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... when that's actually an infinitesimally small distance?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I think what's meant by that is not a measure of distance, but of energy.
Subatomic particles exist at different energy levels, and giving a particle more energy results in it making a leap to the next level.
For example, with the photoelectric effect, a photon hits an atom and imparts to an electron a burst of energy, causing it to leap up to a higher energy state and become part of an electric current.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Not if you're a Lepton.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I am a Lepton Yellow, and I endorse this message! 
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Lepton?
4 a.m. .... hungry cat ...
Now I can identify.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Perhaps it's because quantum physics keeps going around in circles? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Isn’t it all just part of the physics theory that they keep stringing us along with?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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I feel uncertain about this.
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Is it against your principle?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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So a burglar broke into the house...
I put the red dot on his chest and the cat did the rest!
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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A modern play on my (very old) concept of a watch cat, by which I meant a pet Tiger. A + for you.
One puts a "beware of the cat" sign on the door.
Now if one has a watch dog, the damn things bark for all sorts of reasons throughout the night. A nuisance for oneself and one's neighbors. A watch cat doesn't make noises every time someone or something comes within his perceived territory. He waits quietly.
Burglar comes in? A short shriek. A bit of a mess to clean up. No need to by any cat-chow for a few days. One might even take to leaving apparent valuable where they can be glimpsed from the street.
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Never mess with the crazy cat lady.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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After a little thinking: You don`t need a laser, just a big box.[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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That would work if you had the box at the door and the burglar had to pass through it.
Be fun to watch!
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Make the box temting enough and let him steal it. He will open it at home and you have no mess.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Like the guy that created the exploding Amazon box. Funny!
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Maybe you feel similar about it as I do - before approaching Other People's Code, poke it with a stick from a distance.
As I've coded I've become less judgmental of other styles, but not of lack of craft (code with anti-patterns, obvious bugs, or just rube goldberg contraptions)
Still at the end of the day, if you build something, you should be forced to use it/rely on it. Suddenly software would be a lot less rickety. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: if you build something, you should be forced to use it
 Dogfooding should be mandatory!
Either that or be forced to handle end user support for the products you deploy to the world. When my main objective is to keep the support line from ringing, I put a lot more care into what ships.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: Dogfooding should be mandatory!
Hear, hear!
/ravi
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kmoorevs wrote: Dogfooding should be mandatory!
Either that or be forced to handle end user support for the products you deploy to the world. When my main objective is to keep the support line from ringing, I put a lot more care into what ships.
These two items should be in the company employee manual.
Do not hire any people unless they agree with these.
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gosh i was hoping to never hear that phrase again after i left Microsoft.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Nice idea in principal but maybe not practical in reality. I generally use the code I write a lot, but not the end product. I've worked on sites for holiday companies, insurance companies, printer companies, sweet companies, building companies...in my entire career I think there has been one website I have worked on that I would actually use as an end user. Not because they're bad products, just because I am not the intended consumer.
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honey the codewitch wrote: if you build something, you should be forced to use it/rely on it.
I'm glad that's not the case for home builders. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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