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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: when someone talks on a subject that is way outside their sphere of knowledge/expertise.
Well, you seem to be in the right place for that 
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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Are you speaking from personal experience? 
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: speaking from personal experience?
No, I am a sociopath, so all my experiences are impersonal.
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: the many worlds interpretation of quantum effects
Obviously that's bullshit.
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I bow before your superior knowledge of quantum effects.
Now, if you can just write to Stephen Hawkins and let him know where he made an error.
My position is that it is one possible explanation of quantum uncertainty, and until experimental evidence gives us a reason to accept one, its no worse than any other.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: its no worse than any other.
Good to know you agree with me. 
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There are sheep. There are wolves. You can't get everyone to be sheep. There will always be wolves.
Telling the wolves to be more sheep-like will accomplish nothing -- they simply won't do it, history has shown.
You run the risk of telling the sheep to be more sheep-like which will be counter-productive, as the wolves will simply have an easier time of it.
Telling the sheep to be more wolf-like is the only logical course of action -- you can convert some sheep to sheep-dogs.
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He's right, but empathy needs to start locally, in one's house, in one's community, at the workplace. Fix the microcosm, and the macrocosm will follow.
Marc
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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According to a CERN statement, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is nearly ready to be reactivated for another round of experiments. For the Particle Physics lovers out there.
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
modified 20-Feb-15 5:30am.
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That's... particular.
I'll get my coat
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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You might not have heard the name "Gemalto" before, but you almost certainly have one of their products in your pocket. "I am the Keymaster!"
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That's yet even more "good advertising" for the US/UK tech industry.
Makes me happy
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Men were engineers. They conceived of machines and built them with their hands. They wielded the creative energies. The drudgery of tabulating and calculating was left to women. "Man works from sun to sun, but woman's work is never done"
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That'll take some time to read.
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Ah, you chil'un. Always needing your instant gratification.
TTFN - Kent
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She lost me at:
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I usually listened for awhile, before I pointed out that they were going in the wrong direction for schools—they should be working on developing small, personal computers; computers used by only one person rather than time-shared through Teletype or some other kind of terminal connected to a large mainframe. That kind of equipment, I told them, would never really take hold in schools, at least not for instruction. ... a salesman for Digital Equipment Corporation came calling ... , laid out his brochures and sales materials on the coffee table, and made his pitch for using a large mainframe DEC computer with classroom terminals, for instruction in schools. ... I listened to his pitch, looked at his brochures, then politely gave him my usual lecture. “Time-sharing could work for awhile, but it’s not a permanent solution, not for teaching,” I said.
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In the 80s all my computer training was on DEC mini-computers (PDP and VAX), with classrooms full of VT100s, VT200s, and VT300s. And we liked it!
Likewise, my employment from 1989 until 2002 was all on DEC mini-computers (and a smattering of Stratus  ). DEC didn't make mainframes, particularly not large ones.
The big benefit of a PC for classwork is the ability to take your work home. I have soft copies of some Turbo Pascal and Turbo C from late in my college career, but only printouts of much of my earlier student work.
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The pitch: Develop with Yahoo, and we’ll give you everything you need to make money. Because when you say, "Yahoo", you think about making loads of money
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The site said: Zoinks! There's a problem
I'm at home on my _supposedly_ open Internet connection so why would it be blocked or failing?
What kind of malicious site are you putting us onto, Kent? 
Bummer, I was completely ready to make my Billions from Yahoo! too.
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ReadWrite is zoinks territory? OK, try The Next Web[^]
TTFN - Kent
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I have the same problem with RW at work. One of the other times it came up, someone said they're doing something a bit screwy and non-standard with their web server; which is apparently playing havoc with the net-ninny proxy at work.
Maybe your home ISP is demonstrating why carrier grade nat isn't a real solution to running out of IPV4 addresses. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I didn't realize Yahoo was based out of Nigeria.
Marc
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Microsoft loves giving away free OneDrive space. "First there was space—endless, limitless space"
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