMad. :laugh:

What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

So you're living up to your username. That's good.

What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

DaveAuld wrote:

Kirkwall

Wait. There's an actual town named Kirkwall? Today is off to an interesting start.

What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

Strange. I get the old behaviour.

What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.