And sometimes jerks do also have a point, and you have to find a way to take their advice without taking it too personally or you'll continue having problems with them.
> “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
> “Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
That was one insightful woman... She's got a ton of great life quotes.
@Fosco In fact, I'm going to remember that, and use it the next time someone complains about being down-voted. "Does this make you feel inferior? Remember, Eleanor sez no one can make you feel inferior without your consent..."
@Shog9 That it was crack? Big whoop, so did all those other people. But, fine: I hereby promote you to "as good as an above-average Yahoo! Answers user" status.
What's a good way to say "what style of programmer are you" where people might say "C#" or "Java" but what is preferable is that they say "a good one"?
I have this route set up:
routes.MapRoute(
"home3", // Route name
"home3/{id}", // URL with parameters
new {
controller = "home",
action = "Index",
id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);
But in my controller I don't know how to get the opti...
What should we do about a hypothetical user who gets question-banned from MSO, then posts questions to SO that end in "Please someone move this to META"?
So Italian has this awesome expression: "spannometrico". "Spanna" is a unit of measure determined by the farthest you can hold the tip of your thumb and the tip of your pinky away from each other. "Metrico" is meant as in "measure". The end result is "yeah, I measured it. Kinda sorta. Let's just say I measured it with my eye and I tend to get this stuff wrong too."
and to say "make it a little bigger" we also have many expressions. The local one to me is a "scoshe" which is sort of a nonsensical word, and when no "sensitive" audience is around, we refer to it as a cunt-hair (meaning a small difference in length or width)
«My guesstimate is no chunk (16×16?) can have more than 1 different portal. So that makes 32 meters in the overworld and 256 meters in the nether. Roughly.»
good god how much effort does it really take for me to say "add +1 to my service. Keep everything else the way it is and don't give me any new features since nothing has changed in 15 months. Just +1 and let me get off the phone"
me: "you need to call me back when you're not frustrated"
her: "but I just want this *@(#$*@#( to work, make it work"
me: "press this key and that key"
her: "but I can't see what it says, it's not working"
me: "did you do what I said"
her: "@#$@# I can't see it cos it's messed up"
me: {yelling over her so she knows she can't call me and ask for help when she's this frustrated to that effect}
{repeat the instructions portion for an interminable period. Probably either 3 minutes or 30 years.}
her: "I'm gonna have to call you back when I'm not this frustrated because I can't do this right now"…
damnit, just go pay someone to fix it since you're going to let ignorant 12 year olds use it without supervision, instead of calling me from 300+ miles away
"In my experience, the majority of people who would receive that [help]: a) Don't read b) Don't care c) Don't read and don't care."
I've had like ... idk a dozen? ... people comment in the past week to the effect that I'm a rather attractive individual. Not something I had expected of myself, and definitely not something I was seeking feedback on (meaning it was all unsolicited). So while that's an ego boost, and definitely unlooked for, I'm just curious how that goes with being an intelligent geek
Also I apparently have a lot of enthusiasm and charisma.
Are these traits that a lot of my peers also display?
I have this route set up:
routes.MapRoute(
"home3", // Route name
"home3/{id}", // URL with parameters
new {
controller = "home",
action = "Index",
id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);
But in my controller I don't know how to get the opti...
