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Now You See Me, Now You Don't
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Sounds like that belongs in the Insider News.
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Great stats, thanks for the post. What's going on with China? Still 22% using IE6. Wow. Assuming using XP, why not to upgrade?
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They would need to pay for it.
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Really? What makes you reckon they would need to pay for it? For example I downloaded IE7 a few minutes ago for testing. Not that it is much of an improvement.
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The popular Chinese distributions of WarezDozeXP had automatic updates disabled to avoid getting stomped by WGA.
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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Just read on Auntie that Sir Peter died today after a long illness. A flippin' great actor. Mostly noted noted for his starring role in Lawrence of Arabia, I liked his movies. His worst movie will always be greater than Prometheus. He struck me as a top-notch pisshead as well.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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A sad day, my thoughts are with his family.
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Another legend lost. R.I.P.
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My thoughts are with his Wine Merchant.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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/ravi
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There should be a "Lawrence of Caligula" mashup (even if Peter O'Tool was not the main character in Caligula!)
I'd rather be phishing!
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Septimus Hedgehog wrote: His worst movie
That would be "Supergirl" from 1984! No fault to him or the very lovely Helen Slater, but to an extremely poorly written script...
I've always liked Peter O'Toole, so that is sad indeed. RIP.
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous ----- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944 ----- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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It's not sad he had a great time doing what he wanted to do.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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I was being selfish, meaning it's sad for the moviegoing world that he is no longer around...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous ----- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944 ----- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Blame the Oscars[^] atleast for Lawrence of Arabia
thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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Those frightfully decent folk sent me an email telling me I was entitled to an £868 tax refund. The email address I have to reply to is info AT hm DOT mobi. If you're feeling up to it please contact them on my behalf with your credit card details and I'm sure they'll be only too happy to pass on some of the money collected to me. The English gives it away:
"Please submit the tax refund request and click here by having your tax refund sent to your Credit Card Account in due time.
Please continue here to have your tax refund sent to Credit Card Account,
Note : A refund can be delayed for variety of reason, for example submitting invalid record."
That makes it legit then? Who else but HMRC would use pidgeon-english in their correspondence? I didn't know they had an office in Lagos. So much for outsourcing.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Well it IS a Premium Name[^], do you really think that scammers could afford a Premium Name?
Must be legit!
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I've been wanting to experiment with something that would probably be called "live coding". These days, it's not uncommon for gamers to live stream their game play. So I can't help but wonder if there's someone out there, possibly a junior level developer, who might want to see what it looks like when a seasoned ASP MVC developer plugs away at the terminal. Or maybe another seasoned developer who typically works alone might want to see what it looks like when someone else is writing code. There's the potential to learn a lot, but for the people watching me, and myself. I can explain the design decisions I made, but I'm also interested in taking recommendations on my existing design decisions. I'm interested in sharing my workflow, but also learning from others where my workflow has gaps.
Google+ Hangouts seem to be the best way to facilitate this kind of live coding because you can see my screen and we can communicate together. Yesterday, during my first test, I had two people stop in to see what I was doing, but they didn't stay for long. I think maybe if I schedule it here in advance that I might get more people watching/contributing.
Thoughts, anyone?
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Not sure it'll work too well - I can see where it works with games because there is something to see going on, but with coding it's going to be large chunks of typing which frankly aren't going to be much fun to watch...
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I don't think it will be like that at all. First, I'd explain what I was doing as I moved along. Second, I'm a fast typer, I don't make a lot of mistakes, and I move forward quickly. There's rarely a long gap of boring coding happening. At least, not in my opinion.
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I'm not sure - but then I only have my coding style to go on: long periods of thinking, then typing, testing and repeat until cut to CP and / or the coffee plunger
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Pretty much what I'm doing too. Typing actual code is less than 1% of my work, not counting hacks in response to a question on CP or elsewhere. I think a lot, sketch a lot, eventually do some UML designs (which might in fact be somewhat interesting to someone who knows UML), and at some point have my UML tool generate some code. Only then I'll start fill in some blanks until I either get it to work or realize I've missed an important aspect - at which point I return to step one
Perhaps I should add that as a mathematician I'm more concerned with creating new, optimized algorithms for very specific applications than cranking out what I like to refer to as "fluff code".
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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