If you think that old movie Logan is still a lot better in shape than you – don’t feel bad. Look at The Warp Zone‘s Logan instead…
“Even Wolverine, the raddest x-men character of them all, eventually succumbs to the ravages of time…”
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Second Thought presents us the least harmful weapons in history – resulting in over 140,000 views on YouTube so far.
“History is full of fascinating and successful weapons…and then there are these failures. Watch to find out which ones earned a spot on my list of Least Effective Weapons in History!”
via: likecool
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Over 1.7 million views on this bit from The Graham Norton Show.
“Even Graham can’t stop laughing.”
via: reddit
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Boston Dynamics introduces us to another reason, that we will soon lose against the uprising machines… o.O Over 1.7 million views on this one yet.
“Handle is a research robot that stands 6.5 ft tall, travels at 9 mph and jumps 4 feet vertically. It uses electric power to operate both electric and hydraulic actuators, with a range of about 15 miles on one battery charge. Handle uses many of the same dynamics, balance and mobile manipulation principles found in the quadruped and biped robots we build, but with only about 10 actuated joints, it is significantly less complex. Wheels are efficient on flat surfaces while legs can go almost anywhere: by combining wheels and legs Handle can have the best of both worlds.”
via: koreus
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1.3 million people have seen this clep from the recent Tonight Show since it was uploaded yesterday. Presenting: Ed Sheeran and a lot of childish instruments. Yay!
“Ed Sheeran – Vocals, Banana Shaker
Jimmy Fallon – Vocals, Bass Drum, Casio Keyboard, Guiro, Blocks
Questlove – Guiro, Kazoo
Kamal Gray – Lead Xylophone
James Poyser – Melodica
Captain Kirk – Ukulele
Tuba Gooding Jr. – Kazoo, Apple Shaker
Mark Kelley – Rhythm Xylophone
Frank Knuckles – Bongos
Black Thought – Tambourine, Brown Hat”
via: tastefullyoffensive
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Jessica Biel walked the red carpet at the 2017 Vanity Fair Oscar Party and not that she was ever known for being busty, but where did her boobs go? They are completely gone!! View the pictures
Is this even a dress? It's more like sexy Valentine's lingerie, but no matter what you call it, Tanya Mityushina sure looked sexy on the carpet for Elton John's Oscars Viewing Party. View the pictures
Beautiful nonsense that Delta F got here for us. Sadly he didn’t make the effort to show us people waiting in silence over the minute, but the freeze frame does the trick – and he already got over 200,000 views on this edit. STOP!
“fun fact: the timer is actually counting frames so that’s why the last part is going only to ~24, or 23,97 to be specific”
via: blameitonthevoices
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Caps of Nicole Kidman showing a bit of nipple in HBO's Big Little Lies! She's still hot. View the pictures
After the recent success of Tiny Trump, Evil Ice Cream Pictures have done it again and shrunk the President. So this is the return of “Pocket POTUS”!
“Since you guys liked the first one. We decided that we would do another one. If we do more is on you guys now. Let us know if you need more tiny trump of if you want us to do a different derp video.”
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An anonymous reader was chatting with their fellow developers on Slack. They work for a telecom, and thus have to support software and hardware from a variety of vendors. In one Apple-provided API, they found this method.
ALUnlockWebServiceRequest appleUnlockWSRequest = new ALUnlockWebServiceRequest();
appleUnlockWSRequest.getAddPendingUnlockDeviceRequestAndCheckUnlockStatusDeviceRequestAndRemoveUnlockDeviceRequest();
Now, that is a pretty long method name, and it’s certainly a WTF. That said, Java has classes like this one, and there’s always Spring, if you want to find something really long. Besides, it’s not the length of the name that’s important, it’s how you invoke it.
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Another round of celebrities reading mean tweets about themselves, that got Jimmy Kimmel Live around a million views already.
“The Oscars are a celebration of the movies and those who lift others up, but we must also not forget those who push those same people down. They are internet trolls who keep celebrities grounded day after day, night after night. We acknowledge them with this special #Oscars Edition of #MeanTweets featuring Natalie Portman, Ryan Gosling, Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Chastain, Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Whoopi Goldberg, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Casey Affleck, Emma Stone, Miles Teller, Tilda Swinton, Jeff Bridges & Robert De Niro.”
