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In the US it is effectively already that way. It is hard to get credit if you don't have any and the easiest way to get credit is to have a credit card. I think that by the day my first semester of college began I had already received four or five offers.
Not saying it is right, just seems the way it is.
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Careful; you're dating yourself. Because some of our peers were elephanting morons with CCs the nanny state's been booting them off campus for the last few years.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Eh, I was an elephanting moron with my first CC as well. Fortunately I had decent parents who did their best to educate me and made sure that I set the limit for $500 and that I kept pushing back every time the company tried to raise it.
Needless to say it was not used just for emergencies. I did max it out and I did end up having to pay it off. I wrecked my credit and took me years to rebuild it to where it is now. A lesson I won't soon forget.
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Here I'm a user but not a registered one... some times I've wanted to vote for a film... at much this "want to vote" urge disappears after a minute or two...
Not a big issue then, but it still is a good source of information.
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It's handy for me, because I never remember names, and that is so annoying!
I don't need to be a member, though -- I get nothing out of it, and they get my credit card details?
To quote a show I've only ever seen clips of: "No deal!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: It's handy for me, because I never remember names
I have my GF, she functions perfectly well even without an Internet connection. How does she do that or where does she stores all that infos I don't know (but I have some clues i.e. the movement coordination sector).
Geek code v 3.12
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--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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bet you did not share the card number with your girlfriend...
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She usually uses mine luckily she doesn't spend much. Also it isn't a real credit card, more like a prepaid card with an IBAN.
And the one who spends more is me
Geek code v 3.12
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--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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den2k88 wrote: she doesn't spend much
Wow! She's definitely a keeper!
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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People keep telling me that
Geek code v 3.12
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--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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Same here, usually I like to know about trivia, about the votes, trailers...
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And I suppose the NSA needs to know who is looking up movies about people who say bad things about US politicians.
Hell, we're in Europe. Finding someone who's got something good to say about a US politician requires a minor miracle.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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... I can't help wishing that my code looked that tidy.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I can't help wishing that my code looked that tidy.
Oh, for the days when men were real men, women were real women, and every function had one (and only one) exit!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: and every function had one (and only one) exit! Indeed!
The GOTO!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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GOTO as a function exit would be a welcome addition to a system I worked on a while ago. This VB6 monster only had one huge function that did every elephanting thing, with GOTOs that decided which part of it to run.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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GOTO is fine; it does what it says on the tin.
I'll bet half the plankies who go on and on about it also go to rallies and scream "GUNS AREN'T DANGEROUS! PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS!"
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You mean it's not normal to leave a function with an exception that lands safely in some (empty!) Pokemon catch block?
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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"Normal" as in "typical, usual" - unfortunately, yes.
"Normal" as in "good practice" - Hell, no!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Unfortunately, that's right. Recently I had the honor to work on a web application with such interesting exception handling. Unhandled exceptions 'fortunately' were swept under the rug by the JavaScript front end. What moron decided that this would be the optimal default behavior? At least it gives me yet another valid reason to dislike JavaScript.
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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In that case, it's: ON ERROR GOTO
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GOTO only causes problems if it is misused. That's why some people think everything that could cause trouble must be regulated or removed until every circus clown can write programs. I would prefer the opposite approach. Let's keep the programming languages as powerful as they once were and instead remove the circus clowns until we have only people left who know what they are doing.
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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Oh, Lord, he thinks I'm serious.
However:
if only causes problems if it is misused.
for only causes problems if it is misused.
public only causes problems if it is misused.
private only causes problems if it is misused.
<insert keyword here> * only causes problems if it is misused.
Misuse of anything causes problems.
Fanatical avoidance of a keyword is a kind of misuse.
* Using `` before < breaks the escape character. **
** Starting a line with an asterisk bullets it, so we need an easy replacement for <small>sup</small> , to allow numbered footnotes.
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