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Trouble is that most of the time you end up looking at something and going "Oh, fer ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) s sake! Why?" rather than "Wow!" 
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Very true, but doesn't that make the good stuff all the better?
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Parking machines in hospital car parks are the example that springs to mind why do the option to change to German (& only German) appear in the 'Do You Want A Reciept sub menu', were the testers not involved or has a quick mod unearthed a whole? 
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I wouldn't know about that - parking fees at hospitals in Wales and Scotland were banned ten years ago.
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and if you switch to German while pressing a button, there is an option, in German, that says "rebate my parking fee."
There are probably "unlocks" on the meters for testing purposes like most games have:
up, down, down, left, right -> install mock for credit card payment interface that always "accepts" payment
up, down, down, left, left -> install mock for credit card payment interface that always "declines" payment
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Long ago: Elite[^]
Or how about 3D fractal landscapes - on a 1.7 MHz 6502? Atari XL/XE - Rescue on Fractalus[^]. I think there could still be something to learn from reverse engineering the graphics routines.
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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CodeWraith's Elite is good, but ... DOOM was better! Now, that was a "Wow!" moment. The first time you entered Level 2 and the lights started to dim, and flicker at you ... then a monster strolls round the corner in the dark ...
Phenomenal bit of software!
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You want the horror feeling back? Play "Welcome to the Game", it makes you whoops your pants 
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if(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_signature))
{
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}
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Thanks, but I'll give it a miss.
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Good idea, i regretted it 
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if(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_signature))
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + _signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
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At that time I still had fun with a real rifle, real ammo, ears ringing from the noise, the smell of the powder, real sand between the teeth and at every time of day, from high noon to pitch black night.
Doom was boring against that.
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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Alot things are, also safer, I'm not anti-gun, it's just idiots with guns worry me!
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Is that how you thank us for having made sure day and night that you never had to wake up one morning to discover that you had become a communist over night? 
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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He's a Bristiolian - they are already communists according to No 10...
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I live in Bristol, but not a Bristolian (I don't need subtitles... )
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So you infiltrate them and have a good eye on them?
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His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Quote: So you infiltrate them and have a good eye on them?
OK why?
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Ah, ok. Communists without guns would not have been our customers at that time.
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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Very well said. It's hard to convey that to someone who hasn't done so but what you wrote really resonated with me. Still go as often as I can. And I loved Doom, but not even close.
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Password managers. Before hackers used to have to hack my accounts individually but now they can access all of my credentials in a single convenient attack.
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PeejayAdams wrote: What does it for you?
Self driving cars. SpaceX landing the first stage. On a barge. In the friggin' ocean!
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I get the opposite feeling: Whenever I look at code I wrote say 10 years ago, I go: "Blimey! I would never, EVER do it that way now. Whatever was I thinking? That's not code, that's black magic!"
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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The Dazzle Kaleidoscope program. For its time, you could tell that every single line was hand-crafted assembly because it made all other programs feel super slow. Dazzle (1993) - YouTube
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Circa 1993 I was somewhat chuffed when I managed to render a Mandelbrot set in less than twenty minutes on a 386, so yes, that's pretty darned quick!
Something else that impressed me a lot in those days was Fractint which could render fractals in seconds rather than minutes by doing all the calculations with ints rather than floats.
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