Cypress is now where many of the telemarketers have moved their operation to.
Also India and Majorca and the Philippines and Lesotho and Egypt and Namibia and Tunisia...basically any place overseas. Because they know damn well that the FCC isn't gonna spend their time hunting down a telemarketer from Greece or the Sultanate of Oman or Romania or whatever.
Sorry, but if a last name of "Null" breaks your code, you're a shit coder.
The same for name fields- a 50 character limit should be the minimum. Database space is cheap, what exactly do people think they're saving by restricting a name field to 20 characters or so?
It pisses me off when a site insists that your last name HAS to be more than 2 characters, or that your first name can't be a single letter. Believe it or not, some people DO have names like that. If he was still alive someone like e. e. cummings wouldn't be able to sign up for jack shit these days because most sites insist that a period simply cannot be a part of your name, and a one-letter name is somehow illegal.
It makes sense to restrict some fields to some maximum value when the upper limit is known (i.e. phone numbers, zip codes, US state names, etc) but for any arbitrary data it makes no sense to enforce an unrealistic maximum. Yes, most last names are less than 30 characters, but not all are. Why would you put in some stupid hard max limit like 30 characters?
Seriously, what the fuck does it cost you to define a column as 100 chars wide instead of 30? What benefit are you supposedly gaining by restricting it to 30 chars? Are you being charged by the letter or something? Sure, a 100 character limit seems unduly generous, but the moment a customer can't create an account because of your mindless stinginess, you're the one that loses a sale, not them.
I've been coding for decades and it's both gratifying and disheartening to see so many large, well-funded companies making these idiot-level mistakes that I don't make. I have a hard time believing that I'm smarter than all the coders at some of these large companies, but the evidence seems to show I am, at least in some areas.
"Looking for job security in the knowledge economy? Just learn to code."
This is like telling a farmer to learn aircraft engine maintenance for job security. Or telling a plumber to learn knitting to ensure he keeps his job.
NOT EVERY JOB REQUIRES KNOWING HOW TO CODE. Stop telling us that it does.
Maybe we have heard about Rust and dismiss it as a toy / fringe language that hasn't replaced anything.
Exactly. But the real question that no one has addressed is why is Russia (under Putin's direction) trying to infiltrate Rust into the lives of everyday, patriotic Americans and why is he trying to make our sacred banking system (inspired by the One True God) dependent on this communist-supported language? And why can't we put metal in a microwave?
When someone says "technology is killing banks" what you really mean "bitcoin, the new technology for decentralization and cryptography is killing banks". Because that is what is already happening. It's real. Banks already know. Media is obsolete and is crumbling as well. They are not able to even grasp what is going on right now in the fintech world.
Yeah, but could you design a completely useless and at times positively frustrating GUI for it? Completely useless GUIs don't design themselves, you know.
Well, okay, for an extra $5 million we'll throw in a shitty UI and a non-working control panel.
Social media *is* social, just social at a shallow and dysfunctional level.
I hear what you're saying (mostly a terminology issue) but there's nothing truly "social" about having 500 Facebook friends, none of whom you've ever met or talked to on the phone or shared a beer with. They're not your friends in any meaningful way. They could be script-bots for all you know.
Social media is training people to be non-social and, in some cases, genuinely dysfunctional at a basic human-to-human level. Tindr is a great example, where people are reduced to "swipe left, swipe right", without a moment's thought. It's like a game, not a way to connect with someone in any meaningful way.
I think social media is, in some ways, genuinely suppressing the development of basic social interaction that is the basic nature of human-to-human interaction. It's sad when I see a group of people sitting at a table in a restaurant all bent over their phones, not having any kind of conversation or interaction. In some cases they're sending each other texts across the table, rather than speak to one another. How retarded is that?
So-called 'social media' is no substitute for actual interaction, preferably face-to-face, and is just enabling socially avoidant people from getting over their awkwardness and anxiety of social situations.
^^^^THIS.
"Social" media seems to be creating a generation of emotionally inept and insecure people who simply do not know how to interact with others except on the most shallow of levels. Most millennials seem to hate talking on the phone and the reason they often give is that it's "too immediate and too personal". They want to avoid human-to-human interaction and send a tweet instead. Anything to create some emotional distance. No wonder their relationships are all fucked up and mostly short-lived and shallow.
It should really be called "anti-social" media or maybe "contra-social" media, because it's anything but social as far as I can tell.
All of the oversharing of the faux 'my-life-is-super-awesome" lifestyles portrayed would be enough to depress anyone, and add to that the sheer volume of brain-numbing bullshit ("press 'Like' to get this child a new kidney!") and it's no wonder that many people's mental processes become clogged with Facebook sludge.
I noticed this effect years ago when I realized that many of the Facebook addicts I knew were constantly being "one upped" by the constant stream of useless crap and downright false garbage that they tuned in to read on a minute-by-minute basis. Facebook didn't make them feel better, it made them feel worse- lonely, boring, and mundane. They couldn't brag hard enough to make themselves feel good.
