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Richard Deeming wrote: this conversation is over
Good. Run away, run away little one.
Another aberrant liberal who can't stand when someone disagrees with them and defends well their POV.
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Hence the joke icon. 
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Yes, I noticed the joke icon. Still doesn't make it "funny" to suggest that women can't be doctors.
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And he didn't do that.
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Answered above.
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- Homer
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replied above
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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If I was suggesting that, I wouldn't use the joke icon.
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So using the "joke" icon makes it OK to say whatever you want? 
I'm not saying there are topics that you can't joke about. I'm just saying you should be prepared to receive criticism if you make a joke that's in bad taste, or a joke that makes you look prejudiced.
There's a reason we don't see many women on this site any more, and the "banter-with-the-lads" casual sexism is probably something to do with it.
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- Homer
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Everybody gets offended by something. Shall we go back to knock, knock jokes or will that offend the deaf?
modified 18-Jul-17 8:00am.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: will that offend the deaf?
Who cares - they can't hear you! 
There's a difference between making an offensive joke, and making a joke that relies on, and reinforces, negative stereotypes about particular groups.
If they'd announced that the new Doctor would be played by a Muslim actor, and somebody posted a "joke" about that causing the ratings to "blow up", would you think that was acceptable?
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I'm not Muslim. I have been offended by a few jokes here, but I take them with a grain of salt. It's people's actions that I care about, not their reactions.
Like I said, you find some things offensive, but other things you don't. To each his own.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: I'm not Muslim.
That doesn't mean you can't be annoyed/angry/upset when someone starts using "jokes" to spread negative stereotypes about them.
You don't have to be a member of a group to believe they should be treated as fellow human beings. 
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Again, I already said that I was upset by some of the jokes here and some of which pertained to Muslims. So, yes, I can be upset. However, I take it with a grain of salt because posting a joke does not tell me anything about the poster. The posts that annoy me are the discussions that go on and on telling me what they thing (is right) and how I should think. Kind of like the thread that we have.
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There you go again, making assumptions about someone. You assume you just know everything based on what? Someone's name or origin? You racist pig!
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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And I think the lack of women on this site has more to do with your pandering holier-than-thou attitude than with any supposed "sexism".
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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If she's good and the stories are good it won't matter. If not then much ado will be made of it.
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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It smells like a publicity gimmick to me. But the real test is if they actually write good stories. If they do character development investigating what it means for the Doctor, who has always been male, to suddenly be a female, it could be interesting. If not and the whole female Doctor is just a big shock factor, well, there are plenty of other stories to be watching/reading.
As for me, I took a break after Matt Smith, and then they removed it from Netflix, so it's doubtful I'll be watching it anytime soon.
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Shes going to want to redecorate the inside of the tardis.
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And not because of the garbage in.
So I'm working with someone else's code that calls a web service, and there's a bunch of so-called validations that occur up front to make sure that all the XML  attributes in the call to the method that calls the web service are there and populated.
Thing is:
- There's several XML attributes that are not used by the anything, but are required. Chalk that up to some change at some point, but whoever made the change didn't clean up the validation routines.
- There's several XML attributes that are required but not tested for in the validation routine. More chalk.
- There are several XML attributes that are required only if other elements are missing. But nooo...you have to provide empty values for the attributes, even if they're not required because you're providing other values. For example, there's three options "businessName", "name", and "dbaName" -- now maybe a couple combinations are required in certain circumstances, but it just seems like an elephanting kludge because the incoming data is trashy to begin with.
- Defensive programming, like not hardcoding exact casing for attributes, verifying the attribute exists before you do
.Value.Length==10 calls, nope.
Oh well, I suppose I should stop b*tching and just fix the damn code, but I'm definitely suffering from a "this is something a junior programmer should be doing with some guidance." Hmmm...that gives me an idea! ![Jig | [Dance]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: "this is something a junior programmer should be doing with some guidance." Hmmm...that gives me an idea! [Dance]
Do you need any more evidence how this came to be in the first place?
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CodeWraith wrote: Do you need any more evidence how this came to be in the first place?
However, the salient point is "with some guidance." Having been here for 8 months now, and witnessed a complete lack of code reviews and hand-holding of junior devs by senior devs, and I completely fault management for that, I can see how that mess happened (and everything here is a mess.)
BTW, I've also taken a couple devs that are straight out of college under my wing, instituted a monthly "show & tell" so there's some communication about what people are doing, and informal code reviews with the people I work with. Ironic, but fun, given that I'm a part time contractor.
Marc
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That's good. This way they learn something.
Of course that's also the way the Sith infiltrate your company and subvert everybody. 
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This post needs a trigger warning
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harold aptroot wrote: This post needs a trigger warning
I thought most posts with a rant icon are of that nature. 
Marc
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