I just asked this question about a grammatical error in the user profile field over on Meta SE. It is applicable here and on all other SE sites (same error), so I just wanted to mention it. "Why is the blank profile sentence not grammatically correct?" meta.stackexchange.com/questions/261359/…
@JohanLarsson I think it might be different on beta SE sites, but is probably SE-wide for not-beta sites.
@JohanLarsson I'm sorry! What I meant to say was that the threshold levels for various privileges are set differently for the beta SE sites than for the full-fledged not beta SE sites. I don't know what SE calls them. EL&U is a fully-fledged and mature SE site. That reminded me of the acronym MILF, but I don't think that is applicable either :o)
It's embarrassing that almost 50 thousand people have had to read this mess. I'd edit it, but I don't know what the question is. Grammatical errors aside, is this asking for the etymology of news, or the acronym, NEWS.
@crl It's really not the aptest metaphor for what I think the poster is trying to express. I think he wants something more like "selling out" (abandoning principles).
I'm watching the Tour right now. These climbs in the Alps are absolutely inconceivable to me.
job1 is something that deals with Tourism webservices (SOAP), (Hotel room searches, activities search, car rental....), they are using tomcat, Java (6 :(..), and other old libraries versions (link)
job2 is an e-commerce, they sell sound speakers, backend in .NET MVC, It's maybe a bit more fun because they use JS frameworks (I tend to like it) (link)
But they are several who smoke in job2 (and I'm a bit paranoiac with that), so I think I'll prefer job1
I have a device that stuffs a card-swipe into a form field. Under a certain scenario, track3 has 0x1E and 0x1D characters in it. When you do that in Firefox or Chrome, you get those as %1E and %1D. Under IE, you don’t get them at all: it drops them.
That means I have to hack the fricking Java to pre-URI-encode the swipe. Damn it.
@Robusto That’s a very interesting question. I haven’t checked. I certainly have had browser-related oddities with hidden fields in this project though.
@crl There’s a Java applet that runs in privileged mode linked against some proprietary Windows device drivers. The Javascript reads fields from the applet object and sticks them in form fields with simple Jquery assignments, like $('#some_field')val(applet_object.data_member). When IE does that, it drops the control characters.
@Robusto You can’t just stuff something in a hidden field that has a trigger action associated with it from the Firefox Javascript console command line and have it actually trigger the action. You must assign to the hidden field and manually invoke the action.
But when the loaded Javascript does that same assignment, the action fires just fine.
It all depends on the content type.
Normally when a <form> uses the HTTP method POST then the form values are URL Encoded and placed in the body of the reqeust. The content type header looks like this:
content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Most AJAX libraries will do this by default...
> then the form values are URL-encoded and placed in the body of the request
Josh's answer is good, but I think it's missing something. Traditionally form data was posted using the same format as querystrings. eg: param1=value1¶m2=value2 and the only difference between a GET and POST is that POST puts these parameters in the message body whereas a GET puts them in the...
> Using Javascript's encodeURIComponent() function on each parameter value will escape all these characters for you.
Where you populate applet_object.data_member try adding a line of JS: console.log( encodeURIComponent( applet_object.data_member) ); and then read it in the console and see if everything is there.
The applet is weird because you have all these async events happening populating the applet object. Fricking POS (point of sales) terminals. Not my world.
I did the backend work stuffing stuff in little fixed-format packets of abstruse formats and sending it to payment processors, then getting their responses in kind. But testers found a frontend bug and it's so far from my comfort zone I wanna kick something.
The backend is 100% Perl, which in an MVC world is a bit tricky to debug but still easy. The applet is Java, which is annoying as hell but at least not insane. But the stuff between there is a shitty world I am as familiar with as the pope is.
The good news is that with JavaScript, there is almost always a workaround for any problem. Might not be elegant, but at that point you're just happy to have something.
@Cerberus sometimes you don't even need that to have fun.
but I recommend it.
A random observance: does a computer's battery speed up in loss towards the end, or is that just psychological, noticing the change more as you second guess how long you have to 'live'?
I think they design them to scare you into recharging towards the end.
And on the software calibration: the battery normally doesn't tell your computer what percentage it is at; your computer merely guesses the percentage based on the calibration file.
