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Smile.. it appears we're on the daily wtf...

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:50 pm
by timvw

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:57 pm
by superdezign
That's interesting. Our first response is always, "you can't," and then someone's first and only post on the forum is a way to run multiple pages in one. Hackish, but interesting.

This is like.. a year old, though. How'd they run across it? Just searching for multi-threading in PHP?

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:44 pm
by RobertGonzalez
The real WTF is that the post came three years after the last activity in that thread. Where were our mods?

(Quick note, I am the worst mod as it relates to replying to posts that come more than a year after last activity without knowing that the thread was stale for more than a year. ;) )

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:49 pm
by Benjamin
Looks like no one noticed that.

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:37 am
by The Phoenix
Everah wrote:(Quick note, I am the worst mod as it relates to replying to posts that come more than a year after last activity without knowing that the thread was stale for more than a year. ;) )
Why don't the mods make things easier on themselves, and auto-lock topics after say, 6 months or a year. Since anyone posting to them gets asked to start a new thread virtually 100% of the time, would help reduce the incident rate.

Definitely not pruning, as they usually contain valuable info, but auto-locking. I'm almost positive phpbb had a feature for that.

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:53 am
by superdezign
Everah wrote:(Quick note, I am the worst mod as it relates to replying to posts that come more than a year after last activity without knowing that the thread was stale for more than a year. ;) )
Well, if you weren't a participant in the original thread, chances are that you won't remember it, anyway. It's easy to fail to notice the year in the post date without actually looking for it.

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:48 am
by shiznatix
superdezign wrote:
Everah wrote:(Quick note, I am the worst mod as it relates to replying to posts that come more than a year after last activity without knowing that the thread was stale for more than a year. ;) )
Well, if you weren't a participant in the original thread, chances are that you won't remember it, anyway. It's easy to fail to notice the year in the post date without actually looking for it.
Don't make excuses for him! He must hang for his crimes! Get him!

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:59 am
by superdezign
shiznatix wrote:Don't make excuses for him! He must hang for his crimes! Get him!
8O Are you mad?? That penguin's a pimp!

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:25 am
by Jenk
meh.. a perfect example of why I stopped reading tdwtf years ago.

Also brings to light the fact that the submittee MUST have been looking for "Multithreaded PHP" on Google to find it..

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:30 am
by superdezign
Jenk wrote:meh.. a perfect example of why I stopped reading tdwtf years ago.

Also brings to light the fact that the submittee MUST have been looking for "Multithreaded PHP" on Google to find it..
And then ignored every single comment after that. :P

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:34 am
by ReverendDexter
The answer on that thread makes me think that I fail to understand multi-threading. Wouldn't that just "unroll" to a single program that calls a "send mail" function 1000 times?

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:36 am
by feyd
ReverendDexter wrote:The answer on that thread makes me think that I fail to understand multi-threading. Wouldn't that just "unroll" to a single program that calls a "send mail" function 1000 times?
Bingo.

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:19 pm
by onion2k
One of the biggest problems with PHP is that it's a language that attracts inexperienced developers due to it's ease of use - you can get pretty much anything done quickly if you're willing to put up with a crazy and illogical solution. The thread mentioned is a great example - someone has worked out a way to fire a script seemingly concurrently and they've figured it's something that's worth exploring, consequently awful solutions spring up occasionally and they give PHP a bad name.

Still, so long as people learn from their (and other's) mistakes I guess there's a silver lining.

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:53 pm
by superdezign
onion2k wrote:Still, so long as people learn from their (and other's) mistakes I guess there's a silver lining.
Sadly, sometimes they learn other people mistakes (notice I didn't say *from* other people's mistakes :P).