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Unbox Therapy says that “you’ve never seen bananas do this…”. Did you? At least over 800,000 people already did for sure now.
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I don’t really know why Derek Zimmerman got over 1.5 million views on this video within a day, but maybe it is because of cats…
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Ariel Winter's butt is back! Here are some candids of Ariel looking cheeky in what looks like a super short dress while out and about in Beverly Hills! View the pictures
You probably already have heard this tragic mistake of last night. Some mix up with the envelopes at the Academy Awards…
“The climax of Hollywood’s biggest night ended in what will surely be a long-remembered snafu, as the initial announcement that the best picture award went to “La La Land” had to be retracted on stage and corrected to the real winner, “Moonlight.” The announcement of “La La Land” was followed by several moments of apparent chaos on stage that ended with a producer of “La La Land” announcing that it was not really his picture that won.”
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Sexy Swedish model Elsa Hosk walked the runway at Milan Fashion Week in a sheer top! We get to see her nipple! View the pictures
Candids of a casual looking Lady Gaga shopping for groceries in LA! Pokies! View the pictures
This TED-ed session hold by Alex Gendler and animated by Artrake Studio already got over 2.1 million views on YouTube. Can you solve “The Three Gods Riddle”?!
“You and your team have crash-landed on an ancient planet. Can you appease the three alien overlords who rule it and get your team safely home? Created by logician Raymond Smullyan, and popularized by his colleague George Boolos, this riddle has been called the hardest logic puzzle ever. Alex Gendler shows how to solve it.”
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Over 600,000 views on this scientific explaination done by RealLifeLore about the power of volcano disruptions.
“Volcanoes get pretty strong, but strong enough to destroy the world? That kind of depends on what you think the end of the world means…”
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Dominique finished her instant cup of ramen, her third day straight. She and the other developers at Bento had gone a month without pay as they finished the beta version of their only application: a browser for promotional materials of yet-to-be-released merchandise.
Her cellphone rang. It was CEO Stephen, who was wooing investors with a demo. “How hard is it to block a user from capturing a screen image?”
“It’s possible,” she began. “We’d need to encrypt all copyrighted images that are stored to disk, disable the print screen button, disable the context menu when a user right-clicks–”
“Great, thanks.” Stephen hung up.
Stephen returned to the office an hour later. “We’ll need copy protection for a new demo next Monday,” he said.
“I didn’t even get to the hard stuff,” Dominique replied. “Like screen capturing software. You’re talking about a dozen different applications we’d need to write fixes for.”
“Sure, but you can do it by Monday, right? It’s the one thing they’re insisting on.”
Dominique assembled the other developers for a stand-up meeting. She wrote on the whiteboard:
SCREEN CAPTURE SOFTWARE
1) SnagIt
2) ImageMagick
“Listen. If we want to get paid, we need to sell Bento to those investors on Monday. We need a list of every piece of software that can capture video, still shots, even low-resolution images. These are the two obvious ones.”
The other developers took turns at the whiteboard, listing different applications that could potentially grab screen captures. By the end, the list was twenty items long. Dominique gave each developer, including herself, two items from the list to finish by Monday.
After much prodding, Stephen gave the company credit card to Dominique, which she used on pizza and coffee to feed the team, who worked 16-hour days through the week and into the weekend. Every four hours, Dominique would cross off the applications on the whiteboard that had been successfully blocked, writing the commit hash next to each. They used everything, from registry hacks to dirty assembly tricks.
Sunday evening, Stephen came to check on their progress. Dominique showed him the board. “There’s one item left,” she said. “We can’t find any documentation on it that isn’t in Korean.”
“We have to cover everything,” he said. “If they discovered that we knew about this vulnerability, we’d be culpable if someone snagged an image.”
Dominique checked in her last fix the next morning, just a few hours before the presentation. Giving up on trying to find English documentation, instead she made Bento crash the Korean application if it was running alongside their own software.
Dominique washed up and slept a few hours before meeting Stephen at a nearby office park. The investment group were situated in an office covering an entire floor, and the conference room was bigger than their own office.
Seated among the investors was a scrappy teenager with red-spiked hair.
“This is my nephew,” one of them explained. “He knows his way around computers. Consider this the ‘bull in a china shop’ test.”
Dominique watched as the teenager tried out as many ways as he could to get a screenshot of Bento’s images. He went through almost all the tricks they had found the week before. After ten minutes, most of the investors seemed satisfied.
