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Chris Maunder wrote: It's driving me insane.
Count 'em. After the meeting/presentation, hand them your count and leave.
I found that it works better than interrupting them and pointing it out 
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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At Microsoft in the old times whenever they had a meeting with Bill Gates, they assigned one person to be the f*** counter.
The less f***s the better the presentation went.
My First BillG Review – Joel on Software[^]
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Those are filler words; when I took English classes in school I used a lot of them.
It is not something conscious and it may annoy the f*ck out of of your audience, like y'know. It may hurt their cause.
..true story; learned what filler is as a kid in school, interrupted anyone explaining so. It's better to just count and give a note after the session. Shows you been distracted, without being too rude. It's still rude, but less.
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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"Y'know what I'm sayin'?" At the end of the majority of someone's sentences wears on my patience.
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I can't stand webinars as such.
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Y'know, uhm... like, there are a few good ones out there, I hear. Y'know what I'm sayin'?
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Uhhhhmmmmmmmm.
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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Having been a professor at one time (long, long ago), I remember doing a teacher training course where part of the emphasis was on being able to speak on a subject without saying "um" or "er" at all. For some on the course it was very difficult to get out of the habit. Today, there are many people who cannot get through a single sentence without using the "f" word or other things as emphasis or filler, Y'know?
My sympathy with your having to listen to something you actually wanted to learn about but being distracted by sloppy presentation. Education generally is poorer these days, not because of subject matter, but because of the quality of basic teaching skill is so low.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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� Forogar � wrote: Education generally is poorer these days
So, why did you stop being a prof then?
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1. A real job paid much better!
2. At that time (early 80's) the nationally prescribed syllabus surprisingly didn't change much so it got boring teaching the same stuff year after year.
Reason #1 is the main one.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Sounds like a generic reason to why our education is supposedly worse nowadays.
So, how come tuition is so much more expensive today?
It is isn't it?
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Like, that, it's like a real bummer.
(current use of "like's" makes me nostalgic for the old ways)
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Some old masters, which may have a lot of valuable historical information to contribute, could improve their presentation tremendously simply by dropping every single 'I remember when ...'
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Wasn't there a term to describe this style of speaking only in these empty buzz terms, y'know was only one of them. I think others were 'like', 'say', 'think of'...
Hey, think of, like you know, say something like, what do you think, really?
Years ago, I had links to sound files of people who could go on that way for several minutes without interruption. But I have lost the links (they would probably be invalid today), and I have forgotten the term used to refer to that specific kind of gibberish.
Could anyone help me to the right Google search term? It is certainly not that I 'need' it for anything, it is just for the fun of it. Nevertheless I would like to have a few links to some great samples of this vocabulatory art. I think of it that way - sort of today's follow-up to scat singing.
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Chris Maunder wrote: I'm listening to a webinar where every third word is 'y'know'.
It's driving me insane.
I had been listening to a podcast for years before I actually started noticing one of the presenters was constantly doing this. Then it's all I could hear. A few times I challenged myself to repeat it every time he would say it, in a mocking fashion. Good thing there was nobody around.
I had to stop listening to it. It is, absolutely, positively, the one reason. Which I thought was too bad, because I otherwise thought it was a pretty informative podcast.
[Edit]
I just visited the site and clicked Play on the latest episode, and moved forward to a random spot. I let it play for less than a minute, and the guy is still up to his old habits - I counted "y'know" 4 times within that minute.
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About a year ago, MSN.COM suspended (again) all comments ... I assume to stem all debates about covid-19 measures, dumb (Canadian) political moves, etc.
Just noticed, we are now being invited to "join the conversation" again.
Must be a sign that things are looking up in general ... or some things need to be livened up.
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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What a total waste of time, he says, writing a comment in response.
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I refer to it as venting (in the case of MSN). Others like to "retain" it.
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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so there was a project that had a definite deadline, we needed to convert a site that used some old flash components used to display biology slides. while doing research, others decided the best route was to buy from the same company that had provided the flash components; their latest enterprise version was just a JS package.
I read the documentation, oddly spread all over the place. Other than some html changes, and it only required one line of JS. very simple, got the whole site converted in a day. it tested well on Edge, Chrome, and Firefox. and I thought good enough lets publish.
then I started getting reports that on iOS devices; none of the controls would work (slide, pinch, next image....) testing with a remote debugger, there are no errors, warnings or anything to indicate as issue happening on iOS.
So I contacted the company (which we should of had 1 year support with the purchase) no response from the first email, waited a week (hey, maybe on vacation?)
second email, no response.
third email (getting angry) got a response, but they asked us to try and iOS device on one of their pages which did work. discovered their test page was using the Express version and build version was different and didn't have the options available that we needed.
fourth email with the results of the findings and sent a link with our temporary site so they could look for themselves. wait a week, no response.
fifth email (we are now a month and 1/2 over schedule, writing a very snarky email). No response.
others found another package to try (free). it worked will on some slides but cut some of them off by 75% so it was not going to work.
found there was a pro version from the first company that only had half of the features of the enterprise, but it worked with iOS. So I ended up writing the rest of the features to use this version, and it seems to work.
btw: they included all versions of the viewer as -src and -min versions in the package which was nice and the license was fine with modifications as long as the original notice was part of the file. I dug into the enterprise version to see if I could figure it out, but it's around 44000 lines of code with many comments through it saying "this doesn't work in iOS", "need a workaround for iOS" and such. 
it was nice that they included a flexible license, but damn that's poor support
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I am not going to read all that, but I will say: I tried everything you wrote and it still doesn't work!
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Did you turn it off, and back on again?
"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
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hey,
As the title suggests I am woundering if CP supports any form of short links to articles and tips/tricks. I have added some articles of mine to my CV but they are taking a lot of space and as I dont "want" to use other URL shortners (I am always hesitant to click on a shortened link) i want to know if CP has any way in shortening the urls itself.
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Quote: but they are taking a lot of space
If your CV is in word then you can have different display words to the link - are you including the full URL in the text of your CV???
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For the print view I do. Some companies will print the CV and for that I have to take into account the layout of the (full)link.
modified 11-Feb-21 13:07pm.
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Provide a link to all the other links.
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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