@Simon do you mean a genderswapped version of @ScottPack, or a wife?
@TerryChia I think the word you're searching for is "pathetic".
@TildalWave no, all those things means you ARE a developer. Just not necessarily a good one ;-)
@TildalWave I think its the other way around. A programmer builds a product that does what it says on the box, the developer is worried about the box too, the internals, the performance characteristics, etc etc.
@Hennes Really? Slackers.
for us it was more like "Oh, this is urgent? We won't get to deal with the urgents till next week. This week we only deal with ON FIRE, and needs to have been delivered 2 weeks ago."
@AviD oh well that's semantics anyway, for which I rarely care too much as they hardly change the fact-- yeah I'm probably not a very good developer LOL
@ScottPack You know what, even if you wore a kilt with traditional undergarments on really windy days, it would be fine by me
I might have problems with that with a bit more bendy fellas, not you tho :)
i'm pondering something... just a wacky idea, but aren't LEDs supposed to be photovoltaic if you reverse their polarity? how good of an efficiency would we be talking of here?
@ScottPack ah it's just me and my crazy ideas, I was reading about some "(Almost) transparent solar cells built into smartphone screens", and thought hey, build a proper LED display and just collect back whatever it picks up when it's supposed to be black... not sure tho if that's even remotely feasible
@LucasKauffman Ok, but half of the pixels could be black while lit by other surrounding them... couldn't they collect something there and make it less consuming?
@TildalWave I imagine it'll be more useful to have the current direction tied into the screen lock. So you lock the screen, it shuts off, and the current changes direction in order to go into charge mode.
@TildalWave Assuming you could actually get a density high enough to have high enough resolution then the entire screen would be the charging bits.
@ScottPack sure, that'd be more efficient but why not switch it whenever you could? I mean, we're talking of black pixels there, it's already switched off, why not switch polarity at the same time?
> Peterson drew inspiration from George R. R. Martin’s description of the language, as well as from such languages as Russian,Estonian, Inuktitut and Swahili.[4]
This is interesting. It's a quote from the guy who has created this language
> You know, most people probably don’t really know what Arabic actually sounds like, so to an untrained ear, it might sound like Arabic. To someone who knows Arabic, it doesn’t. I tend to think of the sound as a mix between Arabic (minus the distinctive pharyngeals) and Spanish, due to the dental consonants.
@Adnan I clearly heard some words that sounded exactly like ours or of languages related to ours, tho most of it again then completely different... so it it didn't take me that long to figure it out it's a made up language... but yes, it sounds quite convincing
@TerryChia I think this. Also, I'm not clear on something. Supposedly, as a Targeryan, that is her mother tongue, and she learned it as a child. However, when she first met Drago, she had no clue of the language. Also, she's been told she speaks it with a horrible foreigner's accent.
To be fair, she was raised on the run in the Free Cities. She may have learned Valyrian as a child but the closest thing to a "proper" Valyrian colony these days would be Volantis.
@AviD Dothraki is spoken (obviously) by the Dothraki, the people Daenerys married. Valyrian is spoken by the old Valyrian freehold (which the Targeryans were a part of) as well as some of the free cities.
George RR Martin should expand that part of the GoT universe if he ever gets done with the last two books. I think that would be really interesting to read about.
LOTR is still the gold standard for made-up languages though.
What I really wanted was to just have a constant playlist of songs that I like and are conducive to working. For me that ends up being a bit honkin' smorgasbord of styles and bands.
So I really liked that I was able to add multiple seeds to Pandora, something I really couldn't with Spotify.
@RoryMcCune Interesting but at the same time pretty stupid. Well spotted by the attacker tho. I guess such things will be a lot more common for English speaking developers as they're not used to having to support "strange characters" with internationalisation. Basic rule of a thumb is always use same constraints as you're gonna use to retrieve your records, and preferably - set them up directly on your database and avoid such headaches.
i.e. if that non-unicode username had a unique index on it (it must have had index anyway), then this attack wouldn't have been possible
@AviD actually, do it right, and you end up with slightly better user account security than using non-unicode allowed usernames only - when the username is already taken, you don't really show to the would-be new user exactly which username you mean, it could be any representation in unicode of what you transcode into more narrow char set
@AviD yes, but my point was that you and me and Adnan and all of us that use "non-standard" characters every day know this and is pretty basic stuff ... and that I understand that it can avoid some English only speaking developer quite easily
@AviD no, you have to know pretty damn good what you're doing if you're gonna depend on encoding only, that's true... that's why I never do, I always use binary encoding for such things (you never know, remember Win98 that came with different keyboard layouts for eastern Europe?)
that kinda screwed up all databases for some guys here
OK, technically we're not Eastern Europe, but MS used to believe so LOL
a. it wasnt just "non-english", it was outside the base plane (3.2). Most European languages wouldnt fall into that anyway. b. It was in a 3rd party library, so unless you go and check that specifically, you would be screwed. c. Even if you do handle the translations, still can miss certain planes. d. the problem, as they point out, is non-idempotency. not usually the issue.
BTW can clouds (real ones) explode? We had some really loud explosion, I thought it should be half of the city missing or something... nowhere anything, but it was a bit strange up in the skies with a lot of fresh vapor, steamy and hot
@AviD A single extremely loud explosion with nothing to see after it, maybe just one small cloud looked a bit funny, as if something was playing with it not long ago
@LucasKauffman not surprised - Til was standing in a 20 foot wide ball of flame for about 5 seconds before trying to boil the keyboard player mit Benzin!
@RoryMcCune Guess it could've been, but no trace of whatever would make it, and if it was, then we're talking of one giant mother of a sonic boom. Everyone just looked at each other "WTF was that".
