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Have you ever heard about the Exota affair in the Netherlands? In 1969, journalists uncovered the glass bottles of Exota soda were explosion hazards and their scathing TV episode about it drove the company to bankruptcy. It became a whole ordeal after the journalists and broadcaster were sued.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exota-affaire

https://youtu.be/rdseJGLeyBk?si=V_9F9lZMyUqAmjEa

The bottle cap folds out of the way. If you have it “in your face”, it sounds like a skill issue

I just wanted to share the story.

Someone in Norway has the same name as me, and they made a PayPal account. They accidentally used my email during signup and I got some weird emails in Norwegian. So I called PayPal. I asked them to change the email. “You can’t, because it’s not your account, you just admitted”. Uh, ok. Can you close the account? “It’s not your account”. Can you contact the account owner and tell them to fix it? “We don’t have their email”. Can I use account recovery and close it? “Then you would be breaking into someone else’s account”.

So what should I do? PayPal put a notice on the account in case they log in, and told me to just ignore the emails. I was baffled. Just ignore the emails? Stop sending them then! But there really isn’t anything I can do. I tried account recovery anyway, but it didn’t work.

They never logged in I think. They probably made another account with the correct details and never thought about this one. So I’ve been getting the “our terms and conditions have changed” email once or twice a year and ignoring them. They’re still in Norwegian.

I just looked it up, this has been going on since 2015. Maybe I should contact PayPal again and tell them how ridiculous they’ve been.

No, this is behavior in MS Office products, not Windows.

Save As dialog of Windows or the one built into MS Word, for example? Why they even did that, I don’t know

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Year of the Linux desktop!

Even worse when you realize it’s the job of these journalists to tell people there’s a whole world out there. The general public may not know about this, but if you’re a journalist making these claims, they should know better

I’m like, it’s that code on the right what I think it is? And it is! I’m so happy now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root

ANSI all the way. I get irrationally angry about any other layout 😡

His advice is great for newer programmers. They are taken literally by newer programmers, but the goal is not to force the dogma onto everyone. Maybe that should be more clear before the new people make a fool of themselves. They’ll learn why or how to apply these rules once they get more experience.

I know the episode you’re referring to and the important part is to realize you can use functions names/signatures to convey and structure information about your code, not just as a way to reuse code. This is often misunderstood by newer programmers, self-taught programmers. Your code should be easy to understand so it’s up to us to make it well structured. Functions aren’t only to avoid duplicate code

Lalala, don’t mind me, I’ll just leave this here…

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/feb/28/ryanair-standing-only-plane-tickets-regulator

C++ is fine. I’m fine. It’s all fiiiiine

“They must have been planning something terrible”

“They weren’t”

“Well they should have!”

🤔

You’re just being contrarian.