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Ha!
(TMI? follows)
The first time I encountered the trope that emerged from that poem was in Penthouse or Playboy or similar as a cartoon and a teenager. In retrospect, it was probably a reasonably accurate portrayal of the poem's subject.
Unfortunately however, Gunga Din's water vessel was a large gourd, which, owing to the angle appeared to be a rather substantial piece of male machinery. Hence Gunga appears to have the old fella out filling someone's cup/bowl. "You're a better man than I, Gunga Din" 
Perhaps today'll be the first time I read it from start to finish. Cheers! 
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I want to work for these people. Seriously.
Doing something to prevent scum abusing users of the internet is an extremely worthy task, so kudos to all who do so.
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Malware distributors say thankyou for providing a list of hosting providers who're slow enough in responding to abuse complaints that keeping their networks running will be trivial. 
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.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I should send them my HOSTS file so they can nail some they might have missed.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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How many ad blocks could an ad slinger block if an ad slinger could block blocks? [strike]Don't[/strike] be evil
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Wow, just wow.
Lost count of the number of times I read sunshine in the comments section. Admittedly, it was part of every comment's title, but still.. Rather refreshing to see what appears to an unmoderated comments section on a non-invisible website. That was fun, thanks. 
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This will make a huge difference to my lifestyle.
(And, with luck, it will make a large difference to people's choice of web browser; I'm sick of sites that are designed only to work for google on google's browser)
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A new working paper from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the so-called central bank for central banks, concludes that Bitcoin is limited as a payment method because of the method, called proof of work, that it uses to secure its distributed ledger. I guess it's time to tie bitcoin to the gold standard?
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Markie has "severe" lack of interest in something that is almost the exclusive demesne of drug-dealers and people who rank getting money for nothing above the lives of children.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: that is almost the exclusive demesne of drug-dealers
JPMorgan Dives Into Crypto Space[^]
Most criminals prefer dollars. We should ban the dollar in Europe, to fight crime and terrorism.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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As a Euro-skeptic, that would Franc-ly be crazy!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Yes, because JP Morgan are such wonderful, caring people.
I heard (from pals I worked with in the financial sector) that JP Morgan and Bloomberg are becoming interested in starting their own cryptocurrencies, so that they'll have control over them, the same way they have control over half the world's digital money.
IMO, the only thing that separates them from the drug dealers is that they don't sell drugs. Their behaviour is often just as criminal, and hurts just as many people.
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It's just to show that there's a broader consumer-base than "criminals"; those still prefer dollars.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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Sure.
As soon as use by the criminal element pushed up the "value" of the things by incredible percentages, "decent" people thought it was OK to capitalise on the misery they were causing.
Cryptocurrencies would still be a nerdy thing, like Asgardia, if it hadn't been picked up by drug dealers and other criminals as a way to hide their blood money.
Slavery used to be a great investment opportunity, too. Profit doesn't make bad things good.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: As soon as use by the criminal element pushed up the "value" of the things by incredible percentages, "decent" people thought it was OK to capitalise on the misery they were causing.
Cryptocurrencies would still be a nerdy thing, like Asgardia, if it hadn't been picked up by drug dealers and other criminals as a way to hide their blood money.
Again, most criminals don't use BC, but dollars. We should ban the US dollar on the European continent for that reason.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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Hey, if you bought bicoins, I'm not holding you responsible for anything.
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I didn't and I would also recommend against buying it - but that doesn't mean I'm going to repeat nonsense oneliners just to back up my claim.
Before the BC existed, almost all criminal activities were done with dollars. Even now, they still prefer dollars because of a thing called liquidity. Most people who own BC are speculative idiots who were betting on stocks before; because it would be "anonymous" and you could hide your taxes there. Both turned out to be not exactly true.
If BC is forbidden here because it is used for terrorism and criminal activities, then the dollar should too, using the same argumentation.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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Learning a new language is no easy task, and for programming languages, it’s no simpler. I think you're in the right place
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0. Use it
1. Use it
2. Use it
Using memory techniques and cramming shouldn't even come into it, so have no place in such an article. You don't burn a new language into your head by reading chapter after chapter of a book; you remember it by using it, by researching how to do that you haven't done with the language before.
And courses waste too much of your time, because training exercises don't prepare you for much.
You're better off with a quick ref for the syntax, and a search engine (the latter is about the only thing the article got right).
Pick a project, and get on with it. I'd suggest converting code you've already written, which contains things that you had to research before.
And it's not a bad idea to focus on the things that you'll need to do with the language, rather than just general "This is how x works" stuff.
So, all in all, a pretty useless article. I don't think I'll be signing up for more advice from this "Expert software architect with a deep knowledge of building products for the mass market".
Oh! I almost forgot! If you're learning VB*:
3. Put JSOP on your speed-dial
* ... and have a death wish
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#3 alone was worth the price of admission
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Quote: Using memory techniques and cramming shouldn't even come into it,
I spent seven years learning French that way and am still not very good at it. I spent six years living and working in Germany and was more or less fluent in less than a year.
I agree:
Use it, use it use it!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I've been in NL for about 18 years, but I still haven't reached what I would call a level of competency with Dutch.
Almost no-one spoke English in Italy, when I moved there, so I was jabbering away in it within three months.
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5 for the JSOP reference. 
I actually used the "pick an old project" technique to learn WPF.
The WinForms version (that I used to learn C#/.Net) - Anagrams - A Word Game in C#[^]
The WPF version - Anagrams2 - A Simple WPF Game Application[^]
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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1. get a client who requires you to use it, pays cash, has unlimited funds, and will have no problem if your length of employment is indefinite.
2. get hired to teach a course in it.
3. get a "Dummies," or, "... in 24 hours" book, read it, write a few articles barely disguising your plagiarism, and publish them on some anything-goes web-site: then market yourself as a consultant.
"get the money and the knowledge will come"
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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One of the last places I would go for programming advice is Forbes.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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