DaveC426913's latest activity
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Site Usability nitpick -- Hyperlinks should be underlined.Well, yes. I didn't expect site usability decisions to have to undergo the same rigor as the science it proffers. Presumably, one would... -
DaveC426913 replied to the thread Stargazing Orange lines on Aladin lite.Satellite tracks? There's one between them has no track. I don't have a high confidence that this is what those are.
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Site Usability nitpick -- Hyperlinks should be underlined.Yes. Pandering to the default ideal user at the expense of accessibility. Not a good ethos for PF. We are an aging population. For the...
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A stereotype, from a certain segment of society, walked into a bar one night, and said "ouch, that really hurt".
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But we can still stereotype engineers, right?!?!
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Programming Jokes: Lame, Science & Math Jokes!.Today's Facebook mashup:
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Just a friendly reminder not to veer into stereotyping certain segments of society in attempts to be humorous. Thanks.
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.And so it is. But now we're discussing the finer points of its efficacy and pitfalls. Legitimate doesn't necessarily mean 'best', or...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Collection of Lame Jokes.Yesterday, I came home from the secondhand store with an old janky 7 1/2" bandsaw for 50 bucks. It was missing a switch and a knob here...
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... and some are on a divine mission. :cool:
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.If the comments are sufficently succinct and well thought out, they will need updating less, if ever. (A function will generally not...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Collection of Lame Jokes.And some form a band simply because they think they will get girls.
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.I was going to bring that up. Glad someone did. Now you've got lines and lines of pseudocode that does not match what the code is...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.We had a rule that THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ANYTHING THAT BREAKS THE BUILD. The punishment was to be handed a scraper and have a go at...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Avatar (film): antigravity and unobtanium.Indeed. We humans have yet to demonstate that intelligence is a survial trait. A few tens or hundreds of thousands of years is...
