Braindead Moments

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Let's all share some moments of pure unadulterated retardation so we can laugh at what a bunch of stupid fucks we are. I'll start.

Ever have a campaign running on Facebook that's doing really well, CTR is great, etc, but the impressions just...stop?

You stare at it...and stare at it...and then eight hours later...

You realize you set your max daily budget to $50?
 


How about this one:

you work a shitty job in telecoms for over 10 years, and blow your entire 20's, and then when you're just into your thirties, you discover AM, and think 'lmao i should have done this in 1999'.

Thats pretty retarded.
 
Had some code with a for loop, for($i..., then i copied some code from another file into that loop, that also had a loop with $i, took me a while to figure out why it didn't work as it should.

alexb said:
You stare at it...and stare at it...and then eight hours later...
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Exactly.
 
a .. braindead moments in coding.. very nice.

Once wrote a grep function in Linux that would grep all files with a specific word in it and write that line into a report.

That report file was located in the same directory.

Recursion ahoy!

I actually started the script and went to lunch.

After lunch I got a call from our sysadmin who asked me what I wanted to do with that 40GB file...

ahem...

::emp::
 
pickledegg said:
How about this one:

you work a shitty job in telecoms for over 10 years, and blow your entire 20's, and then when you're just into your thirties, you discover AM, and think 'lmao i should have done this in 1999'.

Thats pretty retarded.
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I would appreciate it if you would stop talking about my life. k.
 
The other day I was working several hours on some javascript; I was using Notepad++, which will FTP the changes on a page whenever I saved it. Every time I saved it, I would refresh the webpage in my browser and still couldn't get it to do what I wanted. I even made some really obvious changes that I know would show me something different- still didn't see any changes. Then I cleared the browser cache, tried different browsers on different machines, same shit.

Eventually I realized that the file I was working on was a local copy and the one on the webserver had been untouched for several hours.
 
jryan21 said:
The other day I was working several hours on some javascript; I was using Notepad++, which will FTP the changes on a page whenever I saved it. Every time I saved it, I would refresh the webpage in my browser and still couldn't get it to do what I wanted. I even made some really obvious changes that I know would show me something different- still didn't see any changes. Then I cleared the browser cache, tried different browsers on different machines, same shit.

Eventually I realized that the file I was working on was a local copy and the one on the webserver had been untouched for several hours.
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haha.. i've done this. major fail.
 
Got a new landing page layout in. Checked it on all browsers, it worked fine.
This one was kinda template-ish, and I really liked it so I decided to copy it out to a few different campaigns with slight modifications.
So I got it all setup, added the javascript for tracking, etc.
4 hours later all my clickthrough ratios had gone to shit. Turns out I'd placed the JS in a spot where earlier versions of IE couldn't deal with it via a kinda obscure glitch. They would show the page for a half second then crash.
Since I tested the browsers before adding the JS, I didn't figure it out until I'd burnt a fair amount of money.
I only noticed because I saw that ONLY firefox users were clicking through.
 
I was checking out some landing pages in google search and I noticed that one site was stuffing some ebay cookies by opening a 1 pixel iframe. I found the prosper202 install url and I was trying to decide whether to report the site to ebay. Well I didn't ever report the site, but I left open the prosper login page in a browser window and then the next morning I tried to login to the cookie stuffers prosper instead of mine. I had to change my prosper password after that lol.

I've also done the thing with editing one copy of a file and the changes not rendering because there was a duplicate that I was actually trying to preview/build many times.
 
andyt said:
I was checking out some landing pages in google search and I noticed that one site was stuffing some ebay cookies by opening a 1 pixel iframe. I found the prosper202 install url and I was trying to decide whether to report the site to ebay. Well I didn't ever report the site, but I left open the prosper login page in a browser window and then the next morning I tried to login to the cookie stuffers prosper instead of mine. I had to change my prosper password after that lol.

I've also done the thing with editing one copy of a file and the changes not rendering because there was a duplicate that I was actually trying to preview/build many times.
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This shit right here happens to me all the time, lol.
 
When I once tried saving a large file in Adobe Illustrator, it wouldn't save but constantly give me an error message saying "I/O error". I started searching for the problem and read through countless threads and forums and posts and blogs and tried everything I could think about to save that file for a straight 5 hours in a row. No avail, so I cursed the puter and decided to format the damn hard drive and reinstall Windows and Adobe. I did read somewhere that a reinstall would help.

So I started moving all files I wanted to keep from the C: drive onto the storage drive. Only to find out that Windows wouldn't move the files due to "insufficient disk space available".

The damn drive was full. Of course.
 
I was drunk and i thought it would be funny to send the FB approval team to a dickroll. I wake up in the morning to an email saying im BANNED.
 
You finish your wp site, submit your links to get index, do all the other seo crap. A week later you're still not indexed after doing all the stuff that's supposed to get you indexed...wtf? Finally two weeks later, your still not indexed and you realize...

After you had finished your site, you had forgotten to change the privacy back to "I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers"
 
I don't make AM mistakes, why? because I read about them to often so I'm always over analyzing my shit so there is NO MISTAKES.

*knocks on wood*
 
pickledegg said:
How about this one:

you work a shitty job in telecoms for over 10 years, and blow your entire 20's, and then when you're just into your thirties, you discover AM, and think 'lmao i should have done this in 1999'.

Thats pretty retarded.
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If you add that you have a family with 2 kids you have my life story right there!
 
I wondered why my computer was not opening folders and behaving strangely in general. Turns out a stack of papers was holding down the control key. I keep my desk more organized now, and smoke better weed.
 
What about those times you forget to replenish the beer cabinet, knowing full well all the beer will be gone once friend #2 arrives.
 
When i first decided i wanted to figure out how to build a website. I got frontpage opened it up and thought for a bit about what i wanted to make. I decided I wanted to make a search engine so I inserted a form put in a textbox and a button. I labeled the button Search. Then I saved it and opened it up in netscape.

*type* *click*
refresh
*type type* *click*
reopened frontpage and played around with the search button settings for a bit. Saved
*type type type* *click*
Went to a search engine and stole their logo and put it above the search box.
*type* *click*
WHY THE FUCK ISN'T THIS WORKING!?!
 
Deliguy said:
When i first decided i wanted to figure out how to build a website. I got frontpage opened it up and thought for a bit about what i wanted to make. I decided I wanted to make a search engine so I inserted a form put in a textbox and a button. I labeled the button Search. Then I saved it and opened it up in netscape.

*type* *click*
refresh
*type type* *click*
reopened frontpage and played around with the search button settings for a bit. Saved
*type type type* *click*
Went to a search engine and stole their logo and put it above the search box.
*type* *click*
WHY THE FUCK ISN'T THIS WORKING!?!
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AHAHAHAhahaahahaha - Bluehat Beta 0.0.1 eh?

Siggified at least for a few days.
 
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