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That is an observation of Olympic proportion.
However, I do also wonder if you bought a slow yacht, would it be referred to as a snail boat?
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Phil Chess[^] Not terribly well known outside of the Blues, he along with his brother Leonard founded Chess Records and recorded some of the greats, Muddy Waters, Etta James, Chuck Berry, Howlin Wolf, Willie Dixon to name a few. Oddly enough, my son recently did a report on the Blues, me and the missus took him down to the old Chess Studio in Chicago 2120 South Michigan Avenue[^], where we sat in the same studio as a lot of legends, where even he admitted that it was cool.
"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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Wow! I was always under the impression he died in the '70s (like everyone!) must have been Leonard, to sit at ground zero in the Chess studio...dude!
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In the building is Willie Dixons' standup bass, I asked his grandson (a museum curator) if I could play, it to which he said sure. So here I am holding the bass that played on 'Little Red Rooster', 'Hoochie Coochie Man', 'Spoonful',... WTF!, yeah it was cool!
modified 24-Oct-16 12:04pm.
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I did not know they had Willie Dixons bass there, I always though it had been cosumed by the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame or forbid the Hard Rock Cafe and its spawn. Are you a Upright Bass Player, my feeble attemps to play one when I was at school was sobering...
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I try, though I'm not good. The historical aura that this thing had, for me was pretty profound.
"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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Fretless Electric for me!
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glennPattonWorking wrote: Fretless Electric for me! When I'm playing, people prefer stringless.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A friend of mines' wife plays a Warwick Jack Bruce model, freakin' swett instrument!
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The might Scot, played one. Nice, I play a Warwick Corvett fretless...
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Awesome!
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(Finally - Randall seems to be getting later and later, wonder what is keeping him busy... )
xkcd: Life Goals[^]
The last one is the most relevant ... and I can relate to that ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Do you really think that a Muzquizopterix ever met and fought against an Archaeopterix?
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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No, but I do believe that Asterix fought Obelix, while Vercingetorix looked on...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Both were at Alesia? And they fought against each other while not only Vercingetorix, but also Cesar and his Romans watched?
I doubt that. Obelix does not run out of steam and would have mopped up the Romans for dessert. If he had been there, we would have to change the history books.
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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Alesia was before Getafix had first brewed the potion, or Caesar and his legions would have lost there as well.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Correct, and what potion did Obelix fall into as a kid? And was was Alesia the last chance to meet Vecingetorix before Julius ... retired him?
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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Whatever it is, let's hope it's not the c-word again.
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It is: CPLUSPLUS!!!
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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OriginalGriff wrote: Randall seems to be getting later and later, wonder what is keeping him busy. Probably those Scrabble games...
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I was signing up to a website yesterday only to find that they had disabled pasting into the password and confirm password fields.
Not only that, but having completed the painful process of registering (they had also disabled auto-complete) I found that they also don't allow pasting into the username/password boxes at login time.
Personally I fail to see how any of this achieves anything beyond:
1) Making their website a complete pain in the bottom.
2) Encouraging people to use short and memorable passwords - which is surely not a good idea on a site that handles money.
Is there something that I'm missing here or is it simply a case of a dev team making some really, really bad UX decisions?
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I encountered that a couple of months ago on a major bank website. The irony was that the PW set fields allowed it, so I dumped a random KeePass-generated PW in and then had to manually enter that bastard when I wanted to log in. Fortunately I figured out pretty fast that Chrome would override that with ctrl-v.
I can only think that some fool assumes that hackers would use their web interface to attempt to brute-force accounts rather than something they would actually do, like edited packet replays.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Psht! Would you please leave those code monkeys in their belief that a little JavaScript on some controls can aktually keep us from doing something!
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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Nathan Minier wrote: I can only think that some fool assumes that hackers would use their web interface to attempt to brute-force accounts
I was recently on a gov't web site (related to student loans) which also blocked the paste field.
It is so annoying and actually shows that the person who created the thing doesn't understand how password hacks are done.
So, again, these sites actually punish you for having a more complex (and longer) password which is very difficult to type.
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