Goto first unread post

[Ned_Flanders]

Hard bug to replicate - But it is there. Say there are 25 posts per page, and the first unread post is the 26th post (so it's on the second page now). Clicking the first unread post icon will take you to the first page, instead of the second where the unread post is.

 

[russell]

Yup, I've seen the same thing
It happens to me when i have read all the posts on a page and mistakenly thinking that I'm done with the thread return to the main level.
Then when I see that there was another page and click on the go to the "last unread post" icon. That is when what you described happens and it takes me to the bottom of the page that I read instead of to the first post on the unread page.

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Yeah - That's the one. I'm guessing at the reason in my post, becuase everytime I can recall this happening there was only one post on the second page.

 

[russell]

No it doesn't matter how many posts are left, even more than one page and it still does it. It's as if the pointer looses a number when it has to change pages without already being on the needed page. ?????

 

[slvr_phoenix]

Actually, I've noticed that some times when I click on the first unread post link it brings me to the last read post instead. I just thought that it was my browser or something because I don't use it in full screen mode. But if the count is actually off by one (or sometimes off by one anyway) that would explain both.

 

[steve_sa]

In software industry (slvr would vouch for it), I think we call it a 'boundary condition' :lol: :lol:

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Yep I know. I write software too...well after a fashion. I do do a Computing Science University degree you know

 

[steve_sa]

Ok, good to know

 

[slvr_phoenix]

I do do a Computing Science University degree you know

I don't! I don't! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Somehow I've managed to work my way up to a Senior Software Engineer title without having any college degree whatsoever. Not even an associates 2 year. 😱 Of course I do have 10 years work experience now, and I did get technical training from the US Air Force, so that's gotta count for something...

 

[steve_sa]

Good one, slvr. I have met a lot of programmers who don't have degrees and do quite well. It is all about enthusiasm and willingness to learn. One can pick up some books and learn programming, unlike something like medicine that needs more formal training. :roll:

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Have you found the bug yet?

 

[steve_sa]

When I find bugs, I make sure to report them

 

[mrface]

SP,

3C0X2? im assuming?

 

[slvr_phoenix]

Good one, slvr. I have met a lot of programmers who don't have degrees and do quite well. It is all about enthusiasm and willingness to learn. One can pick up some books and learn programming,

With me it was more like a natural aptitude that's screwed me over. :lol:

In high school I wanted to be an aerospace engineer (I even took three years of drafting, one and a half of which were CAD), but the Air Force wouldn't take me as one because they think I'm color blind. (A long story there, but I'm not actually color blind ... more like have extra color perception.) So when my recruiter says I can't do any of the jobs I want, I'm like, well, what can I do? And he brings up computers. Well, I'd been goofing with a Commodore 64 since I was 7 and I'd been playing Robowar all through highschool. So I took the test, which was more like a linguistics test than anything technical, and did pretty well. And from there my career took off.

Which would have been great if I'd actually liked programming all that much. It pays the bills pretty well, so I can't complain all that much, but I'd really rather be a fantasy/sci-fi author, a blacksmith, or a chef at this point. :lol: :lol: :lol: Go figure.

Seriously, I just really don't fit in at the office. I'm not respectable enough. (Or boring enough. Or whatever.) I have to wear a dress shirt and slacks, but no one says that I have to wear boring shirts. So I come in with dragon shirts, celtic knot patterned shirts, and so forth. :lol: I'd wear wilder pants if I could find any. I have close to more plant life in my cubicle than is in the rest of the building put together. And I'm just too ... creative ... to fit in. Plus I actually have a sense of humor.

Sometimes I worry that sooner or later someone is going to realize this and fire me. 😱

unlike something like medicine that needs more formal training. :roll:

Shhh. Don't tell my appendectomy patient. Now were'd I leave my copy of Gray's Anatomy? Oh, there it is, right next to my x-acto kni ... err ... scalpel.