• (cs) in reply to someone

    It's astonishing that someone who can distinguish males from females only knows about batch, when it should read badge.

    Nerds!

  • (cs) in reply to KattMan
    KattMan:
    Ahh, bone density scanners with bad software. Perhaps this is why the pursuit of happiness has become no more than a legend.

    I'll fix that for ya: "The Pursuit of Happyness"

  • (cs) in reply to DOA
    Black Hat:

    In Case you don't understand: STOP THE SEXIST COMMENTS!

    Really, I am not joking, this is disgusting :-(

    I think part of the problem is that the "SidTheSexist" name does not travel well. It is a cultural reference that probably nobody outside the UK will understand, and will therefore take the comments in the wrong spirit. There is a reasonable <a rel="nofollow" href=""http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_the_Sexist" target="_blank" title=""http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_the_Sexist">wikipedia article. It really is a case of laughing at Sid, rather than with him.

  • linepro (unregistered)

    View anyone?

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to bobday
    bobday:
    I'll fix that for ya: "The Pursuit of Happyness"

    Allow me:

    "The Pursuit of Happiness"

    The original mistake was bad capitalisation, not spelling.

  • (cs) in reply to Mike
    Mike:
    bobday:
    I'll fix that for ya: "The Pursuit of Happyness"

    Allow me:

    "The Pursuit of Happiness"

    The original mistake was bad capitalisation, not spelling.

    You all got it wrong. The Pursuit of Happiness was one movie with Will Smith. The next movie (please look this up) Is I Am Legend, hence my statement tying all this together.

    The misspelling of Happyness is from the movie itself so bobday has this one right as another reference. As does a previous poster about the scanner being a time machine. Perhaps that is how Will Smith got to the future to be the last man on earth.

  • (cs) in reply to GalacticCowboy
    GalacticCowboy:
    Jimmy:
    Its amazing how simple operations aren't grasped by certain individuals. How hard is it to understand SELECT statements in SQL?

    Also performens, did the developer even test his/her own code? I mean which developer have the time to wait several hours to see if the code performes as planned. Also the project manager most of the time thinks operations takes too long even when the client doesn't...oh wait did they even have a project manager that tested the program...

    I myself am in a project where several seconds of operations might be too long, fortunatly we have good methods to test and possibility to increase performes too.

    Captcha: ullamcorper??? what the heck is an ullamcorper...

    But it worked on my machine when I tested it with my 3MB "development" database...

    Which is part of the reason why we take nightly snapshots of our production databases and put them on the development server, so that a) we're working with an approximation of the volume of data that the live server will process and b) the development data is as close as possible to live data, therefore, many 'data-related' bugs can be addressed as well, since we all know that live data is far more messy than a pre-constructed 'developers test' data set.

  • (cs) in reply to Mike
    Mike:
    bobday:
    I'll fix that for ya: "The Pursuit of Happyness"

    Allow me:

    "The Pursuit of Happiness"

    The original mistake was bad capitalisation, not spelling.

    I knew that would catch a grammar/spelling nazi!

    ...I need to find something better to occupy myself. cue the obligatory xkcd link!

  • (cs) in reply to vt_mruhlin

    I posted this originally in 11-16-2005. http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/50518.aspx

  • (cs) in reply to Watson
    Watson:
    real_aardvark:
    SidTheSexist:
    Yeah, an attractive woman with a good job either a) slept her way there, or b) is only there for eye candy.

    Was Mommy nasty to you when you went poopy in your diapers?

    Just asking.

    Let's try that again:

    SidTheSexist:
    ....
    Yes: ... is a character from Viz. (And no, I didn't bother to look that up.)

    I have this tentative theory that, if somebody is going to use a lame and limited cultural reference to take the piss out of the Politically Correct, then I am equally entitled to take the piss out of the silly bastard myself.

    Not the best character anyway -- I much preferred the gent with the Unfeasibly Large Testicles. (And no, I can't be arsed to look that one up either.) Although I feel that Roger Nellie would mesh well with this site.

    Must try harder, Watson.

  • (cs) in reply to csb
    csb:
    Nice way-of-working in such a sensitive area. We copy a database full of data including patient names, diagnoses, etc., seemingly remove some data, and send the stuff to QC ... - full size (yeah, I know, that's part of the WTF) - still having all the sensitive data we went out to remove in the first place, in the "deleted" records.

    Highly illegal in any country that has laws about data privacy ... though I'm not sure whether the country this WTF comes from qualifies as such ;-)

    Did some stuff for a similar purpose some time ago ... different medical field, using XML(!) to export and transfer QC data from a database(!), with a programming language(!), in a software company(!). Doesn't QC usually use a standardised format?

    Whatever. Sebastian

    I'm guessing your country is England, where such practices are both highly illegal and also SOP for government bodies and the civil service.

    Apparently we have yet to learn of the mysteries of PKE, or MD5-based encryption, or indeed even the novel concept of a substitution cipher. Let alone transmitting 500MB through SSL over a VPN, rather than cutting a couple of CDs and entrusting the result to DHL or FedEx.

    Turing would be spinning in his grave, at roughly 7200 rpm. Then again, he was a cynical bastard, so probably not.

  • Brady Kelly (unregistered) in reply to joe
    joe:
    What is a floppy disk?

    The real WTF, of course!

  • MinimumWage (unregistered) in reply to Frenchier than thou
    Frenchier than thou:
    Don't get me started! "We can't change the name on your account. To do that we have to close the account then open a new one, and there is a 80$ new account fee" "That's stupid, don't expect me to pay the equivalent of 4 months' subscription for a name change" "It's the software's fault, it won't let us do that."

    My final answer: "Stop the bullshit, I make software for a living and I can assure you that it doesn't let you do it because your company doesn't want to. And good luck trying to collect any money from THAT name."

    And you expect the high school grad getting paid minimum wage working at a call center to stop taking calls, successfully reverse engineer a proprietary binary application, somehow generate comprehensible source, modify the application, recompile it and distribute it? All without administrative privileges on a windows workstation? Do you actually think that is realistic? Just how do you propose to achieve what you suggest?

    As a general rule minimum wage employees have absolutely no control over the software they use in their jobs and often no reliable avenue for bug reporting, let alone access to the source.

    If you want a call center agent to be able to do that you're going to have to pay quite a bit more than minimum wage, and I'm betting the average skilled programmer would never take such an asinine job.

  • funkyb (unregistered)

    the real wtf is that it still takes 20-30 seconds to select a subset of data from the original 90Mb DB.

    At that size I'd think it should be able to get it done much faster, even if you need crazy joins, unions, and/or SELECT statements embedded inside the FROM and WHERE clauses of other statements.

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