• the beholder (unregistered) in reply to PiisAWheeL
    PiisAWheeL:
    Batcow:
    Anyone else notice that the clock has 4 hands? No wonder they failed at date math.
    Thats your alarm hand. Its how you set the bell on top to go off. It goes off when the hour hand lines up with it, in this case: 5:25ish.
    FTFY
  • the beholder (unregistered) in reply to the beholder
    the beholder:
    PiisAWheeL:
    Batcow:
    Anyone else notice that the clock has 4 hands? No wonder they failed at date math.
    Thats your alarm hand. Its how you set the bell on top to go off. It goes off when the hour hand lines up with it, in this case: 5:10ish.
    FTFY
    FTFM now. ¬¬'

    Sorry... I better grab a coffee

  • Unicorn #8157 (unregistered)

    The red hand is seconds. The white hand at about 5:50 is the alarm.

  • Jeepers (unregistered)

    What are these "hands" of which you speak, and if they touch me, is it naughty?

  • Bus Driver (unregistered) in reply to Mike Hunt
    Mike Hunt:
    Looks the same system as the Oxford one then - even with GPS tracking, it's can be misleading and unreliable. Weak points are relying a) on buses not randomly deciding to go out of service to try and get the service pattern restored, and b) the drivers remembering to sign up for their assigned trip at the start.

    Several times I've waited 30+ minutes for a bus that was 4 minutes away on the board (on a route with a bus every 8 minutes).

    http://www.oxontime.co.uk

    TRWTF is people who whinge about road-based public transport. I don't know of too many places in the world where road-based public transport is very efficiently implemented, and it's not unusual for buses to run late because they break down, have flat tyres, get caught in roadworks/traffic, get lost etc....

    Public Transport is cheaper than using your car because the powers that be understand it is inconvenient (and often unreliable) - so they need some incentive for you to use it. If you don't like it, either pay to use your car or walk...

    There was a similar system locally at one stage that tried to estimate the next bus (I think the buses had GPS, and then the system would try to estimate how long it would take to get to a stop based on the running time of previous services). I was always amused to see the driver have to argue with nimrods who complained "But that sign still says you're 20 minutes away". One driver responded to such a comment with "And you are free to wait 20 minutes to see if another bus arrives."

  • (cs) in reply to Unicorn #8157
    Unicorn #8157:
    The red hand is seconds. The white hand at about 5:50 is the alarm.
    Costello: "How much time we got before the show?" Abbott: "Why don't you look at your watch?" Costello: "I don't know how to tell time." Abbott: "Nothing to worry about, I'll teach you how to tell time." Costello: "You'll do that for me?" Abbott: "What are friends for?" Costello: "Gee, what a swell friend!" Abbott: "Now some watches have just two hands." Costello: "Two hands." Abbott: "That's right. And on those watches, the big hand is for the minutes, and the little hand is for the hours." Costello: "I thought hours were bigger than minutes." Abbott: "They are, but the big hand is for the little minute, and the little hand is for the big hours." Costello: "The big hand is for the little things, and the little hand is for the big things?" Abbott: "That's right." Costello: "Why can't the big hand be for the big things and the little hand be for the little things?" Abbott: "Because it doesn't work that way. Now pay attention." Costello: "I'm paying attention. I don't like it, but I'm paying attention." Abbott: "Good. Now, some watches have a third hand." Costello: "A third hand?" Abbott: "That's right." Costello: "If the big hand is for the little things, and the little hand is for the big things, what's the third hand for?" Abbott: "The third hand is for the seconds." Costello: "Seconds?" Abbott: "That's right, the third hand is the second hand." Costello: "The third hand is the second hand?" Abbott: "Now you've got it!" Costello: "How can the third hand be the second hand?" Abbott: "Because that's the way it works!" Costello: "If the third hand is the second hand, what's the second hand?" Abbott: "Don't be a smartass." Costello: "I'm not. I'm just trying to figure out what the second hand is if the third hand is the second hand." Abbott: "Look, it's very simple. Suppose you're counting on your fingers. We'll call those digits...." Costello: "So now we're talking about digital watches?" Abbott: "We're doing nothing of the kind! A digital watch has no hands." Costello: "No hands?" Abbott: "No." Costello: "No hands at all on a digital watch?" Abbott: "None at all!" Costello: "But you said fingers were called digits." Abbott: "They are. Sometimes." Costello: "So how can you have fingers when you don't have any hands?!" Abbott: "Look, forget about digital watches. That keeps it simple. The first hand, the little hand, shows the hours." Costello: "First hand shows the hours." Abbott: "The big hand shows the minutes." Costello: "Big hand shows the minutes." Abbott: "And if you've got a third hand, that's the seconds." Costello: "Little hand, hours; big hand, minutes; third hand, seconds." Abbott: "Perfect. So how much time we got before the show." Costello: "Oh, it started fifteen minutes ago. We missed it while you were teaching me how to tell time."
  • Google Opera Explorer 12.0 (unregistered)

