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Nope, that's not PC. Even back in the '80s my Dad was told to change all occurrences in his warehouse management system from male/female to inner/outer
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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I once created a list of all the film formats I had been using in the days of silver photography (/home movies).
A list of all the home video tape formats that I have got in my basement.
A list of all the digital storage media formats (starting with 8 channel paper tape!)
A list of hard disk interface standards that I have been using over the years.
A list of computer peripheral interface standards (screen, keyboard, mouse, MIDI, ...)
A list of document file formats in which I have produced my own documents.
A list of network communication protocols I have used for transferring data betwen computers
Some of these have major and minor entries, such as document file formats that are technically different, but handled by the same application (such as .doc/.docx). Some have a common core, but e.g. SCSI was used with 14 different plugs (when I had to buy an adapter for my eight of those, I decided to never more buying any SCSI equipment).
Most of the lists ended up at least two to three times as long as I would ever have dreamt of. When I then think of all the standards that I have skipped, and stuck to the old established one for a few more years (but friends and colleagues couldn't understand why I was so stubborn), it gives me a feeling of "standard" being another name for "fad".
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Relative point in French town. (5)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Relative
point in E
French town. NI CE
NIECE
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Yep - a touch too easy, perhaps?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I thought so, but ...
You want to try a harder one tomorrow? I don't mind if you do!
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No, no, it's all yours 
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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No it was VERY hard, but Griff is VERY good.
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Creep! 
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Containers with two points in French town (6)
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Nephew? 
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Correct - this theme is to easy we will have to Cannes it 
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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urgh... I thought "containers" was the definition and quickly gave up. Oh the shame 
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How on earth did you get Nephew from containers ?
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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It wasn't a serious guess. But... you could say a womb is a container and that's where you get a nephew from
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You need help 😀
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I do my best work around the witching hour.
I just implemented error recovery in a LALR(1) parser without The Dragon Book as a guide.
Now on to shaping the parse trees. woot!
How about you?
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I am also a night coder, even if I tend to lose concentration and attention after 2AM. Best working hours have always been 20pm-1am to me.
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I think it's a thing among coders. I've worked with a lot of them that also prefer to work at night.
i love the night in general. it's quiet and i have my space and also the moon. =)
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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You are missing the main part : NO FREAKING INTERRUPTION !!
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fair, even though i'd think generally quiet would cover that. =)
my cats interrupt me regardless. One likes to play fetch with me at night.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Are we talking about a huge cat, or are you mouse sized?
Our cat beats up my ankles, but he couldn't drag me anywhere ...
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lol, he has a toy mouse we use.
he also attacks my ankles. He does try to pull my socks off. Maybe he's actually trying to drag me.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Ours will play fetch with a toy. Once.
I throw, he chases, he brings back.
I throw, he looks at me as if to say "I just brought you that. If you wanted it so much, why did you throw it?" and wanders off to kill something.
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Hell yeah!
Mornings are for sleeping and, if I'm awake, like now, procrastination.
Afternoons are... Alright.
But the main work gets done after dinner, if I can get myself to sit back behind my desk that is
If it were up to me I'd sleep until 11 or 12 and wouldn't go to bed until at least 3
Unfortunately, our society is based around morning people, and it's expected of you to be at the office at 9 and go out at 5 and sit in traffic with the rest of the world who're all forced to that same schedule.
Sleeping until late is, without any context, considered lazy and immature.
It pisses me off sometimes, but I can get little sympathy.
"Just set your alarm and get out at 7, like the rest of us."
"Why don't you just go to bed at 3 and we'll talk.", but that's just stupid
People suck, generally speaking.
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