• (disco)
    Remy:
    It currently lived in a file share, **suing** the “file.pl.old”, “file.pl.old.old” versioning convention.

    @accalia approves of this spellaring!

  • (disco) in reply to accalia

    Not spellaring. The file was owned by root.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    hmm... not specified in story..... but plausible given story....

    I'll accept that weasel explanation. ;-)

    so long as @remy, et. al. doesn't edit the article to change the word used before (or just after) it goes live

  • (disco)

    Never expected to see an article which shouldn't be public until two days later...

  • (disco) in reply to Anonymous

    http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/how-to-validate-a-url/7745?u=aliceif yw And according to UTC, it was actually already visible for me yesterday. Which means, 4 days ahead.

  • (disco) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Never expected to see an article which shouldn't be public until two days later...

    paula bean is further ahead than usual right now.

    seeing the articles early is a little perk we who set the articles category to watching get. we see articles early. :-D

  • (disco) in reply to aliceif

    My brain seems to be stuck in my local time (UTC +8... or is it GMT +8 again?). I think maybe I should switch to Joda-Time.

  • (disco) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    UTC +8... or is it GMT +8 again

    Both are, to within a second, the same all year round.

  • (disco) in reply to Anonymous

    I'm trying something a little new. I personally prefer to get the queue set up for the week all in one go, but that means people who watch the forums get "sneak previews". I'm not sure if we'll keep doing it this way or not, but we'll see.

  • (disco)

    Frist! Kind of...

  • (disco)

    If you aks me the WTF here is that he took that kind of crap and "scurried" away. What a bunch of morons.

  • (disco) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    UTC +8... or is it GMT +8 again?
    It's winter, so it doesn't matter.
  • (disco) in reply to PJH

    From the article you linked:

    The ITU felt it was best to designate a single abbreviation for use in all languages in order to minimize confusion. Since unanimous agreement could not be achieved on using either the English word order, CUT (coordinated universal time), or the French word order, TUC (temps universel coordonné), the acronym UTC was chosen as a compromise.

    I didn't know English-French mutual hatred lasted even in 70s...

  • (disco) in reply to Gaska
    Gaska:
    TUC

    Tasty time!

  • (disco) in reply to Gaska
    Gaska:
    I didn't know English-French mutual hatred lasted even in 70s...

    You seem to be implying it stopped...

  • (disco) in reply to Gaska
    Gaska:
    TUC

    I... I'm sorry. But I'm hardwired to do this!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT_T4KweVBc

  • (disco) in reply to PJH
    PJH:
    You seem to be implying it stopped...
    Because that was my impression.
  • (disco)

    BTW, I think CUT would be better acronym than UTC. Especially if they insisted on pronouncing it as "cute".

  • (disco) in reply to aliceif

    It was visible to me five minutes after I got the approval for submitting it ;) Though it used to say "Not scheduled" and now it has tomorrow's date. Seems like the security needs tightened...

  • (disco) in reply to Yamikuronue
    Yamikuronue:
    Seems like the security needs tightened...
    Did you see Remy's post?
    Remy:
    I'm trying something a little new. I personally prefer to get the queue set up for the week all in one go, but that means people who watch the forums get "sneak previews". I'm not sure if we'll keep doing it this way or not, but we'll see.
  • (disco) in reply to JBert

    Ah, nope :) I was running late getting out the door and didn't finish reading. Mea culpa

  • (disco)

    TRWTF is not being a Luddite who only uses interoffice mail, but using it as an excuse to not respond to memos.

  • (disco) in reply to Yamikuronue
    Yamikuronue:
    Seems like the security needs tightened...

    The concept of "Not Listed" in discourse doesn't seem to mean what the words mean. I know we've talked about this before.

  • (disco)

    So Brandon communicates as tersely as possible, but leaves incriminating notes in a shared spreadsheet? Most odd.

  • (disco)

    I saw a variation of this one time. Two bosses: Mr. F, and his boss, Mr. B. Mr. B hired Dean and then informed Mr. F that Dean was on his team. Mr. F didn't like that a bit, and made it pretty clear by assigning various scut work for Dean to do.

    About two months later, Mr. B resigned after a customer dispute. Dean got his pink slip from Mr. F the next day.

  • (disco)

    One of the best feelings in the world:

    Knowing that if I were in that situation, I could pick up my things, head for the door, and move on with my life.

  • (disco)

    Shouldn't clive have escalated those issues to management if his boss wasn't allowing him to do his job?

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    so long as @remy, et. al. doesn't edit the article to change the word used before (or just after) it goes live

    oh...... he did..... :frowning:

    i liked the other spelling.

  • (disco) in reply to NBeezy

    Shouldn't Clive have escalated those issues to management if his boss wasn't allowing him to do his job?

    Email from Brandon: "See me." "Senior management says you’re harassing them. They have no interest in your trivial problems.”

  • (disco) in reply to Gaska

    I’m just imagining the fun Dutch-speakers would have with the pronunciation of that abbreviation.

