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It's a combination of things.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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GAH! NO![^] \m/
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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There's also his half-cousin, Running From Wolves.
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George Washington Carver.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: What's an american name?
White Eagle
Running Bear
Crazy Horse
Geronimo
Little Turtle
Sitting Bull
Abooksigun
Abukcheech
Akule
Chochmingwu
Choviohoya
Kokyangwuti
Naalnish
Naalyehe ya sidahi
Kohkahycumest
Nahiossi
And my favorite
Kuwanyamtiwa - Beautiful badger going over the hill (Hopi)
Names like that.
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You forgot Kumanawannalaya
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How can I have forgotten Kumanawannalaya.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: What's an american name?
Thank you for giving me an opportunity to give respect to Native Americans.
Although they also immigrated to the Americas from Asia, albeit a long time ago.
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JimmyRopes wrote: Chochmingwu
Choch Ming Wu is Chinese!
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Vivic wrote: Choch Ming Wu is Chinese!
Chochmingwu - a girls name meaning "Corn Mother" (Hopi)
Native Americans did emigrate from Asia, but I don't know if there is any similarity in the languages.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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One that doesn't start with "pradeep" (merely an example, but you catch my drift, or at least you should).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I catch your drift loud and clear.
But it wasn't meant to be a political comment even if it became one.
When I wrote "Serious question" I meant that. What is an American name?
Is it the origin? Etymology? Or is it American after a certain number of generations? (From a big enough ethnic group) And if so, how many generations?
I was leaning towards the first, my name for example is a Danish form of George which is Greek. Yours is Hebrew.
But Piebalds answer made me think of other meanings, George Washington Carver was a great man, and therefore it's a great American name.
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Simmons is an African American name.
Even John admits we all come from Africa.
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I'm on-line therefore I am.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: <layer>One that doesn't start with "pradeep" "Simmons" (merely an example, but you catch my drift, or at least you should).
FTFY
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JimmyRopes
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What part of the US are you in?
It isn't that bad in the UK, no where near, only a few Asians, so I guess the US must have really pushed to get them over while at the same time Americans didn't fancy a life as a coder. Don't blame them, its a pretty crap job in many ways, and you have to be cut out for it.
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The reason for the fewer numbers in the UK is because all of the work has been shipped out to India!
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Yeah, that has happened. Same for US firms too though, but how come so many ended up in the US though?
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Nope.
The level of racism is far higher in the UK.
I know an Indian girl with a Master's degree from Penn State University who couldn't get a job as a coder in the UK while high school graduates were being hired for coding positions.
PS. If she had stayed in the US, she would have found a job. She married and had to move to the UK to be with her husband.
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Vivic wrote: The level of racism is far higher in the UK.
You are joking right? The level of racism in the States is much much higher than the UK which is one of the most race=tolerant Countries in the World.
Putting the fact that your friend couldn't get a job down to racism is extremely lazy.
Vivic wrote: If she had stayed in the US, she would have found a job.
How can you know that, and if it is true doesn't that just mean they have more job openings?
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You should have been in India 250 years ago when it was really bad. We had all these light colored dudes walking around torturing people and acting as if they ruled us.
I are n00b.
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Erudite_Eric wrote: What part of the US are you in?
Presumably you are not assuming that that is a statistical breakdown of the developer market in the US or even an area in the US?
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Your right that is depressing. Have you tried looking for jobs in your area that have no Americans?
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Remember, at some point Simmons was a foreign name.
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