I called this effect "Facebook Psychosis", and now it seems I was on to something.
If everyone you know is constantly bragging about how AWESOME and FANTASTIC their life is and they have pictures to "prove" it, who wouldn't be discouraged by the "ordinary" life that you, a mere mortal, seems to lead?
But it's not Facebook's fault per se, any more than it's the bottle of Tequila's fault when someone gets drunk and then crashes their car. It's a contributing cause, but the drunk driver is the one who fucked up.
It can only be a "bubble" if there is/was a lot of activity surrounding the device...where there was not.
The whole smartwatch idea was a waste of time...an expensive gadget with very limited functionality, most of which was simply duplicating functionality already present in another device you already owned (and in fact, had to own). It was like buying a motor-scooter to drive 100ft to the car you already have.
For all intents and purposes they're little more than a severely crippled phone that costs almost as much as the phone you already have in your pocket. Smartwatches brought very little to the table and were a niche-gadget at best. The use-case just wasn't there for 99% of the population, other than the "brag" factor, and frankly there wasn't even a lot of that.
"Hey dude, look at my new smartwatch." "Cool, What does it do?" "It links to my errr phone and umm stuff." "And what does it do?" "About one-tenth of the stuff my phone does, but not as well."
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Erm Edward Estlin Cummings to you
He went by e. e. cummings and I respect his wishes.
His wife once said that he would "spend all morning putting in a comma", and then, "spend all afternoon taking it out".
I like to think that's true.
You're absolutely right, and I don't know why your comment was downvoted to 0.
Yes, I usually either use the default VARCHAR or 255; sometimes I limit it, but never down to something like 30 for a name.
Rachel from cardholder services
If I ever get my hands on that cunt, I'll wring her neck like a chicken.
Cypress is now where many of the telemarketers have moved their operation to.
Also India and Majorca and the Philippines and Lesotho and Egypt and Namibia and Tunisia...basically any place overseas. Because they know damn well that the FCC isn't gonna spend their time hunting down a telemarketer from Greece or the Sultanate of Oman or Romania or whatever.
Sorry, but if a last name of "Null" breaks your code, you're a shit coder.
The same for name fields- a 50 character limit should be the minimum. Database space is cheap, what exactly do people think they're saving by restricting a name field to 20 characters or so?
It pisses me off when a site insists that your last name HAS to be more than 2 characters, or that your first name can't be a single letter. Believe it or not, some people DO have names like that. If he was still alive someone like e. e. cummings wouldn't be able to sign up for jack shit these days because most sites insist that a period simply cannot be a part of your name, and a one-letter name is somehow illegal.
It makes sense to restrict some fields to some maximum value when the upper limit is known (i.e. phone numbers, zip codes, US state names, etc) but for any arbitrary data it makes no sense to enforce an unrealistic maximum. Yes, most last names are less than 30 characters, but not all are. Why would you put in some stupid hard max limit like 30 characters?
Seriously, what the fuck does it cost you to define a column as 100 chars wide instead of 30? What benefit are you supposedly gaining by restricting it to 30 chars? Are you being charged by the letter or something? Sure, a 100 character limit seems unduly generous, but the moment a customer can't create an account because of your mindless stinginess, you're the one that loses a sale, not them.
I've been coding for decades and it's both gratifying and disheartening to see so many large, well-funded companies making these idiot-level mistakes that I don't make. I have a hard time believing that I'm smarter than all the coders at some of these large companies, but the evidence seems to show I am, at least in some areas.
"Looking for job security in the knowledge economy? Just learn to code."
This is like telling a farmer to learn aircraft engine maintenance for job security. Or telling a plumber to learn knitting to ensure he keeps his job.
NOT EVERY JOB REQUIRES KNOWING HOW TO CODE. Stop telling us that it does.
Maybe we have heard about Rust and dismiss it as a toy / fringe language that hasn't replaced anything.
Exactly. But the real question that no one has addressed is why is Russia (under Putin's direction) trying to infiltrate Rust into the lives of everyday, patriotic Americans and why is he trying to make our sacred banking system (inspired by the One True God) dependent on this communist-supported language? And why can't we put metal in a microwave?
When someone says "technology is killing banks" what you really mean "bitcoin, the new technology for decentralization and cryptography is killing banks". Because that is what is already happening. It's real. Banks already know. Media is obsolete and is crumbling as well. They are not able to even grasp what is going on right now in the fintech world.
Lol, is it April 1st already??
If you're going to troll, at least try to be a little less blatant.
Agreed. As if we couldn't see with our own eyes that "Rust" and "Trump" have almost the exact same letters.
Coincidence? I think not!
Why do you hate Rust????
The real question is, "Why does Rust hate America?"
Yeah, but could you design a completely useless and at times positively frustrating GUI for it? Completely useless GUIs don't design themselves, you know.
