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Thanks for the post, I look forward to them every week.
I hate jazz with a great passion. It's in the same bucket as gangster rap, for me. In my f'd up brain, it is just not music to me, just awful noise.
Unfortunately, I was not able to find salvation with this musical selection.
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Slacker007 wrote: Thanks for the post, I look forward to them every week. Good to hear!
Slacker007 wrote: I hate jazz with a great passion. It's in the same bucket as gangster rap, for me. Lucky for you, they're not my favorite genres either, although I've posted both in the past and probably will post again sometime in the future.
I think one of the strengths of the SOTW is that it features lots of genres, making people give it a try and sometimes finding new stuff they like and sometimes they don't.
Who knows, another fifty years of the SOTW might make you a jazz fan yet
Slacker007 wrote: Unfortunately, I was not able to find salvation with this musical selection. Better luck next week (which is very unlikely to feature either jazz or rap)!
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Sorry mate, not a Jazz fan either. If I was to listen to Jazz, I think it should be listened to it live in a poorly lit cellar while sipping a glass of something.
Although I can always find an exception to rule. I've always loved Looney Tunes The Three Little Bops[^]
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Yes, they were very extraordinary clever at using cartoons to introduce you to music.
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Thank you. The synthesized sounds at the beginning are hard to take, but about 5 minutes in the horns are great. Bit heavy on the drumming (for me) but I love hearing a great trumpeter or Sax player.
Best wishes!
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I actually love those first few minutes, especially because of the drums!
The whole thing is great though
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My younger son was a snare drummer (U of Minnesota Marching Band, Hockey Pep Band...). He would probably agree with you! I do enjoy seeing a good Drum and Bugle Corp
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craig robbins MN wrote: Bit heavy on the drumming After a bit, beating on the drums just becomes beating on the drums, and that first drum solo definitely passed that point!
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I know Allegaeon, in fact that album is still in my favorites (although somewhere far in the back and I never listen to it anymore), just put it on again
I even think Allegaeon made it to SOTW back when that album was released, although I can't find it now so maybe I opted for another band that week.
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User Interface shop changes direction everywhere. (10)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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User Interface UI
shop BOUTIQUe
changes direction e - > S (and an anagram indicator?)
everywhere.
UBIQUITOUS
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That was quick!
YAUM.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I forgot to wait an hour ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yes, and had you waited that hour ...
... I still wouldn't have beaten you to the answer (because I didn't look at it until 3:30 London time). But! I did solve it! In the last 2 or 3 weeks I have solved 2 and been very close on 2 others. As my Aussie friends would say I'm feeling a bit chuffed with myself right about now.
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How many of you (that program in JavaScript or similar) know what this line is:
const {Pass, Fail, NA, NO} = changes;
and could be used like this:
if (Pass || Fail || NA || NO) {...do something...}
If not, can you guess, knowing that changes is an object:
const changes = { Pass: 1, Fail: 0, NA: 0, NO:0 };
?
If you're still clueless, like I was, it's called "destructuring[^]".
So I'm just curious, because like I said, I knew about this, forget about it because it's rather arcane IMO, and just got reminded about it again.
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I use it every day. I don’t know what would be of my life without it.
Also, we already know part of changes.
const { Pass, Fail, NA, NO } = changes;
the above hint us that changes may have the following fields Pass, Fail, NA, NO
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smells like a dictionary met an enum on a dark night
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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...and unholy and unspeakable acts followed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Looks a bit like they got the idea from Python.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Looks a bit like they got the idea from Python.
As in, Monty. As a joke.
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It's actually quite handy, but it also leads one down the "I can use it so I shall" path, rather than the "This is the most readable, maintainable way to write"
If everyone working on the code is good to go, it's great. But there's many devs who don't know, or forget, or get it mixed up.
...like a lot of "convenient" syntax these days.
There's a point where a syntax becomes so specialised / esoteric that the savings from less keystrokes, less code to maintain, more lines per screen are outweighed by the costs to hire more senior developers and the time taken for non-experts to get up to speed on that syntax.
Everything's become so engineer focused lately. What about those who have to pay salaries, or maintain some uber-dev's code, or what about focusing on stability and the user experience rather than the elite factor.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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