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So me and the Mrs. are watching our Netflix, taking a gander at the next episode of Twilight Zone from 60's "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up[^]". Pretty funny. Episode has the guy that played the doc in the Menagerie [pilot for Star Trek 67] as one of the aliens. Now of the aliens in the show, one had a 3rd arm, and the other 3rd eye on his for head, but they blend in, and speak English, no communicable diseases and do fairly well at blending in even though they have world colonization in their heart.
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Well extra arm, extra eye sounds like the locals around here (Bristol UK, close to Sommerset land of the prehensile tail!)  Sadly English is not local language (it is appears to be Hipster!)
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Yeah, you really should get up to date with your programming skills... 
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: new DateTime(2014-05-01)
Isn't it annoying how stupid computer languages are? The meaning of what you're trying to do is perfectly clear, but no, the computer can't figure that out.
Marc
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Don't!
They'll modify VB so it does accept it... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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It IS totally clear for the computer what he meant to do. Obviously he wants to create a datetime with 2008 Ticks 
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The alternative is worse.
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Natural language processing! 
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Were is Osmo when we need him!!
Life is too shor
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You beat me to it.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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But, is the meaning clear? Does he want May 1, 2014 or January 5, 2014? Regionalization... arrgh!
That's why I tend to write the phone as alphabetic and avoid the issue...
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ISO. International Standards Organization.
Your regional customs are irrelevant. You will be assimilated.
Also, year-month-day sorts easily.
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mhanvelt wrote: Also, only year-month-day sorts easily.
FTFY
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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JimmyRopes wrote: mhanvelt wrote: Also, only year-numeric month-day sorts easily.
FTFY
FTFFY
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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Good catch.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Marc Clifton wrote: but no, the computer can't figure that out
Down that path like a nightmare, I work with a POS call Murex where the dealers can enter all sorts of crap 1.2m, .78k, 300k and the system interprets it. The problem comes when they supply the original values to downstream systems. PLEASE make the bastards conform to some data standards.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I take it you prefer duck typing?
Whenever I have my duck typing my code I get these sorts of issues too
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: Whenever I have my duck typing my code
The US has laws against that.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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If only there was a language where you could, say, surround the value with some delimiters, a number sign (#) perhaps... 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I love how the guy at the end comes casually over smoking his cigarette and doesn't look too concerned that there is a person pinned underneath the car. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Like he's saying "Dude, there's something under your wheel." 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Police have released his name - apparently he is called Father Jack.
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Mr Sawickio escaped with only minor abrasions but said the incident served as a wake-up call and he will try and reduce his alcohol intake.
Lucky they ran over his head, he might have gotten hurt.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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