Comments | fairoriana: Variable definition fail

fairoriana

Variable definition fail

Feb 18, 2010 10:49

OK, I admit that I'm always a touch reassured when I realize that big (gigantic, in fact) corporations can make the exact same stupid mistakes I've always made, and that they can get through their QA too. Do you see the issue in this one?

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sexybadpnomamma February 18 2010, 16:10:23 UTC

Ha! Actually, the other problem I see is that it goes straight from 1.1 to 2; I would think the numbering should be either "1, 2, etc" or "1.1, 1.2, etc."

fairoriana February 18 2010, 16:11:55 UTC

I hadn't noticed that one. There was a box for comments and I was going to point it out, but it seemed to have a maxlength of 12 characters! Heh.

lietya February 18 2010, 16:17:08 UTC

Oh! At first I thought *you* had subbed that in for discretion's sake!

I take billions of online surveys, so I run across quirks like that periodically, if it makes you feel any better. :)

(Asking me how my car "feels" about things because someone carelessly used an unedited template, raw code that pops up randomly and tells me what answers they're looking for to qualify me, situations where it asks questions that have no "none of the above" reply and thereby force me to admit what my enforced imaginary kids ask for as snacks...)

rolypolypony February 18 2010, 16:19:07 UTC

Hehe, My thought was the same as lietya's - you were trying to protect the innocent!

Hehhe! Oops.

kuangning February 18 2010, 16:19:52 UTC

What's with the random capital S on Satisfied in the first part?

firynze February 18 2010, 16:29:29 UTC

This is why I always get wonderful schadenfreude from finding errors in other publications. "See, someone with an actual proofing staff and only one publication a month can screw up, so I'm not doing TOO badly!"

lietya February 18 2010, 17:29:55 UTC

Yep - I was downright gleeful when a professionally published book had visible XML tagging yesterday. :)

(It's one of our bugaboos, since of course it doesn't turn visible until it's rendered at the output proofreading stage.)

firynze February 18 2010, 17:42:13 UTC

Oooh, thankful I don't have to deal with that!

Then again, I just discovered that my art department cut an entire conclusion from an article on me...and there's no place to weasel it back in. Sigh.

lietya February 18 2010, 18:20:58 UTC

Eeek! Not cool.

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