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You know the crap at the end of spam, this guy is the author!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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No, he was not. He was merely saying that oversimplyfication is as bad as unneeded complexity.
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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B. Clay Shannon wrote: the ending clause is redundant,
Because some people try to make things too simple. Management, for example, when in their simple mind, something should be doable in a day, when it actually takes weeks or months.
But what he's really getting at is the balance between complexity and simplicity. It's the balance we all face as programmers and some of us are totally ignorant of.
VB / Javascript / Ruby / Python / et al. programmer: cut and paste the code
Everyone else: Oh, I'm about to duplicate this code, let me make a function.
VB / Javascript / Ruby / Python / et al. programmer: Wow, look at my cool function, it's 10000 lines long!
Everyone else: Ew, this is getting gross, let me break this apart so it's readable and self-documenting.
And so forth.
Marc
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Quote: “I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
(Letter 16, 1657)”
― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters
Probably Einstein had the same issue 
Paulo Gomes
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
—Bill Gates
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He and Yogi Berea hung out together ... a lot, so I'm thinking some entanglement occurred?
Nothing is impossible, we just don't know the way of it yet.
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Something to do with patent law?
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You have established his point. You are suggesting to make the sentence "simpler" than it already is. But by doing so, you remove that part of the sentence which makes it profound. As it stands, the sentence is as simple as possible. It is precisely misguided oversimplification that he is warning about.
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You know when you get an auto generated e-mail, with an obvious script error?
Area of cover: WorldWide Excluding USA
Start date: 23 Jul 2016
Dependants: $coveredDependants.size()
Payment period: Annually
That 
veni bibi saltavi
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I got an email from a sales site not too long ago where the subject literally said "[Insert: Inspiring Subject Text]" because they had obviously forgotten to fill in the text for the placeholder...
Naturally, I sent them a return mail saying "You forgot to insert the inspiring subject text!" 
Summer holiday replacement staff, I would think!
It's not the only time I have received a mail with placeholders, but it's definitely the funniest!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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If I mix a ACID database and a BASE database will I get a SALT(ed) database? 
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Carl von Clausewitz
Source
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Yes and then you can pepper it with requests 
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Leave it to you to spice things up.
/ravi
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Elementary, Watson, elementary!
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CPallini wrote: Elementary, Watson, elementary!
Er ... time to revise your chemistry. All acids and alkalis are oxides or hydroxides.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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My chemistry is right 
Just acids and bases are wrong! 
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What's left of your chemistry can't be right.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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9082365 wrote: Er ... time to revise your chemistry. All acids and alkalis are oxides or hydroxides.
Time to revise your chemistry, too, as all all acids and bases are not oxides/hydroxides.
It's not even how they're defined.
See, for example, Lewis Acids/Bases; Bronsted-Lowry Acids/Bases
And that was when things were simple;
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Aye. When I were a lad, acid was summat that came on blotting paper and base had only four strings, man...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Fair enuff. Brain fart on typing 'oxide'. The point, however, that they're all compounds, nevertheless survived, I think, maybe, perhaps, possibly?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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9082365 wrote: Brain fart on typing 'oxide'
Nope, you just didn't behave like a "brain fart" without the word "brain", but instead responded how normal human beings respond, when talking to each other.
I'm getting to really hate Internet search engines. Not because they're a bad thing per se, but because too many people use them instead of their brains, and seem to believe that what they get from them is their own knowledge.
I'd have told him to "go away" in very specific terms.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So is "Occidentary, Mr Chan!" OK?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Easy one today:
Sun's made of Sulphur and sailor (4)
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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STAR
S(ulfur) + TAR (old term for sailor)
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Easy one, wasn't it? You are up tomorrow. 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Star
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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