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virang_21 wrote: If you really want to check how it feels to work on slow internet you can try it in Google Chrome.
FTFY
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* 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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Great idea! We can add to that:
The National Horse-Driven Carriage Day in honour of the way we used to get around before automobiles
The National Septic Tank Day in honour of how we used to deal with sewage before modern sewage systems
and the ever popular National Septicemia Day in honour of the days before Penicillin.
Anyone game? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: The National Septic Tank Day in honour of how we used to deal with sewage before modern sewage systems
Umm, this, along with aerobic, are still very much-used systems.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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I would like that my provider, who on paper sells 20 Mbit connectivity, stops doing that every farking day.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* 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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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56K modem is for sissies.
Real Men used 1200 baud modems. 
And mourned the day they had to give up their 300 baud modems.
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Do undertakers have loads of hearsepower under the hood?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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aren't undertakers just overtakers on the wrong side?
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Lopatir wrote: overtakers on the wrong side
No, they are one of the undertakers' major sources of business. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Do not make assumptions on hearsay!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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(With apologies to those who remember a similar children's rhyme  )
Hearsey, take me to the fair
What shall we see when we get there
A body dead with golden hair
Giddy-up, we're almost there
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I guess when they race there's stiff competition.
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Yes, of corpse they do!
/ravi
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I hear there's one guy who just buries the competition.
"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
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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And that's quite an undertaking!
/ravi
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Apparently he can't race today, he's having coffin fits.
"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
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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And he was practicing so rigorously.
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Seems like even star clusters go through the "dinosaur" phase. 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Wow, just wow! 
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was wondering is there was some kind of Basic ui design principle that someone might have written a blog that follows the line of
Placement: where is control/component placed
Appearance: how does component look. Font, size, color, word wrapping, ect...
Function: what does component do. One thing, multiple things depending on situation.
maybe something with different words?
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That is great!
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Someone once said that a captialist is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
I see a parallell in those "good helpers" whose only contribution is to state "Why don't you just f* google it?" Well, of course! Maybe, a few years from now, those "good helpers" will understand that "just f* google it" is a "been there, done that". A google hit list in itself is just data, it is not information. (There's the parallel to price vs. value!) The asker of course knows that he will get gazillions of "answers" from google, but which of those are good answers? Which are non-info? Which are garbage?
Frequently, when I ask for advice and suspect that some wiseguy will reply with a "Why don't you just...", I add to the question: "I have googled it, using the search terms x1, x2, x3 and x4, but that didn't bring up anything of value. I need more specific references!" - yet, some wiseguys believe that I ask for two dozen new keywords: "You could google for y1, y2, y3... y31" - and quite obviously, the good helper never googled those terms himself before providing them to others as a "solution" to the problem.
It does happen that someone provides good and valuable search terms, or specific links/references, but that requires that I am very explicit in my wording to keep those non-wisdom wiseguys from drowning me with non-information that they don't understand a bit of themselves. All they known is to pick a sequence of possibly (but maybe vaguely) related terms an prefix them with "Why don't you google ...".
Yes, I frequently get frustrated by non-helping good helpers. So I am airing frustration here. I look forward to the day when "Just google it!" is no longer classified as "helping to solve the problem".
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I disagree. I always (try to) present good (specific)answers on good (specific) questions. He never stated he googled and found answer x or y. He never stated what he figured out for himself. He never stated what technology, what OS, what platform (desktop vs web) he was targeting.
I have nothing against the guy (or girl), but if you ask a general question you will get a general answer.
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He did state some specifics that he wanted to focus on. And, even though he didn't explicitly state that he had googled some over-generalized terms, anno 2017 you may assume that he actuall has done so. He probably has googled even the more specific terms that he mentions in particular. After all, he must be working from a network connected PC (since he can ask the question at CP).
Telling him that we have this great thing called "google" that he might try might have been relevant ten or fifteen years ago, but not today. Today, you should always assume that the asker has tried google first. If you want to refer someone to google, it must be by suggesting some non-obvious and highly specific search terms that you have tried yourself and know that returns valuable information (related to the user's problem) in the first page of hits.
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