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harold aptroot wrote: Or, this is a trick question
Yes and no: the UA is unaltered from the browser, the team of experts that set it up pretty much got every bit of information wrong. See my OP for the answer.
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Perhaps they did it on purpose. Maybe they figured that copying the UA from an iPad (it appears to be an exact copy, it matches the one given here[^]) would make things "just work" without all mobile sites having to adapt things specifically for their device.. or something..
Or, they're stupid.
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This is probably what will happen if burglars are offered programming jobs.
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The guy who used to write error messages for Microsoft apparently has a new job...
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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You'r bad! The standard error handling for MS is very robust:
public class Api
{
public void call()
{
try
{
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw new Exception("An exception has occurred, good luck.");
}
}
}
speramus in juniperus
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Nowdays we've switched to predictive error reporting:
public class Api
{
public void call()
{
throw new Exception("An exception has occurred, no cookie for you.");
}
}
The MS Devs
Veni, vidi, vici.
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I thought that you were still looking for employment.
BTW, good luck on your interview today.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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public class Api
{
public void call()
{
try
{
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
try
{
throw new Exception("An exception has occurred, good luck.");
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw new Exception("An exception has occurred while trying to throw the exception, good luck.");
}
}
}
}
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The answer is ARCHIMEDES
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Guessing solution.
I had condidered this as a solution but dropped it thinking it was a name.
Leading - ARCH
One - I
Frenchman - M (Monsieur)
Point - E
Parisian - DES?
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It is not scrabble, proper nouns are allowed.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Well done in any case.
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Leading - ARCH ??
Parisian - DES ??
Abhinav S wrote: Frenchman - M (Monsieur)
I find this funny, since about 90% of my fellow co-citizens now write it "Mr.", which is incorrect in French.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Rage wrote: Leading - ARCH ??
As in arch enemy or archbishop.
Rage wrote: Parisian - DES ??
Dave has a mate called Des who lives in Paris.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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I bought two two years ago (one for my brother-in-law). Still works like a charm. The fact that the keyboard lights up is an added bonus.
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Just search here[^] for either "air mouse" or "keyboard" (I'd try "air mouse" first), and you'll find sizes and shapes to suit anyone.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I wonder when someone will invent something that replaces the keyboard. Speech won't work, I don't want my gf to always hear what I'm typing. Hand-waving sucks. So I guess that leaves direct mind implants.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I don't want my gf to always hear what I'm typing.
Don't get a mechanical keyboard, then
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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So targeted advertisement has been around for quite some time now but I still find it fairly creepy when I'm browsing a website and an advertisement appears "Looking into imagining algorithms, Look no further, new super duper ultra imagining blah blah blah" then later on in the day a colleague could comes to me:
Colleague> "Hey, I'm looking into re sizing blah blah compared to ratio blah blah".
Me> "I know, how did you find, <insert software="" vendor="" name="">?".
Colleague> "Hey now, how on earth did you know, stalking me?".
Me> "Nope, Google told me".
Colleague> "Oh right... wait a minute!"
It's the same for a network in a school or at home, you can start thinking about the habits of those you live with by the advertisements you receive, again fairly creepy. Of course you won't always be right, maybe they aren't looking for granny dating websites or maybe they weren't looking to buy that new toaster from argos that follows you from page to page?
Just a bit of a rant really...
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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This is why I use AdBlock Plus...
Not here, of course...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I'm fairly good at filtering out adverts, don't really notice them unless it is something I am specifically interested in at that time, which I guess is the point of targeted ads.
But I actually followed one on Facebook the other week that led to us booking our next holiday through the company.
Had been looking at a number of holiday cottage web sites and hadn't found anything that grabbed me by the balls and shook, then a house appeared at the top right of Facebook, it looked the right size, right location, and was a website that hadn't turned up in my previous googling.
So I clicked through.
Eventually booked a different property on the same site.
It has a sauna, a hottub, an Xbox, a dirty great 3D TV with 3D blue ray player and full sky subscription.
I hope it rains every day.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Quote: I hope it rains every day.
Make it so. Let's hope it does. Indeed I bought a watch on through a facebook advertisement the other day, it was a birthday treat to myself.
I did notice on facebook the ads work out your locaiton and input the name into the advertisement, pretending that it's an image.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Too many of them try too hard to get my attention, so I just switch the lot off.
Yes, I probably miss out on some things I'd be interested in, but on the other hand I miss out on a heck of a lot I'm not!
One of the reasons I like Sky+: fast forward through the ads. We now refer to Sky+ as "AdSkip", and Herself complains when she runs out during CSI, NCSI, etc...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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You can use the AdBlock plug-in to avoid having to deal with that.
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