MySQL type conversion

mysql> select 1 / 2; ++ | 1 / 2 | ++ | 0.5000 | ++ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) What the fuck? When I divide two integers, I expect a integer back, dammit. What's even more awesome is that MySQL will round the result if you try to insert the value into an integer column. m

Re: svn

On Wednesday 13 August 2008 12:20:41 pm Darrell Fuhriman wrote: > Isn't that a bit like stomping on someone's foot to make their > headache go away? You mean that doesn't work?! -- Jeremy Stephens Computer Systems Analyst I Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University

Re: svn

ht. With that sort of attitude, how am I supposed to make an > merge as one atomic commit? By changing to a better VCS? > > Nicholas Clark rm -fr `find . -name '.svn' -type d` git init -- Jeremy Stephens Computer Systems Analyst I Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University

Re: configuration hate

On Monday 10 March 2008 02:43:58 pm Phil Pennock wrote: > Is your experience with Exim debianised or not? Definitely debianised. Maybe if I have to use exim in the future, I'll try setting it up myself using the manual you mentioned. -- Jeremy Stephens Computer Systems Analyst I Depar

configuration hate

OK, I need some input. My co-workers and I were discussing this today. Which of these has the most evil and hateful configuration? Apache, Xorg, or exim? I think my vote has to be exim. TIA, Jeremy -- Jeremy Stephens Computer Systems Analyst I Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt

Re: Photo Booth

On Friday 29 February 2008 07:04:22 am Nicholas Clark wrote: > Which turned my existing photo blank, gave me the pizza of death, > and now I have a little dialogue "The application Photo Booth quit > unexpectedly" I like calling it "the pinwheel of death". -- Jer

head and tail

I found myself needing to run awk on all the lines of a text file except the first one. So I look at some man pages. It turns out that head will accept negative numbers, but tail won't. At least in my Ubuntu Gutsy installation it won't. Boo. -- Jeremy Stephens Computer Systems

Re: mysqldump Error Messages

oracle hate = 521,000 > > > > And, for fun: > > hate microsoft = 1,050,000microsoft hate = 1,610,000 > > hate windows = 1,530,000 windows hate = 2,550,000 > > hate software = 25,700,000software hate = 3,830,000 > > Top hit? > > | we hates software &

MS Access upsizing wizard

I fucking hate the MS Access upsizing wizard. If there an error of ANY kind in a table, it will skip the table and not tell you why. God dammit. Hatefully yours, Jeremy

Re: .NET and Visual Studio

On Monday 07 January 2008 07:12:10 pm Peter da Silva wrote: > On 2008-01-07, at 17:46, Jeremy Stephens wrote: > > On Monday 07 January 2008 05:29:50 pm Peter da Silva wrote: > >> That message was confusing as hell to me. My brain doesn't want > >> to parse

Re: .NET and Visual Studio

the script block at the very beginning before rendering the rest of the page, and I couldn't get it to do otherwise. Oh well, there are probably much better ways to do that, but I was so frustrated at that point that I didn't care how ugly the solution was, just as long as it worked. -

.NET and Visual Studio

ly written. But the clunkyness of the whole .NET package doesn't inspire me in the least to learn it better, especially since I work in a Linux shop (supposedly). -- Jeremy Stephens Computer Systems Analyst ISchool of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University

Re: SQL syntax

s of the syntax. I think I didn't really notice it before because I was using halfway decent languages to generate SQL instead of .NET, which I hate to begin with. Hatred abounds. -- Jeremy Stephens Computer Systems Analyst ISchool of Medicine Department of B

SQL syntax

ve been working with SQL for years and I've never considered the syntax difference annoying. Avast! -- Jeremy Stephens Computer Systems Analyst I Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University

Re: Rubygems require perl?

Luke Kanies wrote: I hate ports, but I've got a Mac and it doesn't have real package management. Just install it by hand. Whenever I try to install rubygems via some package manager (ports on mac or apt on linux), somehow it always gets screwed up one way or another. -- Jerem

Not a hate, but funny

" to encompass an infinite duration of infinite punishments and (2) exacts said punishments upon all parties (related or non-related). -- Jeremy Stephens Computer Systems Analyst ISchool of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University

Re: Windows: where everything is harder than it needs to be. And also broken.

'begs the question' that they would go to the trouble of buying a domain name and setting up a web site to discourage misuse? - Viking -- Jeremy Stephens Computer Systems Analyst ISchool of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University

GTK file selection dialog

Apparently the newest version of GTK+ (2.10) addresses some of these issues, but it's not available in Debian yet. Jeremy -- Jeremy Stephens Computer Systems Analyst ISchool of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University

Re: Spreadsheet::ParseExcel

S2, which is hateful (since there's a Windows binary of it, you would think it would know how). Anyway, I ended up just doing the conversion with vim (using the fenc option), since it was a one-shot deal. That isn't really all that relevant to your hate, but I feel your pa

Re: tabs in source code

one keeps their default tab width at 8 (which is what I'm dealing with at the moment). -- Jeremy Stephens Computer Systems Analyst ISchool of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University

tabs in source code

I hate tabs in source code. If you must use them, expand them into spaces please if you think anyone will ever want to read it. Hatefully yours, Jeremy -- Jeremy Stephens Computer Systems Analyst ISchool of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt

source tarballs

y current directory. Hate. -- Jeremy Stephens Computer Systems Analyst ISchool of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University