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Gaius Marius posted:I thought being super fast and lightweight was operas thing. Remember that Opera stopped having its own engine five years ago, and is now a GUI and assortment of features built on top of chrome's core.
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Opera lost all its best features when they transitioned to Chrome. That's why cool people who get laid constantly use Vivaldi, aka another Chrome GUI overhaul that however actually does the things Opera used to be famous for.
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Apr 5, 2018 12:01
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Maybe Opera is actually compatible with most websites now. I loved old Opera, but that was also during the dark period of the aughts when using a Mac meant keeping 5 different browsers in your dock (Safari, Firefox, Opera, Omniweb, sometimes iCab) because there was a good chance the site you were visiting wouldn't work for at least 3 of them.
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Apr 5, 2018 12:19
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Krispy Wafer posted:Maybe Opera is actually compatible with most websites now. Those days aren't as far away as you think. I was helping a user at work today because they couldn't open an excel spreadsheet linked on the company resource page. We tried a different method, and got a popup that said "To open this you must have matching versions of Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office." And they don't make IE for Mac anymore.
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Apr 5, 2018 17:42
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Antioch posted:I currently work at a FI and we just moved from the 1982 release of our banking system to the 1996 version. I don't think there's a newer version.
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Apr 5, 2018 18:41
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SubponticatePoster posted:I work for government and our program is a mainframe that was designed in 1995. It's programmed in COBOL. When the 2 old guys who still know COBOL die or retire I'm pretty sure we're hosed. Other than being poo poo ugly and written in a dead language it's rock solid. There is a ridiculous amount of banking backend (at least in Belgium) that is still COBOL based. COBOL 85 was still being taught in college a good 15 years ago.
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Apr 5, 2018 19:28
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Fishstick posted:There is a ridiculous amount of banking backend (at least in Belgium) that is still COBOL based. COBOL 85 was still being taught in college a good 15 years ago. COBOL is not a dead language, and is unlikely to be even in the next 20 years. I work at a bank and far too much of it runs on this stuff to be changed. Not to mention the z/os mainframes are incredibly solid in terms of downtime and access, scheduling and maintenance. The only issue is COBOL isn't taught nearly as much in NA as it should be so companies like the one I work for tend to use a lot of offshore resources as COBOL is taught in places like India because they know there is demand for anyone who can read/write COBOL semi-competently.
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Apr 5, 2018 21:22
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I work for the largest ISP in New Zealand and our main provisioning system (as well as the actual network owners) is an AS/400 terminal that connects to a system running either Cobol or RPG. A legacy system that was inherited when the monopoly telecommunications company was separated into the network end (Chorus) and retail end (Spark). This is used for all copper based services (DSL and POTS) as well as phone services on fibre and voice over 4G. Also billing for the above stuff. It's from the late 80s but still gets occasional updates. It's still faster and more efficient than the abominations they have added since then, which are Oracle and java and JavaScript monsters.
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Apr 6, 2018 02:29
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Fishstick posted:There is a ridiculous amount of banking backend (at least in Belgium) that is still COBOL based. COBOL 85 was still being taught in college a good 15 years ago. America has a poo poo load of things still running on COBOL as well. Apparently execs from a bunch of companies have been begging colleges to offer COBOL courses so they can get some fresh blood in the COBOL pool. I've heard buzz of companies actually offering to pay the schools for the classes so students can just take them totally free or offering training to CS students/grads. That is by no means a dead language at all.
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Apr 6, 2018 02:42
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ToxicSlurpee posted:America has a poo poo load of things still running on COBOL as well. Apparently execs from a bunch of companies have been begging colleges to offer COBOL courses so they can get some fresh blood in the COBOL pool. I've heard buzz of companies actually offering to pay the schools for the classes so students can just take them totally free or offering training to CS students/grads. That is by no means a dead language at all. My only programming class in college ten years ago was a COBOL course. I got scooped up by an insurance company a year before I even graduated off that alone. That got my foot in the door, and that helped me springboard into modern stuff. I can totally see why students wouldn't want to learn it or break into the industry via COBOL because it's not glamorous or particularly fun to work in, but most software development isn't COBOL might be old and dusty but I still really miss how fast and snappy z/os green screens are compared to waiting for eclipse to finish making GBS threads its pants for the fifth time in a day
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I've just seen an advert for Elastoplast here in Australia. It features kids riding bikes, playing sports and them falling over and presumably needing a plaster for their scraped knees and elbows. That's not the dumb bit. The dumb bit is in the ever popular 'do the advertisers not listen to the songs they use?' category. They used Tubthumping by Chumbawamba. The bit where it goes "I get knocked down but I get up again"! with the kids saying "I get up again" in time to the song playing. Helith has a new favorite as of 07:40 on Apr 6, 2018 |
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Apr 6, 2018 07:30
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Inescapable Duck posted:I don't see the problem? Tubthumping is about alcoholism, but that's really not much compared to some of the other misappropriated songs you see. e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6ueDHn2HTk
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Apr 6, 2018 09:12
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Ziv Zulander posted:Tubthumping is about alcoholism, but that's really not much compared to some of the other misappropriated songs you see. It's about the proletariat, actually. 
