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So, I looked through the front page of the BBC website, interested to see this years April Fool gag. Maybe it's a sign of the times, but I can't work out which one (or ones) is the gag and which are true.
"Half of people don't know Covid symptoms, study finds"
"Runway dining at $540 a meal proving hit in Japan"
"Few with Covid symptoms self isolating, study finds."
"Rice indispensable, but areas of concern remain for England"
"Can we guess which number between 1 and 10 you're thinking of?" (No, they couldn't.)
"Capturing every hour of each New Year's Day for 24 years"
"How good are you at "adulting" really?
"Nike sues over "Satan Shoes" with human blood"
Give me strength.
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Rich Leyshon wrote: I looked through the front page of the BBC website
And that was your first mistake.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: And that was your first mistake.
No, you'd have to go back a long long way for that ...
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news.com has some good ones at the moment too.
"Train cleaner’s sick bin juice scheme"
"Claims CEO used ‘mind control’ on staff"
"Rare chance to own Toadie’s ‘Neighbours house’"
"TV star transforms tablecloth into racy top"
"Depressing picture of mysterious ghost Macca’s"
"Boost mood and look younger in one minute"
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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. . . and this is not even the finished result of the damage done to the general population by their "hand held devices". There will come a time that you will look back on these as the good old days.
U can make book on it.
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The "Satan shoes" is obviously straight news. Even the Beeb isn't that warped. 
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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Since half the Covid symptoms match my daily situation pre-covid, I'd say it's half the alleged Covid experts who don't know the symptoms. Seriously, I went through the CDC covid symptom chart and realized that I've had Covid for several decades now.
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I forgot today was April Fools. I think the world is too sensitive now and we won't be seeing many good jokes anymore.
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I thought the BBC had given up on those stupid "jokes" a few years ago.
And I, for one, appreciate that. There's plenty of other sites for that sort of thing.
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Penny stories reach everywhere. (9)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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penny cent
stories tales
reach everywhere (def)
(anag?)
tentacles
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We'll have to stop playing ping-pong!
All yours tomorrow.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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DREADFULS?
As in "Penny Dreadfuls" - cheap popular serial literature produced during the nineteenth century?
Just a guess ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Behind a regwall. Here's an alternative
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Congratulations! This award is long, long overdue!!
I still have my copies from when I took Dr. Aho's courses at Stevens Institute in Hoboken for my Master's Degree in Computer Science (Class of '78). 
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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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Maximilien wrote: but I have memories of reading it and having no clues at all.
Same here.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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After reading a little of John von Neumann some time ago I admired him for his contributions to many and diverse fields. I recently read a bit more. INCREDIBLE This guy was on another level almost incomprehensible. If he were a programmer he wouldn't be a 10X programmer he'd be a 10^10X Programmer. I'd be happy to be a 2X programmer.
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In my experience, a programmer who is not negatively contributing to a code base is already way ahead of it's game 
Magic strings and numbers, 1000-line functions, unnecessary global variables, sharing of global variables in completely separated functionality, re-use of what's actually separated functionality, no re-use at all, no separation of concerns (in fact, a hard and tight tangling of concerns), pulling complete database tables into memory and filtering in the application, one coworker though I invented generics, creating twelve classes for what should've been twelve instances of one class (with the 12 if-statements checking type to go with it), ignoring warnings, ignoring failing tests, testing whether code breaks because they could not mock it, fixing JavaScript warnings and breaking browser compatibility with older browsers (to be fair, we should've disabled those warnings because our team did NOT know JavaScript). Speaking of JavaScript, returning different types from functions depending on input, not scoping variables, putting literally everything in global scope, no option strict (this one goes for VB as well), not declaring variables before using them... The list goes on and on and I've seen them all 
Some of the most "fun" code I've seen actually reset future database fields!
Imagine my surprise when I added a new field to the database and had the customer call me a day later that all the values were reset to their defaults.
It was a completely different service than the one I was working on so it took some time to find.
The way that service was set up... I actually don't want to talk about it, but I can say the person who built it was thoroughly certified
These aren't isolated incidents, this is probably about 90% of developers I've met and they all thought of themselves as skilled professionals 
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Yes, he was a giant.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Should the motto for 2020 have been "Work hard, Plague hard"?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
modified 31-Mar-21 15:37pm.
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