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Tell linkedin to mind its own ****in' business.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Chris wrote the spec for Javascript, after he tired of all the limitations of the VBScript he used in creating this site. And, yes, I still have a copy of the original CodeProject website code for blackmail purposes. He'll probably blame it all on David and Uwe, but we know better...
Will Rogers never met me.
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I thought he received the specs from Bob on a stone tablet iPad on the top of Mount Kosciuszko.
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No one has ever seen Bob code in anything but machine code
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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You're a poo-stirrer, you are.
Very good.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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don't like to brag
Bryce
MCAD
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I have a Request For Suggestion regarding what is the easiest way to build an e-commerce site (to sell a software package) that looks decent, and where to host it. My priorities are that the website-producing tool be:
Easy/Fast (I want to spend most of my coding time on my software product, not on its website)
Low cost
Doesn't look cheesy
Basically, I just want to create a site that describes what the software is, with a couple of screen shots, and a download button, along with a PayPal (I reckon) button. I haven't fully thought it through yet as to how I will work out the trial version/paid version logistics, but I think that's enough info to get the suggestions I'm seeking.
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Is this a software product that could be done as an app? I think that the AppStore has somewhat replaced the idea of self-hosted software stores.
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Then why does most software have its own site?
Actually, if there was a "turnkey" solution like an AppStore, that would be awesome, but this is a Windows 7 / Winforms desktop app - not a Windows 8 or phone app, so I don't think it qualifies as an AppStore candidate. I'd be happy to be disabused of my pessimism, though, if it were warranted.
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Can anyone really explain to me what this is all about? So far it seems to be a bunch of hoopla that makes things harder and not better. In all fairness I don't know much about it how all works, but when I see something like this[^] I have to wonder what was being smoked when they came up with it.
Jeremy Falcon
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Yep, that's about the size of it.
Grin and ignore it.
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Dumbfounded. 
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Maybe the one invented was frightened, that the youngster will understand core math - so he came up with this mess...
By the way - there is a place where actually using it to teach math?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Here in Arizona and many other places. It has actually become a political campaign issue.
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Since when politicians new about math anything? Poor kids...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Here's a post about the merits of it[^], or at least why it's not really that bad.
tl;dr version: it's basically the way everyone figures out change.
Or in other words, it's preparing them for their likely future life as a McD clerk. 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: it's basically the way everyone figures out change
Except for that it isn't.
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I dunno, if I had to figure out 1000-995, I don't think I'd be carrying any 9s.
I'm not saying it's a good system, I just don't think it's as crazy as some people are making it out to be.
TTFN - Kent
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What is 92-27? To do it in your head I believe most people will round to something familiar and go from there.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Excuse me, but RUBBISH...I was good with math when was young (I'm still not that bad) and I do understand numbers - it's not the way I ever done things...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: it's not the way I ever done things
I agree it's weird to anyone with more maths ability than a gnat or gnu, but how often has something like this happened:
Green Grocer: That'll be £7.93 please.
Me: [Hands over £10] There you go, thanks.
Green Grocer: [Hands over 7p] - eight quid
[Hands over £1] - nine quid.
[Hands over £1] - Tenner!
That's the basis of the insano-method
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Aye. It works well for that. Not for maths in general, though!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Here's a post about the merits of it[^], or at least why it's not really that bad.
I see how using the base as a reference point is a good thing for mental math; I do that already. But they way they implemented it is just retarded.
In the case of 325 - 38, why not just do something more like 325 - 40 + 2 to get the answer? Or hell even (325 - 25) - 40 + 25 + 2? You get the benefit of it being easier mentally without all the extra crappy steps.
Jeremy Falcon
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Yeah, that would work for me as well (although that first solution looks to me pretty much common core, just reversed).
I suspect this all grew out of some PhD in Education writing their thesis on, "Why Johnny can't carry a 9". Then (as is often the case), they choose the worst solution.
TTFN - Kent
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