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Nope. Nope-nope-nope. Nope-ity nope. IMHO.
Last week's episode was brilliant.
**********SPOILERS NOW **********
This week started off very well - The Doctor facing down the Rassilon / The High Council and effecting a coup without any weapons other than personal loyalty and a spoon. Oh and the attack eyebrows were deployed. Then, after centuries/eons (depending on how you view the timeline) of trying to get back to Gallifrey, The Doctor returns - and it swiftly becomes the Clara Oswald show once more. Clara should have stayed dead - instead she's functionally alive and functionally immortal (at least as long as she wants to be). What was a poignant death has been reversed, because Moffat can't stand dead characters and (I suspect) likes having the option of bringing back actors he's worked with. I also didn't like the who Diner TARDIS thing - I suspect this is intended to pander to an American audience, in a programme which trades on its quirky Britishness.
Certainly not the worst episode in this series - but a huge missed opportunity.
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Quote: Clara should have stayed dead
Why? She never has before. She's the Impossible Girl remember? Moffat is merely staying true to his meme, while cunningly setting us up with new questions about the true Hybrid. Is it the Doctor as he claimed? Ashildr? Or Ashildr/Ex-temporal Clara? And he's paying tribute to that historic line that suggests that Clara has literally become the Doctor.
Keith Barrow wrote: I suspect this is intended to pander to an American audience
Wake up! It's a knowing nod to the episode in which River 'kills' the Doctor which features the same diner and therefore entirely appropriate to this episode in which the Doctor who knows Clara also 'dies'. Moreover it's not American at all. It's a real cafe in Cardiff!
Too clever for you Moffat be?
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Member 9082365 wrote: Why?
For plot reasons, nothing to do with the "mechanics" of it - they've taken a well-written ending for a character and mucked it up.
Member 9082365 wrote: Wake up! It's a knowing nod to the episode in which River 'kills' the Doctor
It's not just a nod - it's the same diner, or at least a TARDIS Chameleon rendered version of it. But it's also pandering to USian audiences - or don't you think something can be two things at once?
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Appearing as the backdrop to a fraction of two episodes in 5 years does not smack of pandering to anyone! If you were pandering to the Americans surely you'd choose the first episode to do it, not the last. You'd have UNIT move to New York, Missy would be a Southern Belle, and the companions would all be high school cheerleaders. The Doctor would not speak in an accent which a lot of Americans find impenetrable and everybody would be seen with a tin of Coke in their hands at least once per episode. You might as well say that The Girl Who Died was pandering to the Vikings (or their descendants at least)! And didn't Missy greet Clara in a Spanish Piazza (or did I just make that up?) Pandering to the Americans, my arse! (Yes, that's right ... not ass!)
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For the first time in my two and a half decade career so far...
I wrote a base class named "Shape" and derived "Square", "Circle", "Triangle" and "Octagon" classes! 
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I hope you have success with your alternative to Visio.
/ravi
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Programming a scanning laser for a tattoo removal device....
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Yowza! Codez plz - urgent! 
/ravi
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You would probably find these descendants helpful.
Shape -> ExPartnersName
Shape -> ExPartnersFace
Shape -> MysticalSymbol
Shape -> SomethingInChinese
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Smart K8 wrote: Shape -> SomethingInChineseThatDoesn'tMeanWhatYouThoughtItDid
FTFY! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's what I meant, I just don't like long class names. 
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That won't compile... You know that'll come back in QA, right? 
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ND TAT2 CODZZ URGNTZ!!!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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clawton wrote: Programming a scanning laser for a tattoo removal device....
Software with friggin' lasers coming out of its head!
A slice of awesomeness.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Sir, I'm offended by that.
--The Pentagon
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But it had to be an octagon!
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Wait til you're a *gon!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I think I did that a couple of years ago, but derived slightly different classes from the parent. I was writing a small app to calculate fluid flows through different channel shapes with different slopes and frictional coefficients. It was rather cool, actually, but the company I wrote it for didn't have anyone working for them bright enough to use it. Oh well... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Aren't those all move titles? 
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Just don't derive square from rectangle
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The difficulty asking a question …. and the much more difficulty to answer one
Q:
Questioners are not always –usually not- native English. So some questions may look strange for natives. This should never be a decision criterion to vote down or fade out a question.
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Yes I can imagine one would give all of the own knowledge in the answer. But usually it is enough/better simply to answer first the basics. No matter how simple the question is.
Additional notes are of course welcome and usually very good, but remember additional and not flood Q with it first.
Just some thoughts....written by a absolutely no native
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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The problem with that is the Q's that get 1-voted have nothing to do with what language the OP is native in.
Conveying a context so people who are walking into your question ice cold is a common concept across all languages. The typical response to a bad question like that is usually something like "What are you trying to do with this?".
Also, there's a ton of questions where the OP obviously didn't do the simplest of searches before posting. For example, there's a question in QA right now, 1-voted of course, where the OP says he's trying to write an "OCR application where the inputs are 0..9". OK, fine. OK, no context again so "What part of this are you having a problem with?" There's also tons of articles all over the web on OCR, including a bunch here on CP.
Both of these problems usually get a 1-vote. Again, asking questions is a skill. Doing research is a skill. These are severely lacking in most OP's and they are the two skills that, without, you cannot survive in this industry or even be an effective hobbyist.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Also, there's a ton of questions where the OP obviously didn't do the simplest of searches before posting.
Agreed.
Here the OP claim 5 years of developer experience, but is unable to provide code for this simple problem, and wondering if recursion is better, show lack of experience. I suspect HomeWork in desguise.
http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/5167925/Optimize-algorithm-arrange-an-array-with-items-wit.aspx[^]
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Thank you very much for your Feedback.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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