    Whoa! Tuesday

  • Cbuttius (unregistered)

    Programmers are lazy and don't program properly for errors to occur. Sometimes you are lucky if they handle them at all.

    That most wonderful C++ library, the best one ever written by the most expert of programmers, so much so that everybody uses it... yes, I am referring to boost... is fairly guilty of that too.

    The primary example of this I am referring to is lexical_cast, so much so that I made a conscious decision not to use it. It is intended to convert a string to a typed value. This is done through the iostream library so they create an istringstream then read in the string and see if it converts correctly. If the stream is in a "fail" state or if there are any surplus characters, this is deemed a failure.

    The big issue is how it is handled if it fails. It simply throws an error "bad_cast". So you are parsing your big text file and somewhere or other you get "bad_cast".

    Of course C++ exceptions don't come with any call-stack either so you can't see where you were in your code where it failed, never mind where you were in the text file you were parsing.

    I found it no major issue to write my own that displayed a more meaningful message (using std::invalid_argument as the exception type) which gave a message such as

    "error converting <whatever isn't a number> to an integer".

  • TheSHEEEP (unregistered) in reply to Cbuttius

    If you think that is bad, you have never worked with the ffmpeg/libav C API.

    That one doesn't have self-documenting code, it has self-obfuscating code. And the error messages range between "I just crash now, bye" and "too verbose! stfu!".

  • Patrick Hughes (unregistered) in reply to PiisAWheeL
    PiisAWheeL:
    Maybe patrick hughes should go get 2 cups of coffee.

    Heh, now going on my fourth cup.

  • Patrick Hughes (unregistered) in reply to Mick
    Mick:
    Fuck the coffee, Patrick - You got time to find a block of land and build a house

    Ha! It's a catch-22, I'll need the design suite to get that house designed.

  • AN AMAZING CODER (unregistered)

    Putting the original due date on a bill printed after the due date is pretty common, and in fact proper as to not confuse the payer.

  • PA (unregistered)

    NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN Batmaaaaan

  • Jake (unregistered) in reply to not fooled
    not fooled:
    Obviously the due date is for some EU country, where you have to pay by the 4th day of the 14th month. Crazy date formats which shuffle up the date components' order are TRWTF!

    FTFY. Everyone should be using ISO dates. American notation (month first, then day, then year) is just weird. Date components should be ordered by weight/significance, not by some weird artefact of the language it's pronounced in.

  • Randy Snicker (unregistered) in reply to PA
    PA:
    NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN Batmaaaaan
    I was thinking: "Before time runs out..." Nana nah nah, nana nah nah, hey hey hey, good bye!
  • Neil (unregistered) in reply to Mike Hunt
    Mike Hunt:
    http://www.oxontime.co.uk
    Why would I want to know whether your ox was on time?
  • Paul Neumann (unregistered) in reply to Anonandon
    Anonandon:
    So how many months in is Icosacember??

    Icosober!! Get your conjugations right. God!

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