PeejayAdams wrote:

Wow! UPS made a delivery!?!

xkcd: Delivery Notification[^]

Roger Wright wrote:

... it's made in China ...

So that means you are probably not the only one who is viewing it remotely, right?

Jörgen Andersson wrote:

3. A large luggage compartment is important when you drive long distances with the whole family.

Are they that annoying?

fglenn wrote:

Unknown

It actually is known ... Bjarne Stroustrup: http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that[^]

I had a similar issue with that stupid little key. It wasn't Excel, but rather Synergy[^]. When scroll lock is on, the cursor is locked to the current screen. I lost a fair bit of time on that little gem. The upside is that I [probably] won't forget.

Couldn't resist putting this old link out there: 11 Worst Songs of 2004[^]

Albert Holguin wrote:

I guess HR is a job consisting of being nice to whomever happens to be in front of you at the time and nobody else.

Hmm, I always wondered how that department was supposed to work. That statement clears up a few things ... thanks!

In my little part of the world, there is a similar difference between college (community college) and university. There is a saying:

If you want an education, go to university. If you want a job, go to college.

Having been to both, I agree. University was interesting, but college landed me a job before I even graduated, and I have been working ever since.

That always reminds me of this[^] "Far Side" cartoon.

While it is not the same thing, I thought this was rather interesting: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/20/youth-expelled-from-montreal-college-after-finding-sloppy-coding-that-compromised-security-of-250000-students-personal-data/[^]

I started with a plain old text editor and command line. With that experience, I now appreciate a mature IDE (almost ... the text editor never hung & crashed). I have used NetBeans in the past, and am now using Eclipse, but those choices are mainly based on the client environment. Either one is a pretty solid improvement over a plain text editor ...

A friend of mine used to work at a place that had a similar situation. The powers that be had decided to tie the group's bonus structure to the number of cases/bugs that were closed. So what did that encourage? Of course, all the project managers were closing bugs left, right, and center (fixed or not), and QA would just open a brand new one ... pretty much a copy/paste of the old. It was a great team building exercise that everybody could get excited about.

Years ago (10 or so, not exactly sure), McAfee was a corporate standard where I worked. Piece of crap, slow, and buggy. And it even caused problems with Visual Studio ... a really weird bug that prevented a drop down list box from showing up on a project. Needless to say, McAfee didn't last long on my team's PCs.

That sucks. Sounds like corporate extortion. Stuff like that is why I am not a big fan of AV companies.

Ah, yeah ... the old "if loop". I went to school with a few of those folks as well. Almost the exact same situation you described, but my instructor wasn't close to having a stroke ... he just made a miserable attempt at not laughing out loud.

I don't agree with some of the author's decisions. Personally, I'd LOVE to read "... an article on building your own DBMS in less than 100 lines of JavaScript". And you never know, publishing something like that might go a long way in helping that individual along the road to being a great programmer. I'm sure there are plenty of people on the internet who would like nothing more than to help that potential author ...

I just started using TortiseHG and BitBucket for things away from work. So far, I am quite pleased. The free private repositories was a huge factor in making that choice.

OriginalGriff wrote:

... my constant values had changed...

Something about that just doesn't seem right ...

DavidCrow wrote:

The only thing such a tool would accomplish is to make formatting the code that much faster ...

Thus, leaving more time for them to drop by the forums and ride their hobby horse.

I once worked at a company where a particular employee got on the bad side of an executive. He was good at what he did, but life was not pleasant for him after "the incident" (it wasn't anything bad, just a work-related misunderstanding blown out of proportion). When the time came for him to resign, he sent out one of those sappy "it was nice to work with everybody ... please keep in touch" emails to the company. Knowing how he really felt, I was a bit surprised ... until somebody pointed out that the whole email was an acrostic. The first word of every sentence spelled: [company name removed] SUCKS! Not a pattern that I ever intend to follow, but it always makes me chuckle.