...
}]
(or whatever the syntax for calling external commands was). Worked wonderfully.
If you think you need that, step away from the keyboard, take a nice walk
outside and rethink your design. Or write out open + eval long hand.
Or do filename?
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dialect on our 64K Z80 machines at school ca.
1985, which had an option to make the assignment operator either = or
:=, IIRC. I think the switch had becomes in its name.)
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On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:47 AM, H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl wrote:
* Oracle converts to NULL on varchar2 fields
Oh goodness yes. Whoever thought that was a good idea? And built such
an SQL incompatibility into a major database engine?
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On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:28 PM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 08:06:28AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
Vignette StoryServer?
I had a bit of a go with that... back when the language was Tcl, not Java.
Fun times. Especially counting the backslashes. Do we need
]; # camel
I leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out what the hell
should happen if $[ is set to -2.
Or 1 (or 7), for that matter.
(I believe the answer is documented, but it's not as immediately
obvious without some mental arithmetic.)
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.
Presumably this one: http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html /
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2003/02/the-cadt-model/
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On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:36, Peter Kruse pjo...@gmail.com wrote:
oh, when I do hg move you do an remove followed by add and all
the history is lost, great, gimme more, yeah!
It doesn't do an add-with-history? Sheesh, even Subversion tried to
get that one right.
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getting tools
that exist to serve developers the way they work.
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for the lack of documentation,
Don't forget that a third of those will tell you log in to see the
entire answer so you're sometimes not even sure whether it's the same
dreck you've already seen twenty times or a possibly useful lead.
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domain) . com
, but I don't think anyone supports spaces around dots or comments in
email addresses.
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 14:32, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote:
In the same vein:
Subject: SOAP
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.
This could almost be a hate on Perl, but other languages' SOAP
implementations don't seem to be any better.
What did the S in SOAP stand for again? I keep forgetting. Nothing
comes to mind, really.
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 16:02, James Laver j...@jameslaver.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 03:53:51PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
What did the S in SOAP stand for again? I keep forgetting. Nothing
comes to mind, really.
It doesn't any more. Microsoft had an epiphany that SOAP
that the answer to *that* is Being root doesn't mean
you can do everything. It just means that you can *give* yourself the
power to do anything.
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is a patronymic in most cases, rather
than a family name, and who are typically addressed by their given
name rather than as Mr Paul's Son).
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to a human or what it looks like on the front of your
credit card, because it's impossible to program a computer to
normalise the input itself.
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wondered that.
Though I'm sure that comes with its very own hate.
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.)
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of them.
Probably something along the lines of 'look for sequences of // and ::'.
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types [IIRC, including text/plain and
application/octet-stream], simply because there are/were web servers
that sent the wrong content type so that MS decided the content type
couldn't be trusted in all cases.)
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.
And it should also be a Service-Oriented Architecture and provide
Software-as-a-Service.
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such as credit card numbers or ISBNs.
And let's not mention people who treat ZIP codes as numbers, deleting
initial zeroes and all.
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use decimal-comma instead of decimal-point.) Whee.
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receive. I'm sure someone will notice eventually.
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-l are
present in Unicode for strictly backwards compatibility reasons with
certain legacy encodings); those should be handled by the display
rather than by using separate Unicode code points.
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,
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years or so! None of this confusing ribbon
business!
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the people
working on them also have to eat.
Who would you expect pays for them? Governments, through your taxes?
Big companies, passing on the costs to you through their products'
prices?
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program.
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programmer would
expect simply works, though, say, Python programmers would have a
different opinion since most languages don't automatically cast
between strings and numbers.)
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of them. Including the enterprisey ones. Perhaps
especially those.
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directory
is always at the end, so garbage (such as the executable prelude) at
the beginning can be easily ignored by plain zip extracting software.
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is as obvious as
mud to the newbie.
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to stop the
Designs service, about once a day, causing everything to fall apart
graphically. Even though it's set to auto-restart if there's a
problem.
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}, for example.
but that's
mostly leftover hate from the PDP-11 and Xenix-286 days when that
much overhead mattered.
There is that.
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in from a piece
of paper.
And if you can't tell whether a bunch of bits is a scanned-in
handwritten signature or not, you might as well not include that bunch
of bits in the file since it's not adding any semantics.
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let you print to the default printer, sorry
about that. That's not what we want.
So don't do that then.
If you want a print dialog, then use File | Print... -- the menu
choice has three dots for a purpose. Don't use the toolbar icon.
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that (supposedly) fix security holes are great,
and updaters that check regularly can be nifty, too, but what made you
think that changing the app's language while updating a point release
(8.1.1 to 8.1.2 -- so a sub-minor release!) would be a good idea?
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.
But:
[snip snip snip]
Ah. This is clearly some novel meaning of open standards process.
I'm sure that if the error had been in the OOXML spec, the governments
of about six major and twenty minor countries would have sponsored
your bug report and made sure it got prompt attention.
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because sometimes that works
and only sometimes does it fall down badly, especially in areas which
allow postal codes that start with 0. (That should be a clue that it's
not a number, even if it's composed only of digits.)
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On Jan 14, 2008 7:18 PM, Michael G Schwern schw...@pobox.com wrote:
Ooh, and they're advertising
That's pretty much all you needed to say.
Why *did* you think they tack that on to outgoing messages?
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On Jan 15, 2008 1:10 AM, Matt McLeod m...@boggle.org wrote:
An alarming proportion of the Great Unwashed think everything is
under .com.
And an alarming proportion of those think everything starts with
www. . Including email addresses. (www@aol.com?)
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On Jan 8, 2008 12:29 AM, H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Nothing beats Oracle (yet)
For hate, I presume from the context?
Offender #1 being that '' is not the same as NULL, and Oracle
shouldn't pretend otherwise.
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the two with REPLACE INTO, which will do an
INSERT, unless the record is already present, in which case it'll do
an UPDATE instead.
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,
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all hateful.
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Joy vi.
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and broken version to
put up with thankyounotverymuchatallyoubastards.
perldoc Module::Builder
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really wanted an f-i ligature
when you wrote $file.
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?
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/tests/spoof.jpg (which has
rather different effects in IE compared to web browsers).
Software that ignores this, and decides to sniff instead, is hateful.
As is web server software that is incorrectly configured and serves
useless thing such as text/plain for images.
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Alt+F4 it is. Still ick.
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(thinking that the
popup is in a window of its own), resulting in my entire browser
window (including all tabs) suddenly shrinking to postage stamp size,
which means I have to drag the border out to the size I like it at
again.
Hateful thing.
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nicely down a window and
suddenly, in a background tab, a PDF finishes loading and it captures
the focus and your key-down events suddently end up there.
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