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Died so young, would have been 200 today. 
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Babbage Difference Engine N°1 can be seen in London, and
Babbage Difference Engine N°2 can be seen in Mountain View (San Francisco)
A marvel of engineering in advance on its time.
If you have the possibility to see one, go on.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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The mad thing is they were made with CAM software running on a computer.
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No she'd have been 11001000 today! 
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I think the French ones are pretty good, even though it is sometimes hard to figure out what exactly is being advertised (one appeared in a YouTube video linked somewhere below).
Which ones are the worst? Hopefully not ours (quite likely though)
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ones and zeros wrote: Which ones are the worst?
The long ones in between the Commercials.
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I never see them.
Record everything and watch it later, fast forward through the commercials.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I'm not gonna take part of your advertising study.
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ones and zeros wrote: one appeared in a YouTube video linked somewhere below
That was an ad? My French is so rusty I couldn't understand a thing, but it seemed like a tribute to the recent terrorism.
Marc
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American medicine ads are just weird. A pretty lady tells you that this revolutionary new drug will transform your life while a disembodied voice gives you all the reasons that nobody in their right mind would take this life threatening poison!
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I will hand in my resignation, after a over a decade in the same company
I've been passed over for promotion
Suffered from depression
Had to deal with clients from hell
Why do I still feel like a deserter?   
(I don't particularly like Martina McBride but that is the first thing that came to mind...)
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Sitting in the same boat right now, but my time will hopefully come in january.
Of course we are defecting, but as you said: They dumped every mess on you and rewarded you with a place at the end of the line. You owe them nothing. Sic semper tyrannis.
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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There were good times too.
Not enough I guess.
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Funny that you should mention it, the same thing occurred to me (I didn't know it had a name though)
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ones and zeros wrote: I don't particularly like Martina McBride but that is the first thing that came to mind...
Er .. now sir .. just calm down ... and move away from the matches ... it's very important that you move away from the matches!
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I may have something to say on the subject next week.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Congratulations and deepest sympathies !
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." Steve Jobs
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Steve's approach is to hope that the future creates a logical and consistent past?
A difference compared to what other approach? Hoping that it would be inconsistent? Yeah, I can see how that makes a difference 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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ones and zeros wrote: Why do I still feel like a deserter?
Because that's how managers, no matter how badly they treat you, want you to feel. And also, because you've lived and breathed this stuff for over 10 years. You know the people, the problems, the commute is ingrained in your muscle memory. It's actually really stressful to leave something familiar, no matter how much you hate it. Someone mentioned Stockholm Syndrome. Yeah.
Marc
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I've just given 1 years notice, going to retire, the hardest part is waiting!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Autoplay-movies, how does one ban them completely?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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