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W∴ Balboos wrote: I think we're becoming a nation-state.
With King Chris the First, and Kent Sharkey as Court Jester? 
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A green hat?
Paddy's day or no Paddy's day, it's been categorically, empirically, and undeniably proven[^] that green hats offend Chinese developers!*
Or does it mean that CP members have been getting satisfaction from SO?
* Although that's probably only true when the hats are received as gifts from their wives
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I don't think so since the hat is on Bob's head who definitly is not a Chinese and non-male (can an alien be classified using male/female attributes ???)
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And it's being St Paddy's Day today is going to leave a bad taste in many Irish mouths after yesterday's substantial drubbing ... sorry lads, but you were outclassed!
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And there I was in front of the TV savouring a glass of the black stuff. Mind you, Scotland showed almost as much class later on. And Italy - those boys try so hard, it's time they had a win.
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Scotland really came back in the second half - I thought they were doomed after the first 40 minutes. To come from that far back and get a draw was phenomenal work, and truly deserved a win.
Italy? They try, and try, but tries escape them. They are however building up a superb collection of wooden spoons ...
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What is offending me, that Bob has only one glass of guinness... There should be one for me too...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Now, there's a #MeToo hashtag that I can support!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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They can simply hire more cheer leaders.
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DID YOU KNOW?
Many of you probably don't know where the name EXXON came from. It used to be "Esso" and some others. Well, the company used such computer resources as were available at the time to find a word that meant nothing at all in any language. This can actually be important.
- The Chevrolet Nova was a poor seller in Spanish speaking countries as No va means "No Go" in Spanish.
- When in grad school, we had a visiting professor from Brazil - when hysterical, laughing, when Pay Day came around and everyone spoke about it: in (Brazilian) Portuguese it means "Fart Day"
- Within the last few days I posted about the problems of giving and receiving "Gift"'s from Germans
and the misunderstandings that could invoke. - Many Asians, such as Chinese, use red for celebrations (like weddings) and white for sad ones (like funerals). So, what does it mean (aside from supposed virginity) when a bride wears white? The imminent death of her husband's freedom, I suppose.
The point being, then, you are highly likely (without the Exxon example) to do anything or say anything that doesn't have a different implication in some other culture. Unless done deliberately to offend, it's impossible to not find cultural conflicts that simply have to be endured.
I'm glad Bob's kept his green hat on - because (at least in North America, well away from Eire), said green hats are part of an annual party ritual that has no intent to upset Chinese.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: what does it mean (aside from supposed virginity) when a bride wears white?
That they're royalists, and loyal to Queen Victoria?
Chinese brides, on the other hand are "scarlet women" (unless, of course, they decide to wear white funeral gowns to their weddings).
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A certain company, that shall remain nameless, picked "Amadeus" as a name that would not offend anyone or be insulting or degrading in any language around the world. Apparently they paid a consulting firm over DM 200,000 to find this out for them.
All well and good except when I typed the name into a Word document, the spell checker's first suggestion for a correction was "Amateurs"! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Chevy Nova isn't the worst example either.
A few that comes to mind are Mazda Laputa and Mitsubishi Pajero, both for their meaning in Spanish.
And I should also mention that Honda Fit/Jazz was originally supposed to be named Honda Fitta, until someone told them what Fitta means in Swedish
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Fitting names for Japanese cars. In a country who's most popular comic book featured a "superhero" called Rape Man, none of this surprises me, except that they changed the third item you mentioned.
(Laputa is also a place[^], in Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels") - a floating (as in sky) island.
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66. Small accommodation - likely... (3)
67. ...to be unimpressed (4)
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66 APT
67 FLAT
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Here's what I'm reading this weekend (Amazon.com: Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made (9780062651235): Jason Schreier: Books[^]) as a leisure read. I'm always interested in how software development gets done and game development is particularly interesting.
This is a really well-written book and a fast read too.
Blood, Sweat & Pixels:
One surefire way to annoy a game developer is to ask, in response to discovering his or her chosen career path, what it's like to spend all day playing video games.
But even if you accept the premise that video game development is grueling work, it's not easy for those of us on the outside to see why. People have been making games since the 1970s, haven't they? With decades of lessons and experience to draw from, shouldn't game development have grown more efficient?
Maybe it made sense for developers to crunch in the late 1980s, when gaming was the domain of teens and twentysomethings who gorged on pizza and Diet Coke as they coded all night and slept all day, but decades later, video games fuel a $30 billion industry in the United States alone.* Why do game developers still have so many stories about staying at the office until 3:00 a.m.? Why is it still so difficult to make video games?
To try to answer these questions, I went out and engaged in my favorite activity: bothering people who know way more than I do. I spoke to around one hundred game developers and executives, both on and off the record, asking them an endless number of nosy questions about their lives, their jobs, and why they sacrifice so much to make video games.
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Except I know a game developer whose work, to a large part, is to test play the games they and other companies create.
His title is Art Director I believe.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: test play the games they and other companies create.
His title is Art Director I believe.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: His title is Art Director I believe.
Is the game developer named 'Art'?
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Quote: Why is it still so difficult to make video games?
That's easy to answer: video games are often the state of art of software development.
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CPallini wrote: That's easy to answer: video games are often the state of art of software development
That's a great point.
I think the interesting thing though in relation to all software development is "why are estimates almost always quite distant from the actual time it takes?"
A lot of times we begin building on technology that supposedly works and then at the crucial point we learn that you can't get there from here with that technology.
The underlying API just won't do the thing and then comes the custom work.
Of course, there is a lot of "custom" work done in video games.
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Plus, the graphics and so forth get more complex - and directly hardware dependant - with each passing year, so you're not only trying to create new engines and content. but learn how you use the hardware seriously efficiently at the same time.
Add in the humongous amounts of money involved, and you've got a workplace pressure cooker with the valve welded shut ...
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