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What, a talkie!? What will  they think of next...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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The Facebook business is becoming bigger than these people can handle. It is out of their caliber.
Few weeks ago they have launched Facebook Groups, and the stupid this is, anyone can check you in to any Group. I mean come one, think for a second before you implement...
Some friend of yours can create a group of local strip club and check you in, and you will never know (no notification/permission). and guess what if your girl friend/wife found out about it. 
Looks like they don't need any competitor to fall down, they will do it their-self.
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If anyone can check you in, that also creates a lot of deniability
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Spoken like somebody who needs deniability a lot.
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And you noticed it like a "deniable" 
I bug
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: And for you youngsters, the subject of this post is a quote from "Casablanca". That's a movie. A black and white one. No special effects to speak of.
There most certainly were special effects. The famous plane at the end, when it's parked in the background, is actually a cardboard cutout with "little people" working on it to make it appear further away than it was.
He said, "Boy I'm just old and lonely,
But thank you for your concern,
Here's wishing you a Happy New Year."
I wished him one back in return.
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Here is a "fun" email chain. It is set in chronological order for your convenience and viewing pleasure.
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From: [deployment guy]
To: [just about everybody]
Sent: Mon Oct 18 12:57:59 2010
Subject: TPW build Deploying to QA2 At 12.58pm.
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From: [development guy]
To: [just about everybody]
Subject: Re: TPW build Deploying to QA2 At 12.58pm.
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Great timing... In the middle of the demo.
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From: [deployment guy]
To: [just about everybody]
Subject: DONE: TPW build Deploying to QA2 At 12.58pm.
QA2 is up and running with build life: 124934. As teams are waiting for testing, we deployed the build asap. Sorry for any inconvenience provided.
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Well, he/she did apologize for "any inconvience" after he/she created the inconvinience 
On another note, demoing on a QA server is never a good idea... Just think of the stuff you deploy to QA and have to rollback because USERS are not advanced enough to understand the feature you just deployed.
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demoing on a QA server is never a good idea
No argument there. We've been known to do demos on our local machines using Remote Desktop. So this was a step up.
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Our database team having pulled the plug by accident sent around this apology:
"Sorry for any incontinence caused"
Ger
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I'm trying to find some second-hand environmental monitoring kit to do some testing with, made by either AKCP[^] or Sensatronics[^]. So I head over to Ebay, and see what I can find.
Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
Ebay has nothing for sale from either company. Does Ebay have some sort of filtering that I'm not aware of, preventing the listing or sale of certain items? This are industrial enviromental monitoring hardware - it's not illegal to sell it, they aren't dangerous, and so on.
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I might be wrong, but maybe that is, because currently nobody is offering hardware like that? 
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
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That might be the case, but AKCP claim to be the largest manufacturer in the world of such systems, and the idea that no-one is upgrading a data centre and selling off old kit seems odd.
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Either that or it's so good it never needs to be replaced. I have a toaster like that, you just have to buy new bits every now and then. 
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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OriginalGriff wrote: ...you just have to buy new bits every now and then.
Bread? 
See if you can crack this: fb29a481781fe9b3fb8de57cda45fbef
The unofficial awesome history of Code Project's Bob!
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
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I think he bytes the toaster.. Yummy!
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OriginalGriff wrote: I have a toaster like that, you just have to buy new bits every now and then.
Your toaster sounds like a Trigger's broom paradox to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus[^]
Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don't know what it is. I keep myself in a constant state of utter confusion. - Col. Flagg
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Any of you guys watch webisodes like The Guild[^] (sitcom about gamers), 2 Hot Girls In The Shower[^] (probably NSFW even though it's actually just a cleverly written, G rated series)?
Even though there's a lot of stuff like Hulu, Netflix and the like, they're all more of a Corporate Hollywood kinda thing. I like the webisode stuff because it's by indies who don't have to play by corporate rules and are able to take their content directly to the people.
For those of you who watch this sort of thing, what's your favorite series?
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I don't have any favourites yet, but 2 Hot Girls In The Shower are definitely a good starting point. Thanks. 
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
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Yeah, pretty well done. The dark haired chick on the right is Kim Evey, who's also co-producer of The Guild.
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Christopher Duncan wrote: what's your favorite series?
The Bunny Wars.
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You're a bad, bad man. You know that, don't you? 
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So I was on StackOverflow.
Some guy answers a question really cleverly, but fails to provide the entire solution.
I post the rest of the solution crediting the other's approach. Update: Which incidentally was not even a correct answer, due to a mistake on my part 
Then some idiot edits the other person's answer, and copy/paste my answer straight into that one.
Dey tik ma ansar!
WTF??? 
(I did fix it though  )
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To avoid situations likes this I never post to Stackoverflow.
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