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Sander Rossel wrote: didn't have to watch it for the special effects. I'm sure they were great back then, but special effects aren't exactly timeless.
2001 was not about special effects. You saw it in 2010. That means you saw it when we'd been on the moon 40 years ago; we had a permanent space station; we had skype video conferencing and Siri and all that.
None of that had happened in 1968. Kubrick made a film that depicted a future world and future technology with a prescience that was impressive. There were no crazy costumes, no lasers, no space fighters: it was evolutionary technology mired in the practicalities of phsysics. He gave us just enough technology to explore the twin stories of finding alien intelligence and what happens when a completely logical mind is given conflicting orders. (You really should go on to read 2010 to get an idea of what actually happened to poor HAL)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Never thought of it that way.
The movie is still boring though (sorry) 
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Awesome as always. Looking forward to the Rosetta landing attempt this week.
"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
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So, sat at my desk, one of our apprentices approaches with brithday cards.
Normally get 1 or two a week. There are 4 of them.
wtf.jpg
"I wonder what happpened 9 months ago".
Look at calendar and announce "Valentines Day!" and pat myself on the back at my own brilliance.
One of the cards is for m'colleague opposite.
And he's just signed his own card as he called shotgun.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Heh. Nice.
The "really bad snowstorm back then" correlation is a fun one too.
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We have an 11 year old Cisco Catalyst 3550, which has been operating in cold, damp and at one point rained on conditions, the console port is somewhat rusty. Anyway the port has been brought to my desk for a reconfigure after a cleanup (back off and air line blown over it to remove dust and muck). Powered it on and it worked a treat. Cisco certainly build rebust switches.
I may use this to test my Android Based Serial/Telnet communication App I'm working on.
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I wonder if their new switches are as robust.
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I've notice the new models are scantly clad, i.e. extras like redundant power supplies and Cisco LX 1000 port missing oh and no console cables.
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NormDroid wrote: Cisco certainly build used to build robust switches
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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NormDroid wrote: rebust
Is that some sort of new kind of breast-related plastic surgery?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Woaaaaahhhht? What am i doing here ...
if(this.signature != "")
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MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
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MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
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You are the lucky one - you just finishing your studies and already aware that your job will not be to write code...See us poor fellows who wrote code for 20+ years just to reveal we done it all wrong...What a waste of time!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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I feel for you mates, glad i registered here at right time in the right place 
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You should visit Insider News[^] for time-to-time (daily?)
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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Bad things happen when I try to think freely and that "your job is not to write code"
Love the article.
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Writing code seems to be on the wane - it's all about fighting with the tools these days
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RugbyLeague wrote: it's all about fighting with the tools these days
Nah...we've been doing that for years!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It all seems to be deployment stuff these days
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To further that point, I see too much effort spent on looking for tools and then trying to get them to work, rather than simply writing exactly what you need.
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Which is so often what happens anyway when you end up ditching the tools in favour of the deadline and your income.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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She has it all wrong!
Figuring out what users want and need is her job (or my boss').
Implementing it (yes, writing the code!) is my job.
If what I make is not what the users want it's her fault for not specifying it well enough (well, could still be my fault if I didn't read her specs thoroughly).
If what I make does not work, creates wrong output, is buggy, etc. then, yes, it's a code issue and I am to blame.
It's easy to say everything is the programmers fault...
Unless she wants some well paid and talented engineers with low social skills to talk to users.
Yeah, real good use of resources...
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