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... at last - a captcha which should prevent the flood spammers: Select all the squares without ... [^] 
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Eventually, when they crack it, too, think how useful it would be to be able to scan a page of code for bugs!
A social engineering experiment to manipulate the hackers ? ! ?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: think how useful it would be
I assume you meant to write "think how many more people it would make unemployed"?
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musefan wrote: "think how many more people it would make unemployed"?
It would be worth it.
Since Q&A would all but disappear, someone would, at last, have a chance to catch OG's points total.
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I admit there are times when I go to QA and think I'm being used as a human captcha ... 
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How about implementing that in QA as well? 
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I'm disappointed no one has commented that there are missing semi-colons and the equality is using == instead of ===, which would then result in a religious debate around the concept of truthy/falsy and a debate on jslint vs ESLint which would, in due course, spiral down to comments on personal hygiene and ancestry.
Sigh. When I was a lad these things were important.
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I'm still foaming at the mouth from the use of 1TBS ...
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Chris Maunder wrote: the equality is using == instead of ===
I had to look that up, did not know === was a thing. Then this[^]:
JavaScript has two sets of equality operators: === and !==, and their evil twins == and !=. The good ones work the way you would expect. If the two operands are of the same type and have the same value, then === produces true and !== produces false. The evil twins do the right thing when the operands are of the same type, but if they are of different types, they attempt to coerce the values. the rules by which they do that are complicated and unmemorable.
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Wait - are they saying
=== != ==
or are they saying
=== !== ==
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Made me chuckle 
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They are saying one doesn't equal the other more than the other one doesn't equal the other.
And this is why JavaScript, as the winner of the Least Common Denominator Award, is a nightmare we'll all rue for years to come.
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I have a work colleague who has a habit of disturbing me while I'm working. He's a great bloke in every other sense, but he will often disturb me while I'm working with non-work related conversations e.g. "Hey did you see this on the news this morning....." etc. These can occur at any time of the day, not just lunchtime.
I appreciate his friendliness, but would also appreciate being left alone to get on with my job. I don't mind the work related discussion, but I find the non-work related chat a distraction.
What's a polite way of telling them that I'm actually busy.
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"Hey, I'm actually really busy right now. Can we catch up later?"
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"I'm sorry, but I'm busy right now. I need to concentrate on ___. Let's go for a beer later."
There's no way around it. Just make sure telling you want to hear it, just not now
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My method : headset + music.
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Don't even need the actual music, just bang some headphones on and let the assumptions you are listening to music have their way.
Perhaps just nod a little every now an then to eliminate any creeping doubts.
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I though I was the only one to do that...
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This is my preferred route so far
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Just pretend to zone out when they speak, like you are really focusing then say "huh... oh, sorry I was just lost in this work, what were you saying?"
A few variations of that and they will eventually get the hint.
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Doesn't work. I use that all the time, but my coworkers continue to talk to me all the same
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Last resort: become the office ****
Start by eating everyone's lunch, and make sure they know it was you, but can't prove it.
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What used to really get to me is people who would come in - often through a deliberately closed office door - and just start talking to me, even if I was already on the phone or talking to someone else! Even telling them to "f. off" has no effect!
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I've tried this too, and it does seem quite effective
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