Good Goddamn, Validation sucks
What the fuck is wrong with us programmer types. Why is it that my fist programming job cannot be "mig" (Management Information Group... I suggest you don't work for them.. although Don, the man in charge of development, still rates as the, hands down, best development boss I've ever had. One day, I hope to be as good as him)
And why cannot by first car be a "geo"? I had a Geo Metro, I bought it for $3000 CAN, from the neighbor across the street, it was white and sporty, and it stopped working approximately the same time as I crashed it's backend into the back of a cement wall... still, the cement wall was rather shifty looking and deserved what it got.
What the FUCK is it with people of my profession (programmer) that feel their stupid ass lame fuck validation rules are more important than my personal story (i.e. reality) that the can enforce arbitrary and incorrect rules that make their lives more convienient and my life make less sense.
The thing that's most troublesome of all is I'm sure I've written just such shitty code, because it was in a spec, which I knew didn't make sense, just so I could say "yes, it works as expected", even though I knew the expectation was complete bullshit.
FUCK.
P.S. My banking application will not let me log in until I complete their new validation rules. So I cannot pay my monthly. fucking. bills. until I lie to them. sigh there's just no hope... This is the kind of shit that makes me embarrassed to be involved in the computing industry.
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Hey, at least *your* bank lets you pick what the question is. *My* bank forces you to pick from a list of questions, 90% of which have no relevance to you what-so-ever.
Oh.
I totally agree with you on the coding-to-shitty-specs-just-so-there- can-be-shitty-specs thing. I hate that.
Whenever I have to enter the answers to my goddamn questions (which is every time I want to so much as look at the digital equivalent of my money), I find myself wondering...do some people really get serious about this? Like, they spend hours devising questions that only they would know the answers to?
"AHA! What cousin have I caught myself thinking about while masturbating! HAHA! It's crack-proof!"
haha, that wasn't PC banking now was it? I ran into the same problem recently. I somehow typed my password wrong multiple times and was forced to reset it. I was asked my security question.. the answer was 20 but I must have typed in "twenty" before because of the stupid validation because failed on my answer. I then had to phone them up and have it all reset... and yes I had to choose new "security" questions.
Actually Chad, those were dropdown lists, with limited choices. For some reason the little down arrows disappeared when I hit print-screen
And yes, that's President's Choice. Stupid Fuckers. Oh, and now when I log in, I have to answer those questions.... but I can't remember which variation of "fuckUcunts" I entered for the questions.. (I may also have just mashed my keyboard and typed random letters and numbers). I incorrectly thought the answers would be used in a "you lost your password" scenario. Turns out they're going to remind me of my first car or whatever every fucking time I log in. Goddamn I hate these fuckers at the moment.. now I have to phone a 1-800 number.
ASSHOLES!
RBC lets me pick my questions...however, it usually comes down to things like
Does this really suck? Yes...yes it does.
Do you hate us right now? Most certainly.
Blame the government. They changed the rules for online banking requirements.
As for the 3-letter validation thingie, it's not validation's fault. Blame UE or BA or PM or whatever you want to call them. Or blame QA for writing a bug against it. It's always fun to blame QA.
Today at work we decided that a job in I.T. would be the best job ever if there were no computers or clients.
Yeah, I've often thought that shipping would be a great job, were it not for all those goddamn, space-taking boxes.
Oh, and the occasional stupid, useless co-worker who I want to punch in the face.
I always thought that software development would be easy if not for the users. Users are stupid. As a user, I'm stupid.
As a developer, I have to develop for the stupidest person in my potential user list.
We have a popup on our app that tells you to stop typing when you hit the limit, even though no more characters come up. How stupid is that?
"You have exceeded the maximum number of characters allowed for this field" Ugh. Just ridiculous.
And UE has determined that all of our lists (including our reports) should contain the full functionality of the edit pages. Why? Because if it works one place, it should work every place. Doesn't matter if it's a report you're going to print out and look at, you should be able to do full CRUD on report pages too, regardless of the fact that we have a manage page, a list on the overview page, edit pages, add pages, places to delete all over the fucking place.
Stupid users.
Stupid default space bar page down firefox bullshit.
Wow...I am trying to remember the last time Liam was angry enough to say fuck multiple times. Impressive! I've missed the fury.
Yeah, let's face it, human beings suck. We're just awful.