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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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In hindsight I would have to agree.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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It has been said that hindsight is 2020.
Thank goodness!
If pigs could fly, just imagine how good their wings would taste!
- Harvey
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Obligatory response: That was a sick remark.
Injecting some humor: after a mime has lunch do we ask if the mutate?
Ravings en masse^ |
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I could say some harsh things about that, but I will pushback my ventilator.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Also the motto of 1347-1351, 1520, 1918-1919, 541-542,165-180, 1665, 1957-1958, 1889-1890, and others (in decreasing order of fatalities).
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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