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Lum posted:Well the company I worked for used to make telephone exchanges, and a feature to do with number mapping was originally going to be called the Translation Index Table, meaning that all commands to operate on it would have been of the form aa TIT nnnn One of my jobs (until the 31st  ) is making sure nothing offensive ships in code. We have a tool that reads code and looks for offensive terms. Most of these are completely WTF and are generally triggered by things like guids (random hex strings). It's hilarious to see programs with -CACA- in the guid, though.
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Paladine_PSoT posted:One of my jobs (until the 31st One of our software engineers does this to our product, and had to do massive redactions to our password dictionary. Our parent company and primary licensee has a support tech (we'll call him Mark) who complained about the word 'niggardly' remaining in the password database, as it popped up for him when he changed his own pass one day. For anyone who's not aware, the word means "grudgingly mean about spending", and completely isn't a racist thing. There is now a hard-coded ten percent chance that if Mark's username is generating a password, it will use the word "niggardly" at least once.
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Dec 22, 2013 16:20
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Exit Strategy posted:Our parent company and primary licensee has a support tech (we'll call him Mark) who complained about the word 'niggardly' remaining in the password database, as it popped up for him when he changed his own pass one day. For anyone who's not aware, the word means "grudgingly mean about spending", and completely isn't a racist thing. To be fair, it's a pretty archaic term and it's one letter away from a well known racial slur. I would have just shrugged and removed it just because of the potential for heartache down the line from someone very easily offended.
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Dec 22, 2013 16:41
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Our software's codebase used to have some pretty arcane restrictions on variable and routine name length. As a result, I'm constantly finding variables and functions with names that are something benign with the vowels removed, but look like sex words as a result. Imagine debugging and find a function called "anlzeHM".
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Dec 22, 2013 18:30
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Paladine_PSoT posted:One of my jobs (until the 31st There's a guy that's setting up an email surveillance tool in my department and he was showing me the default policies it comes with which contains what I can only imagine is the content of urban dictionary for its "sex euphemisms". It also has a specific policy to generate real time alerts if anyone sends a mail containing the string "hitler was right". I'd like to see what circumstances require that - "dave from accounting is on stormfront again, please turn on the Godwin filter". We also have a search engine that has a list of regional slang for conversion e.g. a search for "randy" returns results for "horny" not sure what environment the vendor thinks we're running here.
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Dec 22, 2013 18:37
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:We also have a search engine that has a list of regional slang for conversion e.g. a search for "randy" returns results for "horny" not sure what environment the vendor thinks we're running here.  I'm Randy, from Marketing. Are you now?
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Dec 22, 2013 19:07
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Maintaining the naughty word dictionary for generated IDs is one of the best parts of my job. Explaining to my colleague the meaning of the entries I added was perhaps the worst (why the hell is this a peer reviewed process?!).
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Dec 22, 2013 23:09
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door.jar posted:Maintaining the naughty word dictionary for generated IDs is one of the best parts of my job. Explaining to my colleague the meaning of the entries I added was perhaps the worst (why the hell is this a peer reviewed process?!). Well, we have to make sure we have a drat good reason why Steve Pisscunt can't have his last name for his ID.
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door.jar posted:Maintaining the naughty word dictionary for generated IDs is one of the best parts of my job. Explaining to my colleague the meaning of the entries I added was perhaps the worst (why the hell is this a peer reviewed process?!). Ok I'll bite. What entries did you add?
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Dec 23, 2013 02:15
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Volmarias posted:
I suspect that if Lum had seen this she'd have brought it up as she obviously has more Netware experience than me, but famously Novell had an employee called Randy Bender who pushed out a least a few of their technical articles.
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ookiimarukochan posted:I suspect that if Lum had seen this she'd have brought it up as she obviously has more Netware experience than me, but famously Novell had an employee called Randy Bender who pushed out a least a few of their technical articles. Only just seen it. I was out visiting a friend who for some reason wants to get into the IT industry, supposedly I was going to show her around VMWare but instead she fell asleep on me and then I followed suit. Woke up six hours later and had to come home. It was still a more useful and productive evening than many of my work days have been of late. Anyway, you mean this guy? https://web.archive.org/web/20040501092704/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/10/all_hail_randy_bender/ And yes I had a childish giggle at that name on a few occasions.
