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CBadger wrote: A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
I actually do that 
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And it does make sense. Because "one-way" obviously isn't a concept understandable by everyone
(Besides: Cyclists usually are eligible to use a one-way street in both directions)
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but seriously though, I will not put my life into the hands of a complete stranger hoping (s)he knows the one-way street concept.
Look at it as "defensive programming" 
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V. wrote: Look at it as "defensive programming"
I guess the best defense is indeed a good offense
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So do I, after I was hit by a Japanese tourist riding his bike the wrong way down a two way road in Cambridge...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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just for my piece of mind, just how do you travel the "wrong way" down a two way road? is it a Japanse thing?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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This may help: In Japan people travel on the left side of the road.
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they do that in cambridge too, it's the proper side
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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He was cycling against the traffic on his side of the road right up against the pavement.
I have seen a few dunderheads doing that in Cambridge. 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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then he was probably american not japanese lol
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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CBadger wrote: A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street
Actually, that's anyone who has been to Italy and survived...
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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OriginalGriff wrote: and survived...
What about those that did not survive?
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"That there's some corner of an Italian road system. That is forever England."
Or France, or Germany, or ...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I went to looking up quotes and I noticed where language was called out PHP and Perl are explicitly mentioned in derogatory sense, much the way COBOL was many years ago.
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On a different note the two quotes though that I thought were the funniest were;
"It should be noted that no ethically -trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter."
― Nathaniel S. Borenstein
and
"You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog sh*t for frosting."
― Steve Jobs
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CBadger wrote: A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - (Doug Linder)
Reminds me of a classic "Top Tip" in the Viz. It started with:
Save time when crossing a one-way street by only looking one way.
- John Smith, Crawley
On the next page, they had:
Always look both ways when crossing a one-way street, in case a blue furniture van is reversing.
- John Smith, Crawley Hospital
"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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Richard Deeming wrote: furniture van is reversing
It is my understanding that any code controlling robotics about 75% is error handling code.
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CBadger wrote: Beta is Latin
Veni, vidi, vici.
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CBadger wrote: A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - (Doug Linder)
Being a paranoid motorcyclist, I now look both ways twice all the time.
Marvin is my hero
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And that's not enough 
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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The Netherlands took the top spot because it has comparatively low food prices, low diabetes levels and better nutritional diversity than its European rivals[^]
Is this the same Holland I know?
The food pricess are low because the food is cheap. Period. And the only reasn they have low diabetes and heart attack incidence, despite the beer they drink, fat they eat, and fags they smoke, is because they cycle everywhere, from a young age, all year. Even in winter.
try doing 5 miles to work in the morning on a bike in - 10 C. Every morning, al winter. I know, I have done it. A mate in Maastrict described a cycle to work, of many miles, in - 22C one year.
Seriously, the Dutch are nuts about cyclcing. I have seen more kids on one bike than I have in most cars: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=dutch+family+bike&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=hRPZUoXrCozfqAHQ04Eg&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1525&bih=633[^] 
Oh, and please note, the most 'unsustainable' countries have the best scores. Says something about so called 'sustainable' 'back to nature' farming doesn't it.
modified 17-Jan-14 9:16am.
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try cycling my route to work its probably 5 miles virtically if you add the hills together, when yo live in a country where anything over a foot high is classed as a mountain it does make it easier to cycle
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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For sure, cycling in Holland and Belgium is quicker than driving, it is so flat. And you can park anywhere.
Anyway, I bet you can also eat what you like and don't get fat.
When I was doing it, 10 miles a day, 40 minutes, every day, I cold eat what I liked, drink what I liked, and never put on weight or suffered hangovers.
Its great cycling to work, free exercise I call it. 
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As their neighbour I can tell you, they're not more healthy than the next one. Only more annoying.
(sorry, couldn't resist)
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I have been tempted to cycle to work (as I used to a very. very long time ago) but was put off by the fact that the walk to the shower from the office afterwards is longer than the original walk from the lounge to the office...
That and it'd take longer to fit the bicycle clips than to walk it!
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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