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Octopussies, also known as catfish.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: And platypeople?
Or is it Platypeopi?
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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"As American as Apple Pie" => "As Italian as Octopi"
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I used to think it should be "octopii" with a double ii ending. Then I found out it wasn't and was terribly disappointed! I wanted plurals to be like: hippopotamii (large grey quadruped), crocii (a small flower), Lexii (a luxury Japanese car)
Any more suggestions? 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Not exactly what you're asking for but I guess you'll like the finnish word for type: tyyppi 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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... of designing an app that has a significant and complex database back-end is coming up with a usable, yet maintainable schema... The next hardest part is presenting a UI that wraps the schema in a way that makes sense to joe-blow-idiot end user, and doesn't impede usability.
Aurther C. Clark was right - "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 8-Nov-17 11:43am.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
I always liked the Engineer's Corollary to Clarke's Law: "Any developer of sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a magician."
Software Zen: delete this;
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The art of database storage is to keep it simple and renundant. Raw data should be stored as raw as it gets in. Every processing should do the app.
Be consequent in separate processing code and UI code. I had to re-write a lot because of that problems.
Our coming project will have a shot with the MVVM architecture. I am fine with that because I am NOT the lead programmer. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: joe-blow-idiot end user
Does not sound like the kind of user that is proficient in SQL 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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If it is complex enough that the experienced designer has concerns with implementation design then using formal designs such as architecture with a minimal data model would seem to be warranted.
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You must also remember. "Never Trust user input" always validate what they are inputting.
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Design from the top down (with user input).
Implement from the bottom up.
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I've been having a persistent cold the last weeks, and when I developed nasty cough and quite a bit of fever on top of that I decided it was time to see the doc.
Turns out I have pneumonia.
Then I realize, my grandma died of pneumonia.
Heck, a hundred years ago it was a hit or miss if you survived a pneumonia.
So here's one  for Alexander Fleming. One of the most underrated people in history.
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Indeed - and a bigger hand for Edward Jenner[^] - who probably saved more lives than any other single human.
Both heroes indeed.
P.S. Get well soon!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Quite right you are.
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Even today there is some real risk in this disease because there are antiboitica resistency or problems on the cure like side effects. These resitencies can get a mayor thread in the future.
In the third world (and also the second) not everybody gets proper medicinical aid. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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It's freaky to realize that people my mothers age (87) can count the number of schoolmates who died of polio or diseases we don't think much of today.
A half century ago, my youngest granddaughter (born last December) would have died or had severe impairment due to postnatal complications.
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Make sure that kid doesn't grow up to be an anti-vaxxer or anti-GMO.
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If you look into Pasteur, you'll find the day-to-day health impact also near the top.
I had pneumonia some months ago. I only realized it because my ribs hurt a bit when I coughed. Part of the improvement is not the antibiotics and immunizations: we're just a lot better fed and healthier than before. Still - it's science that brought us that, as well.
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True that, brother.
Jeremy Falcon
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I can read and speak German, so that's no problem (I'm married to a German, which is sometimes a problem )
The problem you're referring to is called Greed.
On a slightly related note, the antibiotics I got first didn't help. It didn't have anything to do with antibiotika resistance, but the fact that I have a so called atypical pneumonia caused by mycoplasma[^], which is not responding to classic penicillin.
So I'm getting Doxycycline instead, which is dirt cheap to produce and is therefore used as an animal feed additive!  (You can relate that to antibiotika resistance)
Something is really sick in this world.
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