Pet Peeve rants.
- Thread starter Mathias
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Related pet peeve: Mathematicians that program like they're writing first-draft proofs (but without the accompanying explanation statements, because it's not like I'm sending this code to another human being), so they smear unexplained lambdas and multi-line ternaries all over the place, and all the fucking variables are named a b c d...
Aurgh! I hate when I get messages from vendors asking if about late payment when they clearly received the debit memo which explains the difference in payment. I shouldn't have to re-explain to you why the damn invoice was paid the way it was. Stop wasting my damn time on things you can figure out with the information you are given!
And for frack's sake, I don't authorize paying back the debits and never have. The debit memos clearly state to contact the Customer Service rep and includes their name and their extension. STOP ASKING ME FOR THEIR CONTACT INFORMATION.
Assholes.
And for frack's sake, I don't authorize paying back the debits and never have. The debit memos clearly state to contact the Customer Service rep and includes their name and their extension. STOP ASKING ME FOR THEIR CONTACT INFORMATION.
Assholes.
fade
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I'm actually impressed you've got non-devs who understand lambdas and ternaries.
Depends on your definition of dev. These are people who know enough python or C to write algorithms that compile, using libraries that map 1-to-1 to mathematical areas they understand. A side effect is that they find the most obnoxious-able features of every language and go "oh so this computer works like my brain!" and then make us cry by abusing them.
They abuse them like they would their brain?
Considering what a Bachelors in math did to me... I'm fairly sure by the time you get a PhD your brain is mostly held together by string and induction.
Is this the famous "String Theory" I've heard nothing about
Ok, this may be because I'm in a different language area and whatnot, but...I'd never heard it was supposed to be pronounced sequel. Everyone I know pronounce it Esss-Queue-Elll. Sequel makes sense, but...Even from programmers and such, I've never heard it pronounced like that. Huh.
Never heard it pronounced as anything other than Ese-Ku-Ele (spelled out) in Spain, so it's definitely in a country/language basis.
My husband is a Computer Engineer and thinks saying it as sequel is dumb, but has at least heard of it. I've never heard of such a thing either though...
Europeans Pronounce It Properly
That sounds like it should be in one of those shitty tourist t-shirt racks, like "Keep Calm and Pronounce Properly" *shudder*Europeans Pronounce It Properly
GasBandit
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Negative, the entire French language is based on improper pronunciation.Europeans Pronounce It Properly
Incidentally I've heard it both as sequel and SQL.
Dear diary, today I learned that Fade doesn't like "ess cue ell." Now I know he will never be able to love me...
The problem for me is that scsi doesn't require any additional phonemes to pronounce. It's scuzzy. But "sequel" adds the e, a w, and an eh - it's too much. So S Q L it is.
/insert IDK, my BFF Jill image here
GasBandit
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As far as SQL and extra phonemes goes, just say it fast. It kind of comes out like "seagull" but with a hard K instead of a G. So say it really fast in a sentence and it sounds close to Sequel.
Also, I've heard somewhere that SQL is actually an abbreviation of the original acronym, which was for Structured English QUEry Language.
GasBandit
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And here I've always called that "MySequel"I pronounce it Ess-Cue-El, probably because I started with MySQL. And hearing "MySequel" makes me want to ask "Your sequel to what?"
fade
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We have basically three levels of people who touch code: scientists, who know the science and enough coding to make it work, scientific programmers who are supposed to be good at both, and programmers, who usually only get the science in spurts enough to understand what they're coding. That's on paper anyway. It never works out that way. I think the vision was that the scientists would research and prototype, the scientific programmers add specific client features that require a strong understanding of the science, and the programmers work on UI stuff. In reality though, the lines are all blurred. Technically, I'm a scientist, but being a huge computer nerd who has his own licensed software, I tend to dev my own stuff start to finish, barring what I outsource to my scientific programmer. Hell, the IT guys come to me for *nix and cluster support sometimes. That's not intended to be a brag, more to enforce the whole "what the hell is a developer, anyway?" question. Also, we're a 40 person company, so these aren't huge groups.
GasBandit
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My pet peeve of the evening: Ad agencies that refer to the audio files of commercials as a noun form of "creative."
As in "attached to this e-mail you will find the creative for Mattress Firm's next flight."
Don't flatter yourself honey, it's not all that creative. But I'm glad at least apparently Bobby McFerrin will continue to receive royalties from your constant, hammering overuse of "Don't worrybe sleep happy" in every single one of your commercials.
There are myriad ways this concept is described, there's no industry standard. They call it creative. They call it copy. The less fanciful just call them "spots." Some even call it "traffic" even though traffic is more commonly accepted to be the instructions for what to do with it than the file/audio itself.
But I think only once in my 12+ years in radio have I ever heard anybody refer to it as what it is: audio. Call it audio. Call it sound files. Call it an mp3, a recording, anything that it ACTUALLY IS instead of this artsy fartsy baloney "creative."
Every day, I become ever more convinced that agencies do absolutely everything they can to pollute, obstruct, confuse and make more inefficient the entire broadcasting industry.
And the only thing that's more bullshit than an advertising agency is an "in-house" advertising agency. But I think I've ranted about that before.
As in "attached to this e-mail you will find the creative for Mattress Firm's next flight."
Don't flatter yourself honey, it's not all that creative. But I'm glad at least apparently Bobby McFerrin will continue to receive royalties from your constant, hammering overuse of "Don't worry
There are myriad ways this concept is described, there's no industry standard. They call it creative. They call it copy. The less fanciful just call them "spots." Some even call it "traffic" even though traffic is more commonly accepted to be the instructions for what to do with it than the file/audio itself.
But I think only once in my 12+ years in radio have I ever heard anybody refer to it as what it is: audio. Call it audio. Call it sound files. Call it an mp3, a recording, anything that it ACTUALLY IS instead of this artsy fartsy baloney "creative."
Every day, I become ever more convinced that agencies do absolutely everything they can to pollute, obstruct, confuse and make more inefficient the entire broadcasting industry.
And the only thing that's more bullshit than an advertising agency is an "in-house" advertising agency. But I think I've ranted about that before.
A pet peeve from my younger self: Bumper car rinks where you're supposed to go in a circle. This is what being a big kid comes with? RESTRICTED BUMPER CARS?!