Well, okay, for an extra $5 million we'll throw in a shitty UI and a non-working control panel.
May be I'm just getting old but I cannot wrap my head around these kinds of deals.
I know...my mind refused to accept that anyone would pay "in the ballpark" of $100 million for a fucking widget that makes avatars. I mean, WTF?
It's insanity.
$100 million for a widget that makes avatars? Seriously?
Damn, I would have made them a widget that churned out avatars for only $50 million.
So just boot from a CD or USB drive and then fix the MBR.
Calling it "anti-social" is unhelpful.
It may be unhelpful, but it sure seems accurate.
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Social media *is* social, just social at a shallow and dysfunctional level.
I hear what you're saying (mostly a terminology issue) but there's nothing truly "social" about having 500 Facebook friends, none of whom you've ever met or talked to on the phone or shared a beer with. They're not your friends in any meaningful way. They could be script-bots for all you know.
Social media is training people to be non-social and, in some cases, genuinely dysfunctional at a basic human-to-human level. Tindr is a great example, where people are reduced to "swipe left, swipe right", without a moment's thought. It's like a game, not a way to connect with someone in any meaningful way.
I think social media is, in some ways, genuinely suppressing the development of basic social interaction that is the basic nature of human-to-human interaction. It's sad when I see a group of people sitting at a table in a restaurant all bent over their phones, not having any kind of conversation or interaction. In some cases they're sending each other texts across the table, rather than speak to one another. How retarded is that?
It also doesn't help that everyone seems to post an idealized Brady Bunch version of their family on Facebook.
Exactly. Everyone is showing their highlight reels publicly but privately living their real life from the bits on the cutting room floor.
So-called 'social media' is no substitute for actual interaction, preferably face-to-face, and is just enabling socially avoidant people from getting over their awkwardness and anxiety of social situations.
^^^^THIS.
"Social" media seems to be creating a generation of emotionally inept and insecure people who simply do not know how to interact with others except on the most shallow of levels. Most millennials seem to hate talking on the phone and the reason they often give is that it's "too immediate and too personal". They want to avoid human-to-human interaction and send a tweet instead. Anything to create some emotional distance. No wonder their relationships are all fucked up and mostly short-lived and shallow.
It should really be called "anti-social" media or maybe "contra-social" media, because it's anything but social as far as I can tell.
All of the oversharing of the faux 'my-life-is-super-awesome" lifestyles portrayed would be enough to depress anyone, and add to that the sheer volume of brain-numbing bullshit ("press 'Like' to get this child a new kidney!") and it's no wonder that many people's mental processes become clogged with Facebook sludge.
I noticed this effect years ago when I realized that many of the Facebook addicts I knew were constantly being "one upped" by the constant stream of useless crap and downright false garbage that they tuned in to read on a minute-by-minute basis. Facebook didn't make them feel better, it made them feel worse- lonely, boring, and mundane. They couldn't brag hard enough to make themselves feel good.
I called this effect "Facebook Psychosis", and now it seems I was on to something.
If everyone you know is constantly bragging about how AWESOME and FANTASTIC their life is and they have pictures to "prove" it, who wouldn't be discouraged by the "ordinary" life that you, a mere mortal, seems to lead?
But it's not Facebook's fault per se, any more than it's the bottle of Tequila's fault when someone gets drunk and then crashes their car. It's a contributing cause, but the drunk driver is the one who fucked up.
It can only be a "bubble" if there is/was a lot of activity surrounding the device...where there was not.
The whole smartwatch idea was a waste of time...an expensive gadget with very limited functionality, most of which was simply duplicating functionality already present in another device you already owned (and in fact, had to own). It was like buying a motor-scooter to drive 100ft to the car you already have.
For all intents and purposes they're little more than a severely crippled phone that costs almost as much as the phone you already have in your pocket. Smartwatches brought very little to the table and were a niche-gadget at best. The use-case just wasn't there for 99% of the population, other than the "brag" factor, and frankly there wasn't even a lot of that.
"Hey dude, look at my new smartwatch."
"Cool, What does it do?"
"It links to my errr phone and umm stuff."
"And what does it do?"
"About one-tenth of the stuff my phone does, but not as well."
Wait wait....Yahoo has a board of directors? I'll need more proof than just this bland assertion.
People who have read it completely have told me it is an excellent book :) But very few have read it completely
I confess I pulled a copy off the shelf once, but two of the librarians came over and threatened to beat my ass "for my own good".
See comment title.
What is this, SJW Thursday now?
After which he wrote Ullyses to er, drive the point home?
You'd have to ask him, I never read Ullyses.
I don't believe you've actually read 'Finnegan's Wake'. Nobody can finish that. Even the authors of the 'Cliff's Notes' only read other summaries.
Even James Joyce admitted he never read it, calling it a "load of bollocks".
Maybe the bot was victim of a 4chan trolling attack?
That would be my first guess. It sounds like classic 4chan stuff.