• Neil (unregistered) in reply to Reductio Ad Ridiculousum
    Reductio Ad Ridiculousum:
    Somewhat related to today's topic of "predictive analytics"...

    I needed to google something. So I did so, and looked up as I'm hitting enter. I found that I had misplaced a hand and typed "okabes if fane aursgiw'"

    I laughed and, as I went to correct myself, I took a quick look at the results to see what, if anything, the googs would display.

    Sitting there was the first link, showing exactly what I wanted.

    " Showing results for planes of fame airshow' No results found for okabes if fane aursgiw' "

    #include <dowhatiwantnotwhatitype.h> indeed.

    That reminds me of the time that I tried to type in a search term on one of those laptops with the numeric keypad overlay, so if you accidentally turn on Num Lock you find that m becomes 0 etc. I assume that my particular search term must have been one that was often mistyped in this way, as Google's autocorrect promptly kicked in.

    On the other hand, someone seems to have registered g66g3e.com as a redirect to Google.

  • Some guy (unregistered) in reply to nobulate
    "This is 2014, and if we can put a man on Mars, then we can make a comment posting form smart enough to eliminate first posts!"
    if (getNumComments() == 1)
{
   deleteComment(0);
}

    There. Was that all that hard? :-P

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Some guy
    Some guy:
    "This is 2014, and if we can put a man on Mars, then we can make a comment posting form smart enough to eliminate first posts!"
    if (getNumComments() == 1)
{
   deleteComment(0);
}

    There. Was that all that hard? :-P

    What if two people frist post at EXACTLY the same time?
  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to Alex
    Alex:
    Sure, given billions of dollars and hundreds of the smartest programmers on Earth, nothing is impossible.

    Find 3 even prime numbers.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    One time I was looking for the specs for various graphic file formats, like GIF and JPEG. So without thinking too carefully, I went to a search engine and typed in "graphic images".

    The results I got back were not entirely suitable for a work environment.

    Total lack of mind-reading by the search engine.

  • EatenByAGrue (unregistered)

    I've been in exactly this position: My boss at a startup came to me and told me that the application I had produced was unacceptable because it failed to perfectly understand not only the English language (currently impossible) but what the user actually meant when what they typed was different than what they meant to type (even more impossible). When I informed him that nobody had anything remotely similar to what he was asking for, his response involved a switchblade. It was clearly time to polish up the ol' resume.

    It worked out well enough for me - I landed a new (and better-in-every-way) job the day after the CEO and CSO skipped town while the remaining boss told us that all employees were not going to get paid on time this period.

  • (cs) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    Alex:
    Sure, given billions of dollars and hundreds of the smartest programmers on Earth, nothing is impossible.

    Find 3 even prime numbers.

    Depending on how crazy you want to get with your definitions.

    2 -2 ±2

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    I once had a psychic printer. It would always warm up just in time for me to print something, so I didn't have to wait. One day I was about to leave the house, and I heard the printer warming up. I was confused because I was not planning on printing anything, but then suddenly I realized I had forgotten to print the coupon for the restaurant I was going to. I really liked that printer.

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