... I honestly thought it was going to be WTF-worthy stories about/from people who had written inappropriate applications in Perl. Or JavaScript or whatever.
It seems to be written for managers who don't know much about programming -- when they get stuck talking to programmers at work functions they'll have something to chat about, before they say "excuse me for a second" and run away to talk to someone important instead.
The author of that article says you'll want to use the magic of perl and XML::Simple because "XSLT can't do arithmetic" and proceeds to do magical things like increase numbers by 20%.
That's just... bizarre. Of course you can do that with XSLT! <xsl:value-of select="whatever * 1.2">
Then he formats a number -- because XSLT, of course, doesn't have a format-number() function.
Next article -- why you should commute to work in an airplane because, as everyone knows, cars can't turn corners.
She tells Bill Gates she's never used a computer, but according to a number of internet history sources, for instance this one she was the first head of state to send email, back in 1976.
The fact that freaked me out most is that british members of parliament share communal hairbrushes. That's just so very very strange.
I read the same book and he can't even manage to spell the word "Steganography". He spells it "StenaNography". Of course if you Google the latter you'll get hits, but that, as this guy will attest, is Deaver's fault...
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I've often thought this myself, particularly about coders.
If you code with bad spelling or incorrect punctuation or even capitalisation, your code hopefully dies or signals that you have a major problem pretty much right away.
So, at first I thought, how weird is it that coders in particular seem to have such bad written English; then I thought, maybe it's because they have to write code so carefully that they relax when writing non-code; and then I thought that maybe it's because there's no "use warnings" or the like for English.
Spellcheckers and grammar checkers are pretty much useless, and the worst thing they do is give you a false sense of security.
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... I honestly thought it was going to be WTF-worthy stories about/from people who had written inappropriate applications in Perl. Or JavaScript or whatever.
It seems to be written for managers who don't know much about programming -- when they get stuck talking to programmers at work functions they'll have something to chat about, before they say "excuse me for a second" and run away to talk to someone important instead.
The author of that article says you'll want to use the magic of perl and XML::Simple because "XSLT can't do arithmetic" and proceeds to do magical things like increase numbers by 20%.
... bizarre. Of course you can do that with XSLT! <xsl:value-of select="whatever * 1.2">
That's just
Then he formats a number -- because XSLT, of course, doesn't have a format-number() function.
Next article -- why you should commute to work in an airplane because, as everyone knows, cars can't turn corners.
After something like half an hour of increasingly baffling phone support, I figured out the problem, and found myself saying this:
"So, just to clarify, throughout this whole discussion, whenever you've used the word 'manually' you actually meant 'automatically', is that correct?"
"Oh, I don't know these technical terms!"
She tells Bill Gates she's never used a computer, but according to a number of internet history sources, for instance this one she was the first head of state to send email, back in 1976.
The fact that freaked me out most is that british members of parliament share communal hairbrushes. That's just so very very strange.
I read the same book and he can't even manage to spell the word "Steganography". He spells it "StenaNography". Of course if you Google the latter you'll get hits, but that, as this guy will attest, is Deaver's fault...
Can't someone FIX that?
I've often thought this myself, particularly about coders.
If you code with bad spelling or incorrect punctuation or even capitalisation, your code hopefully dies or signals that you have a major problem pretty much right away.
So, at first I thought, how weird is it that coders in particular seem to have such bad written English; then I thought, maybe it's because they have to write code so carefully that they relax when writing non-code; and then I thought that maybe it's because there's no "use warnings" or the like for English.
Spellcheckers and grammar checkers are pretty much useless, and the worst thing they do is give you a false sense of security.