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If you can get your hands on one. Mine has the big advantage of being available for a reasonable price in eastern countries.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Anyone who rides a bike in traffic is a delusional, suicidal hipster. My wife is a nurse at a hospital and they get 3 to 4 broken bike riders a week to try to fix. and that's just the ones that survive...
Of course living in New Orleans, where the streets are narrow and in bad condition, the lost tourists are plentiful, and the locals all drive like maniacs may be skewing my beliefs...
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I think it's similar to a committee: "the average IQ of a collection of drivers (a committee) is equal to the lowest IQ of a participant divided by the number of participants."
I came to this conclusion many years ago, when I was riding motorcycles in the rush hour, and have seen no reason to modify it. Indeed, I added a corollary: "If you can think of six bloody stupid things for a driver (or a committee) to do in a crisis, he (they) will think of something even stupider, and immediately do it."
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: committee O god, is it really that bad? Do we really need a comparison to (avert your eyes) politics. When a committee decides to do something stupid (which is almost every time), then it's usually the common denominator they found twoards their corrupt and immoral goals.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Politics? Whose talking about politics? You've clearly never been in a management meeting...
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Management and politics are two sides of the same coin mental disorder.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I cannot disagree with that!
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I am not sure I believe this.
But I noticed I braked hard, and turned sharply into the other lane upon reading it.
I will call it a coincidence, although the biker is calling it something else indeed!
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I am the traffic ninja.
Whenever I'm on the road everyone else drives like crap.
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I never knew you were Italian!
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You have to be really brave when you take a bus in Rome.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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You have to be even braver to take a night bus in London, but that's due to the inhabitants!
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Then we better never drive in the same place at the same time. The Ninjutsu would be split up between us, already dragging both of us half way down to the level of the other ashigaru[^].
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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The road is one big chaos system. The longer it displays a reliable pattern the more likely that the very next moment it will go completely pear shaped. I've gotten in the habit of working from home the first snowfall of the winter every year. It's like freaking clock work. We have decent* enough roads 7-9 months and then the day that snow falls every moron and their dead grandmothers decide that the best way to drive on snow and ice, is to go as fast as they can so they spend as little time on it as possible**!
*By "decent" I mean the majority of them are paved, potholes aren't quite big enough to swallow a horse, and they haven't been condemned. They are however rated "poor" by the road committee.
**I guess this isn't an entirely inaccurate thought process. If they slide off the road into the ditch, they are no longer technically on said road.
modified 27-Apr-17 9:22am.
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RJOberg wrote: the first snowfall of the winter As if this event was a total surprise, but then they are also absolutely surprised when that funny light changes from red to green.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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That's why we don't have to worry about the 8,327 clones they made of Hitler.
One alone managed to conquer most of Europe and start a world war; the 8,327 can't even decide which tiles to play in Scrabble.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Uncle Adolf is about the last who I would suspect to have been a Ninja.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Why do you think his moustache was so meticulously cropped and shaped the way it was?
Ninja magic, Man!
Rubbing it in particular directions and with particular cadence with the left-hand's thumb and forefinger caused Terrible Things to happen!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You are a brilliant person.
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"Nobody drives around here. There's too much traffic."
I'm sure somebody will correct me on the exact quote and provide its source.
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CDP1802 wrote: While driving to work this morning, I wondered why everything goes well up to a certain number of cars on the road. After that critical point they all begin to drive like drunken monkeys. Once traffic reaches a critical density, the cumulative effect of gentle braking rushes back over drivers like a wave and leads to a standstill. It's a chain reaction similar to the push and pull of an accordion or Slinky, or the traffic-wave effect.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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The same reason that the "good guys" in TV shows are crack shots and the "bad guys" can't hit the broad side of a barn?
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I, too, have observed this effect with cars - and with everything else people do. It's fear, you see: crippling, stupefying fear: and let's face it: it doesn't take much to stupefy most people. They're paralyzed by it: it occupies so much of their mind that they literally have no processing power left over to use for anything useful or constructive. It makes them stop moving in the middle of the road, or drive into other cars, or vote for Donald Trump, or void their colons into their trousers (also an option after performing any of the above).
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