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In India traffic light is voluntary. If light is red You look to your left, you look to your right and if there is no police officer at that intersection it is a GO signal for you... 
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Yes, it's not much different where I cone from. There's even a facebook[^] page similar to YPLAC but not restricted to parking.
Even in Japan there's a song making fun of those native to Osaka which goes like "to those born in Osaka, blue means go, yellow means go, red means go carefully". Not really true but the area is notorious for being a bit lackadaisical. Not that I can tell the difference...
The green light is called "blue" here, amber is called yellow, which isn't as strange. There was a newspaper article somewhere explaining why, I'll link it later, maybe
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virang_21 wrote: In India traffic light is voluntary.
Judging by the current habits of drivers (especially those with big-ass SUV's), that seems to be becoming the international norm.
Turn signals are all but obsolete and stop-signs are also voluntary.
My only rational interpretation of this is that since driving is now so unpredictable everyone will drive more carefully because they can't trust in anything.
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Let me confuse you a little more. 
On my way to work there are several lights without green at all. The red light simply goes out and all is well, at least as long as there is not some dunce waiting for a green light to magically appear.
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This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
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"You mean like from space?"
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CDP1802 wrote: The red light simply goes out
And when the bulb burns out, then what? 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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No problem at all. The lights have security circuits that detect this (probably it's as simple as measuring the current going through the bulb) and then the yellow lights will start flashing on all traffic lights at this crossing. That means that the traffic lights are out until they ae repaired and the drivers go by whatever the traffic signs say.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Smart engineering. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Red at the bottom: I think it's that way in Elbonia. 
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Forget about consensus between countries.... In India, in one city, we do not have consensus whether the lights should be vertical or horizontal... At one intersection it's vertical and very next one may be vertical !! But as Virang rightly said, it is followed only if there is traffic police at the intersection.
And the funniest part is, traffic police won't be standing at intersection and will stand at one corner just after it. Then you break the signal and then they catch you... and it is anybody's guess why ! 
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MT_ wrote: Forget about consensus between countries....
Canada has vertical traffic lights, except for Quebec, where they're horizontal. Because, y'know...Quebec being distinct and all, I guess.
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If I remember correctly, the lights also have different shapes.
Square, triangle, circle.
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That may be right, I can't recall. It's like they're expecting first graders to be at the wheel.
But then, given the attitude of "a certain segment of their population" (I'll remain polite), there may be something to it.
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Quote: Things can get confusing if you travel frequently and are colorblind
As far as I know, if you are colorblind then you cannot get your driving license, here in Italy.
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It may be so here too, there is a test for colorblindness, or maybe they can drive with a special license of some kind.
It seems a little harsh to forbid driving since you can figure out which light it is from the location.
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Quote: It seems a little harsh to forbid driving since you can figure out which light it is from the location.
I agree. Indeed there are many rules 'out of time' here.
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Interesting, didn't know there were horizontal traffic lights. Here in South Africa we call traffic lights robots.
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Indivara wrote: surely there should be an international standard for traffic lights too
There isn't even a standard visual language for traffic lights within the US -- my local municipality is constantly inventing new ones as they go. Within sight of each other they've recently installed two cross walk lights, one that blinks yellow only, and the other that has normal traffic light modes, but then a mode where two side-by-side red lights alternate (what's that supposed to mean.. stop and wait for the pedestrian train to go by?)
I swear, its as if the marching morons[^] are running the place.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Gee, thanks for reminding me how stunningly ridiculous the show is.
My missus watches it for the men's bums, so I have to sit through it.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: so I have to sit through it.
Shirrrrrrrley you do. 
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You might think it's fun (and, of course, I wouldn't deny you any enjoyment, but I reserve the right to my opinion, too), but all I see is thirty writers who've had to prostitute and humiliate themselves for the moolah, and are therefore not producing anything even close to their best.
... Except for the eight of them who really are cr@p writers, of course. They're probably as happy as sandboys.
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No, I was refering to you "having" to sit through a show and watch men's bums. 
I have never watched the show or read the books.
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Slacker007 wrote: No, I was refering to you "having" to sit through a show and watch men's bums.
I'm afraid that hairy, spotty things aren't exactly to my tastes, but I suppose that the show does have (pairs of) compensations.
Slacker007 wrote: I have never watched the show or read the books.
The missus read the books (in Chinese, no less -- God only knows how she can make sense out of those doodles), and says that the books (written by one person, who is, as always, sidelined in the production of the show) are (again, as always) far better than the shows that are rewritten and made by 450 extremely gifted people.
I haven't read the books because I can't read Chinese.
I think I'm going to make that my default excuse for stuff.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I haven't read the books because I can't read Chinese.
Well, technically, the missus hasn't either because they were written in English and the translation (as always) is the translator's interpretation more than the author's intention.
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