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My mom told me a story about having to move a fridge from one side of the room they worked in; a process that took multiple days to complete. The order of execution was approximately:
1) An electrician unplugged it.
2) A metalworker removed the shelves from inside it.
3) A mover dragged it 20 feet across the room.
4) The metal worker returned to reinstall the shelves.
5) The electrician plugged it back in.
It's not just the ambulance chasers that're responsible for the crazy costs of US healthcare.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Smells like the federal government's work to me.
I can't (not suppose to) hang my own whiteboard in my cubicle. Must schedule Maintenance to do it. Oh I have to have a charge number ready.
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Friend of mine works in construction at a Major university. He oversees alot of really huge projects like putting in new air cond. Replacing entire wings of buildings etc...
Last summer during break they were about to put in new air cond coolers which used a water source. Large ones. They needed to shut off water to an entire building for a couple of days. Everyone is gone right? Not one physicists who was in the middle of an experiment who needed water. Doc Phys. thru a holy temper tantrum all the way to the university President. They couldn't take his water that weekend. He had to have water. no way around it without water his experiment would fail.
Friend finally tracked him down at a cafe downtown. Not in his office he is never there. Asked him how much water he needed and what type etc....
Oh just a small jug of purified water 1liter will be fine.
Friend left him 5 gallons of purified water outside his lab and shut off water to the building.
Seriously? Can't buy the water yourself?
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Last one before next week wednesday
Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not "Every man for himself." And the London Underground is not a political movement.
Which movie?
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A fish called Panda
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Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it!
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True Lies
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Dunno! I didn't think they made a movie called "How to beat the TSA" yet.
Prolly get into trouble if they did.
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Nietzsche vs. Predator
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Monty Python's quest for the holy Jamie Lee Curtis.
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Animal House
Software Zen: delete this;
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a few dozen
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Oh gawd, not again!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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StaHp it plz urgntz!
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I'm debugging a ruby program, while learning the language at the same time. First impressions -
Here are a few WTFs
* Whitespace alters behavior
a + b adds a to b (variables)
a +b calls method a
* Reserved words can be used as method names
* Methods can be eclipsed by variables with the same name
def foo
puts "I am a method"
end
followed by
foo=42
puts foo
will output 42
* Methods return the value of the last statement by default
I'm sure there are many more. You folks who have to deal with this every day have my deepest condolences.
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I remember back in the early 90s I was using a product called SuperBase, I debugged to a line of code and was getting a really weird error, there was nothing wrong with the code, it was really simple but it was throwing an error on that line. I tried everything I could think of and eventually deleted the line and retyped it. Never saw the error again. Really weird...
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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For me, sometimes MS Word does the red squiggly line thing showing a spelling mistake, even when the word is clearly correct. Deleting and rewriting it exactly the same causes the squiggle to go away.
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Reading the title I thought:
Oh no! Silvio(*) has joined CP, may be I should leave ...
*For Italians it is easier to understand
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5imone wrote: For Italians it is easier to understand Oh, all of us Europeans know Silvio; he is the man we all aspire to be.
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Ha ha this is a good one ... upvoted.
Cheers
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I'm working on stuff probably written before most programmers were born! Has anyone come in contact with a Solaris automation GUI development tool called "CELLworks" by FASTech? I'm trying desperately to modify this ancient code using "stone knives and bearskins" and having little success. If someone's used this I sure would appreciate a conversation. In exchange I'd be happy to help you with your vacuum tubes (I'm not kidding).
Thanks!
Mark.
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Out of town last week, during which I just barely observed UBER[^]
I want to read what others here think.
Please tell me the good, the bad, the ugly, and the beautiful.
Biggest question: Do I absolutely positively demanded required gotta have a smartphone ?
(p.s., in case anyone missed the hint: I hate them; iPhones or Androids or any of them.)
Other questions...
Do you have to join the club or anything ?
How do you pay ?
Have you enjoyed it ?
Have you taken a bum ride ? (how's that for a stupid pun !)
Their website was so obfuscatory that I just popped over here to ask for opinions.
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Never used it, but people I know who have have liked it.
I'm pretty sure you need a smart phone.
When I need a cab I call a cab.
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You pay with a credit card. No tipping or need for money. Card is registered on site.
I know people who swear by them, I know others who swear at them.
It's just a cab service though all the drivers go through a thorough background check (according to someone I know who drives for Uber).
Try it and decide for yourself: if they get you from a to b with little or no fuss, then that's good.
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Karel Čapek wrote: all the drivers go through a thorough background check
Not a case in India. Too many Criminals are 'Drivers' there. Internet is your friend.
Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !
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All i can say is that in germany those guys get pretty high fines because they break the law with their system
*In Germany you need several documents and a specific insurance to drive a cab, they don't have any of that.
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