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It essentially means "Make something impossible to get wrong" Idiot proof. Etc..
Poloek, Polk e yoke, Polk a yolk?
Paloek?
Anyone know what I am thinking of?
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Never mind I found it
Poke-yoke[^]
Interesting word. Hard to achieve.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Never heard of it.
And given that it's Japanese and this is an English site, that doesn't surprise me too much... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I hadn't either till new job. Half Asian here. Interesting mix of cultures. But they said make something idiot proof you know poka yoke. I had a very perplexed look on my face.
Anyhoo, idiot proof = poka yoke. Or more exactly baka-yoke.
Actually probably just something new for managers to say now that I think about it.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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rnbergren wrote: probably just something new for managers to say
Yes, please stop repeating before some management group picks up on it and I cannot escape the term. 
Just like:
1. not in my wheel-house
2. got no skin in the game.
3. etcetera and so forth
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Low hanging fruit (always worries my man parts)
Synergy - I really really hate this.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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I never liked the term "low hanging fruit". I find that most non-engineers use these stupid words and phrases, the most.
Just tell me what you need to me to focus on, and bugger off with your low hanging fruit.
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newton.saber wrote: 1. not in my wheel-house
Arrr ye maties!
Sharpen your land lovin keyboards, we are going to board her soon!!
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liquid nitrogen?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Shirley you just prefix it with a lower-case "i".
That applies the very definition of perfection. I know this because apple has been telling me so for years.
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Oxymoron.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Uniquely redundant
cat fud heer
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So... I guess Pirate Bay isn't very popular here since, well, it's used to download software for free. Software that some of us created and that we want to get paid for.
And next to software of course music, movies, books and pr0n. All copyrighted material that the creators didn't get paid for.
As far as I know downloading that stuff isn't illegal in the Netherlands though.
I still buy software, music, books and movies, but there's just so much stuff (some of it hard to get or even unavailable where I live) that I too downloaded some stuff once in a while.
Sometimes my download lead to an actual purchase. Sometimes I was glad I didn't pay for such garbage. Needless to say, not every download from TPB was a lost sale, but it was always a gain for me.
So it's not only a loss for me, it's a loss for the artists who's music I downloaded, it's a loss for the people who shared their own stuff using TPB and it's just a loss for the world in general.
And I just read they're now targeting another good friend of mine... AdBlock[^].
I guess the popularity of TPB and AdBlock is just the public saying "we've had enough!" and the closing of TPB and possible sueing/closing of AdBlock is the big bosses saying "nope"...
Luckily there's still good, free and completely legal stuff out there!
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I personally think that if it wasn't for the Pirate Bay the entertainment industry would never have got off their asses and created services that are actually good value for money, such as Spotify and Netflix.
I also think it's responsible for a much closer release schedule when it comes to TV and movies in different countries (I remember at one point when Lost was on, there was a gap off over a year between it being shown in the US, and then finally shown in the UK).
It's time had passed though, and I'm not sad to see it go, but I do think the way it's founders were hounded was completely OTT (apart from the guy who also hacked into banks and so on).
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JMK-NI wrote: I do think the way it's founders were hounded was completely OTT
Serial killers get better treatment (and less punishment)!
It shows again who is in charge of this world...
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I've already seen plenty of "you are blocking ads therefore you are a thief" messages.
They can go elephant themselves with a large pine cone.
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Every time I see one of those, I write a new adblock rule. Problem solved. 
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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Thou shalt not steal... The government doesn't tolerate competition!
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As an aside a bit, that's the good thing about the Internet with open source. Once it's out there it's out there. You can stop a person / company, but you can't stop the idea. Anyway, if they close down AdBlock I'm sure someone else will make another version.
Oh, and I think most people have downloaded from TPB a time or two, regardless if they admit it. I remember back in my 3D days I "liberated" a copy of 3DS Max from work. I never would've learned Photoshop had I not "borrowed" a copy from the Internet. Eventually, I dumped 3DS Max and went legit with Photoshop, but that was after I learned it and pretty much use it for everything graphics-wise. It's still the best image editor IMO, never would've known that before I used it.
Jeremy Falcon
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The more they tighten their grip, the more systems will slip through their fingers.
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Funny how PB and Azure go down at the same time.
Mind you, no-one has ever made the cloud thing work better than PB, so using them was probably a good idea.
Sander Rossel wrote: And I just read they're now targeting another good friend of mine... AdBlock[^].
That is absolutely ridiculous.
What are they going to do? Try to prove that people who use ad blockers would click through if the ads weren't blocked?
We pay for our bandwidth, so we should charge advertisers the cost of downloading their cr@p.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: That is absolutely ridiculous.
In the Netherlands we pay a tax on USB drives and empty CD's because the government believes we use them for illegal music, films and software and by taxing them they intend to pay the original authors back before we even did anything. I really hate those copyrights organizations (BAF/BREIN for the Netherlands and Belgium).
Now tell me what's ridiculous 
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Canada too 
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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