Then the teen pulled out his cellphone and took a picture of the screen.
The uncle of the teen examined the photo. “You can make out a lot of detail on here,” he said. “You lied to us. You said this would be foolproof.”
The investors declined to fund Bento.
Stephen looked deflated as he left the office building. Dominique felt worse: there would be no money for payroll next month. Glumly, she wondered if that investor who brought his nephew didn’t want to fund Bento in the first place, and was just trying to get them out the door. The only other explanation was worse: a software investor was stupid enough to think a desktop application could prevent a digital camera from taking photos.
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Quirkology put together another round of interesting and inspiring optical illusions that already gathered over 170,000 views on YouTube.
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Interesting video by Glamour Magazine about the really important things in life… 😉
“We asked people of all ages what single thing would improve the quality of their life.”
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First We Feast got over 600,000 views on their “Hot Ones” issue with Mac DeMarco.
“Musician, hashtag expert, and Canadian icon Mac DeMarco may be the most laid-back Hot Ones guest of all time. But how chill can you be in the face of Sean Evans’ hot questions and even hotter wings? Find out as DeMarco gets pummeled by Scovilles and discusses important matters ranging from his distaste for tour buses, to the exact reason why lighting a fart on fire is funny. Bonus: He brought his mom!”
via: reddit
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After their first round of pool trick shots in 2014 the guys from Dude Perfect deliver some more of them and got over nine million views for it!
“Dude Perfect teams back up w/ Pool Trick Shot legend Florian ‘Venom’ Kohler”
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I don’t really know, why kurzgesagt ask with this video “What if Machines Become Conscious?”, because this will definitely happen. It is only a question of time, so prepare for it – maybe with this little video that already got over 1.8 million views by humans. Mostly.
“What shall we do once machines become conscious? Do we need to grant them rights?”
via: uncrate
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Another taste of the hydraulic force. Or not? Mutant style! This video got over 1.2 million views within it’s first day being online.
“Do not try this at home!! or at any where else!!”
via: geeksaresexy
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I just can imagine how life with a cat must be. Thanks to this recent video by Simon’s Cat I can do it even better now.
“Do you ever think that Simon’s Cat reminds you of your own cat? Watch this collection to see the trials and tribulations of cat owner Simon during a typical day.”
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Groundbreaking stuff!
“Seven Earth-sized planets have been observed by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope around a tiny, nearby, ultra-cool dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1. Three of these planets are firmly in the habitable zone.”
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Another splendid visual by The Slow Mo Guys who already got over a million views on this.
“Gav and Dan once again prove warning labels right. Don’t try this at home. The bits of battery might dent your face and the gas that comes out might dent your lungs.”
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More candids of Lea Michele in a swimsuit in Hawaii! This time the swimsuit is pink but the pokies are the same. Great ass shots too! View the pictures
Fashion model Georgia Fowler walked the same runway as Sara Sampaio at Milan Fashion Week and she also did it in a see through dress! View the pictures
Here's Sara Sampaio looking hot in a see through dress at the Alberta Ferretti show at Milan Fashion Week! Great look at her boobs and in case you're wondering, the blonde is Stella Maxwell! You get a slight see through view of her boobs in pic #3 as well. View the pictures
"Sure, it's a bit expensive, but hey, where else can you find a place with a huge outside baloney?" Keith S. wrote.
"People think that nobody plays Candy Crush any more," writes Maddie, "It seems their testers agree."
Alex writes, "Well, looks like Facebook is testing in production again."
"These empty groups in Facebook Workplace are definitely where things take off...any minute now..." Björn E. wrote.
Janez writes, "Seeing a stack trace while driving hits you a little differently than when you're at your desk."
"Ok, name parsing can be tricky, but sometimes it's best to just not to try so hard," wrote Geoff G.
Peter K. writes, "Now we know that XP is hiding out in the French Alps."
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Leggy candids of Kylie Jenner getting out of her car while wearing a super short dress in Beverly Hills! View the pictures
Camila Morrone is a model who's dipping her toes into acting and here she is in a very see through dress at the Brit Awards last night! Yum! View the pictures
Caps of Natalie Portman's nude scene from a movie called Planetarium! Don't really see any naughty bits but its still hot. View the pictures
You know the deal. Another interesting puzzle presented by FLEB who got over a quarter million views on this one already.
