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Most of them aren't too bad to type really; Llanfairfechan, Capel Curig, Bethesda, Yr Wyddgrug.. you can even use other points too like Afon Dyfrdwy, Yr Hen Coed, Ty Bach 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I prefer characters from books I've read. Pertinent to me, meaningless to others.
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In Italy we're lucky, we have at least 2 dialects per Region... Doipovrònbagnànteleuli is safe! 
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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Group finds lots of problems with the existing techniques. "I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard."
Just send me to an island - preferably one with miserable weather.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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There are many + 1 books out there talking about the importance of code clarity. "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: you can't be proud of something I can't read
Why not? Aren't you* proud of something I can't read?
And there will always be someone out there who can't.
* Not meaning you, Kent.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: * Not meaning you, Kent.
Whew. Thank you. You know how sensitive I am. 
TTFN - Kent
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Pride in one's code?
Pfft, it it runs, it runs.
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"Pfft, it it runs, it runs."
...and I'm sure that will still be your attitude when asked to maintain that code in 12 months. 
(or do just never stay in one place long enough to never have to eat your own dogfood).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I've recently seen how this complicated code arises. People keep just hacking away at the code until it works, with no upfront vision of where its going. The result is a pile of unmaintainable excrement.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Aye, Martin. 
/ravi
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, in a conference call with reporters and analysts, referred to the net layoffs of 1,100 employees in the first quarter of 2015 as part of a “remixing and pivoting” of the company. Would it help if they gave everyone a mix tape on their way out?
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Interesting how the number of syllables used to describe the same event have increased over the years. 
- fired = 1
- layoff = 2
- downsizing = 3
- remixing and pivoting = 7
- acquisition driven rightsizing = 9
/ravi
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It also amazes me that CEOs are getting paid more and more for doing the same thing that by any other name is just getting rid of people. Don't take brains to fire people, just have to be cold hearted, driven by greed and have no conscious!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Quote: and have no conscious!
You have to be conscious to fire someone, although having no conscience might help. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Somewhere in-between comes the term 'restructuring'.
Also heard about 'delayering', when an entire layer of vice-presidents got removed.
Count the syllables there
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Kent Sharkey wrote: remixing and pivoting
I would hate to be her kid. 
Marc
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In WPF vNext, the plan is to offer an “App Local” version of WPF via NuGet. This is essentially the same distribution plan currently used by ASP.NET MVC. vNext exists. At least that part is good news.
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Thanks - I had looked to see if it was based on a blog post, but didn't think about C9.
TTFN - Kent
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But if they did that, people wouldn't think they had some kind of exclusive access to MS developers.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I recently attended Facebook’s F8 developer conference in San Francisco, where I had a revelation on why it is going to be impossible to succeed as a technology vendor in the long run without deeply embracing open source. Of the many great presentations I listened to, I was most captivated by the ones that explained how Facebook internally developed software. I was impressed by how quickly the company is turning such important IP back into the community. It is eating the world, but will it also chew it up and spit it out?
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Round 10 of the Framework Benchmarks project is now available! Comparison of ~125 web frameworks with various benchmarks
Only 125? That many JS frameworks come out every week.
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Obligatory xkcd reference.
Standards[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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