Yay. It's bad when it's shocking that you get good, helpful customer service.
I hope you don't think that I just come over for the spells and everything. I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff.
Willow ,'First Date'
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Liese S. - Nov 20, 2012 4:44:44 pm PST #21551 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
§ ita § - Nov 20, 2012 5:04:34 pm PST #21552 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm being shocked in the other direction by someone on IO9 who's trying to tell me that fixing your code so that it says 1 second instead of 1 seconds during a countdown is introducing dangerous levels of complexity and that the change is too expensive.
I've rather flippantly suggested hiring developers who can count, but why is a programmer (as he is) trying to defend against a bare minimum of professional communication? Even in the worst shops I've worked in, that error would not be permissible to deploy, with a certain assumption that it's not even something QA or UAT would send back--the developer is supposed to take care of that shit.
My requirements never say "grammatically correct" because there are a few things we take as ingrained, so we don't write them down, not because it's optional.
Jessica - Nov 20, 2012 5:10:44 pm PST #21553 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
If {timeleft} ==1 then {word after timeleft} = "second"; else {word after timeleft} = "seconds"
....or am I missing something?
(Caveat: Not a professional programmer! Entirely possible I've introduced something dangerously complex here! Read at your own risk!)
§ ita § - Nov 20, 2012 5:30:02 pm PST #21554 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd answer your question, Jessica, but it seems you've crashed the internet with your cavalier use of conditional plurals.
I'd like you to go to your room and think about what you've done.
There's a lesson here for all of us.
Jessica - Nov 20, 2012 5:31:39 pm PST #21555 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I...I'm sorry. This is why I can't have nice things, isn't it?
§ ita § - Nov 20, 2012 5:33:41 pm PST #21556 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
One nice things.
Jessica - Nov 20, 2012 5:36:47 pm PST #21557 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Liese S. - Nov 20, 2012 7:04:16 pm PST #21558 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Bwhaha!
§ ita § - Nov 20, 2012 8:31:50 pm PST #21559 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My launcher status on my Galaxy Tab is confusing me. Either my normal platform disappeared or the upgrade is so dramatic I am looking at it without recognition.
I think I was using ADW, but what's happened? My dock has vanished. The pages, especially when you're sliding from desktop to desktop, feel awkward, a bad use of real estate and animation. I need to rollback, but I can't even work out how. They need to hang a really big "YOU WILL HATE THIS" banner over the Market listing.
AIIIIIEEE. Not change. I didn't sign of for computers (or Obama, now that I think about it) for CHANGE.
Rob - Nov 20, 2012 8:48:25 pm PST #21560 of 25501
1 nice thing(s).