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Do you punch some percentage harder based on the local sales tax?
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Sounds like critical IT infrastructure to me.
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it depends on the distance of the machines to the IT office
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Mountain Dew and Doritos are critical parts of the IT infrastructure. :)
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So's the coffee shop over the road. (But the donut vendor is too far away.)
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To be fair, Sharepoint is both fucking awful and a lot better than the “collaboration platforms” it replaces. Lots of things where it says “Oh, you can do this” only to say “but no, you can't” when you really try to do it, and I've no idea why there's no integration at all between the calendaring and that of Exchange. You'd think that would be something that should be both supported and switched on by default, it's that obvious that you'd want it…
But as I said, it beats the systems that it actually replaces, systems that I've had the misfortune to use over the years. (If you've never used a BSCW, be happy. And be aware that that wasn't the worst of the worst.)
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:rofl: for British-ism.
:O for I wish we had so many donuts that we had a vendor ;)
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Actually, there used to be a Chinese restaurant over the road outside my work, as in it was on a bridge over the road. They closed when the landlord (my employer) started being a dick with the lease…
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Surely with enough backslashes you can escape anything?
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semi-necroing because every time I see this topic title I smile and have a quiet snigger.
It makes my day a little better.
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An interval of 39 minutes is long enough now to start using “necroing” even with a prefixed “semi-”? TIL…
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Previous had been 23+ hours....
Take A Bold
Yep, I still like it.
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So... did he take a bold after all?
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that's a misconception. b is a valid element in html5 ( http://w3c.github.io/html-reference/b.html ).
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But an empty b is useless, as b applies to a span of text... no text, no chocolate.
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I don't get your point, an empty strong would be just as useless.
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As a rhotic speaker, i.e. one who pronounces the "r" at the ends of words like sugar and Eeyore, it never occurred to me that Eeyore was meant to sound like "hee-haw". But it turns out it was.
Similarly, when we say "er", like, er, in this sentence, it's really "uh". "Erm" is "um". "Lurve" is "love".
A lot of weird words make so much more sense when you discover they're just playful spellings of familiar words.
Oh, and "Ye", as in "Ye Olde Shoppe"? It's supposed to be a thorn, one of the letters that dropped out of the English alphabet a few hundred years ago. Pronounced "th", natch. It's not the same word as "ye", plural of "you".
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Oh crap. You mean to tell me that "er" isn't actually pronounced like "her" without the "h"? And "erm" isn't actually pronounced like "term" without the "t"?
All my life, I have wondered why people write words like this but I've never heard them spoken aloud. Now I wonder how many people thought I was an alien for Doing It Wrong. :mag_right:
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Wish it was the same for nutrition facts on food. One can of soup lists nutrition facts for 3/5 of the can. Who eats 3/5 of a can of soup?
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RULE OF THUMB: Never, ever, ever, never, EVER allow marketing to promote ANYTHING from IT without technical review of the CIO, lowest-level director, and probably the highest level engineer available.
Marketing IT stuff leads directly to a deadline, disappointed customers, and shed loads of miscommunication. You know how large video games producers are THE WORST place to write code and almost never delivers finished products these days? It's because of marketing