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No, you are right 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Now, does the "Cancel" button cancel the operation, or does the "OK" button cancel it?
Yes?
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Yes | No | Maybe 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Ignore it and the problem will go away on its own. Eventually. Maybe.
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Similar to what I heard during my first visit to the US about fifteen years ago -
"It ain't not work". Will it work? Will it not? Not sure (to me).
"It ain't not happen". Will it happen? Or not?
Have never visited the UK, so am not sure of this usage there. But, the English taught in India (in my childhood days, more than 35 years ago) didn't have such usages.
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When you hopefully finally visit us here in the UK, you will find that we do indeed speak the English you learnt 35 years ago. I visited the US many times during my time with IBM and I very quickly came to the conclusion that they speak American in the US. It bears as much resemblance to English as Brazilian Portuguese does to Portuguese. They both have the same derivative language but time has taken its toll on the way it is spoken today.
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Great. I thought so too.
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"I ain't going nowhere". Are you going anywhere or not going anywhere?
and
"Midnight ain't no time for laughing, when you say goodbye". Is midnight a good time for laughing or it ain't??
I caught these lines in 2 of the songs of one direction.
modified 22-Jul-15 7:52am.
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Got it. Quixote, Cervantes .. downloaded. Will do.
Gotta run now. Bye.
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I have a coworker who is brilliant (seriously), but he has this annoying habit of using negative logic:
if (!TestNotPassed)
// it worked!
I have to be very careful when reading his code.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I've seen this with previous colleagues as well.
Found it véry annoying. I had the impression they want to look clever and construct code that was hard to read so they would appear more techy like, or something.
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Actually, you have to be very not not careful.
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It still beats Abort/Retry/Fail...
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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| Cancel | OK | 
That was the first mistake!
Proper way is
| OK | Cancel |
!!!
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I'm a little surprised it wasn't
| Cancel | | Cancel |
With the first one cancelling the cancellation, and the second cancelling the operation. Except in Arabic countries where the buttons should be reversed.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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shouldn't the Ok button (or the yes) be on the left and the Cancel button (or the no) on the right ? 
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Perhaps "Abort" on the left, and "Like" on the bottom?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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no follow button then? 
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They're borrowing techniques from game developers, it's really just the illusion of choice and both will cancel it anyway.
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Clearly there needs to be 3 buttons: Abort, Retry, and Fail
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Why not use: [Import] [Cancel] ???
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What? Change the caption on a standard dialog button? Are you mad?
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Easy to use software is for wussies! What's next, automating slow, boring, repetitive tasks for these whiners?
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I presume that the "Cancel" resumes the import of Sue, so at least if you do the non-obvious thing you'll immediately get a chance to do the obscure thing.
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