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When I was first learning COBOL at university back in 1972, we used a CDC 6400 system. Its COBOL compiler would occasionally emit the message "Compiler lost place, attempting recovery." We used to refer to the compiler as the "do or die system" as it would try to compile even the worst, error-filled code.
Nine years later, I became the Canadian Government representative to the CODASYL COBOL Committee, the developers of the language. The Chairman of the Committee at that time was Don Nelson, from CDC. Over a beer one night at my first meeting, I made a comment about that error message. Don burst out laughing and said, "I put that message in the compiler!"
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You don't know what you're missing!
*hides*
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Peggy : Hi Honey, did you miss me?
Al : With every bullet so far.
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Did you really remember that that was posted more than 4 years ago? I'm impressed!
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4? and longer...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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So what's the point?
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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If you are going to work for Farcebook, do not.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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That could well apply to Twatter as well with the new owner.
"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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oh bs. Elon is not the darth vader of <blank>. Twitter was a cesspool of left wing self righteous selective bullcrap.
Go build your own sandbox.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Who rattled your cage? 
Farcebook are laying off 11,000 employees: Twatter is getting rid of half of it's staff. Neither is good news for the employees, or probably the company - that's the comparison I was making. And "celebrities" with huge numbers of followers are already abandoning Twatter: Stephen Fry deletes his Twitter account and joins new social network amid Elon Musk's takeover | The Sun[^]
No soapbox needed here.
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And now Twatter is trying to get some of the ones they fired to stay ... 
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"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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OriginalGriff wrote: Twatter is getting rid of half of it's staff.
They're getting rid of more than half their staff. 50% is just the ones being sacked directly. To save on severance costs they're also massively changing the workplace experience by revoking work from home privileges and demanding 100+ hour per week sleep in the office death marches from anyone who avoided the initial mass sacking.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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
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Well I'm glad you laughed back. I'm not quite sure what triggered me. I have very little sympathy for employees who participate in the nonsense that twitter, face book, google, Microsoft push.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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In case u didn't hear: they're terminating 11000 souls.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Oh no. Anyway.
Really, FB paid a heckton, destroyed the economy of an entire area (not on their own, mind you) by doing so and now terminates a lot of fattened chicken. Also experience in FB is a good qualification for a lot of jobs - jobs I wouldn't do unless paid astronomically but veritable gold mines for the army of "codez urgnt plz" that's out and about.
GCS/GE d--(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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FB? clarify please.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Facebook (now Meta) had insane salaries, just like Google and a couple of big names. That meant that
- They attracted flocks of employees in search of easy money.
- Everything in that area had hyper-inflated prices because now it was full of grossly overpaid kids ready to throw money around like candies.
- Then they get periodically downsized and these people require even more money because they burned all they got and they can claim better past salaries. The prices in that area are still hyper-inflated though.
GCS/GE d--(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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man I must be tired or distracted not to pick up on the Facebook reference... 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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megaadam wrote: they're terminating 11000 souls.
Jeez, that sounds harsh. The article I read said they were terminating 11000 jobs.
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ty dandy.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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*using
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet!
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Short on time, so not an original (which might please some).
Jam session? (4,4)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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