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The more I learn about the government the more upset I get so my best course of action is;
1) Go into my room and scream? (not a screamer, but I am a cusser)
2) Slap my palm to forehead and just accept that it's a stupid/corrupt system?
3) Take massive amounts of drugs? (Tried that back in 60s only temp. relief)
4) Take up meditation? (That was the 70s and didn't help)
5) or just say f*** it and not let it worry me?
Choices choices choices!
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1) Come to Arizona
2) Buy 160 acres of worthless dirt
3) Dig a hole and cover it with brush
4) Purchase many guns and plenty of ammo
5) Crawl into hole with guns and ammo and wait for food to come to you
6) Avoid all forms of communication with the outside world that might be upsetting.
PS - I'll be in the hole next door...
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'll be in my hole with my illegal weapon!
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At least that comparative pittance was spent on developers' families and homes.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So a red ring of death on the heads-up will likely be followed by a red badge of courage?
[edit] ??? How on Earth did this get disconnected from the "iron man soldiers" thread and attached to this one? Is someone wearing a Stark Industries disinformation suit?[/edit]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 11-Oct-13 1:58am.
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I'm trying to remember a two part thing that was on the BBC about Clive Sinclair and Chris Curray (BBC micro vs ZX Spectrum). I can't find it on Amazon as a DVD, iPlayer just gives up. Is it out as a DVD and I have name wrong.
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I do indeed. It was an excellent programme. Details are here[^].
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I was right about the name, just can't seem to find it
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It's not out on DVD/BluRay. There are various random petitions online from people wanting it to be released, but nothing so far.
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Rats...boob tube it is then! 
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In those days, they didn't feel the need to publish everything as a DVD the moment it was broadcast (unlike today when I expect a "Best of Weather Forecasts 2013!!!!" to be in the shops for Xmas).
But...was this it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIcAyFVK0gE[^]
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Cool, I know what I'm watching tonight, isn't breaking some copy right using boob tube? 
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Could be - but then YouTube is full of clips from TV and Films so I suspect that either they have an agreement, or nobody cares... 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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OriginalGriff wrote: "Best of Weather Forecasts with the stars on ice2013!!!!"
Coming soon
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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see here[^]
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Thanks, boob tubed it last night. Why don't the BBC release it as a DVD? I know I would bye it (Ahh the days....).
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context: Ruby on Rails
So, here I was ready to write a new feature to verify I can recreate the bug before fixing it, and I started getting these "method not found -- 'activated' in Site" errors, telling me that the method "activated" doesn't exist in the Site model.
1. Yes it does - I added it into the DB a week ago.
2. It's right there in the code for the model.
3. The page runs just fine, why are the feature tests now failing?
4. And why doesn't RoR give me a stack trace, G**d****!
The 3rd item should have given me a big clue. But without the stack trace, I was still really clueless as to where the "activated" method was even being used. So I ended up diving into Rails' ActiveRecord and stepping through the callbacks into the code that it makes when parsing the Ruby code out of the HTML, and sure enough, it's calling:
def display_name
activated ? name : "#{name} (deactivated)"
end
and sure enough, "activated" doesn't exist, and sure enough, it's not even in the attribute collection for this record.
And then it dawns on me....
...I'm running a feature....
...which means I'm using the test datahase....
...which means I forgot to run 'rake db:test:prepare' to update the test database with my DB change I made last week!
Argh. It's been so long since I've had to fuss with the DB model that I forgot to migrate the changes to the test database as well!
Serious  and serious  for a non-stack-traceable, cryptic message that while correct, should be a bit more like "The record does not have this field defined!"
Marc
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Hundreds of years ago in the days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and I was writing some COBOL, I left off a period at the end of a line. I got 53 different error messages from the compiler, none of which said "Missing period on line 123" or something useful like that. In fact, out of all the error messages, line 123 was never even referenced.
It's nice to see consistency in the industry, nothing changes really. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I occasionally deal with C++ templates, and compiler errors are legendary verbose and useless.
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I've heard Clang-LLVM were supposed to improve compiler error reporting as part of their compile architecture changes, do you know if their template errors are any less fubar than what VC++ or GCC emit?
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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Dan Neely wrote: do you know if their template errors are any less fubar than what VC++ or GCC emit?
Haven't seen them yet, but I may soon as we are expected to introduce clang to the list of supported compilers.
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There is talk that they'll cut one of the customer service representatives from our office because when the president walks by and there is no line it makes the office appear as if it isn't busy. In short, the mandate is to slow down our operations enough to form some lines.
This is a type of customer service wherein the customer serves us, I guess.
The problem is, that the staff is usually doing something anyways. For example, a person may bring in a substantial amount of work that has to be processed. That person may be at the window for 2 minutes but leave behind 15 minutes worth of work.
I know when I enter the DMV if there are no lines and four staff members waiting to help me I'm the happiest person on the planet. I don't think "OMG, what a waste", I think, "It's about freakin' time I got some service."
This is just a face palm idea for me.
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Try selling the yahoo on the idea that persistent lines give the impression that the products are so bad that customers must come down for service.
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