“The Wit’s End Puzzle is a wonderful, classic disentanglement puzzle.”
via: boingboing
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Bella Hadid walked the runway at the Alberta Ferretti show during Milan Fashion Week, and she wore two great outfits that gives us some sweet views of her nips! View the pictures
Kyle Helf sent me a hint to his new parody video showing us a different perspective to the opening scene of the musical movie hit “La La Land”. No worries, you won’t get spoilerd (or so I think, haven’t seen it yet…).
“Apparently not everyone was on board with that opening number.”
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For every line of code that ends up in software the general public sees or interacts with, for every line in your Snapchats and Battlezone: Call of Honor Duty Warfare, there are a thousand lines of code written to handle a supply chain processing rule that only applies to one warehouse on alternating Thursdays, but changes next month thanks to a union negotiation. Or it’s a software package that keeps track of every scale owned by a company and reminds people to calibrate them. Or a data-pump that pulls records out of one off-the-shelf silo and pushes them into another.
That’s the “iceberg” of software development. In terms of sheer quantity, most software is written below the waterline, deep in the bowels of companies that don’t sell software, but need it anyway. That’s the world of internal software development.
And internal software development, in-house software shops, have a problem. Well, they have lots of problems, but we’re going to focus on one today: Internal Billing and the Billable Hour.
At a first pass, internal billing makes sense. If you are a widget manufacturer, then you want the entire company aligned with that goal. If you buy raw materials, those raw materials are going into widgets. If you pay laborers, their labor should be going into making widgets. If you buy capital assets, they should be things like widget-stamping machines.
But you can’t just build widgets. Your workers need to organize via email. The new Widget-Stamper 9000 needs network connectivity, so you need network drops and routers and switches, which in turn need regular maintenance. This is, in pointy-haired-boss speak, “overhead”. You need it, but it doesn’t directly make widgets. It’s a cost center.
So what do large companies do? Well, they take all those “non-productive” activities and shuffle them off into their own departments, usually in a “corporate SBU”. Then all the departments doing “real” work get a budget to spend on those “cost centers”. And thus, internal billing is born.
Each employee needs an email account. Let’s assign that a cost, a rough—sometimes very rough—estimate of the total cost of managing the email account. Our corporate IT department will charge $20/yr per employee to cover the storage, configuration, management, and helpdesk support associated with their email account—and so on through the list of IT-related goods and services. Now the idea is that individual departments know their IT needs better than anyone else. By putting them in control of their IT budgets, they can spend their money wisely.
If you’re a widget-making company, you view software and IT support as an overhead cost, and recognize that you only have the capacity to pursue a certain number of IT projects, this makes perfect sense. Budgets and billing create a supply/demand relationship, and they give corporate the ability to cut overhead costs by controlling budgets. (Of course, this is all founded on the faulty assumption that in-house software development is simply overhead, but let’s set that aside for now.)
The problems start when internal billing meets software development, usually through the interface of the “billable hour”. The combination of these factors creates a situation where people who are ostensibly co-workers are locked into a toxic client/vendor relationship. The IT department is usually in a disadvantageous negotiating position, often competing against external vendors for a business department’s IT budget. Treating corporate IT as the preferred vendor isn’t all sunshine and roses for the business, either. There are definitely cases where external vendors are better suited to solve certain problems.
Putting IT resources on a billable hours system introduces a slew of bizarre side effects. For one thing, hours have to be tracked. That overhead might be relatively small, but it’s a cost. “Idling” becomes a serious concern. If developers aren’t assigned to billable projects, the IT department as a whole starts looking like it’s being non-productive. Practices like refactoring have to be carefully concealed, because business units aren’t going to pay for that.
Spending more billable hours on a project than estimated throws budgets out of whack. This forces developers into “adaptive strategies”. For example: padding estimates. If you can get an extremely padded estimate, or can get a long-running project into a steady-state where no one’s looking too closely at the charges, you can treat these as “banks”. A project starts running over your estimate? Start charging that work against a project that has some spare time.
Of course, that makes it impossible to know how much time was actually spent on a project, so forget about using that for process improvement later. It also makes every project more expensive, driving up the costs of internal development. This drives business users to seek external solutions, spending their IT budget outside of the company, or worse: to find workarounds. Workarounds like maybe just building a big complicated Excel spreadsheet with macros in it.
