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A colleague of mine is doing a sponsored swim 30 laps around the Isle de Paris - I think he's probably in Seine.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: A colleague of mine is doing a sponsored swim 30 laps around the Isle de Paris
Is that a common thing to do? (Hope he does well, btw)
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Île-de-France - oui. Pas facile, ca!
He was thinking he might swim from Cairo to the Aswan dam next - I think he may have a problem but be in de Nile!
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He could swim to the Isle of Wight but only if he is in Solent
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Or Île de la Cité, even.
Île de France contains Paris.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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He should have done it a few days ago when it was a lot smaller! 30 laps is a long swim. Hope he doesn't need to go to the Louvre halfway!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Eiffel sorry for him.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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He will be begging for merci
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I guess so, but he canardly back down now.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Are mentors really male Minotaurs?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Jacquers wrote: Quit horsing around
Wait ... what? What's horses got to do with it?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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You should have paused a Minotaur two before before posting such myths.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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This is just a bunch of bull.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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I don't know. I'm Icarus-ty on my Greek mythology.
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That one hurts my medusa oblongata.
"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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What an maze of confusion. Theseus just another poor pun, or am I harpying on this too much?
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 Did you realise that this din't work even a little bit moments after you posted it or did you know already and thought you might as well go ahead with it because it was Friday evening and nobody much would notice?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I've read about half of the book Amazon.com: Where Good Ideas Come From eBook: Steven Johnson: Kindle Store[^] and it reveals some amazing research about how ideas take hold.
An economist wondered would if there was any stats/math that governed generally the spread of ideas.
For example, are there more good ideas from a large city of people than from a smaller population?
Yes, but how those ideas spread is interesting.
Ideas generally spread at a rate where it takes 10 years for them to take hold. 10 years from the initial idea to general acceptance.
Then, suddenly, YouTube. YouTube went from 0 to general acceptance in only 2 years? Why?
The book has a lot of really interesting stories and data.
Has anyone else read it? It's quite fascinating and really interesting about the spread of "good" ideas.
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While sitting on the toilet. That is where the best ideas come from....the toilet, through your 4th point of contact, and into your brain.
Scientific and medicalific fact. duh.
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Slacker007 wrote: Scientific and medicalific fact
It's 100% proven by Science!!! 
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raddevus wrote: Then, suddenly, YouTube.
The internet in general, actually.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: The internet in general,
Yeah, it's true the Internet really does help ideas spread. But even with the communication infrastructure of the Internet, certain ideas just take hold much quicker.
It just so happens that YouTube was one that broke the barrier first.
Probably due to :
1. great idea
2. low barriers to entry
3. you can be a passive user -- click and watch
But it was also because of the way they made it very easy to share videos and promote them further.
Interesting stuff.
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