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AlexDeGruven posted:Well, we have to make sure we have a drat good reason why Steve Pisscunt can't have his last name for his ID. Well yeah, you'd want to avoid the Scunthorpe problem, but this is for internally generated ID numbers such as AAAA1111, you probably want to avoid giving someone an ID of TWAT5000 or COCK1000. Lum posted:What entries did you add? It was mostly obvious stuff that had been missed and a few standard personalized plate type spellings. It's just a really awkward situation to be in, having to explain why NGGR is on the list. And now I'm forever attached to this thing in version control.
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Dec 23, 2013 03:58
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door.jar posted:Well yeah, you'd want to avoid the Scunthorpe problem, but this is for internally generated ID numbers such as AAAA1111, you probably want to avoid giving someone an ID of TWAT5000 or COCK1000. Seriously, someone needed that explaining? If so they have no business being responsible for such a list! I was hoping for something a little more obscure and kinky, like with that number format you should probably add CB2000 to the list and then you'll have fun explaining why.
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Dec 23, 2013 04:08
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Lum posted:Seriously, someone needed that explaining? If so they have no business being responsible for such a list! It mostly irritates me that i've had two testers with genitalia slang last names, and I have to give false positives to every instance of "Test code written by ...", not to mention the other completely normal words constantly used in coding that have potentially offensive meanings, Red for instance.
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Dec 23, 2013 05:14
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Paladine_PSoT posted:It mostly irritates me that i've had two testers with genitalia slang last names, and I have to give false positives to every instance of "Test code written by ...", not to mention the other completely normal words constantly used in coding that have potentially offensive meanings, Red for instance. If you're flagging on words like "red" you are probably being a little overzealous. This kind of filtering gets even more fun when you add different varieties of English to the mix. Even major corporations mess this up!
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Dec 23, 2013 05:19
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Lum posted:If you're flagging on words like "red" you are probably being a little overzealous. My company is global, we have hundreds of word lists and depending on the scope of your program, you might have to run them all.
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Dec 23, 2013 05:27
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Paladine_PSoT posted:My company is global, we have hundreds of word lists and depending on the scope of your program, you might have to run them all. Is even more fun when it's global. Have fun convincing some ignorant whiny gently caress that e.g. Rusty Kuntz is a real name and no you won't remove him from the credits.
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Dec 23, 2013 05:34
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Lum posted:Is even more fun when it's global. As long as you don't have to explain what a Rusty Venture is. In that case it's a lot simpler just to show them this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykEGtwJuZIs
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Verizian posted:As long as you don't have to explain what a Rusty Venture is. In that case it's a lot simpler just to show them this video. Great, now I have to add "Double Frogman" to my lists.
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Lum posted:Rusty Kuntz is a real name and no you won't remove him from the credits. Hey look, the right answer.
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Dec 23, 2013 06:47
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Only funny name I know of is Rusty Hammer. 
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Lum posted:And yes I had a childish giggle at that name on a few occasions. Hours of fun - literally hours. Even more fun when you're reading at work, AND the only person to understand English, and people want you to explain why you're laughing. (I was genuinely barred from looking at ANY websites in English while at NEC headquarters working for them on a win32/MFC project. As anyone who is fluent in not-English will tell you, searching for programming help in any non-English language is a stupid idea - just within the remit of Microsoft here, the German MSDN is machine translated so makes no sense, and the Japanese MSDN is hand-translated which means that it is out of date, and has large chunks missing)
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Priss In Plate posted:Only funny name I know of is Rusty Hammer. Never worked with scandinavians I see; Monster is a common Swedish surname.
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hihifellow posted:Never worked with scandinavians I see; Monster is a common Swedish surname. No, it isn't. I've never heard of it, and in the search I just did I only found 6 persons, most of which had the same address. Monster has exactly the same meaning and spelling in both Swedish and English.
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I still giggle when I see the name Windy Fan pop up.
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Angry Swede posted:No, it isn't. I've never heard of it, and in the search I just did I only found 6 persons, most of which had the same address. Then somehow I must have worked with all six of them when I was doing european/asian support. Might not have been Sweden, Poland maybe? It was over 6 years ago...
