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Your FACE is a statistical anomaly!
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no, black speech, the native language of mordor.
btw, did you know that the ring poem (in the original black speech) can be sung to the tune of "hava nagila"?
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personally, i like lojban
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I speak Elvish -- that's pretty cool huh?
Elfin? Elvin? Elfish?
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Seriously, that tune does work; I might just memorize it to sing this passover.
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Is anyone else as disturbed as I am that searching google for "Klingon grammar Nazis" IN quotes turns up sites other than this one?
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Which dialect?
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Hm, I speak a little Elvin... "Thakyu very mush, an' foh mah nex' song..."
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Been there, done this.
I develop/maintain an inhouse testcase management system, and management complained that, while excellently engineered to meet our specific and somewhat unusual day-to-day requirements, it was lacking the features of a true enterprise ($50,000) testcase management system.
Which features? The ability to draw pointless graphs.
So I provided a stats page which had nice graphs on it, and everyone was happy.
Some months later, another developer asked me why there was a file in source control called "SpuriousBargraphGenerator.pl", which drew graphs of data generated by rand().
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http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2642
CYA
captcha: "eros" HAH! :)
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Oracle: Bringing you enterprise level failures since 19xx
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Who ever said NULL isn't stuff?
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I'll get me coat...
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Can I get an apology from the commenter? In this day and time, you don't sit around a message board, where you have diversity, and refer to "black speech".
http://www.theamericanmind.com/2008/07/11/black-hole-racist
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I got a call from a woman at her wit's end.
"This error keeps popping up, and I just want it to go away." She continued by reading the error message which I did not recognize and mentioned that is shows a has an Ok and Cancel button. "I keep clicking Ok, but it keeps coming back. What should I do?"
"Did you try clicking Cancel", I offered.
"Oh that worked", she responded.
captcha: wisi -- way WAY worse than a wussy (higher and squeakier among other things)
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I'm pretty sure apostrophate isn't a word, but it should be.
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You mean Klingon grammar Borgs
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Don Burleson is an idiot - don't listen to him.
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I wish Jake Vinson would practice this as well.
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Sorry, that's not possible, because Klingon isn't a language, just a code for English. It is, indeed, a WTF. I'd recommend the GP takes a look at Tolkien's work, but he'd probably start "reconstructing" Orkish and the Black Speech...
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I've seen this happen a few times. Once, I was even the original programmer, and I knew for a fact that I didn't ever code the function. I also had a supporting comment in the code, which said something like, "I did not implement this function, because it serves no practical purpose, it's unlikely to ever be used, and any data it produced could only be misinterpreted," and then there was the virtually empty function definition, which simply returned a descriptive error response. I felt that the customer should have expected my answer in that case, because the error they were seeing was, "function $function_name never implemented."
Several times, I was able to get the person to explain what it was they thought they saw:
They thought they saw part of their job description require that they ran said function once per <time period>, and while they couldn't think of any purpose to the task, there it was. They'd never done it, because their predecessor had never told them anything about it, but there it was in their process docs, so they needed to show that they'd been doing it - since their manager started threatening terminations if people didn't start following their process docs to the letter.
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Well, of course we do. Mein Kampf is much more compelling in the original Klingon.
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Monthes have passed and yet the job is still running and doing absolutely nothing. Someone changed the form so that it would do what the job should - clever isn't it? And now that I've seen the how-it-should-be-not-null stored procedure I can guarantee you that it is overly complex, using loops where simple aggregation should be, types are completely forgotten, awful to read as it uses no standards, and there are two or three places where things can go unhandled.
PS: Henrik is still the man, always helpful. And we still don't know who changed the procedure as DBAs are company-wide so they don't know nor do they care about the specifics of our application, support guys (myself included) can fix but only after revision, leaving devs as the only ones allowed to do stuff like this (the same ones that "developed" an overly complex, hideous - B grade horror film - code procedure).
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Is'nt it from Goblin's russian parody translation (http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Властелин_колец:_Две_сорванные_башни , http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Властелин_колец:_Возвращение_бомжа and article about first film currently is deleted) of LOR-movie?
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Nice one! ^_^
But the error comes from "our_form_key_commit_trigger" and not from "statistics_and_stuff".
Why does Joe look at the wrong procedure? ^_^
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Hi
I get this problem when I push this button.
Leave it alone - it's your navel.
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Amortization by Defenestrated Capital
ROTFL!!
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qatlhochnIS...I mean, I must contradict you. Klingon is in no way a code for English (or for any other language). Its basic grammar is incompatible with word-for-word replacement of English terms. It is most assuredly a language -- it even has an ISO 639-2 code, "tlh".
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That would be "Klingon grammar Romulans"
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I lol'd.
But, it could also be "Klingon grammar Ekosians"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/STPatternForce.jpg
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Quote: I never thought my cursory knowledge of exactly one phrase in Klingon would ever be helpful.
Your mother has a smooth forehead!
I LOLed.
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Amortization by Defenestrated Capital
IOW: they're just throwing money out the window! Literally!!!111one
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ah, yes, the "flying debenture" investment plan. (i saw that in a Dilbert comic)