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E v e r y S i n g l e six weeks for the past 10 years I've recharged my phone. Every single elephanting time have I hit option 2 - "Do not store these card details for future use" You suck Optus. (but not as badly as Telstra)
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"I believe that in this century, we can win a four-day working week, with decent pay for everyone," O'Grady said during a speech at the TUC's annual gathering in Manchester, England on Monday. And everyone gets a pony!
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What is he smoking and why isn't he sharing it with the rest of the class?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Its from a trade union in the UK, normally they don't like changes as it affects jobs and pay etc etc.
But yes I would also like to par take in what she's smoking..
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Shorter hours, to my mind, would lead to far greater productivity in many jobs but it will take a huge paradigm shift to cure many managers of the notion that a man who can dig x square meters in an hour can dig 24x cubic meters in a 24-hour shift.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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We could have done that in the last century; decent pay for everyone will not happen any time soon.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Pursuing all the new and shiny stuff we want will fill that fifth day back up again.
If we were willing to live at a mostly per-industrial level - other than mechanized/etc farming - we could work for less than an hour a week in our circa 1750/1800 homes and lifestyle.
If we were willing to live at a pre-service economy level (not thrilled with the term, but basically dropping everything beyond industrialization) we could work one day a week and spend the other six enjoying our 1940's lifestyle.
Any takers?
I thought not.
Quote:
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Billionaire X says that people should have longer weekends. Billionaire Y says people should have more flexibility. Trade union leader says everyone will have decent pay.
The people ask: "Do we get paid overtime? And where the free donuts?" ("And where is Kent's pony?")
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If management wouldn't give me tasks that only help them to feel like they're doing something, and if I didn't have to fill out digital forms for database migrations, QA and production releases, job schedules, and emergency access to various servers, I could probably have a 3 day workweek.
So, we don't need more tech advances. We need less friggin' tech.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have devised a way to automatically transform the content of one video into the style of another, making it possible to transfer the facial expressions of comedian John Oliver to those of a cartoon character, or to make a daffodil bloom in much the same way a hibiscus would. You mean John Oliver and Stephen Colbert aren't the same person?
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I was wondering which of the two would bloom like a daffodil does...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The tool, which is now live for iOS, with web and Android versions planned for the near future, connects to GitHub to give you actionable insights about the state of your projects and manage your projects and issues. 'Code goes here' isn't visible enough?
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The perennial optimists at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, have joined the rest of the world in deploying AI to help manage huge data sets — and their efforts almost instantly bore fruit. "Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub."
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The Microsoft Security Response Center publishes two documents detailing internal procedures used by its staff to prioritize and classify security bugs. "Works as designed", "Won't Fix", and "Not replicated"?
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But which half? Too much effort by developers is wasted on debugging, maintaining and fixing bad code. I'm more of a 'time wasted on empty code' kinda guy
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We waste a lot of time on configuration and environment issues too. Certainly double digits of percentage!
Kevin
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Google’s lawyers are in Europe’s top court today arguing against applying the region’s so-called ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling globally domains, rather only geo-limiting delistings to European sub-domains (as it does now). "I will remember you, will you remember me?"
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As the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) winds down its work standardizing the Extensible Markup Language (XML), it is looking back at the history that brought XML to its success today. Is that an apology?
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I though that it seemed familiar.
Par for the course for So Derpy Times I suppose. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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During the 2018 Microsoft Hack Week, members of the Mono team explored the idea of replacing the Mono’s code generation engine written in C with a code generation engine written in C#. It's all fun and games until the compiler hits the garbage collection in your garbage collector code
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MS Paint IDE is a program that can read a normal image file saved with MS Paint, and can then translate it to text with the ability to highlight the text in the image, parse the code, compile and execute it. Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
At least IMHO.
Edit: Fixed URL
modified 11-Sep-18 14:34pm.
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Employers are more willing to support remote work, suggests industry research. But the dream of telecommuting does not always match the reality. The commute is awful. Sometimes I get stuck behind the cat.
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As the open source community continues to grow, it’s important that users keep in mind that the people writing software are doing what they can to keep it working and to support it, probably on their own time. Spoilers: the source is open
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As the open source community continues to grow, it’s important that users keep in mind that the people writing software ...
are going to die, get bored, or get lives.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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