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The real question is "What was Maunder looking for when he stumbled across THAT?"
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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After his phone became self-aware, it has been taking Chris to the darkest corners of the web 
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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No, that weally is no where near the dark corners.
Lucky weally, otherwise he may be absent fwom work for some time.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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He was hunting wabbits, obviously.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Those boys are obviously getting poor quality drugs.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I wonder if the author was listening to this[^] at the time?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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De-dimension on Vimeo[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Now that is easy assemble Flat Pack furniture!
Ikea take note! 
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That is very clever !
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Brilliant!
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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Want!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This will be useful in places like New York where a 500 sq ft apartment goes for $3000 rent.
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Hi All,
I'm watching the Imitation Game on Channel 4, Good story, sadly a story though. Alan Turing and Alexander Dennison must be rotating in their graves! Based on a true story (my bum!) Turing was not involved to extent shown in construction of the Bombe (called Christoper!) there were far more people at Bletchly Park and it ran 24 Hours a day! Don't you just love movies! 
Just got to the end, where is Tommy Flowers & Colossus!
modified 31-Jul-16 19:21pm.
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I think this topic may already have had a run in the lounge. Excellent movie but a documentary it is not. We go to the movies for entertainment - for education we must seek elsewhere.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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pwasser wrote: for education we must seek elsewhere
The interwebz?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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pwasser wrote: We go to the movies for entertainment
What ii-is entertainment?
Doo-o you mean historical documents?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Was going to until I read the summary and saw how they f***ed Turing over.
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Saw it on Amazon Prime a few weeks ago.
It's a good movie - not historically accurate, but a good "human" film.
It does a good job of explaining what the government did to him (and others) even if they did a massive amount to support the war effort.
Thankfully, that kind of bigotry is (officially) behind us now.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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As a person who is fascinated by the WWII codebreaking exploits, I described the film as "The history of Bletchley Park written in crayons". Entertaining enough, but chock full of historical inaccuracies. But hey - why let the truth get in the way of a good story/
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It's a film not a historically accurate documentary. As a powerful reminder of the effort it took to break the Enigma codes it succeeds effortlessly. As a reminder of the bigotry and ignorance certain sections of society faced it also succeeds effortlessly.
I say this as a Scot who has watched Braveheart (one of the least historical films ever made) but loved it nonetheless as it captured the essence of the man.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Dominic Burford wrote: I say this as a Scot who has watched Braveheart (one of the least historical films ever made) but loved it nonetheless as it captured the essence of the man.
What, the "nobleman who studied at university in England" man?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Dominic Burford wrote: Braveheart (one of the least historical films ever made)
William Wallace wasn't Australian?
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they forget tell how queen and UK government force him to be cure 
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If you can find it, have a watch of this BBC program made in 1996. Derek Jacobi is excellent as Turing.
Breaking the Code[^]
Edit: it is on Bing Video here breaking the code[^]
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I always thought Derek Jacobi was a little old when this filmed to play Turing!
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