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Pedestrian deaths are climbing faster than motorist fatalities, reaching nearly 6,000 deaths last year — the highest total in more than two decades, according to an analysis of preliminary state data released Thursday. Paging Mr. Darwin
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Well, what are we supposed to do? It's the only really effective way of culling mongo pokers!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Often, advice about application performance comes at you with the staccato of rapid fire tips. “37 Ways to Shave Nanoseconds off of Your Overnight ETL Process.” I exaggerate for comedic effect with that title, perhaps. But the point remains. Authors serve up advice for optimization with many tips that matter only inside of tight loops. And it’s hard to keep all of those in your head. Write it in C++?
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Describing why the Web is horrible is like describing why it’s horrible to drown in an ocean composed of pufferfish that are pregnant with tiny Freddy Kruegers—each detail is horrendous in isolation, but the aggregate sum is delightfully arranged into a hate flower that blooms all year.
This article describes what goes through my head any time I see someone praising the latest clientside buzzword compliant bit of new and alleged shininess as beautiful or elegant.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I think the company where I work is blocking the Harvard site. Figures, I doubt really want us to become better educated.
[edit]Remoted in to my computer at home (yeah, the irony of driving 45 minutes to remote in to my home PC so I can get stuff done) and am reading now -- great read![/edit]
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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A truly epic read. I'm glad someone is finally being brutally honest about web development—not to mention being snarky, hilarious at the same time. I would send this to my managers, but it would have zero effect. Our CIO declared last year that all new applications should be web apps or "we're not doing it right." Welcome to my world.
Quote: I know that there are people who like JavaScript, and I hope that these people find the mental health services that they so desperately need.
My opinion, the best line from the article, and there are many to choose from.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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I have been around a few executives like that. They latch on to one fad or another, issue proclamations that this is the way of the future, and then they fail to give anyone the time and resources to pursue the New Way. In your case, these guys would neglect to give you the servers needed to host web apps and their data. That's their style. Thankfully, my current bosses are nothing like that. It also helps that I work for a private company. I have never been denied something I need here.
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After more than two years of landing its rockets after launch, SpaceX finally sent one of its used Falcon 9s back into space. Reduce. Reuse. Relaunch.
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It was a good idea to try it out on used ones, before risking damaging new ones.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The gentle burbling of a brook, or the sound of the wind in the trees can physically change our mind and bodily systems, helping us to relax. New research explains how, for the first time. This study brought to you by Big Nature(tm)
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Reading your snark makes me relax.
We should get a government grant to study this.
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A fart (also a sound of nature ) does relax me... but it is very dependent on the environment 
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But(t) it probably doesn't relax people around you 
TTFN - Kent
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Success is like a fast - only your own smells nice.
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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Relax? Yes! As long as the fence intact! One pissed off tiger!! - YouTube[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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A system of sensors and electrodes can digitally transmit the basic colour and sourness of a glass of lemonade to a tumbler of water, making it look and taste like a different drink. The idea is to let people share sensory experiences over the internet. Or you could just go buy some lemons
Crazy talk, I know.
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And why is this being done? It's a solution looking for a problem.
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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Oh, I dunno: if they can simulate sweetness - and they are working on it - then they could remove a lot of the sugar from foods and drinks, helping with obesity. And mimicking "salty" could reduce blood pressure / risk of strokes?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Besides, producing less sugar would free up a lot of terrain perfectly good for other foodstuff, therefore doubling the advantage of simulating sweetness.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Isn't artificial sweetner already 'simulated' sweetness of sorts?
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Well, the lemonade is just a replacement for the taste/smell of different things, a different virtual industry is really interested in...
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We'll need to have digital simulation of all 5 senses in order to fully realize the Holodeck. With this research, we're one step closer to taste (vision and hearing are already solved). Now we need to deal with smell and touch.
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Does this mean that we finally have the technology to turn water into wine?
Whatever next? Lazarus?
Slogans aren't solutions.
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The security vulnerability is publicly exploitable, but Microsoft only fixes "currently supported versions." This malware brought to you by the Windows Server marketing team
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Great article! Very funny, but so true. 
During the rollout, we received call after call from hapless users confused about which option to choose when confronted with a dialogue asking if they wanted to debug the web page. 
(it was hard not to be unprofessional and scream 'Are you a freakin' web developer?') Needless to say, all of the javascript errors were fixed quickly!