This isn’t even always restricted to hourly charges, either. I saw one organization that had a charge-back rate of $10,000/yr for a SQL Server database. That wasn’t licensing or hardware, that was just to create a new database on an existing instance of SQL Server. The result? Pretty much no business unit had a working test environment, and they’d often stack four or five different applications into the same database. Rarely, they’d use schemas to organize their tables, but usually you’d have tables like: Users, Users_1, UsersNew, UsersWidgetsoft, ___Users.
Forget about upgrades, even if they’re required. Short of making organization-wide modernization a capital project, no department or business unit is going to blow their IT budget on upgrading software that already works. For example, Microsoft still supports the VB6 runtime, but hasn’t supported the VB6 development environment since 2008. So, when the users say, “We need to add $X to the application,” IT has to respond, “We can’t add $X unless we do a complete rewrite, because we can’t support it in the state it’s in.” Either the business ends up doing without the feature or they make it a demand: “We need $X and we need it without a complete rewrite.” Then your developers end up trying to breathe life into a Windows 2000 VM without connecting it to the network in hopes that they can get something to build.
Billable hours turn work into a clock-punching exercise. Billing time is how you’re judged, and whether or not that time is spent effectively becomes less relevant. Often, by the end of the week, employees are looking for ways to fill up their hours. This is a task that should be easy, but I’ve watched developers agonize over how much they’re going to lie to make their timesheet look good, and hit their “85% billable” targets. This gets especially bizarre since you’re not self-assigning tasks, but you have to have 85% of your time billable, and thus you need to take the tasks you’ve been assigned and spend a lot of time on the billable ones to make sure you hit your targets, turning five-minute jobs into ten-hour slogs.
We could go on dissecting the problems with billable hours, and these problems exist even when we assume that you can just view your in-house software as a cost center. Some of these problems can get managed around, but the one that can’t is this harsh reality: software isn’t a cost center.
I’ve heard a million variations on the phrase, “we make widgets, not software!” Twenty years ago, perhaps even ten years ago, this may have been true. Today, if you are running a business of any scale, it simply is not. It’s trite to say, but these days, every business is an IT business.
One project I worked on was little more than a datapump application with a twist: the data source was a flow meter attached to a pipe delivering raw materials to a manufacturing process. The driver for reading the data was an out-of-date mess, and so I basically had to roll my own. The result was that, as raw material flowed through the pipe, the ERP system was updated in real-ish time with that material consumption, allowing up-to-the-minute forecasts of consumption, output, and loss.
How valuable was that? It’s not simply an efficiency gain, but having that sort of data introduces new ways of managing the production process. From allowing management to have a better picture of the actual state of the process, to helping supply chain plan out a just-in-time inventory strategy, this sort of thing could have a huge change on the way the business works. That wasn’t a skunkworks idea, that wasn’t IT just going off and doing its own thing. That was a real hook for business process improvement.
Smart companies are starting to figure this out. I’ve been doing some work for a financial services company that just hired a new CTO, and he’s turned around the “We make $X, not software,” and started his tenure by saying, “We are a software company that provides financial services.” Instead of viewing IT as a sink, he’s pushing the company to view IT as a tool for opening up new markets and new business models.
So, yes, IT is a cost of doing business. You’ll need certain IT services no matter what, often fulfilled with off-the-shelf solutions, but configured and modeled to your needs. IT can also be a cost savings. Automation can free up employees to focus on value-added tasks.
But the one that’s underestimated in a lot of companies is IT’s ability to create value-added situations. If you make widgets, sure, it’s unlikely that your software is going to directly change the process of making widgets, so it’s unlikely that your software is itself technically “value added”. But a just-in-time supply chain system is more than just a cost savings or an efficiency booster. It can completely change how you manage your production process.
By placing the wall of billable hours between IT and the business, you’re discouraging the business from leveraging IT. So here are a few ways that corporations and management could possibly fix this problem.
First, as much as possible, integrate the IT staff into the business-unit staff. This might mean moving some corporate IT functionality out into individual departments or business units (if they’re large enough to support it), or dedicating corporate staff to a relationship with specific business units. Turn IT workers into a steady flat cost, not a per-hour cost. When trying to handle priorities and deciding how to spend this limited resource to get new software developed, business-unit management can set priorities.
