The OFFICIAL programming thread
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@tazz It’s a pity more companies don’t release free demos (similar to shareware) on Steam. I’ve lost track of the number of games that I bought because they had “Overwhelmingly positive” reviews only to discover they sucked ass (maybe just not my taste). I did some research on why demos aren’t more common and the conventional markiting advice is not to do demos because it hurts sales.
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Iirc you can return the games withing X hours for free, no?
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@tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
This warning was not always true and the word Shareware came to be.
Cir: 1989
not quite the same thing but it made me think of …
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality, or Christian morality to Nazi morality. In fact, of course, we all do believe that some moralities are better than others . . . . The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard . . . admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others."
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@tigger said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Iirc you can return the games withing X hours for free, no?
Yeah I think Steam’s return policy is pretty generous. Maybe it’s a personality fault,but I don’t like returning stuff (in person or online). Unless it is obviously faulty or falsely advertised then I just wear it. Caveat emptor.
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@hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
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@rote7 that’s way beyond my regex-fu. I use regex but if the expressions get any longer than about 20 characters I’m usually splitting it up and doing some of it in regular code. Otherwise I can’t maintain it even if I understood it when I first wrote it.
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Not my creation. This is the new RFC conform validation regex for email adresses.
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HAR HAR HAr HaR programmorz
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The company I work for is multi-national/lingual but IT doesn’t have translators on staff. If it’s a big enough project (like millions) they’ll hire them but otherwise you are supposed to use Google Translate. Russian is one less language I have to worry about since the Ukraine invasion but I was translating about 40 UI texts and messages into Spanish today when I remembered Kennedy’s famous “Ich bin ein berliner” gaffe (and he had the best translation resources available in the State Department.) For all I know my Spanish users will be seeing messages saying something like “Fart loudly before pressing the ice cream”.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
The company I work for is multi-national/lingual but IT doesn’t have translators on staff. If it’s a big enough project (like millions) they’ll hire them but otherwise you are supposed to use Google Translate. Thankfully, Russian is one less language I have to worry about since the Ukraine invasion but I was translating about 40 UI texts and messages into Spanish today when I remembered Kennedy’s famous “Ich bin ein berliner” gaffe (and he had the best translation resources available to the State Department.) For all I know my Spanish users will be seeing messages saying something like “Fart loudly before pressing the ice cream”.
Ahem!
Edit: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this paywall!
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
The company I work for is multi-national/lingual but IT doesn’t have translators on staff. If it’s a big enough project (like millions) they’ll hire them but otherwise you are supposed to use Google Translate. Thankfully, Russian is one less language I have to worry about since the Ukraine invasion but I was translating about 40 UI texts and messages into Spanish today when I remembered Kennedy’s famous “Ich bin ein berliner” gaffe (and he had the best translation resources available in the State Department.) For all I know my Spanish users will be seeing messages saying something like “Fart loudly before pressing the ice cream”.
I have been trying to get you guys to learn Spanish for many years now, but nobody listened. So enjoy going viral when the media jumps all over the “Rash of farting in public by users of the El Jefe app tied back to Cambodian programmer” story.
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Internet Explorer is set for discontinuation on June 15, 2022
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Wow;time to switch back to Netscape browser.
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Back in the 90’s I had a friend who bought Netscape in the store for $30 . I asked him why since it was a free download, just follow any link on the webpages. I guess for the $30 he got 24hr tech support.
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I have not used IE in many years other than when my company had some dumbass application that only worked on IE. It’s been several years without dealing with that though. Weird thing though is my work computer still auto installs the link on the toolbar even after I tell it to get rid of that piece of shit. Glad to see it go.
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I just checked my list of apps and don’t see IE listed. Either it’s already gone of it’s hidden.
GTFO
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