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Me too!
RIP
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Me too.
The difficult we do right away...
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He was great on there.
"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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Me too. RIP.
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Is that the composer conducting it?
The difficult we do right away...
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sorry but i do not know . i only know according to Wikipedia Mr. Leung wears glasses . also the conductor in the video seems younger than the resident Orchestra conductor as shown on the Orchestra web site .
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Thought I'd blown that one after a promising start!
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"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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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Yesterday I got a question from one of the junior developers about using search to get something out of our in-house document repository. My reply was:
From MS Teams: The starting point is usually one of tag tables...
You are in a maze of twisty, little passages, all alike. I had to explain the reference to him.
Earlier today, I mentioned this to one of the senior developers, who also didn't recognise it, and, after I explained, commented that he was "minus ten years old" when the source of this was popular.
Who else here remembers where this comes from and spent time on it?
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I spent a lot of time in those twisty passages....
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Zork said: "You are likely to be eaten by a grue."
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That's from the Adventure text game, right?
The difficult we do right away...
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A hollow voice says "Plugh"
"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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βPLOVERβ was another good one.
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XYZZY
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. - Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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I know it as
βColossal Caveβ.
It was available as an Android app on Amazonβs app store a few years back.
Did you also tell them that the Guaranteed Escape for that maze (versus the βall differentβ maze) was
North
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I first saw the game at the local Junior College on its HP 3000 mini which was the size of 2-3 refrigerators circa 1981.
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I first saw it on a Prime 400 at Rutherford Labs in 1978 when I was on the "Industry" part of a "thick sandwich" degree course. When I left to return to Uni, they gave me a complete copy of the FORTRAN source code on microfiche since I had spent so much time on the game!
"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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OriginalGriff wrote: FORTRAN source code on microfiche
Although I know one can do AWS Lambda in COBOL I am unsure about FORTRAN. But presumably possible.
So then one would just need to figure out how to get it off the microfiche.
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I've never tried it - I'm not a masochist - but apparently you can get both Cobol and Fortran in .NET flavours. Which is a horrific idea if you think about it for too long.
"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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I was at Manchester doing a PhD in Nuclear Structure Physics at about the same time (late 70s) and I think is was either the Rutherford or Daresbury computers I was playing it on. For a while, I also had the FORTRAN source code.
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I found the Star Trek game that I'd played on an IBM 370 as an Android app a few years ago.
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