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Listening to the USA president this pm, he said that Google has been contracted to provide a website where all Americans can enter their symptoms and get approval and directions on where to proceed to a drive-through test station where they will be swabbed for evaluation. Google is apparently putting 1,700 programmers on the job. This will have to be one helluva website to handle tens of thousands of queries almost simultaneously. 
modified 13-Mar-20 16:35pm.
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I can smell the failure from here.
Nothing spreads germs faster than a drive-through.
Shouldn't they have said they'd put 1337 developers on it? 
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1337
I am one of them! That is when I get up in the mornings. No uni no work this week.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Cp-Coder wrote: a website where all Americans can enter their symptoms and get approval and directions on where to proceed to a drive-through test station where they EIGHT OF THEM will be swabbed for evaluation
If a psychopathic, certain-coloured, inveterate liar told me to entrust my medical details to a corporation that has proven that it is perfectly willing to do evil for profit, then you can be pretty sure that I'd be washing my hair, that evening.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 13-Mar-20 17:53pm.
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I thought for a long time that I could never agree with you. Times are changing 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I disagree entirely!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Fake news!
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1700 points of failure. Or 1700 reasons to bill for Google Maps.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Cp-Coder wrote: This will have to be one helluva website to handle tens of thousands of queries almost simultaneously
Meh. It's not like Google is a stranger to this sort of thing.
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Precisely! Which is why they were chosen.
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The Lounge[^]
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Welcome to reality.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Me.
This morning I was sitting in the train, eating a croissant. Then an asteroid hit the other seat and I was was launched upwards. When I landed, I saw that we had not been hit by an asteroid. It was just a land whale that was getting compfortable and oozing over to my seat.
I had choked a little on the last bite of the croissant an coughed, which earned me a look from the land whale. And that gave me a very evil idea how to get rid of it. I suddently felt ill. Very ill. My performance must have been good. In less than 30 seconds the land whale felt the urgent need to get away from me. Surprising how fast such a ball of blubber can run.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: Surprising how fast such a ball of blubber can run.
Roll. Balls roll, they don't run.
Perhaps the train going downhill at the time?
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I have often told family and friends that if they need more space on the subway, all they need to do is start drooling and foaming. Incoherent noises help, too.
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CCC: Incoherent noises (7)
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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So you're saying that all my efforts to stop drooling, foaming, and making incoherent noises are wasted effort?
Bollocks!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Long ago a folksinger (Joni Mitchell) sang a song "Yellow Taxi". It's most important words ever ring true:
"Don't it always seem to go - you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone"
Selah
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Damn, I did not think of that. A recruiter called me yesterday about a 6 month contact to hire in a part of the country I will never move too (medical issue since age 20, and other reasons). I automatically turned them down.
I forgot how many jobs I have had that allowed me to work remotely - usually after a trail period.
I think I should call them back, because I am one of the few people that is actually qualified for the position.
In reality, most of the original members of CP qualify.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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I wish I had his problems. Boo-hoo....
Buy a coffee machine, or at least a $1.59 drip funnel.....
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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Sooo... even if he learned how to squeeze the coffee beans, he still wouldn't know how to milk the almonds?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Sooo... even if he learned how to squeeze the coffee beans, he still wouldn't know how to milk the almonds?
I'd be a bit hesitant there myself -- I mean, squeezing boobies is a lot of fun, to be sure, but I wouldn't want to get all turned around and start squeezing beans.
... Although I could name a few people whose beans I wouldn't mind crushing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I smell a procrastinator.
I've been working from home for nearly 13 years now and wouldn't trade it for the world. I'm betting this guy's just hiding behind this excuse and in reality he's the type who stops by every cubicle and doesn't start his day until 10.
If you have no discipline whatsoever, then yeah, working from home might not be for you.
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dandy72 wrote: If you have no discipline whatsoever, then yeah, working from home might not be for you.
Yup, that's me. I'm self-distracting.
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