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A selfie is a one-frame video of your life at that time and space. Pay yourself well, you Actor, you!
And, don't forget to thank the Academy.
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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...Serverless development with Node.js, AWS Lambda and MongoDB Atlas (article on the front page) becomes....
Sewerless...
Which, given my opinion of Node.js, might have been a Freudian eye "slip." 
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Quote: Mongo no go. Mongo stay with Sheriff Bart. Sheriff Bart first man ever whip Mongo. Mongo impressed. Have deep feelings for Sheriff Bart.
Blazing Saddles (1974)[^]
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Quote: Mongo only pawn in game of life.
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I have to watch that movie now! 
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Do it now while you are still allowed to...
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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And I never knew...
Thou shall not jog: Proverbs 28:1
"The wicked run when no one is chasing them."
Seems pretty clear, that's good enough for me 
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I see you have joined the exercise abstention program. So have I.
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It's God not a Pixie, but yeah, I gotta get that on the back of a dog walkin shirt. I'm forever passed by joggers.
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Is the urge to sing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" just a whim away, a whim away, a whim away ... ?
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I get the feline that it's all very simba-lic and no claws for concern: just a token gesture.
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Yer not lion, cuz you Musafa had some idea you Scar points with that King of a comment.
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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Never forget that OG is no mere cat.
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Is there a tail to tell? No thoughts for almost a week!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Check The Soapbox .... they're more risque last week.
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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THX 
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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... written in response to today's Lounge posts on Python, and "pattern code bloat," and definitely in response to the comment by Marc Clifton:Quote: in fact it is actually easier to teach good programming in a highly constrained language. Now, given "modern" languages with their generics, templates, classes, interfaces, lambda expressions, typeless or typed, etc., features, teaching good programming is harder for the simple reason that nobody actually seems to teach programming principles and then how to apply those principles to a particular language.
Perhaps we need a "dumbed-down" version of C#, call it "CBlunt" ?
No generics, or lambdas, or all that other fancy stuff we love religiously ... after we have broken our minds on it. Simple iterators only: for, foreach, while ?
Strongly typed ? Braces required ? White-space ignored ? I'm a true believer on those.
Now, imagine we've "raised a worthy young programmer" on principles (algorithms ? design pattern ?) ... What do we have ?
Someone who has no idea of asynchronous user-action driven event-handling in visual user interfaces ?
Someone who is blissfully unaware of the grotty nature of hooking up to a database, and CRUDding around with it ? Or, inter-op with the net ?
Someone who is blissfully unaware of bit-maps, raster-ops and bit-twiddling ?
Every one of these (rhetorical questions) I ask myself, frequently 
cheers, Bill
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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BillWoodruff wrote: Perhaps we need a "dumbed-down" version of C#, call it "CBlunt" ?
You do know what BASIC originally was an acronym for? Back to square one and then some people will try to use your dumbed down language for serious business and then start to demand more advanced features. Many years of evolution later someone comes to the conclusion that we need a dumbed down language for beginners...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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My first programming experience was when Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Image Code was really basic: At most 286 numeric variables (A-Z and A0-A9 .. Z0-Z9) and 26 string variables (A$-Z$).
Which reminds me of C.A.R. Hoare: "I don't know what the programming language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called FORTRAN". I actually read it when it was first published (it must have been in CACM or Sigplan Notices) in the discussions of which extensions to include in Fortran77. When I first encountered a Fortran 2003 program, I din't recognize the language at all - but it was called FORTRAN ...
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What we need is a programming safety video:
homeland security knocking down their door and arresting them for going to the wrong website,
all the diseases they can get from the keyboard,
their bank account being cleaned out for reading the wrong email
....and other such items
scare em good so they wont want to learn, regardless of the language taught they'll only end up on CP and SO asking for people to do their homework anyway.
Leave programming to the nerds that have figured it out for themselves (and usually know more than the teacher anyway.)
Some people are good at sports, others are good at cooking, ... those that aren't should just stick to watching it on TV. Likewise programming. (Although would make for damn boring TV - except perhaps the episode on cracking pron site passwords and clearing your cache/history afterwards.)
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Lopatir wrote: Leave programming to the nerds that have figured it out for themselves (and usually know more than the teacher anyway.)
This, Sir, is absolutely politically uncorrect and stands for the social injustice that's being done to women, the mentally challenged and all the others who are !nerds!
You must be sexist, elitist and thousands other sorts of *.ist, except perhaps terrorist, socialist or communist.
Thanks for saying it like this.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Riddle me this
if politicians are liars and bs artists: does being "politically incorrect" mean telling the truth?
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In my little world, yes.
In the real world it can also mean that someone is deliberately doing it to get ahead with his own agenda.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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