If an organization absolutely must use internal billing to set priorities and control demand for IT resources, move as much work as possible into fixed-rate, flat-fee type operations. If a business unit requests a new piece of software, build a fixed-bid cost for that project, not an hourly cost.
While a “20% time” approach, where employees are allowed to spend 20% of their time on their own projects, doesn’t work in these kinds of environments, an organizational variation where some IT budget is used on speculative projects that simply might not work—a carefully managed skunkworks approach—can yield great benefits. It’s also an opportunity to keep your internal IT staff’s skills up to date. When you’re simply clocking billable hours, it’s hard to do any self-training, and unless your organization really invests in a training program, it’s easy to ossify. This can also involve real training, not “I sent my drones to a class, why don’t they know $X by now?” but actual hands-on experimentation, the only way to actually learn new IT skills.
All in all: billable hours are poison. It doesn’t matter that they’re a standard practice, they drag your IT department down and make your entire organization less effective. If you’re in a position to put a stop to it, I’m asking you, stop this. If you can’t stop it, find someone who can. Corporate IT is one of the most important yet under-prioritized sectors of our industry, and we need to keep it effective.
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The SciShow answers the question everyone from us who already got to notice some weird noises in an elevator thought.
“What if your basic at-the-office elevator ride takes a sudden turn for the dark side of gravity—could you survive it?”
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Nearly 400,000 views for this highlight of a recent Graham Norton Show featuring actor Daniel Radcliffe and – Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Radcliffe and a girl looking like Daniel Radcliffe…
“Daniel Radcliffe, the time traveller.”
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Ozzy Man Reviews some of the most awkward handshakes of modern history.
“Me commentary on Trumpster’s handshake domination.”
As a little bonus (if you ever get to shake hands with Donald Trump) – here’s how to get out of his claws:
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Vanessa White is a British popstar who used to be part of the group The Saturdays, and here she is at The Naked Heart Foundation Fabulous Fund Fair in London last night! She wore a see through dress and no bra! View the pictures
Candids of Lea Michele wearing a black swimsuit at the beach in Hawaii! Nice pokies! View the pictures
Beyond The Press uploaded this crazy experiment, designing a really really fast ice carousel. Cool!
“Built by us and tested by Dudesons. This is just the first generation, our final goal is to get much faster and bigger ice carousel.”
via: digg
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Spy pics of model Elsa Hosk putting on a sheer top at a photo shoot in St Barts! Great see through shots and a nip slip while she puts on the top! View the pictures
Interesting piece by vox that already got over 800,000 views within a couple days.
“The technology behind the cinematic style of the BBC’s Planet Earth II.”
via: kottke
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We don’t receive many CSS-based submissions, possibly because CSS is already pretty horrible. There are real-world, practical things that you simply need to take a hacky, awkward approach with.
Matthew found this code, however, which isn’t a clever hack to work around a limitation, and instead just leaves me scratching my head.
@media (min-width: $screen-lg-min) {
padding: 1rem 1rem 9999px;
margin-bottom: -9999px;
}
I liked this approach so much I went ahead and used it on this article. It's a brillant way to control page layout.
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Maybe you know the sitar? An elegant instrument for delightful and soft tunes. At least when Rob Scallon is not around (who got over 400,000 views for this curious metal version).
“Bringing out the 19 string.”
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So this happened. Zello Kaz got over 1.4 million views for this crazy traffic intervention.
via: blameitonthevoices
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This is… something. YouTuber Dog Shit not only has a very stupid account name, he also has stupid hobbies like eating images. In return he wants actor Jason Segel to eat this picture of him. For now he is still waiting for a response, but he has over half a million views on this video so far.
via: neatorama
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thehypnoguy1 has a jedi lizard! That cool trick got him over 200,000 views already.
“This is what my Lizard does when I wave to him”
via: reddit
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Outtakes of Kendall Jenner posing in a see through top for something called The Kendall + Kylie DropOne (whatever that is)! View the pictures
Gnihihi… 🙂 Evil Ice Cream Pictures made “The Pocket Potus” as video.
“We saw all those stills of tiny trump and were like. Thats cool but why not do it in motion aka next level meme it… Wait we could do that. So we did.”
via: testspiel
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Candids of a braless Chrissy Teigen walking away from her car in NYC! Great pokies and borderline see through! View the pictures
I can totally relate to this little girl’s problem with the terminology of the word “cup” when it comes to cooking. America’s Funniest Home Videos did upload this cute cooking confusion.