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Apr 6, 2018 09:25
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ItpotxmU8Q Knowing the song, I was somewhat surprised at its usage in this advert. Trapped in purgatory A lifeless object, alive Awaiting reprisal Death will be their acquittence The sky is turning red Return to power draws near Fall into me, the sky's crimson tears Abolish the rules made of stone Pierced from below, souls of my treacherous past Betrayed by many, now ornaments dripping above Awaiting the hour of reprisal Your time slips away Raining blood From a lacerated sky Bleeding its horror Creating my structure Now I shall reign in blood
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Apr 6, 2018 09:28
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Quote-Unquote posted:Years ago, when I was working in IT, the company I worked for started asking for all sorts of software solutions for complicated, time-consuming tasks. I ended up learning PHP, JavaScript and SQL to give them what they needed. It all only works in IE8. At the time, as a total novice, it made complete sense to me: it was an intranet, all the computers were XP with IE8, it was on a Windows domain and IE lets you automatically authenticate against Active Directory and no other browser does, meaning everyone automatically had their own database permissions if you use MS SQL etc. so it took out a lot of the hassle. Chrome will do Windows Authentication by default and I think there is a flag you can change in Firefox these days to make it do so too.
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dissss posted:Chrome will do Windows Authentication by default and I think there is a flag you can change in Firefox these days to make it do so too. Oh yeah? That's cool. Did it do that in 2010/11? If it did, I couldn't figure it out so I just used IE.
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spog posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ItpotxmU8Q Argent Energy already? I thought we were some decades off yet.
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I also work at an insurance company, and they are going to start training me in COBOL soon. It lives.
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Apr 6, 2018 13:59
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Song about Heroin Used to Advertise Bank
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ToxicSlurpee posted:America has a poo poo load of things still running on COBOL as well. Apparently execs from a bunch of companies have been begging colleges to offer COBOL courses so they can get some fresh blood in the COBOL pool. I've heard buzz of companies actually offering to pay the schools for the classes so students can just take them totally free or offering training to CS students/grads. That is by no means a dead language at all. I worked at Hollywood Video in college in the early aughts, and it blew a coworker and my minds when one day one of our POS computers broke down and we discovered it ran on Cobol.
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Remember that UK charity Children in Need had a shitload of celebrities and TV personalities get together for a cover of Perfect Day.
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Quote-Unquote posted:Remember that UK charity Children in Need had a shitload of celebrities and TV personalities get together drat.
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Quote-Unquote posted:Remember that UK charity Children in Need had a shitload of celebrities and TV personalities get together for a cover of Perfect Day. I mostly remember because it introduced to me Shane MacGowan. He had just one line in that video, but it made a lasting impression! Edit: Let me link the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OESp5Sts4s Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 20:15 on Apr 6, 2018 |
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Apr 6, 2018 20:13
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 Translation of the tombstone Jesse Augistunus is snowboarding on: "To the memory of stillborn children". ...Oops...
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“Your poison wombs are making the slopes too loving crowded.”
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Stolen from funny pics thread: dumb marketing or best marketing?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Stolen from funny pics thread: dumb marketing or best marketing? yes
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I was honestly expecting pages of semen jokes but Twitter surprised me!
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So there's an ad on twitch this weekend for the NBA Eastern Finals game on Sunday. It plays out first like a messenger conversation where one dude can't believe what's happening in the game, while the other is too busy on twitch to watch. So, are they saying "stop using this platform we are actively paying to advertise on"?
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May 13, 2018 06:45
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Twitch advertising has always been weird to me. I remember a while back I was burning through some ads in order to get free bits and it kept showing me poo poo like luxury vehicles or vacation spots and it's like, if a person is begging for a bucks worth of bits who the gently caress do you think is going to be buying this luxury poo poo?
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May 13, 2018 09:59
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Internet advertising is a complete racket.
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Garrand posted:Twitch advertising has always been weird to me. I remember a while back I was burning through some ads in order to get free bits and it kept showing me poo poo like luxury vehicles or vacation spots and it's like, if a person is begging for a bucks worth of bits who the gently caress do you think is going to be buying this luxury poo poo? The people sending the bits??? Twitch has a large audience of whales and if youve a sufficiently expensive product selling even a few of them pays for itsef. During the super bowl a few years back audi advertised one of their most expensive vehicles and people were super confused but they pointed out the ad only needed to drive like 15-20 sales to be a success
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no like, if you don't have the money to buy bits to give to a streamer twitch lets you watch like 30 second ads and they'll give you a small number of bits for that. I don't know how that's all set up internally but if I have the cash to buy this kind of stuff then I'm not watching the ads to earn bits. I remember watching a bunch of ads in a row and it was literally all just vehicle after vehicle and vacation spot.
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Garrand posted:no like, if you don't have the money to buy bits to give to a streamer twitch lets you watch like 30 second ads and they'll give you a small number of bits for that. I don't know how that's all set up internally but if I have the cash to buy this kind of stuff then I'm not watching the ads to earn bits. I'm not sure why you would watch a bunch of ads regardless of your money situation
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Andrast posted:I'm not sure why you would watch a bunch of ads regardless of your money situation To give bits to streamers, duh! (I don't know what that means, but he said it a few times.)
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