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Michael Martin wrote: Not being a knob eating Yank I would have said Tomato Sauce.
 That had me in f***ing splits.
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Lucky fellow! I can think of few things I'd enjoy more than breakfast with the both of you. Alas, it's quite unlikely that fate will allow me that pleasure...
Will Rogers never met me.
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it is bloody hard to get google to produce grammars for EBNF.
as in, EBNF grammars for the EBNF syntax itself.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: my google-fu is apparently weak
Are you sure about that?
codewitch honey crisis wrote: it is bloody hard to get google to produce grammars for EBNF.
I don't think that brings them money... and that explains it
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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cool paper 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Cool author. 
<edit>
Feynman doesn't have anything to do with this paper, he's just being quoted at the top.  </edit>
modified 9-May-19 3:09am.
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Cool inventor (Niklaus Wirth)
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Cool updater.
Inventor would be Backus, or even Chomsky.
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It's getting increasingly difficult to get Google to produce relevant results for anything. They seem intent on returning results for what they think you might have meant, rather than what you actually searched for. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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part of it is the query. an EBNF grammar is simply a grammar written in EBNF syntax
what I'm looking for is the grammar of EBNF itself.
it's hard to tell google that.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I find that so annoying. At least half the time I have to click on the, "did you mean ..." link because, YES, I really did mean that.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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You can, kind of, fix that by using "verbatim" instead of "all results"
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Sheep registered as pupils in bid to save classes at French Alps primary school 
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Humbug!
Oh, wait!
It's the bit that comes before "humbug"!
Bugger.
I wish it were possible to edit things on the Interwebs.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Subtle!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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They just wanted to save their school.
Where there's a wool there's a way!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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DRHuff wrote: Where there's a wool there's a way!
Ewe are so right!
"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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Personally I think the powers that be should officially pretend not to see any shenanigans going on with student registration; but instead come down on administration at the end of the year because 6% of the student body scored 0's on every assignment and examination. (Alternately do the same to the admins for falsifying grades.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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... started up Visio to create a flow chart, and my system prompted me to enter my credentials to connect to the MS template proxy server...
I entered my creds and it refuses to connect... because some idiot in the IA department decided that the MS office template proxy needed to be blocked. I can't use ANY of the office apps installed on my system because of this.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - 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
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LibreOffice on USB.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I'm not looking for suggestions or help. I'm merely ranting (again). Nothing anyone suggests can be done, because...
I have no control or even input regarding what software the Air Force uses. We also can't use USB devices of any kind, and we don't even have dvd drives in our systems. We also can't download anything from the internet, or install software.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - 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
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#realJSOP wrote: I'm not looking for suggestions or help. I'm merely ranting (again). Nothing anyone suggests can be done, because...
I have no control or even input regarding what software the Air Force uses. We also can't use USB devices of any kind, and we don't even have dvd drives in our systems. We also can't download anything from the internet, or install software.
That would frustrate the hell out of me.
So, now you are waiting until you get proper permission to use a template?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It is not a pleasant experience, to be sure...
I've spent the last three weeks trying to track down a connectivity problem, and it seems like we're no closer to resolving it than we were when I started. Our software was working great until the beginning of February, and then it suddenly started failing. The symptoms are (and have always been) that the software fires up multiple threads, and each thread is assigned an equal number of items to fetch via a web service. We expect an occasional request failure, and have written code to accommodate this in the form of a user-specified number of retries before terminating the app (the first thread that reaches the retry threshold terminates the app).
After running for a bit, the app starts getting consecutive failures on all threads. This might sound like a memory problem, but remember, up until February, it worked great. The length of time before the failures start is almost always different. To troubleshoot this, we even set up our own "remote" server and web service to return the same amount of data (500k records), which proved our app was working as intended.
I think our primary road block is that nobody wants to do as much work as we have in order to help us track it down. In other words, it's a typical federal government cluster-f*ck.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - 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
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I hope the pay is good, might make it worth the extra nonsense 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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