“This cute kid is following the recipe a bit too well!”
via: tastefullyoffensive
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If you ever happen to be in the position to interview someone and quite feel that your questions don’t really reach the person you ask them to, remember this video of a seemingly too fast speaking reporter and Naoyuki Oi, who doesn’t really understand English that much… Hilarious video that got over a million views within two days.
via: reddit
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Murray F. took a position as an HPC at a large firm that had rules for everything. One of the more prescient rules specified that for purposes of budgeting, consultants were only allowed to bill for 8 hours of work per day, no exceptions. The other interesting rule was that only certain employees were allowed to connect to the VPN to work from home; consultants had to physically be in the office.
The project to which Murray was assigned had an international staff of more than 100 developers; about 35 of them were located locally. All of the local development staff were HPCs.
With that much staff, as you would expect, there was a substantial MS Project plan detailing units of work at all levels, and assorted roll-ups into the master time line.
The managers that had created this plan took all sorts of things into account. For example, if you attended three hours of meetings two days a week, then you only had 34 hours available for work; if you had to leave early one day to pick up your kid, it set those hours aside as non-work, and so on. The level of detail even took into account the time it takes to mentally put down one complex task and pick up another one. It was awful to look at but it was reasonably accurate.
Until...
Weather forecasters are wrong as often as they are right. However, the spiraling pin-wheel of snowstorms was getting bigger and barreling down on the local office, and was so imminent that even the forecasters were issuing absolute warnings. Not "It looks like we might get six inches"; but more along the lines of "Get groceries and plan to be shut in for a while".
The storm hit at night and by first light, anyone who looked out the window immediately realized that the forecasters were right and that they weren't going anywhere. In an attempt to be good team players, the consultants called their managers, pointed out that they were snowed in and unable to travel, and given the special circumstances, could they use the VPN and work from home?
The managers all responded that the rules were very specific and that the consultants could only work from the office. Since the consultants were powerless to do anything about the weather or the mountain of snow that had to be shoveled, they took snow days and no work was done.
That's 35 consultants for 2 days or 70 days of (loaded) work, or about 2 ½ months of work that vaporized. Needless to say, this turned the otherwise green time line quite red.
The managers called a meeting to discuss how to make up the time. Their first suggestion was that the consultants put in more time, to which they responded The rules specify that we cannot bill more than 8 hours each day. The managers then asked the consultants if they would work without pay - to get it done. Wisely, the consultants said that they were required to play by the rules set forth by the company, and could not falsify the billing sheets with the wrong number of hours worked.
The sponsoring agencies of the consultants all agreed on that one (free labor means no commissions on said labor).
This went back and forth for a while until it came time for scheduled demos. Only the work was about ten person-weeks behind schedule and the features to be demo'd had not yet been built.
At this point, the senior people who could not see their expected features in action had no choice but to address the snow delay. After much discussion, they decreed that the budgets had to be adhered to (e.g.: billing was limited to 8 hours per day), but the line development managers could hire additional consultants to make up the missed work. The managers got to work adjusting the master project plan.
The existing consultants pointed out that it would take a substantial amount of time to find new consultants, get computers, set up development environments, do general on-boarding and get new developers up to speed; and that it didn't make sense to hire new developers for something like this.
It was decreed that rules had to be followed, and it didn't matter if it wasn't cost efficient to follow those rules.
So they spent about a month interviewing (new project task for existing senior consultants and managers), bringing new consultants on board (getting them equipment, access, etc. - a new project task for managers) , and giving them architecture and code walk-throughs (new project task for existing senior consultants). This necessitated increasing the expense to the project to cover all the additional overhead.
All to save a few bucks in additional billing by already-trained-and-equipped developers, which would have been completely unnecessary if they had just let them work from home in the first place.
But hey, those were the rules.
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How To DAD got us the perfect test to get started with all these parenthood feelings and responsibilities. Ouch!
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Sometimes nature can be cruel. And entertaining. ViralHog uploaded this video showing the food chain in action resulting in over 400,000 views already.
