#coding gripes

[nentuaby]

I just encountered this (entirely correct!) line of Python in the wild:

if fields:    fields = [field for field in fields if field]

And now the word ‘field’ doesn’t mean anything to me.

[nentuaby]

The number of times I’ve had this conversation...

Person making a feature request: “I’d like you to create a custom interface that allows us to select x, y, z, and AA through אΩ and then collate them into a custom report.”

Me, wincing: “That will take 9 months.”

Them: “Sounds reasonable I guess.”

Me: “By the way, would it be any help in the meantime if we give a single button that just downloads the whole thing in a hardcoded format without all the manual slicing and dicing?”

Them: “I mean, that would be even better than my proposal, but I didn’t want to impose on you that much.”

Me:

Me:

Me:

Me: ... I’ll have it done tomorrow afternoon.

[nentuaby]

Apple, not very long ago: “A second mouse button would be too many options for our customers. It would just confuse them. A THIRD would be madness!”

Also apple, since long before they gave up on that: 

[felineplushmage]

lua (coding language)

yeah, lua kinda stinky ngl

[nentuaby]

Oh no I viralled

So on Monday I reposted some shit from twitter with a link for attribution. It decided to go viral. A couple observations on Going Viral on Tumblr: 1) That neat note-folding thing where popular posts say “*latest five people* and 257 others reblogged your post” that’s supposed to make it tolerable to go viral? Only works up to about 1000 notes, then your notifications go fucking haywire. Dozens of those “unified” things start showing up, grouped into the “days” they happened on, except they’re all today. Weeks and weeks of today, stretching into the distant presentpast. 2) If you decide to delete the post because christ you don’t need 30,000 notes on something that wasn’t even your content anyway, the notes will go away, but they’ll still take up your quota for how many notifications the Blue Hell Site will actually keep track of. Tumblr no longer believes I’ve ever received a note before. Sometimes I’ll get one actually pop up while I’m looking straight at it; but within a minute or less it’s gone again, like tears in rain.

[nentuaby]

Wow. Windows catches a lot of rather well deserved flak, but it *does* have its virtues.

I had an old SSD in my desktop machine that I replaced  with a much bigger one. So, I figured I might as well use the little one to upgrade an old laptop that still had platters in it.

Which I did by proceeding to move the SSD straight from the desktop to the laptop and... Booting it up. Boom, the windows install on it worked, despite being in a completely different class of machine from a different era. That's *robust* device support, that is.

[nentuaby]

It is the year 2015, and Windows 10 still feels the need to spin up my OPTICAL DRIVE to check my TRASH FOLDER.

[nentuaby]

Blizzard, for fuck’s sake, if you’re trying to make me feel like you’re talking right to me, cheerfully addressing me as “Nentuaby#1465“ has exactly the opposite effect. Keep your numeric ID’s internal, you walnuts.