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“Then there’s Konstantinopolitanischerdudelsackpfeifergesellschaft,” Tom Halsted noted, “a German word which my mother swore she came across in the 1920s. She died in 2006 at age 99, so I can’t verify the source of this delightful, almost certainly made-up word, but I like to think there once was a bagpipe manufacturer in Constantinople, perhaps managed by a German company. Even if there wasn’t, I like the name Dudelsack!” But a Dudelsackpfeifer is a bagpiper, so the mythical firm presumably trained musicians rather than made instruments."
from Michael Quinion's excellent (free) e-mail newsletter "World Wide Words," Feb. 14, 2015: [^].
I have direct knowledge through channels I can't reveal that the Illuminati of Agile are preparing for the coming of AntiSpec, the bottoms'-up nemesis of rooting for PooperPig's top-down.
Re-programming programmers' minds through sprints and Turkish dervish music played on Scottish instruments connected to hubble-bubble's is only part of their fiendish master-plan.
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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Keith Barrow wrote: gesinnung
You probably mean "Gesang" (vocals)? Gesinnung means attitude/disposition.
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"Attitude" - it might not even translate properly as it isn't proper English.
As in yoghurt is milk with attitude.
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Keith Barrow wrote: yoghurt is milk with attitude bacteria sh1t.
Some facts just jump out and hit you in the face.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Have you ever considered a job in marketing? 
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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I'll post a letter to the Milk Marketing Board forthwith!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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BillWoodruff wrote: the bottoms'-up nemesis of rooting for PooperPig's top-down.
Fortunately PooperPig is a side-scroller, thus thwarting the IofA before the AntiSpec reaches V1.0 
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Hi All,
I Posted yesterday about a Max232 I was fighting with, it suddenly burst into life and work ed. Just moved things so they don't fall off the desk and boom we are back to not working? Also it appears that First Great Western have had their Wifi hacked logged on this am, found my home page had been redirected to a p0rn site, look any who use a laptop for presentation s check your home page!
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glennPattonCONTRACTING wrote: and boom we are back to not working?
Are "you" back to not working? Please clarify, because I thought you just got this job.
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I am still employed I was muttering about the circuit I am desiging, moved across my desk and the elephanting starts working!
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Welcome to the wonderful world of [announcer voice] loose connections. [/announcer voice]. Are your DC levels OK?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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I think it was a loose connection, mind you it's a rats nest!
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glennPattonCONTRACTING wrote: loose connection
90+% of the timer, this is what it is. It took me years to come to that simple conclusion  .
glennPattonCONTRACTING wrote: it's a rats nest!
Hand built? breadboard? if so, I've also come to the conclusion that quick turn prototype PCBs are invaluble from a stability standpoint, and if made with debugging in mind, will save you hours (possibly more) of pain. In any case I hope all goes well.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Proof of concept, "you can't do that" strip board through hole components, PCB? Not for this gamble...
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glennPattonCONTRACTING wrote: Proof of concept
Ah, got ya. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Person: How did changes to "that item" go ?
me: I'm still working on that
Person: -Odd disapproving look- (like to make it very obvious, not something I 'read into')
Person: -just waiting in the door with the stupid look-
me: "well, here's what I found in testing" - shows 2 subtle bugs that appeared as a result of the changes-
Person: yeah , that makes sense
me: - describe solution on white board that I found EOD yesterday-
me: "That's what I'm working on implementing now. That should fix it"
person: Those changes were substantial, and really changed how that screen works. All that makes senes.
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Person is not the boss.
The conversation was not wrong. In the end, everyone had the understanding they needed and all conversation that needed to happen, happened. I'm just saying, it could have went better. I'm a positive guy, so I steered it in the right direction. It could have gone much worse though.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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loctrice wrote: Odd disapproving look- (like to make it very obvious, not something I 'read into')
I usually meet this with a "What's the matter with you you look like a right ugly c***" or something similar. They don't usually do it again. Can't stand people who don't communicate with words.
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That's not a bad idea. I hadn't thought about giving a dumb look back
P0mpey3 wrote: Can't stand people who don't communicate with words.
I'm ok with it in a lot of situations. I just don't like it in this context. He just wanted to express himself without being subject to confrontation... if I were to react he would have said I interpreted it incorrectly. (he's done similar before). He's also generally very passive aggressive.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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P0mpey3 wrote: Can't stand people who don't communicate with words unless they're girls!
Shame on you for making such an error!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Not surprising.
I'm only dealing with half a deck.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Half a deck is an advantage when you have to scrub it...
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."
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In ancient Israel, it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a healthy young wife by the name of Dorothy. And Dot Com was a comely woman, Large of breast, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, she was often called Amazon Dot Com. And she said unto Abraham, her husband,
"Why dost thou travel so far from town to town with thy goods when thou canst trade without ever leaving thy tent?"
And Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddle bags short of a camel load, but simply said, "How, dear?"
And Dot replied, "I will place drums in all the towns and drums in between to send messages saying what you have for sale, and they will reply telling you who hath the best price. The sale can be made on the drums and delivery made by Uriah's Pony Stable (UPS)."
Abraham thought long and decided he would let Dot have her way with the drums. And the drums rang out and were an immediate success. Abraham sold all the goods he had at the top price, without ever having to move from his tent. To prevent neighboring countries from overhearing what the drums were saying, Dot devised a system that only she and the drummers knew. It was known as Must Send Drum Over Sound (MSDOS), and she also developed a language to transmit ideas and pictures - Hebrew To The People (HTTP).
And the young men did take to Dot Com's trading as doth the greedy horsefly take to camel dung. They were called Nomadic Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Sybarites, or NERDS. And lo, the land was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the deafening sound of drums that no one noticed that the real riches were going to that enterprising drum dealer, Brother William of Gates, who bought off every drum maker in the land. Indeed he did insist on drums to be made that would work only with Brother Gates' drumheads and drumsticks. And Dot did say, "Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken over by others."
And Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel , or eBay as it came to be known. He said, "We need a name that reflects what we are."
And Dot replied, "Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators."
"YAHOO," said Abraham.
And because it was Dot's idea, they named it YAHOO Dot Com. Abraham's cousin, Joshua, being the young Gregarious Energetic Educated Kid (GEEK) that he was, soon started using Dot's drums to locate things around the countryside. It soon became known as God's Own Official Guide to Locating Everything (GOOGLE).
That is how it all began.
And that's the truth.
veni bibi saltavi
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Cut on the gin, for dog's sake!
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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