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Most of the astronomical images referred to at CP don't have the effect these did: awed.
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Please don't repost when a comment fails to appear immediately: your response went to moderation as teh automated system thought it might be spam.
I have deleted the "spare".
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No they aren't. CNN's headline writers don't know what they're talking about as usual. For the next ~2.5 months we're going to be getting compressed (presumably JPGed) images; the uncompressed ones won't start downloading until the end of November (and will take a year to complete).
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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When's Pluto's bid for the Winter Olympics due to arrive then?
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It's right behind the bids from Neptune and Uranus! 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Is it just me or have others also started noticing unnerving amounts of "programming rockstar required" job posts? First of all, WHAT? Second of that, let's assume that there is such a thing as a "programming rockstar". And if there were that many programming rockstars around to fill these jobs, then they'd not be rockstars! They'd be just another set of developers.
Oh and then the job posts say the candidate can be fresh college graduate or with "2-3 years of experience". Again, WHAT? What kind of rockstar is this? It's getting to a point where I am going to have to write a browser add-on that puts a big fat red STOP sign on a job post that mentions requirement of "rockstar".
-oo
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divyamistry wrote: What kind of rockstar is this?
Rockstar along the lines of Justin Beiber, Taylor Swift.. that kind of thing (i.e. NOT) 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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Wash your keyboard out with SOAP!
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I've only got JSON 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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How about burying it in lime then?
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: How about burying it in lime then?
..and gin? 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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Nope. Nagy got there first.
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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Now that was funny. 
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No kidding! I want to punch a pillow, because even a hundred head-shakes are not going to be enough. 
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I'd bet even if you applied and got the position, you'd be programming VBScript in a cold, damp, dingy cupboard in Blaenau Gwent[^].
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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Whoa whoa whoa! Watch your language mister! No need to bring such filth in this conversation. And also no need to talk about Blaenau Gwent.
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It's obvious: they want a cheap code monkey who can bash the skins like a Daemon or make the axe cry.
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You've been around the block, right? I'm a relatively young'un. Help me! What's this crazy fascination with "javascript rockstar" and "data rockstar" and "scala rockstar" and "whatever rockstar"?  Has this been the case all these years and I just never noticed?
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It's reasonably new: a "new generation" of recruiters are sliming their way into the "business" and want some way to feel "dynamic", "thrusting", "sexy", and "cutting edge".
What they mean is "We want a brilliant coder who works really, really cheap. And I've got the latest generation iPhone so I'm hip. What does 'javascript' mean? And how do you turn this phone on?"
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It's kind of sad though. Genuinely good companies with excellent jobs are ruined by plastering such nonsense phrases. Makes me facepalm at 100mph.
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Chances are the job doesn't really exist (yet) anyway. I suspect the vast majority of them are just "CV fishing" trips.
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divyamistry wrote: ruined by plastering such nonsense phrases
Too late, even without the "rockstar" phrase I often see them asking for things like:
[ ] Ability to develop radar scanning HTML for embedded
[ ] Experience with OOPs programming
[ ] Ability to develop Java with a web browser
[ ] Works on assigned tasks as needed
[ ] Understands Architectural methodologies such as JavaScript
What!?!
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You forgot to usage of "Agile Methodologies" to the Buzzword Bingo card...
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