“I’m a SCUBA diver and underwater photographer/ cinematographer based in Monterey, California. The conditions here are usually pretty touch and go in terms of clarity, but last week, we had an exceptional few days of 50 feet or more of visibility, paired with the arrival of countless fascinating gelatinous species.”
via: wihel
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Nisu Productions uploaded this playful and pretty cool video of a one-man-action-show that already got over 120,000 views on YouTube.
“I did this John Wick style action clip at my apartment. I put the camera on the tripod and played the protagonist and the bad guys myself and masked the shots in after effects. Made just for practice.”
Thanks, PenttiHirvi!
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PastorGL inherited some front-end code. This front-end code only talks to a single, in-house developed back-end. Unfortunately, that single backend wasn’t developed with any sort of consistency in mind. So, for example, depending on the end-point, sometimes you need to pass fields back and forth as productID, sometimes it’s id, productId, or even _id.
Annoying, but even worse is dealing with the dreaded date datatype. JSON, of course, doesn’t have a concept of date datatypes, which leaves the web-service developer needing to make a choice about how to pass the date back. As a Unix timestamp? As a string? What kind of string? With no consistency on their web-service design, the date could be passed back and forth in a number of formats.
Now, if you’re familiar with the JavaScript Date datatype, you’d know that it can take most date formats as an input and convert them into a Date object, which gives you all the lovely convenience methods you might need. So, if for example, you wanted to convert a date string into a Unix timestamp, you might do something like this:
var d = new Date(someDataThatProbablyIsADateStringButCouldAlsoBeANumber); //Could also use Date.parse
return d.getTime();
That would cover 99% of cases, but PastorGL’s co-worker didn’t want to cover just those cases, and they certainly didn’t want to try and build any sort of consistency into the web service. Not only that, since they knew that the web service was inconsistent, they even protected against date formats that it doesn’t currently send back, just in case it starts doing so in the future. This is their solution:
/**
* Converts a string into seconds since epoch, e.g. tp.str2timestamp('December 12, 2015 04:00:00');
* @param str The string to convert to seconds since epoch
* @returns {*}
*/
function str2timestamp(str) {
if (typeof(str) == "undefined" || str.length == 0) {
return;
}
if (typeof(str) != "string") {
str = "" + str;
}
str = str.trim();
// already a unix timestamp
if (str.match(/^[0-9]{0,10}$/)) {
// TODO: fix this before january 19th, 2038 at 03:14:08 UTC
return parseInt(str);
}
// most likely a javascript Date timestamp that is in milliseconds
if (str.match(/^[0-9]{13,}$/)) {
return parseInt(str) / 1000;
}
var ts = Date.parse(str);
if (ts) {
return ts / 1000;
}
// fix 00:XX AM|PM & 00:XX:XX AM|PM
str = str.replace(/00:([0-9]{2}(:[0-9]{2})?\s*[AP]M)/i, "12:$1").replace(/([0-9]{2})([AP|M])/i, "$1 $2");
// remove any "on, at, @, or -" from the date
str = str.replace(/\s*(at|@|\-|on|\|)\s*/gi, " ");
str = str.replace(/\s*(mon(day)?|tue(s?day)?|wed(nesday)?|thu((rs)?day)?|fri(day)?|sat(urday)?|sun(day)?)\s*/gi, "");
str = str.replace(/([0-9]{1,2})(st|nd|rd|th)/, "$1");
// replace bad time zone
if (str.match(/\s+ET$/)) {
if (d.getTimezoneOffset() == 240) {
str = str.replace(/\s+ET$/, " EDT");
} else {
str = str.replace(/\s+ET$/, " EST");
}
}
str = str.trim();
var ts;
ts = Date.parse(str);
if (ts) {
return ts / 1000;
}
// jan/3/2001
if (m = str.match(/!^([a-z]+)[-/ ]([0-9]+)[-/ ]([0-9]+)(.*)$!i/)) {
str = m[2] + " " + m[1] + " " + m[3] + m[4];
} else if (m = str.match(/!^([0-9]+)[-/ ]([a-z]+)[-/ ]([0-9]+)(.*)$!i/)) {
// 3/jan/2008
str = m[1] + " " + m[2] + " " + m[3] + m[4];
}
ts = Date.parse(str);
if (ts) {
return ts / 1000;
}
};
I particularly like that, if it’s not a string already, they turn it into one, because regexes are the best way to count the digits in a string, apparently.
In the end, is TRWTF this code, or the inconsistent representations of the web service endpoints?
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