• (cs) in reply to brazzy
    Anonymous:
    Kodi:

    <FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(214,224,230)" size=4>OMG  since a string was used for the to store a boolean why not use session.isAdmin to describe the actual role</FONT>



    Because then you'd have to change the existing code that expects "yes" and "no".

    Not really you could still check for yes and no plus anything else you cared to store there.

  • (cs) in reply to SerKevin
    SerKevin:
    Maybe they were dealing with some form of quantum data? The state is on, off, and somewhere inbetween all at the same time :)  projects before.


    OMG! Just what the world needs: quantum administrators.

        -dZ.
  • don't have one (unregistered)

    They aren't very good at all, a good programmer uses much more interesting code such as:

    if ( today eq "Monday" ) then return true else return false;

    or even

    if ( day_of_month mod 2 = 0 ) then return true else return false;

    or

    if ( moon_is_full() ) then return true else return false;

  • (cs) in reply to don't have one

    Red. No! Green! Ahhhhhhh.......

    Umm, Monty Python anyone?

  • (cs)

    Okay, I can see the kind of WTFery here with the "maybe", but if you are going to seperate a total administrator from a group administratory, another word choice is definately in order such as gAdmin and sAdmin instead of "yes" and "maybe".  Humph, I'll go crawl into the corner and revert back a few thousand years now to a cave man.

  • (cs) in reply to DZ-Jay

    DZ-Jay:
    SerKevin:
    Maybe they were dealing with some form of quantum data? The state is on, off, and somewhere inbetween all at the same time :)  projects before.


    OMG! Just what the world needs: quantum administrators.

        -dZ.

    This means you can know who they are or where they are, but never both at the same time. Frightening.

  • BJCoder (unregistered) in reply to rogthefrog

    Hei an die Deutschsprechenden (Hello to the german speakers... of course to all others here too) !

    Hm maybe? So i think it's visionary.
    Away with the old binary system lets get Trinary. 0 , 1/2 , 1 =  no, maybe, yes.

    It's the future! YOUR IGNORANTS! ;)

  • (cs) in reply to rogthefrog
    rogthefrog:

    DZ-Jay:
    SerKevin:
    Maybe they were dealing with some form of quantum data? The state is on, off, and somewhere inbetween all at the same time :)  projects before.


    OMG! Just what the world needs: quantum administrators.

        -dZ.

    This means you can know who they are or where they are, but never both at the same time. Frightening.


    This has been my experience with most IT departments and businesses in general, both those I've worked for and those I've only dealt with. ^.~ (I think I'm going to start using Quantum Admin as my job position.)
  • (cs) in reply to Matt B
    Matt B:
    let's not ignore the fact that they are using strings for what likely was originally meant to mimic a true/false value


    Please don't say that, it brings back bad memories of my day job.  I've seen a lot of code lately where people don't bother to marshal data into appropriate types (or should I say, unmarshal?) after it has been through something (GET or POST, text box, XML) where it has to be represented as a string.

    After seeing

    if (isValid.toLowerCase() == "false") ...

    Or even

    var inverse = 1*1 - 1*primary_value;  // I swear, I'm not making this up.

    This WTF doesn't even look all that bad to me.  (Although it still looks wrong.  Thank goodness.)

    As for someone who is "maybe" an administrator, they've got identities and roles mixed up, I think.  They want to say, "This person isn't THE adminstrator, but does get to administrate."  The real WTF is patching it with "maybe" instead of implementing a richer system of permissions so they can give fine-grained access to this ersatz administrator.

    Otherwise, they'll just find that this patch needs another patch before long.  "Remember when you gave the sales managers administrator privileges so they can delete orders?  Well, they can delete customers, too.  We didn't want them to be able to delete customers.  Unless they created the customer.  Except if the customer is a preferred customer.  Unless the customer is in their district.  Or it's a full moon."  Any system that has a "maybe" admin has no clear definitions of roles, security, and so forth.

    Lewis Carroll:

    Supposing that, when Pistol uttered the well-known words--

    <center>`Under which king, Bezonian? Speak or die!'</center>

    Justice Shallow had felt certain that it was either William or Richard, but had not been able to settle which, so that he could not possibly say either name before the other, can it be doubted that, rather than die, he would have gasped out `Rilchiam!'



  • amos (unregistered) in reply to ammoQ
    ammoQ:

    I disagree. "Jein" does not mean somthing like "perhaps" or "maybe"; it rather means "partially yes" or "the answer depends on your point of view".



    I think that's perfect for it..
    "is admin?"
    "depends.. it's an admin, but not a site admin"
  • (cs) in reply to amos

    A particle boolean with the spin values 0.5, 1, 1.5 and 2.

    That is: 'somewhat', 'true', 'truer', 'most true'.

  • (cs) in reply to j99
    j99:
    Red. No! Green! Ahhhhhhh.......

    Umm, Monty Python anyone?


    Only if you don't jack it all up.

    Bridgekeeper:  WHAT.. is your favorite color?
    Sir Galahad:  Blue!  No Yellooooowwwwww.......

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/quotes


  • (cs) in reply to Carl
    Anonymous:
    "why don't you just tell me the name of the user you want to be..."


    "Using your touch tone keypad, please enter your 25-digit account ID now..."

    "If Administrator, is the user you would like to be, press 1..."
  • neminem (unregistered)

    You know what's great about this one? It was posted several months before What Is Truth?, so nobody mentioned that the new role being added should have been named FileNotFound. Until now, anyway.

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