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JackBurton

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That's not funny in the fucking least. This WILL cause bricked iPhones, resulting in people having to purchase another device. The guy that created that little cute message should be stabbed in the face.
 

tynopik

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Aug 10, 2004
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That's not funny in the fucking least. This WILL cause bricked iPhones, resulting in people having to purchase another device. The guy that created that little cute message should be stabbed in the face.

not being an iOS afficiando, why would that brick a phone?
 

Anubis

No Lifer
Aug 31, 2001
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not being an iOS afficiando, why would that brick a phone?

because apple has mad programming skillz

http://www.theguardian.com/technolo...970-will-brick-your-iphone-ipad-or-ipod-touch

The precise cause of the issue has not been confirmed, although speculation points to the way iOS stores date and time formats meaning that 1 January 1970 is stored as a value of zero or less than zero, causing every other process that requires the time stamp to fail
 

Jeff7

Lifer
Jan 4, 2001
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because apple has mad programming skillz

http://www.theguardian.com/technolo...970-will-brick-your-iphone-ipad-or-ipod-touch
The precise cause of the issue has not been confirmed, although speculation points to the way iOS stores date and time formats meaning that 1 January 1970 is stored as a value of zero or less than zero, causing every other process that requires the time stamp to fail
You'd think that programmers at Apple would know that zeroes can sometimes cause problems.
 

Imp

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I know what the hats are...but I don't get why this picture is post worthy?

Also, Summer Glau is going to be on Castle next month. Adam Baldwin was on earlier this season.

Not sure why you brought that up, but thanks, yo.

Been wondering what she's been doing after she popped a kid out last year.
 

Jeff7

Lifer
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Love that one. :)

A contract programmer at work wrote an application for us, but there was a field where it would sometimes be necessary for the user to enter 0.
The program had a bug though, and entering zero would cause a crash. Rather than fix the problem, the first version we were shown simply popped up a window that said "Value cannot be zero," so you'd have to enter an integer higher than zero, and this person thought that was an acceptable patch. o_O
Christ, if I'm working on a small microcontroller with only a few kilobytes of program memory, I still have to ensure that variables going to zero won't cause a crash.


I'm also the one who, when shown a new program meant for quick internal use, and I see a field that says "Enter length dimension," I'll enter "no" or "1.23.1.2" and see if it can handle it without crashing. :awe:
 

Stifko

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That's not funny in the fucking least. This WILL cause bricked iPhones, resulting in people having to purchase another device. The guy that created that little cute message should be stabbed in the face.

Why will that cause the machines to turn into bricks?
 

ImpulsE69

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Jan 8, 2010
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Not sure why you brought that up, but thanks, yo.

Been wondering what she's been doing after she popped a kid out last year.

Does this help? Like I said, I know the reference, but fail to see why that particular picture was post worthy.

jayne_cobb_hat.png
 

Dr. Zaus

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Does this help? Like I said, I know the reference, but fail to see why that particular picture was post worthy.

jayne_cobb_hat.png

I, too, get the 'jane hat' but don't get why the picture you are referring to is funny...

Was it like a Big Bang Theory joke, where the fact that a reference was made is joke enough?
 

ImpulsE69

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I, too, get the 'jane hat' but don't get why the picture you are referring to is funny...

Was it like a Big Bang Theory joke, where the fact that a reference was made is joke enough?

The post you are quoting was me answering Imp's comment about not knowing why I mentioned Summer Glau on Castle in my post.