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I snorted!

What's not to like about building fighter airplanes? :P

100% agreed! Currently I'm trying to get access to a iTSM tool that uses HTTP as it's transport mechanism. It uses ActiveX controls to gather data into a grid-like mechanism.

As I particularly hate ActiveX, I have started reverse engineering what these controls do. So far so good, except that the format used for the data that the controls receive is an application/octet-stream binary format.

Now I've worked out how the format works, and by using JDataView I'm parsing the format. But you know what? Internet Explorer takes null characters in strings and will not go any further, even though ECMA-262 states that:

"The String type is the set of all finite ordered sequences of zero or more 16-bit unsigned integer values... All operations on Strings (except as otherwise stated) treat them as sequences of undifferentiated 16-bit unsigned integers; they do not ensure the resulting String is in normalised form, nor do they ensure language-sensitive results."

If they had passed the data back in something saner like JSON, or heck even XML!, then things would have be fine. As it is, I've decided to skip Internet Explorer as it's just not worth my time to get around this issue, and every other browser works fine with JDataView.

I have indeed played this game when I was much younger. I think I was disturbed by this part of the game even back then.

The reason I'm disturbed isn't superficial, and has nothing really to do with Larry losing his virginity. It is the terms they use to describe the prostitute.

Yes, I'm aware it's known as the "oldest profession".

Please stop saying I'm shocked. I'm not shocked, and I have never said I was shocked. The original post said I was disturbed by the comment in the screenshot, and it was mostly because of the way it described the prostitute.

Why is this getting downvoted? Not snarky, or sarcastic.

Noted!

Try not to use begging the question as an argument.

But what makes me sad is the second part. Because it's in a game, and it's done to be funny.

I'm not shocked by the existence of hookers. I should be, but I'm desensitized.

Yeah, downvote me. Clearly it was sarcasm.

Wow... according to Wikipedia, the women on the box were all employees of On-Line Systems, the precursor to Sierra. One of them is a bookkeeper! I'd be curious as to how the convinced them to pose naked on the box.

I know. Respect for women is SUCH a dull way to live your life.

I have to agree with i386. There's a pretty disturbing screenshot where Larry says that "this is the hooker's seedy bedroom. The bed's a mess, so is the hooker!".

http://www.replaygamesinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/tum...

I'm sure it's a great article, but seriously it popped up a screen asking me to enter my email address - BEFORE I read what they were trying to say.

Why would I give them my email? Just a thought for future, if you are associated with the site in any way :-)

Seems like an April Fool's Day double bluff. The Golden Spiral is actually often used as the basis for laying out webpages.

A good article I found is here: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/02/09/applying-mathemat...

I love Linux myself, and I have no doubt that they've saved money, but the following makes me a little concerned about how they are going about Service Management:

"Ude said it was impossible to be exact about the amount of complaints the help desk gets about LiMux, noting that most problems are a combination of several causes. The software is not always the problem, since often there are problems reaching a server, or Internet connections might be malfunctioning."

My concern here is that they aren't logging incidents via some sort of appropriate iTSM framework (MOF, ITILv3, etc.) Even the most basic Incident Management setups would allow them to perform basic analysis of the incident data to work out where there issues are coming from.

I'm afraid I just don't buy the argument that it's impossible to know for certain where the city's problems are coming from :(

The whole point is to deliver a larger signal to noise ratio - posting these every month would lower this, IMO.

From what I've seen of HackerNews, this is already happening!

I also agree - but then he said something potentially defamatory :-)

However, I think if an employee looks up Shay's details, they will first find his op-ed calling Zynga "evil". I guess if they are concerned about the OMGPOP tweet, then they will be REALLY worried about the op-ed!

Funny, I don't believe that she is being prosecuted of a crime. The ones asking her for the password is the Education Board, who have no legal recourse but to demand the password.

If this was a prosecutor, they would file a subpoena to Facebook via the court system.

People like him are held up to high standards because they have responsibilities and are paid accordingly. It's called leadership. Leaders watch what they say.

As for celebrities acting badly, this doesn't make it particularly admirable. I should point out that no F-bomb was used by the CEO in question - he merely showed a complete lack of class. There really was no upside. A lot of people wouldn't have known, or perhaps wouldn't have cared, that Shay didn't join the new company.

I'd suggest that the OMGPOP CEO be very careful about what he says. Saying someone was the "weakest link" in a team with no backup might lead to defamation proceedings.

Simple "solution" - delete her Facebook profile and tell them that's what she's done.

Surely there is a law that's already on the books that prevents coersion of person details? Under the U.S. Constitution, the government must get a search warrant. I don't see how this is any different - this is the government using coersion to gain access to your private life. I think that a good lawyer could take this to the Federal Court to challenge the constitutionality of the matter.

It's interesting to see this occuring. Both of these firms are going to get hurt by this, or worse both will go bankrupt. Even if one firm survives, when they raise their prices, who's to say that their customers won't go to another of the numerous pizza places that are nearby?

I think it's a real lesson for startups - don't let your pride and pig-headedness rule your head, or else that will be the end of your company!

I disagree. I've met a LOT of developers who believe they know more than the customer, the QA team, the UX team and the DBAs. And they are, most often, wrong.

I think it takes a special sort of programmer to run a project to be honest. They are out there, but they are hard to find!

It's a great idea, and actually slashdot is already doing this on their front page. However, there are some problems:

1. If I want to find a particular item within the first "page" of results, but I've scrolled down 10 pages of results, find that item becomes pretty tricky!

2. Let's say I have a user who scrolls down 1000 pages. What does this to the browser? I'd imagine it grinds to a halt...

The only solution would be to have a load page for the previous results. Here again, the issue I highlighted in point 1 becomes more emphasized. Especially if the search results change while it reloads (though you might keep the results for the user's session - but this sounds like a scaling issue).

If I've paid for an app, then I expect it to work. If it's not working, then I expect you to fix it. I don't expect to pay for those fixes.

Features, on the other hand, I expect to pay for.

Sir, thank you :-) I appreciate you clarifying this!

Should be clear from his comments that he didn't give the $210M figure... a gamasutra editor made this!

Uh, cheating?

"Cheating - Know How to Fake Data

Awesome technique. The fastest function call is the one that doesn’t happen. When you have a monotonically increasing counter, like movie view counts or profile view counts, you could do a transaction every update. Or you could do a transaction every once in awhile and update by a random amount and as long as it changes from odd to even people would probably believe it’s real. Know how to fake data."

So all those people who buy views are kinda screwed now :-) I suspect this is a bad example. I HOPE this is a bad example, if only for the KONY2012 campaign :P

Perhaps time to provide the store with some feedback? http://mymfe.microsoft.com/Microsoft%20%20Store/Feedback.asp...

I can't believe you don't have MUMPS on this list!