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Not everything in QA is stupid, or written by the terminally moronic. A lot of it is...but not all.
FarceBook on the other hand...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So you're suggesting POH, Dave [Auld not Dalek] and myself are terminally moronic? We'll get ya and give ya the wedgie to end all wedgies!
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: So you're suggesting POH, Dave [Auld not Dalek] and myself are terminally moronic?
Yeah I can't believe he bothered to type it out either. I thought it went without saying.
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Hey, I resemble that remark!
Farcebook has value if used correctly...
1) Family and friends spread far and wide around the world
2) Work mates all over the place / different platforms / countries
3) Monitoring general sentiment in the industry in various work related 'groups'
4) Watching Darwinian candidates at play!
The difference is letting it control you, or you controlling it. The wife, she has becoming totally absorbed by it, but fails to see it and denies she has. Is that not the first signs of addiction? 
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Used facebook daily while overseas for a year, and haven't touched it in the four since, so I have to whole-heartedly agree with point 1 emphatically.
Of course if everyone saw it that way, no one would have been on it to keep up with in the first place...
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DaveAuld wrote: The difference is letting it control you, or you controlling it. The wife, she has becoming totally absorbed by it, but fails to see it and denies she has. Is that not the first signs of addiction?
My missus has the same issue with Clash of the Clans. 
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Except they can't, unless he chooses to accept them as friends. Here anyone can read them.
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Well he passed - 85% is not actually great for L1 courses [if he's on a higher level then it's okay]. I remember getting very peeved at dropping 5-10% on a few TMA's but when you're doing multiple courses it can get rather confusing. I was doing two parallel code monkey courses, and on one you lost marks if you didn't use accessors for all references to member variables and you had to use this for member references, on the other course you got dinged for wasting code using accessors internally or sugar like this. 
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I remember that well...pondering the "Do they or do they not want me to use this, as it would be shown in some places, but not in others. Then they use some other language, can't even remember what it was now, that completely confused the dung out of me. And then there was all that AI functional programming which was just like  
So over the duration of my OU degree;
c#
java
javascript
vb.net
other weird language thing (maybe more than one)
functional language thing.
html and css
There was probably other stuff in there that my mind has deliberately chosen not to remind me of. Oh, then those elephanting frogs...
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DaveAuld wrote: AI functional programming which was just like
I enjoyed this and even did my Final year project in this field, I did have one of the leadiing protagonists in AI as my lecturer though, some of the course material was on stuff he had 'invented'.
His name escapes me now though.
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I was lucky, just Java and badger's nadger of HTML. The weird shyte for me was the Systemics I did as the second half. That was at times brain melting to get head around.
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A single Roman article follows a clear way of keeping a publicans spirits honest?
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Yep.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Can we get an answer, for those of us that can't work out because we are half-Mackem?
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Optician
(Perhaps we should have gone to Specsavers)
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I did. But they didn't know the answer either.
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Oh, aye I forgot about that bit.
Optician - one who sees/looks at your sight.
It's a "pure[^]" cryptic clue, which popped in my head when I was having a nice cup of tea this morning. Weird thing was I wasn't thinking about crosswords at the time. DD doesn't do the "pure" ones very often, but I suppose in Luton they are hard to find 
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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My favourite of those was "H I J K L M N O" (5)
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Can you remind me of the answer please?
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Water
also
H I J K L M N O<br />
lb
which would be Heavy Water
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Wow! 
Impressed.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Raise your hand now if you assumed this was going to be a rant contra MSDN ...
From the copy text in an e-mail message advising me of an upcoming SyncFusion "Partner Webinar" ... note I am not a SyncFusion "partner," nor have I purcha$ed the company's software tools, though I hear they are quite good.
"Fast code is good code. However, in the .NET, world almost none of your performance problems are not algorithmic problems. Your problems are memory and the use of the garbage collector." Given the webinar is being done by one of the Wintellect gurus, I am sure this copy was not written by anyone from Wintellect: them folks got beaucoup de smarts !
The co-sponsor of the Webinar is listed as "Lidnug" (which I've never heard of), but it turns out to be some kind of "linked .NET user group" whose website (lidnug.org) now has a single page with the title: "Lidnug is now currently being re-born," and no other content.
Well, I would never hold being reborn, and, I assume, being temporarily content-free until the winds of karma sucked-in by the blank-slate-bardo-state rush in to create a mind-self, against any being, since I'm counting on it, myselves, but I do admit to a prejudice against double-negatives for the same reason I believe being too clever by half is so often worth less than a paradigm, let alone a quarter. When things come back from the recursive laundry; oh yes, you may not be able to see the little spots with your naked eyes, but they're there.
I mean: isn't that what quantum theory, and string theory, are trying to tell us; that's it's an endless romance of pixels and anti-pixels all the way down to one singularity pixel-egg, and then back up to a giant squawking Apocalypse Rooster mating with a giant clucking Black-Hole Hen, to the tune of an ∞ with an א (Aleph) greater than the reputation of even OriginalGriff ?
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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Wow. even your rants are wonders of the English language! Can't you just for once give us a proper "Why X Sucks"* rant
* Where X != any person in Thailand...
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Turns out that I know one of the people who set up LIDNUG, the uber clever Peter Shaw (aka Shawty). Yes, they are rebuilding, but they are still very active and I will be doing at least one webinar for them next year, so I hope you haven't been put off them. They have done some great webinars in the past and I hope I can live up to them.
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Not put-off a jot or a tittle, Pete. All in the good clean fun that comes from trying to digest my daily dose of "wonders never cease."
cheers, Bill
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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