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Living Room / Re: Abusing Emoji on your computer filesystem
« on: July 15, 2018, 07:38 AM »
I wonder what kind of files are stored in the "🍑🍆" folder 
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^^ Good link. Thanks. And the author is right - it is FUD, and generally, wherever one finds FUD, one will usually find an accompanying $commercial and/or a political motivation, if not simply an "ulterior" motive.The warnings about Spectre and Meltdown weren't FUD.-IainB (January 07, 2018, 01:46 AM)
"LEGACY" used to be a good word, a word you would be pleased to see.Not in the world of software, Curt :-)-Curt (September 07, 2017, 03:44 AM)
Wordpress does seem to be a target/recipient of attacks disproportionately, but i think having a single install, with minimal 3rd party extensions, which was kept always up to date, would be more secure than having a large number of different frameworks that were sporadically updated if ever..Emphasis mine.-mouser (September 03, 2017, 05:02 PM)
It would be more restrictive in format (i.e. mostly uniform appearance of user pages), but that could also be an advantage in terms of consistency, and would have the advantage of sharing visitors and popularity and being able to have a shared news/release page, etc.I'm not sure this is an advantage - this loses uniqueness of dcmembers pages, and you might as well run the member pages off donationcoder.com then?-mouser (September 01, 2017, 10:57 PM)
The filesize and website-like interface are probably both explained by the fact that it essentially is a website. So in order to be portable it has to bundle an HTML engine, JavaScript engine, etc, for the consistent look across all platforms.I wish people would stop doing this.-Deozaan (August 19, 2017, 02:12 PM)
Bingo, Deo! - Otherwise I wouldn't have seen it.I mean, resurrecting this old threadI believe the thread was actually resurrected by a spammer, and the spam post got removed. But not before f0dder posted his response.-IainB (August 28, 2017, 12:48 PM)-Deozaan (August 28, 2017, 03:39 PM)
Anyone know of any good activities?Drink until you forget the person.-mouser (July 11, 2013, 04:27 PM)
There are no extra charges and no limits on the size of your files — no matter how many videos you want to back up.
It is a apparent that this is one of those things, like religion and politics, that people adhere to and have their own opinions onThat's what people who use filthy spaces would have you believe - us tabbers have the objective facts, obviously.-wraith808 (June 24, 2017, 04:53 PM)
Someone mistyped a . for a /Yes, yes! That was... definitely!... what happened ;P-Ath (June 19, 2017, 06:02 AM)
I don't do much with Python. However it does seem much more natural to type a block by hitting Enter, then Tab rather than holding down the shift key and hitting a curly brace. At the end of the block you hit backspace to back off the indentation rather than again holding down the shift key and hitting another curly brace. I didn't find it all that problematic when using an editor that knows Python.I don't find adding braces is much bother, and it removes ambiguity - if a language uses indentation for semantic purposes, you run a higher risk of stupid bugs. Especially if you copy/paste snippets of code from the intarwebs, and who doesn't these days? :-)-MilesAhead (June 22, 2017, 09:18 AM)
Indeed, I don't.You're either using a very, very narrow monitor (for professional development I've been on 120 columns with plenty of real estate for an IDE for 5+ years), or having crazy amounts of indents.I guess you don't use end of line comments much.-MilesAhead (June 22, 2017, 09:18 AM)
So use an editor that has a hard tab/spaces option. I don't get the controversy. But for people who may type in the < 30 wps range hitting shift brace combinations is distracting and causes a lot of lint since it is easy to get a bracket when you want a brace. Also I notice many IDEs, at least in free tools, lack a reformatting indentation parser(such as Tidy.) When I used Delphi 5 I found it liberating to just type in the code all messy and hit the function key for Delforex to indent and capitalize according to rules etc.. If everything lined up chances were good I did not have any typos.The controversy is a people thing, and it's already mentioned above. Tabs means flexibilty, spaces means people shoving their preferred indentation size down your throat.-MilesAhead (June 22, 2017, 09:18 AM)
It sucks if the team has made the misguided decision to use spaces, but yes.As Deozaan says, it also means that you (you special snowflake!) is trying to dictate how wide my indents are supposed to be, instead of letting that be up to my editor settings. Editor settings that probably vary depending on whether I'm on a machine with big monitors, or editing in Vim through SSH.Not really. If that's what the team decides on, then that's what the team does as a rule. And when others come into the team, they adhere to the standard. Right?-f0dder (June 21, 2017, 10:06 AM)-wraith808 (June 21, 2017, 07:55 PM)
I hate it when source wraps to the next line or kicks in the horizontal scrollbar just because there were a few nested blocks generating a bunch of white space.You're either using a very, very narrow monitor (for professional development I've been on 120 columns with plenty of real estate for an IDE for 5+ years), or having crazy amounts of indents.-MilesAhead (June 21, 2017, 03:11 PM)
The administrative shares that have been part of Windows for a long time have been a staple for remote file management for IT pros.s/pros/skiddies.
I disagree. By insisting on funky characters that make you shift mode on touch keyboards they can always say you made a typo when entering. Even if they are the ones who changed what you typed. It amounts to asking the service provider for permission to use your own account.What on earth are you on about?-MilesAhead (June 06, 2017, 11:39 AM)
