• MadJo (unregistered)

    A Lithp ith hard to mathter? Try again mithter! It'th even harder to get rid off. But I have a perfectly fine lithp. Now only to find the bathtard that invented that word lithp, ath it'th impoththible to pronounthe when you actually have a lithp.

  • LK (unregistered)

    Hey, a Paula Bean reference!

  • VrIgHtEr (unregistered)

    Basically the dream behind TLO is somehow like the efforts being done do produce a compiler that understands plain english. If someone doesn't want to take the time to learn to think logically like the machine to produce clean, fast code, then they will always write shitty programs in any language (including english itself).

  • digdog (unregistered)

    The real WTF is putting your images in a directory called "ads". That makes AdBlock Plus block them so your readers can't see them.

  • pecus (unregistered) in reply to snoofle
    snoofle:
    Anonymous:
    Still, you can't blame the fine folks at TDWTF for trying to claim back some of the costs of running this site for us. Thanks guys.
    You know, if ALL of us kicked in just one dollar, Alex woudn't need to run ads at all.

    I'm willing; anyone else?

    fuck no

  • blunder (unregistered) in reply to digdog
    digdog:
    The real WTF is putting your images in a directory called "ads". That makes AdBlock Plus block them so your readers can't see them.

    TBH, I think it's just a little web dev joke, and I find it funny either way.

    If I didn't have the images in my feed reader I'd probably have to move the mouse all the way to the adblock plus icon, hit disable, then have to move the mouse all the way back to hit refresh.

    Technically I could do the refresh by using my left hand to hit F5, but since my right arm gets a lot more exercise (if ya know what I mean), any talk of a left arm or hand is purely academic at this point.

    Anyway, after working up that sort of an unnecessary sweat, I'd unleash my poptart-fueled rage by ranting about how the universe is conspiring TO MAKE ME SCROLL PAST SLICKEDIT ADS. Like some sort of animal.

  • blunder (unregistered) in reply to blunder

    BTW, not meant for you personally. And yeah I use ABP. I was thinking more of the dudes who advertise that they're leaving the site every time one of these ad articles roll around.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to pecus
    pecus:
    snoofle:
    Anonymous:
    Still, you can't blame the fine folks at TDWTF for trying to claim back some of the costs of running this site for us. Thanks guys.
    You know, if ALL of us kicked in just one dollar, Alex woudn't need to run ads at all.

    I'm willing; anyone else?

    fuck no
    Bonus points for your shameless honesty.
  • Rhialto (unregistered) in reply to chrismcb
    chrismcb:
    I also don't understand these people who insist on installing things in their browser that intentionally blocks content.
    Assuming I even wanted to use the word "content" for what I want to see, these things don't block that, they block dangerous and/or unneeded crap. However, in many contexts where the word "content" is used, it does indeed mean the same.
  • John M. Długosz (unregistered)

    Hey, I remember Mystic Pascal! Ran it on a 4.77 MHz PC having two 360K floppy drives (no HD). As I recall, it was an incremental compiler that updated the code as you changed it, so there was no delay to make it go.

  • (nodebb)

    Well, the LanLink software looks like a decent small-office solution (though absurdly priced), for an era when a 40KB file was reasonably big. Connecting computers together via serial was a thing back then. But it was usually a point-to-point thing. Getting up to 8 computers connected to a single computer (acting as server) using serial? How many ISA expansion cards would this take?

    Addendum 2016-12-29 17:44: Anyone want to guess how many small offices were served by pirated versions of this software (let's be honest, if you couldn't buy a basic ethernet card, you weren't going to drop half a grand on such software)

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