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The robot does not need a siesta 
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$60k initial purchase, then $12k per year on maintenance. That's an expensive toaster 
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Yeah, the maintenance alone is almost a salary. Really, robots do some things well, but really, many jobs just cant be automated.
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It may work for the places that sell cheap hamburgers that need to be exact the same; and even then, I'd prefer a human made burger - would you pay $5 for a bit meat from a toaster?
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Something in that story stinks. The restaurants human staff couldn't keep up with the robot so they replaced it with human burger flippers. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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.
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You don't need more burgers than you can serve 
Just a minor detail, apparently.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It just struck me that it must be difficult to be a programmer in a non-English-speaking country because all of the classes and function names in a given framework are in English, so picking the correct class/method must be somewhat difficult.
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modified 11-Mar-18 9:35am.
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And you didn't mentioned the endless typos... And the fact that some has better English than others, so do different typos...
We use Hebrew words written using English letters, like Talmid (means student) and so...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Au contraire, I hate it when programs or Windows are in Dutch, but for 'normal' users things are different of course, always amazes me how bad some people are at speaking English
But bonus points for thinking about foreign people (o dear, now a track of Foreigner is playing again in my head, you're as cold as ice etc. etc.)
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Imagine writing code in German, with umlauts all over the place 
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Imagine how long the class names would be!!!!!
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But you could put all of the comments into the class name!
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Imagine writing code and end almost all written lines with semicolons....
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Not too hard to imagine, as most will have experienced VB and it s CRLF statement ending
Also doesn't conflict with ASCII, which German text does.
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NO thanks!!!!
It's horrible, I'd rather forget I ever did it....
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It's the experience of a lifetime!
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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GetFactuur()
HaalOrder()
Seen them both
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RickZeeland wrote: always amazes me how bad some people are at speaking English
Back in real life (i.e., as a chemist) it was always understood that the international language of science is broken English.
By and large, the domination of English is probably a consequence of it not shielding itself from "foreign influences" - some "schmucky" places think protecting their language ("think: surrender monkey") will maintain its strength. On the contrary - it is mercifully hurry its long-overdue demise.
Aside from the crazy spelling and other stuff, it's actually a rather welcoming.
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Regarding "not shielding itself from 'foreign influences'":
Old English was strongly influence by conquest. First by Old Norse (during the DaneLaw the Norse ruled most, sometimes all, of England). The roots of both languages were the same, but word inflection differed between the two. Middle English solved this by dropping almost all inflection. This was followed by two doses of French: Norman French, then Parisian French.
As for "crazy spelling": it was actually phonetically correct ... about 600 years ago based on the local dialect of the first Englishman to own a printing press.
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Steven1218 wrote: As for "crazy spelling": it was actually phonetically correct ... about 600 years ago based on the local dialect of the first Englishman to own a printing press. |
Actually, as I understood it, until comparatively recent times, spelling was ad-hoc.
Although not the first dictionary, Webster's Dictionary can be given some credit:
Webster completed his dictionary during his year abroad in 1825 in Paris, France, and at the University of Cambridge. His book contained seventy thousand words, of which twelve thousand had never appeared in a published dictionary before. As a spelling reformer, Webster believed that English spelling rules were unnecessarily complex, so his dictionary introduced American English spellings, replacing "colour" with "color", substituting "wagon" for "waggon", and printing "center" instead of "centre". He also added American words, like "skunk" and "squash", that did not appear in British dictionaries. At the age of seventy, Webster published his dictionary in 1828; it sold 2500 copies. In 1840, the second edition was published in two volumes. Standardization of spelling, which does not attack the validity of your claim, is rather recent. The influence of frog-speech* may have much to do with too-many silent letters.
* A language that didn't evolve past counting to 'sixty', having to go to 'sixty-ten' because seventy was just too much for them to comprehend.
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To fully appreciate the inaccuracy of this comment, imagine a linguist with no programming experience trying to explain the issues with php.
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The language of "the country formerly known as Vichy France" is dying. They'd not make protective laws if they weren't clearly observing the proto-carcass decaying. That's the kind of thing you do when you're desperate.
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I was more referring to your suggestion that English is so widespread due to any linguistic qualities. English spread because at a time when they had bigger ships and guns than most of the world, one of the most imperialistic and genocidal groups of people in history decided to set forth across the world and force everybody to work for them, and these people were certainly in no hurry to learn the languages of the locals they encountered.
As for France's moves to keep their language "French", this is in no way a suggestion that the language is dying. French people, as well as people in various former French colonies are in no rush to stop speaking French. In fact ask any Frenchman and good luck convincing him that English is a superior alternative. All spoken languages naturally evolve over time, the change is artificially slowed if it's a written language, but no generation of any language speaker speaks the same as their parents did at their age. The French preservation efforts are basically the equivalent of refusing to sell T-shirts over size L to prevent people from getting overweight.
But there are many dialects of French alone within the country of France, not to mention various dialects and Creoles in its many colonies.
But since we were originally talking about programming, I would say English could possibly be the worst language to be required for second language speakers, because a grasp of syntax and grammar is not really required, just being able to spell the different terms in the programming language. And English is famous for its wildly unpredictable spelling. The only caveat to this is that apparently the world Boggle (or could be Scrabble) champion in English doesn't even know how to speak English, he just memorised the dictionary.
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 What a load of snail-turd! [ poop d'escargot]
France was quite the imperialist - and a bloody one at that. You do remember Napoleon? Ultimately, however, the English gave him the kick-in-the-ass he needed. By that time, the French gene-pool was reduced to drugs (and so it remains).
English became the world language in recent years - heavily do to influences not of war but of people like the Beatles, Elvis Presley, and the like. Everyone wanted to learn English. Here are two superior qualities to English: (1) everyone is welcome in to the language and can contribute, and (2) the best stuff to read and listen to is in English.
French is just a language of of the paranoid - having been the whipping boys for war for over a century (and stuck as to what comes after sixty-nine when counting), I can understand. Official list of names to pick from for children. Fines for using non-French words when a French equivalent exists. Hell, look here[^]! They've simply taken the title of "losers" and extended it to all things they have do.
As for spelling? Your spelling-champion blurb: it has no point and makes no sense whatsoever. The French equivalent of a dictionary appears to have been gone over by a random character generator. All the more reason why anyone would want to protect that corpse-in-waiting excuse for a language.
Well - apparently you do. Who knows. Be it a few weeks, months, perhaps even a few years and you'll be the only one left.
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