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Quote:
"An attempt may be a failure, but there should be no failure of attempt".
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Is that a cleaned up version of "do or do not, there is no try"?
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This is a statement coined by an elderly person in my city (Bangalore) in India; this statement was quite famous during my childhood, around 40 years ago.
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Almost posted that 90 minutes ago but couldn't decide if it was or not so I did not, no trying involved.
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if you pronounced "Kant" in it's original way (Dutch/German), well, let's just say NSFW
oh, and Imautomatic didn't need to try.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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lopatir wrote: if you pronounced "Kant" in it's original way (Dutch/German), well, let's just say NSFW
As a Dutchie I say "can't" with a slightly harsher KA sound.
I'm now saying it out loud in front of my computer like a total idiot and I think I hear what you mean 
The A is pronounced slightly different from the U sound though 
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my folks are Dutch, I'm born outside so my primary language is English and never formerly learned Dutch (wasn't a thing in NZ schools) - but I get by, and boosted by a couple of years living in Utrecht including some with other family that didn't speak any English (yeah, your choice: learn to talk or go hungry ).
so used to accented English (from parents and their friends),
... but still always felt awkward when told say "the "Kant's" were coming over to visit," or similar with that family. (great people though.)
works both ways though: while in Utrecht, now I'm the one with the different [zeker niet nederlands] accent I never got the hang of properly sounding "kat" vs ... 
--- guarding myself I would normally use "poes" 
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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true, the young ones all speak (taught) English, but not so much the older generation.
Same thing here in Singapore, kids speak English - taught in school, a lot of old folks though never learned it. (Yeah of course only takes a bit more effort to communicate - not going hungry here either - that was more of a joke.) China is getting that way too (despite the fact worldwide Mandarin is bigger then English). Seems only Japanese (pride) and French (arrogance - even when they can understand it) avoid English.
Best "English" speakers I found were in Norway (younger ones), in fact they spoke it better (more correctly) than the Brits. We all know native speakers are lazy, "can I have a ..." when they meant "may I" ... (I'm sure all languages have stuff this too) - somehow the Norwegians got English without the lazy.
not knowing a language has it's advantages too, I'd always smile through a tirade of complaints about me to my wife from my mother in law - yeah I got the jist from the tone and amount of times my name was repeated, and always thoroughly enjoyed it.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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It is worth noticing that every time you refer to the mouse in Norwegian, it has a similar secondary meaning. (You can imagine how we sometimes refer to the scroll wheel.)
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Also Norwegian, where it means edge (of a counter, for example).
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And that's where you meet the Moose 
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Kant or Wont?
When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know.
But if you listen, you may learn something new.
--Dalai Lama
JaxCoder.com
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Maybe it affects your religious beliefs if ...
- God be with you!
- Can't!
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"If you seek a roué to irk your aunt,
Kubla-Khan but Immanuel Kant,"
(Nash, "Versus")
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Is capital or fishy business. (11)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I won't post the answer as I've done one this week but I don't get the business part
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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As in, that's none of your business.
I can't play tomorrow, so I won't take it today either.
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Sorry, I can't do tomorrow so I will have to abstain. Hopefully somebody else will take it off yours hands.
Thanks for meeting my strict criteria on rules though 
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PISCATORIAL (anag. of IS CAPITAL OR)
= fishy business
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Yep, nailed it.
All yours for tomorrow. (Just as well because I am committed elsewhere at the relevant time.)
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Thanks Peter. Got to think of something now...
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I've been out of the professional dev field for some time but I've run across mongoDB backed REST based repositories like TMDB's.
They're really easy to tightly integrate with a JSON based caching entity framework.
What I'm really asking is if mongoDB is the "go to" for REST based JSON repositories or is there a more popular offering out there these days?
Real programmers use butterflies
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Mongo only pawn in game of life[^] 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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well, Im just beginning to play with it for an upcoming series on Go(lang), mainly because I wish to use JSON 'documents', and I think for non SQL work it is quite popular - on looking at the examples Im putting together, it is certainly 'easier' to change the structure of a document, rather than redefine a SQL relation table
As with sooo many things, one chooses the right tool for the job - some tools can be used as a hammer to achieve a task, that doesn't necessarily mean that it is correct to do so
A recent company I worked for were inclined to store large XML blobs in relational tables with other information - their life would have been much easier not to have done so, but evolution is rarely logical
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