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Is it just me or is it the most ironic thing in the world that the organisation responsible (maybe in quotes) for web standards has the most appallingly formatted outside of a geocities archive?
5 minutes work on their CSS would do wonders. And yet...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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In Spain we say: In house of the blacksmith, wooden cuttery
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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The shoemaker's kids go barefoot. (From Hungary)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Yeah... different words, same meaning.
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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In Sweden we say that the shoemakers kids walk in broken shoes.
Almost the same.
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and the auto body technician has a rusty car with peeling paint
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It's not exactly pretty indeed, but it's functional.
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It harkens back to the day when the internet was about information.
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It's been that way for almost 2 decades - seriously. It is appalling. Same as most governmental websites, particularly at the county and city level. They are all required to be compliant with standards such as WCAG 2.0, but it is shocking how many are not.
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This one?[^] I don't mind it. It's functional. Only bugs me that there's no 'c' in the domain name. And don't resize your browser down to mobile. So maybe, yeah.
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I always wondered about that. thought maybe they were keeping it basic so the oldest browsers could still see the page, but I doubt anyone is going to drag out an old BBS terminal, or get an old win95 running the original IE to look at W3C pages. 
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I simply think they don't care.
Even the oldest of the old browsers can do things like add some padding.
They need to ask themselves: are they an organisation dedicated to innovation and improvement, or an org dedicated to 20 year old technology?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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My audio went out a few days ag0...you don't realize how much you depend on sound until you don't have it.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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too funny, so I have a relatively high end laptop that lost it's internal audio. It just stopped working. A couple of weeks ago, I bought new wireless noise cancelling headphones - tada - the laptop audio started working again.
Thanks MS.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Got a wireless headset, plugged them in but didn't try them, maybe I should.
Bought a sound card should be here today or tomorrow.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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kmoorevs wrote: I don't expect to get compensated for either chore/favor
You do. I had the same problem.
kmoorevs wrote: Just this morning my wife told one of her friends that I would be happy to come by later today to look at her alarm system?
That's a small favor to your wife. All of the other stuff, is something money can buy.
So now, when she goes "I promised you would look at..", I just smile and nod. Downside, is she is making more of those promises.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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For favours for the wife I make sure I am compensated by a favour from my wife. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Personally, the thing that annoys me the most is when they say, "I know that's what I said I wanted, but that's not what I meant. You should have known." I'm not a freaking mind reader.
Followed closely by, "I know there have been a lot of changes to the specifications, but why is it taking you so long to finish?" What do they think I am, a freaking duck hunter? It is extremly hard to hit a moving target.
Repo Man
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Never, ever, ask them what they want! If they insist on telling you, then ask them why they want that, and tell them what else will happen if they get it.
What irks me is when (existing customers) get something then gush "wow! I never expected it to be that good..!" Well thanks for your faith in me, guys. 
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The list should have started at 0
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I started making people meet me halfway. You want me to work on your computer? Please bring it to my house where I have everything I need to work on it. You want me to work on your alarm system? Please have all the manuals ready when I get there to expedite repairing what's wrong. You'd be surprised how far your requests go down.
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I like helping people and while doing so attempt to teach them about how to fix things rather than them just passively watching. I also encourage them to ask questions.
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I thought the normal programmer was already the over commenter and the efficient programmer wasn't very efficient with those unnecessary parenthesis 
Know the yandere programmer all too well
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