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Keep your eyes on the road[^] 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Excellent!
Kudos to VW for that one. 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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How did they do that? I'd love to use whatever method they used to text the sodcasters on public transport.
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Probably a Picocell[^] - it's a small "mobile phone cell" which woudl just cover the cinema. Since it would be the strongest signal, all the phones would use it by default, so then it's just a case of sending a broadcast SMS.
Do note that it's probably illegal to use without a specific licence. Certainly would be in the UK as it could easily be seen as a form of jamming the mobile signal, or interception if they act as a "real tower" and forward the messages / calls. Sorry - but you'll have to stick with the ClueBat.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Damn. I'll stick with earplugs in that case.
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Brilliant! +5
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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"Mobile use is now the leading cause of death behine the wheel"
Time to up my alchol intake and re-don the lead left boot.
Seriously this type of right-on we do it because we care marketing BS gets right up my nose - & I'm dead against using the mobile in when driving.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Agent__007 wrote: I have now got 51 red-points!
Well, I can tell you that they don't overflow at 16384, but I'm working on 32768 - I'll let everyone know (but not individually, that would be likely to up the number by 10 million or so and fill my inbox for a couple of weeks) when I find out! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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We're sorry, but due to territorial restrictions, this video is unavailable at present. It will be available 48 hours after publication.
Also, she's not getting anywhere near my balls: 
She is a ball grill ...
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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BBC has something called "Holy Flying Circus" - a pythonesque comedy drama about the furore around "Life of Brian"
Weirdly entertaining, though only part way through.
Half of Punt and Denis is doing an excellent Eric Idle impression.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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I'm surprised they didn't get Eric Idle to do the Eric Idle impression. Still, always look on the bright side of life...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Keith Barrow wrote: Half of Punt and Denis is doing an excellent Eric Idle impression.
The top half?
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In the article 10 Bad Coding Practices That Wreck Software Development Projects[^] the #1 bad coding practice is "Typo's in your code"...
Not sure if typo's are a 'practice', but that's not even my point.
Now here's the fun part: "Avoid words such as receive, which easily be misspelled receive without being obvious."
So receive is easily misspelled as receive? I think the author made a typo there by correctly spelling receive! Apparently receive isn't so hard to spell after all. Recieve is difficult though, it's often misspelled as receive.
In the news the day after tomorrow: 10 Bad Blogging Practices, #1 Irony in your blog... 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Well spotted!
Is this the beginning of the 'dumbing down' of programming?
it already drives me mad when I see methods called 'Update2Database' or properties of 'Discount4Customer'
Next we'll be allowing punctuation in variable names so we can have methods called 'GiveDiscount ' and 'DeductTax
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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_Maxxx_ wrote: Is this the beginning of the 'dumbing down' of programming?
The beginning? I think it's cyclic, with the problems as well as the 'solutions' always remaining the same. There are always those to whom thinking and learning must be incredibly painful. They will do anything to avoid this pain.
The current environment, program languages, paradigms, best practices or whatever do not matter. They will always produce an unstructured mess full of sinister hacks. And they will be insulted when someone points out what a mess their code is. After all it works, or at least it pretends to do so.
That's why they are always looking for magic ways to make things easier. New languages, new tools, new rules. It does not really matter. It does not eliminate learning or thinking. They just repeat the mistakes of the past and once in a while everything that has been accomplished must be thrown overboard for something else and then slowly be regained. Or does anybody really think that an untyped, poorly structured interpreter like JavsScript really is the best bet we have?
Learn some algorithms, plan with data structures and not with tons of single variables, learn how to structure your code in a sane way and learn how to build libraries instead of copying and pasting without thinking. With this you can be very productive in any environment and in any language.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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The kids growing up today will be learning well, I think (those coming through primary and junior now, anyway) because of things like Scratch[^] which can help get them to think in a structured manner.
Trouble is, we also need the teachers who can teach them well - and there's the rub.
I've been at meetings with IT teachers at senior schools, where the teacher is explaining how they can't program themselves, so try to skew the lessons toward design and just really simple programming.
Would a maths teacher admit he couldn't add up?
sorry - went off at a tangent 
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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_Maxxx_ wrote: methods called 'Update2Database' or properties of 'Discount4Customer'
_Maxxx_ wrote: methods called 'GiveDiscount ' and 'DeductTax
Something like L33t[^] or LOLCODE[^]?
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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And now i think you are about to achieve your goal right? oops...Achieved..! Congratulations....
Have a best ever year ahead...Happy bday in Advance..!
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Thanks - Yep - I hadn't noticed it was there already!
Now I'll have to treat myself to something else for my B'day!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Fairly uninspired article, but I never knew that about Twitter (they had to abandon Ruby) so I learned something I guess
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Incorrectly typed code is only incorrect when it is typed incorrectly.
That, and ~
Everything is or is not ice cream.
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Thanks for directing me to read a complete lot of twaddle on which I wasted a couple of minutes. At least I know that I can safely ignore anything by Paul Rubens in future.
Has he ever worked on a software project? There is little evidence here.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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