  • (disco) in reply to EatenByAGrue

    That would likely happen, yeah.

    if he harasses senior management enough he might actually be able to get fired for doing his job :P

  • (disco) in reply to Gurth
    Gurth:
    I’m just imagining the fun Dutch-speakers would have with the pronunciation of that abbreviation.
    Just like Polish-speakers had fun with PIPA. For exactly the same reason.
  • (disco) in reply to Gurth

    Coordinated UNiversal Time?

  • (disco) in reply to NBeezy

    That is assuming he knew who management was ... Brandon never told him, yeah?

  • (disco) in reply to Matt_Westwood
    Matt_Westwood:
    That is assuming he knew who management **was** ... Brandon never told him, yeah?

    I wonder where he could find that info...

    A few weeks before their six month stint expired, Clive was digging through the company network drive, searching for a spreadsheet containing sample data. He found one named after the recruiting company that placed him, and hoped that it was something useful. It was, after a fashion.
  • (disco) in reply to Gaska

    I'm still amused by the major world leader whose name sounds like "pootin'."

  • (disco)
    kupfernigk:
    hen they did join NATO they insisted on spelling OTAN. Not just retarded, actually backward.

    No, they where founding members but left the operational military part (SHAPE) in the 60ties after France developed their own nuclear programme. They did remaining active in the diplomatic part. But SHAPE and NATO HQ where forced to move from France to Belgium. OTAN is Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique Nord or the literal translation of North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Just like the UN is Nations-Unie in French.

  • (disco) in reply to Luhmann

    UE is backwardized, too

  • (disco) in reply to aliceif
    aliceif:
    UE is backwardized, too
    In Poland too. And in any language where the noun can come before the adjective in a sentence.
  • (disco) in reply to Gaska

    It doesn't matter all that much in summer either. Except it's warmer.

  • (disco)

    Not to forget the small contretemps between 1337 and 1453, which, due to the limited understanding of arithmetic in thsoe days, became known as the 100 years war.

  • (disco) in reply to spadgas
    spadgas:
    It doesn't matter all that much in summer either. Except it's warmer.
    For ignorant people who don't know what a timezone really is (which is majority of people worldwide), GMT fast forwards one hour.
  • (disco) in reply to Gaska
    Gaska:
    GMT fast forwards one hour *[in summer]*

    No, it doesn't. It turns into BST.

  • (disco) in reply to PJH
    1. Find a post to reply to.
    2. Pick some part of it and throw away the rest.
    3. Make an insightful comment ignoring the whole context.
    4. ???
    5. Profit.

    Protip: non-ignorant people know what BST is. Ignorants don't.

  • (disco) in reply to Gaska
    Gaska:
    Make an insightful comment ignoring the whole context.

    (While ignoring the context of the post I'm replying to)

    GMT does nothing in the summer, and telling ignorant people it goes forward an hour "sometime around Easter" and back "sometime around Halloween" isn't dealing with the ignorance, and is merely perpetuating it.

  • (disco) in reply to PJH

    If I wasn't on mobile, I'd be making a nice little blakeyrant right now. So I'll just say that, even though I absolutely know you're trolling me right now, it's very mean to not listen to someone, especially to not listen and make remarks meant only to put the person in bad light. I mean, putting in bad light isn't a bad thing in itself, but only if it's truthful and relevant to discussion. Yours is neither, and it makes me sad, sad panda.

  • (disco) in reply to Gaska
    Gaska:
    UE is backwardized, too

    In Poland too. And in any language where the noun can come before the adjective in a sentence.

    This inspired a trivia question that I contributed a few years ago to a Usenet quiz. Let's see if I can reconstruct the way it was worded:

    From where I am now sitting, I can see a package on which the largest visible lettering consists of two five-letter words that describe what the package originally held. On the back of the package (not visible to me at this moment), the largest printing is the same two five-letter words, but in reverse order. On top of that package is a smaller package on which the same two words appear in the same order as on the back of the larger package. On the back of that package are the same two words again in the same order as on the front of the larger package. The original contents of the two packages are used together, and both are being used at this very moment. What are the two words in their original (front of the larger package) order?

  • (disco) in reply to Gaska
    Gaska:
    For ignorant people who don't know what a timezone really is (which is majority of people worldwide), GMT fast forwards one hour.

    I do love being ignorant. For my whole life I've been convinced that BST was GMT+1 hour. Please could you update this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time which was obviously written by people as ignorant as myself, misled by the words of the British government who defined the start and end times of BST in terms of GMT, and then the whole world won't make the same mistake?

  • (disco) in reply to spadgas

    The sole fact that you heard about BST makes you non-ignorant in this case.

  • (disco) in reply to Gaska

    What PJH means is, GMT is always the same time. The UK's observed timezone changes from GMT (= UTC) to BST (British Summer Time = UTC + 1) in the summer, while GMT continues being the same as UTC, but the UK is no longer using it.

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