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Cross-posting from working in IT, but relevant to current discussions, I have a customer that signs all his emails with his initials. "Thanks JEW"
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CDW posted:Cross-posting from working in IT, but relevant to current discussions, I have a customer that signs all his emails with his initials. We got someone in another department who signs all of her ticket updates in call caps with no punctuation or line breaks, like your username isn't there for everyone to see THANKS RENEGRET I'm always asking why she thanks herself after every update.
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A friend is called Dick de Cock (Dutch name). Whenever he goes to a conference, there is a 50-50 change he got taken off the attendee list, because someone thought they were being trolled.
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Dec 23, 2013 16:00
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Wow that's a name. I usually only work with people who had lovely parents, IE Rob Roberts.
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Dec 23, 2013 16:02
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My last company had a sales rep named Dick Odor. Poor guy.
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Nerdrock posted:My last company had a sales rep named Dick Odor. Poor guy. That name is ridiculous.
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GreenNight posted:Wow that's a name. I usually only work with people who had lovely parents, IE Rob Roberts. Well, in Dutch, the name doesn't mean anything bad and his parents are quite bad at english.
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Dick Trauma posted:That name is ridiculous. Quite. In all the paperwork he goes by Richard, but he always went by Dick, in person. The more "creative" factory personnel who knew him would shout "HEY PECKER BREATH" to him when he'd be in for the annual sales rep gathering.
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First case of the day, a giant gamer tower someone built at home and it's not powering on. Probably because the CPU fan is plugged into something that's not even a fan port.  It should go without saying that it's a rat's nest of cabling full of flashy blinkenlights held in place by packing tape rather than zipties. I remember this guy's previous system because he had a video card that wouldn't quite fit in the case so he used a dremel or something to cut off bits of its plastic casing until it fit.
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Entropic posted:I remember this guy's previous system because he had a video card that wouldn't quite fit in the case so he used a dremel or something to cut off bits of its plastic casing until it fit. 
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Entropic posted:I remember this guy's previous system because he had a video card that wouldn't quite fit in the case so he used a dremel or something to cut off bits of its plastic casing until it fit. 
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Entropic posted:I remember this guy's previous system because he had a video card that wouldn't quite fit in the case so he used a dremel or something to cut off bits of its plastic casing until it fit. We once took a hacksaw to the metal bracket on an internal wireless card to make it fit the form factor of the case. That was at least three years ago and that machine is still going strong. We don't normally bother with wireless on desktops, but we needed to get service to a single machine in a small building that has no other form of network connection. We were also obliged to put a rush on it so we had to go with whatever we could find at Best Buy.
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So over the weekend the Sr tech upgraded the internet. Overall the process went fairly smoothly. Email is mostly working, some reverse DNS issues, but that's on the ISP side. This morning I went to do some speed tests because I know the CEO for the client would. I ran about 9 or 10 tests and my average was 4.8 down and 3.7 up which is slower than their old service. It is supposed to be 10 up and 10 down so i sent an email to the sr and account lead to confirm. me: Hey, just wanted to confirm what speed <client> is supposed to have now? Im only getting about 5 down and 4 up. sr: You know the answer to that already. me: well did you run any speed tests after you finished the migration? sr: Yes I did, it was running around 6-7 Mb/s Up/Down. me: so it was running at 60% capacity and you left it at that without following up with the ISP? still haven't gotten an answer on that. Guess I'm calling the ISP, but I'm pretty sure I know what the answer will be . "All speeds are best possible, not guaranteed rates"
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blackswordca posted:"All speeds are best possible, not guaranteed rates" If it's anything like our only high speed ISP, that's pretty much the answer you'll get no matter how much you complain. I remember we upgraded from the 5 mbps to the 50 mbps plan and after all was said and done, our speed tests were showing .3. POINT THREE. I called to see what was going on and the smarmy tech kept giving me the "we offer UP TO 50 mbps, but don't guarantee it" crap. I asked to speak to her supervisor who gave me the same junk. So we upgrade to a plan that is 10 times faster and should be satisfied that our internet has now been cut to a fraction of what it was before? It took almost a month to get ahold of a tech that would listen and fix our issue, and, even then, our connection caps out at about 15-16 megs.
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