From Twitch spam sent to me
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rewriting a WYSIWYG editor in ember ... users will give zero fucks.
Not entirely accurate. Some of them will be really annoyed at the way their batteries drain faster now.
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Take your eggs out of the old rotting basket they're in and put them in this newer basket
If the basket is rotting, I shudder to think what those eggs are gonna smell like.
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That's why you rewrite the eggs from scratch instead of porting their code.
Hey, analogies only go so far.
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It depends how much fuel you put in them.
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How much fuel does it take to melt steel eggs?
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Fuel doesn't melt steel eggs!
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Bicycle - every other.... cycle? No. Bi means two (as, likewise, tri- means three). Bi-weekly -> twice a week.
Semicircle - twice a... circle? No. Semi means half. Semi-weekly - half a week.
Nice work, Ambrose Bierce.
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Oh, well I see how that's relevant to Twitch.TV's useless spam. Thank you for posting that here.
You're welcome.
Hey, guys, you know what the difference is between bi-weekly and semi-weekly, right?
Bi-weekly is a week that will sleep with other weeks, OR with 7 days, but isn't limited to just one choice.
Semi-weekly is a week that likes to get railed in a dank bathroom stall at a restaurant for semi-truck driver.
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That's the way I learned it, yes. The comments above suggest that some of the audience maybe think they mean the same thing.
You know, I really need to read more carefully. Bi-weekly: every bi-week. A bi-week is two weeks, also known as a fortnight. Semi-weekly: every semi-week, that is twice a week.
It's more fun when you consider bi- and semi-monthly, and I realise that I've managed to hit all the common payday schedules not longer than a month. Weekly (at a now-defunct cheap imitation of K-Mart, if such a thing can be imagined), bi-weekly (flipping burgers), semi-monthly (my first real job after graduation, for a while, anyway), and monthly (everything else). Bi-weekly and semi-monthly are not the same, because in a six month period, there are 13 bi-weeks but only 12 semi-months.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Bi-weekly is a week that will sleep with other weeks
Would it sleep with transweeks?
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I've had several newspaper delivery jobs that paid every 4 weeks (13 times per year)
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Yeah, I've had jobs paying 4-weekly too.
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Bicycle: two cycles
Semicircle: half a circleAn annual event: the interval between events is one year
A biannual event: the interval between events is two years
A semiannual event: the interval between events is half a yearThat has the unfortunately confusing side effect that a biannual event happens 0.5 times per year, and a semiannual event happens twice a year.
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If I'm moving your dog to a new house, would you rather I moved it in one car or five?
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Why don't we just make it easy and pay everyone out at the end of the day with a handful of coin?
Would it sleep with transweeks?
Never, which is why most bi-weeks will lie about if they start on a Sunday or a Monday.
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If I'm moving your dog to a new house, would you rather I moved it in one car or five?
WOWWWWWWWWWWW!
It's almost like the situation changes depending on the analogy!
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Why don't we just make it easy and pay everyone out at the end of the day with a handful of coin?
The amount a lot of us get paid, that'd be a big hand, or very small coins.
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There's an easy way to solve this: gold coins. I'd be quite happy to work for a day for a handful of those.
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There's an easy way to solve this: gold coins. I'd be quite happy to work for a day for a handful of those.
That works.Better not make it the pound coins I saw in a museum in Oxford (England) one time though. They were from the 17th or maybe 18th Century, so each one was a pound of silver. Yer actual factual real non-fiat currency. If you had a contemporary £5 note and went to the contemporary issuing bank, wanting the cashier to "pay the bearer on demand the sum of five pounds", he'd have given you five of those coins. And you would have had five pounds of silver in your pocket.
EDIT: the £5 note would have been asset-backed. The coins were the asset.
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That works.
Since it would have a value of quite a few thousand dollars, you bet it works.
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There's an easy way to solve this: gold coins. I'd be quite happy to work for a day for a handful of those.
You'd work for $3-6 a day?
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The amount a lot of us get paid, that'd be a big hand
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Hence why the currency's full name is "pounds sterling" even if everyone shortened it to pounds.
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You'd work for $3-6 a day?
Did you check the current value of gold coinage? I did. :)
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@Choonster said:
You'd work for $3-6 a day?
Did you check the current value of gold coinage? I did. :)
Did you check the raw? I was making a fairly mediocre joke.
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I got the joke. In the US we have some $1 "gold" coins, too.
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Reminds me of the TF2 blog posts...
Hey, everybody! We wrote a comic! It’s full-sized, it stars the whole cast of the TF2niverse, and at least one person dies in it! It’s the first issue of an ongoing six-part series, set to come out bi-monthly
We've been busy these last few months, trying to settle a longstanding debate as to what "bimonthly" actually means. Some members of the team are convinced it means "once every two months." Others maintain even trying to define it would ruin the enchanting mystery of reading. Anyway, three months later we're no closer to an answer. However, we are close to releasing the second issue of Team Fortress Comics, this time as a tri-monthly publication.
2 years later, we can know for a fact that in Valve time, bi-monthly means "once every six months".
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@blakeyrat said:
I agree with you except on the devs part. I don't really care how you implemented a library or service except that it makes my life easier. Once it stops doing that I'll delete the software and stop paying the subscription.NOBODY GIVES A FUCKING SHIT!
Accurate.
Some devs don't seem to get this. They think some technical thing, let's say for example "rewriting a WYSIWYG editor in ember", is an achievement that users will care about. If there is no functional difference, the users will give zero fucks. It's sad for a dev to come to terms with, but it's true. Users don't care about whatever technical marvel you've achieved. They only care if it does the job or not.
Devs on the other hand are a different kettle of fish.
Developers need to get over themselves. Telling the world how you did something is the equivalent of a toddler telling a stranger they didn't wet the bed last night. Your mother has stopped molesting you. Good for you.
I always thought semi-weekly was maybe this week, maybe next week. If you're lucky the week after!
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I'm confused now... so how long did the Bicentennial Man live?
Trick question! Robots aren't alive.
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I got the joke. In the US we have some $1 "gold" coins, too.
Dollar coins? That crazy! Insane! Loonie!
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Not everyone still trades solely in moose
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Hello, I'd like to trade in this moose.
What? Why?
This one is worn out. It's a bit wobbly round the legs and the antlers are wonky.
Oh. I suppose you know our policy on moose trade-in?
Sure, if I want to upgrade to a fancier model I'll need to pay extra. It's a tempting offer, but I can't fit anything larger in the garage.
Hmm, yes. I can see that being a problem; a compact moose it is then. Would sir like to take out an extended warranty with that moose?
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From what I've heard, Jay Pinkerton (the comic's author) really did think bi-monthly was every 6 months.
Then again, a lot of what he says on Twitter has to be taken with a grain of salt.
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It's about time!!