On my phone, the first couple of percents(?) always go very, very slowly. The lower 50% certainly go faster than the upper 50%; I have measured all this.
And all that despite resetting the calibration etc.
@Cerberus Guessing? How dare they! It's a machine goddamit, the manufacturers should figure it out already, since they have the resources, rather than zillions of varyingly competent no-publishing users.
Where's my refund!
@tchrist Oh. That's not a floater measuring that? and the slightly conical shape at the bottom of the tank makes it actually really seem to go faster at the end?
What happens when you're driving upside down? The whole floater thing will not work! Engineers, solve this problem!
It's a beautiful day, I'm going to ruin it by going outside.
@Janus: you would need a scalpel if you wanted to get to the prostate. Women have stuff that is not on the "outside," but is nevertheless accessible outside of a hospital. — Misha Rosnach27 mins ago
Which brings up an important point. If, say, literature or history are in the humanities, is one of them a humanity? In the same way that watching a zeppelin explode is a very particular humanity?
@tchrist it's hard to separate the situation when someone is curious about obscure situations and when they're just being dumb.
he's asking as though pairs must always be cognate, and as though there are no gaps ever.
which isn't a terrible assumption, just happen to be, by experience, wrong.
Has anyone here ever read any David Lodge? I mentioned him the other day.
Just ordered one of his books online. I'd read it a while back - not recently. I'm too lazy to try to go to a library and get it from there, assuming I could find such a library in the first place.
Men don't have a male equivalent of a vulva just as women don't have a female version of a penis. They're different things, folks. You might just as easily ask what is a catcher's mitt's version of a baseball bat. — Robusto8 mins ago
@Mitch Sure, but I was imagining only rural people drive pick-up trucks, and the only other kind of rural person besides landowner that I could think of is redneck.
@Cerberus the transcendental overlord? The Dao that is not spoken of? The chakra? The spinning maelstrom of existence? God I'm so hungry now! Lamb vindaloo!!
and lots of tradesmen have pickup trucks are not 'redstate leaning rednecks', or at least are polite enough not to be open about it.
Every one wears a cowboy hat in Texas. Even CEOs.
@Robusto McD's?
@Cerberus it's an easy generalization to make from media, but is not really true. Yes, a lot of rednecks drive pickup trucks, but a lot do not, and a lot of pickup truck drivers are not rednecks. Ifn by redneck we mean men who are rural conservative jerks
@Mitch Right, it is always thus with generalizations. But do rednecks really have to be jerks and conservative? Can't they be just apolitical small farmers?
@Cerberus the 'thing' here is 'Asian' which is usually Japanese-Korean-Thai (maybe Vietnamese thrown in) which is not the same as Pan-Asian which is fancier and fusion and not take out (unless I'm too down market to realize they're the same)
@Cerberus well, I don't want to overwhelm you with the full manuscript.
I'm sure some of our Japanese, Thai, etc. restaurants have some stuff from a different Asian cuisine on their menus, but it will be mostly limited to their advertised cuisine.
@Cerberus I got a takeout menu in Germany once that had Indian and American burgers, and Mexican and Chinese. Bu they didn't call themselves Pan-Earth.
@Cerberus I have high standards. The Indian just didn't taste right. I found German restaurants not to taste that good (but grocery stores and cafeterias excellent, the opposite of the US).
@Mitch Ah OK, well, I guess it depends on what kind of restaurant? I would expect your average fancy German restaurant to serve good French cuisine, and a decent but humble German restaurant to serve decent German cuisine. But German cuisine is not as widely known, nor as widely appreciated as French.
As to Asian restaurants in Germany, I have no idea, I trust your impression.
@Cerberus Oh. I guess I never went to a nice French restaurant there, and rarely a traditional German restaurant. BUt the latter I remember being good, and also imbiss and food truck food.
@Cerberus The Germans have always done it. But English has not done it for so long that the latin greek roots are obvious and germanic is obscurantist. or sightstopping.
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@Robusto Well, good Indian food is not easy to make. It's quite demanding.
Most Indian restaurants I have eaten at have been terrible. Home cooked Indian food is more likely to be reasonable. Though of course, there are no guarantees.