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Nowadays I do it all the time.
I have decided that I might as well google myself. I am sick of wasting my time with 3-4 "friends", trying all that I might to avoid using words that could be related to "facts", making them all dive into their smartphones trying to be the first one making corrections to whatever I had happened to utter, based on True Reality Facts from Wikipedia or whatever other googable holy, inexhaustible fountain of Eternal Truth. Usually, it takes a minute or two until a True Fact has been read from the smartphones, but usually within seconds, another word is uttered that requires a new smartphone dive into the world of True Facts.
In the old days, we chatted, smiles, cried, laughed, and sang together. Today we google together.
I am not very good at googling on a smartphone. I much too often make one statement every two minute or so, and then sit by myself for a few minutes waiting for the others to complete googling something that I said, to be rejected or expanded on by more read-aloud "facts".
Friendships are not what it used to be. Fact is, when they reduce to googling matches, I tend to throw them away. Sad, but true.
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I have a complete collection of Charles Dickens that is old enough not to have a publishing date in it, so probably circa 1900? I do have some Thomas the Tank Engine books that have publication dates of 55-60. And in my parents collection there's an old Bible, which I seem to recall had a date of about 1690, based on the births/marriages/deaths listed inside - but I can't be sure about.
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I have a Douay–Rheims bible which is probably 1940s or 50s vintage, will need to check when I get home.
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I think the oldest I have are my dad's mathematical tables from when he went to University in the 50s.
I also have, and can use, his slide rule.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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The two volumes of Dixon Kemp's 'Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing and Architecture' presented to my grandfather when he went from Osbourne Naval School to Britannia Dartmouth Naval College in 1910, at the age of fifteen. The books themselves are undated.
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Nothing older than me and most considerably younger.
My parents are into books though.
They buy up complete collections.
They have like 500 books on butterflies alone 
Some really old ones too, like pre-1900's.
A pre-1900's book sounds really cool, except when it's about butterflies or mushrooms or birds it's just outdated and worthless.
I just hope they've disposed of them before I inherit them 
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I have some Jewish prayer books from 1827 - these are from my grand-grandfather, printed Munich in Hebrew and German in 1827...
Also hove an original copy of the Magyar-franczia szakácskönyv from Dobos József, the creator of Dobos torte[^], from 1881... That one came from my mother, who bought it on a sale...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I have quite a few, collected over the decades:
A complete hard back collection of Thorne Smith novels from the early 1940-1950s.
A unused copy the "The Cosmic Banditos" by A.C. Weisbecker (sic?); last I checked this as worth over $1000
'The Lord of The Rings' leather bound first edition, acquired from my aunt when she worked at the publishing house.
A signed copy of Killashandra' by Anne McCaffrey (later given to my niece, who my sister named Killashandra)
Multiple plastic boxes of hardback and paper, many prior to 1960s. Hate to get rid of them
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Bought a book on Z80 the other day at a 2and hand store for .50 printed in 72. Online the cheapest I could find was $20.
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Ten books containing the twelve cantos of the Srimad Bhagavata Purana, some of which are dated 1910, in the Kannada language.
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The Wrong Box
2nd(?) edition, in very bad condition. Late 19th century, sometime after 1889, anyway. (Otherwise it would be a first edition.  )
And a bunch of books from the 20's
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1878
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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...but it's so SLOW!
It took me 5 or so minutes just to log in (though that is probably down to my "strong" password being impossible to remember, let alone type).
And I grew out of "one finger" typing decades ago...
Still, there you go @Chris-Maunder
one more browser you can say CP works with! 
And it's wierd leaning forward and having your browser run awy from you.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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OriginalGriff wrote: let alone type).
Switch to a gesture password. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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it's gotta be freaking the cat out?
... but you do know it'll get the gist of it some day and take a real crap on your sofa.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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OriginalGriff wrote: And I grew out of "one finger" typing decades ago...
Typing - Grade 10 - 1979. Easily the single most useful thing I learned in all of my schooling!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Agreed, with one caveat:
- One typing class: Highly recommended.
- More than one: Highly discouraged.
I made the mistake of taking another typing class in grade 10 (I had my first one in grade 9). The second class was nothing but a huge waste of time (OTOH, while the first typing class was a mostly even mix of boys and girls, as I recall, the second one consisted of myself, and a bunch of girls who aspired, I guess, to become secretaries)...
There's much better material I should've gotten covered while in high school, but that's a long story for another day...
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OriginalGriff wrote: And it's wierd leaning forward and having your browser run awy from you
That only happens to me on really bad days. I usually put the cork back in at that point.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: I usually put the cork back in at that point.
Hopefully not before shipping code 
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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are you using industrial tin-foil ? the household stuff won't work.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I always use industrial tin foil - it's twice as thick as the domestic version, and a lot cheaper if you buy it in 90m rolls.
Plus, your tinfoil hat can be extended with a tinfoil cape to cover your whole spine wioth little extra effort.
Just don't drop it ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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@OriginalGriff
the tin-foil cape is very soignee, butt the problem is: when you bend over, you can leave a butt-print in the cape which could be picked up by scanners.
very few people can make a perfect ass of themselves.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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C#: Which do you prefer (given the small number of array items):
Type stringType = typeof(string);
Type[] expectedTypes = Enumerable.Repeat(stringType, 3).ToArray(); or:
Type stringType = typeof(string);
Type[] expectedTypes = new Type[] {stringType, stringType, stringType};or: (using an extension method):
Type[] expectedTypes = typeof(string).Repeat(3); Definition of the extension method:
public static T[] Repeat<T>(this T item, int n)
{
return Enumerable.Repeat(item, n).ToArray();
}
I'm curious if anyone has any strong preference, and why.
From my perspective, the first version is sort of silly but cute, given there's only 3 items being initialized. The second version, ok, but I don't like it because I hate repeating myself. The third version I really like as it's very readable but some people object to creating extension methods (not that I care, it's my code, haha.)
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Type[] expectedTypes = new Type[] {typeof(string), typeof(string), typeof(string)};I have a 'mild' preference for the above line.
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