TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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I'm more of a dickweed guy
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Instead, some silicon valley trivia!
http://siliconvalley.sutromedia.com/walkers-wagon-wheel.html
The heart of early Silicon Valley lay at Walker’s Wagon Wheel tavern in Mountain View. Employees of fabled start-ups from Fairchild Semiconductor to Netscape retired to this popular watering hole to celebrate successes, recruit staff and exchange solutions to common problems.
TIL I used to live three blocks from there, but I never had any idea it was anything more than a local dive bar. (Nor was I ever inside it, alas.)
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Given the OP, you probably have to meet some ridiculous requirements to sit at the cool part of the bar.
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Given the OP, you probably
havehad to meet some ridiculous requirements to sit at the cool part of the bar.
It was demolished in 2003.
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They destroyed a piece of Silicon Valley history to build a ... vacant lot. Absolutely nothing has been done with the site in 12 years.
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TIL the top line in is the electric line, and it's a side view.
I was picturing either the white gap as windows (but then what's that diagonal line?) or it coming at you head-on with the diagonal bit being windshield wiper.
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Then what would you expect to distinguish from just ?
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I wasn't sure at all.
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Interestingly, is approaching head on
And is far less easy to identify (without hovering) WTF it is. At that small size, my first guess was monitor and keyboard.
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I see that.
I also see a Pendolino.
That one looks curious
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That one looks curious
Like a dog with its head cocked.
Except that's not its head; it's its tail (at the moment).
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TIL the top line in is the electric line, and it's a side view.
Where did you think the wheels were?!
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TIL there are two species of mushroom called 'hedgehog', and they're both edible:
Hydnum repandum
Hericium erinaceus
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TIL: Alphaville (who I knew from Big In Japan) wrote Forever Young.
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TIL what NILF is.
It's a dog training technique where you refuse to give the dogs what they want until they behave. NILF stands for "nothing in life (is) free".
It's also the initialism of the *Norsk institutt for landbruksøkonomisk forskning, a Norwegian research institute associated with the Ministry of Agriculture.
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Psst. Over there. And in the back.
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TIL:
In general, 67 percent of people know how to tie a necktie. But among those who prefer checkers to chess, only 51 percent know how to tie a necktie.
And lots of other things.
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A-ha! I *knew* it!In general, 29 percent of people are fans of actor Joel McHale. But among those who pronounce GIF with a soft G, 47 percent are fans of actor Joel McHale.
Based on a survey of 120 people who pronounce GIF with a soft G and 368 people total.
I find the implications of this one particularly amusing.In general, 37 percent of people own binoculars. But among those who would watch a video of pimple popping, 52 percent own binoculars.
Based on a survey of 269 people who would watch a video of pimple popping and 420 people total.
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www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/logomachy
logomachy: An argument about words.
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Interesting, but those sample sizes are just too small to make those stats meaningful
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:thatsthejoke.mng:
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www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/logomachy
logomachy: An argument about words.
We need to petition the OED to add pendantry.
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The only flags I care about these days are the little icons of evil supposedly representing countries in the web app I maintain.
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The only flags I care about these days are the little icons of evil supposedly representing countries in the web app I maintain.
i18n, where 18 is the number of ulcers developed while trying to get it work semi-decently?
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FULL outer joins
Seriously. I've been using SQL for years and I've either never known of their existence, or have eradicated the knowledge of them through lack of use.
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I've not yet run into a situation where a RIGHT or FULL outer join was a logical thing to do.
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Me either with
RIGHT
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as I've seemingly never needed to even know it, let alone use it.
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I've not yet run into a situation where a RIGHT or FULL outer join was a logical thing to do.
AllRIGHT
joins can be written asLEFT
s anyway, so you don't really need them.
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Hence 'logical', rather than 'required'. I've always tended toward the 'parent before child' join pattern. Right or outer might make sense in that context if you can have orphans, but that's never been a usecase for me.
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I've not yet run into a situation where a RIGHT or FULL outer join was a logical thing to do.
I have only needed to do a FULL outer join once, and that was for a rather weird test query....
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likewise. hell i've used CROSS joins far more often than FULL joins
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I'm going to find an excuse to do one tomorrow, out of curiosity.
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I've done cross joins a few times, mostly when I just needed a large number of rows to get a load of duplication going
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TIHTGTRW cross joins are.
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TIL: Quirks mode.
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TIL that Microsoft will also skip IIS 9, they're apparently going 8.5 => 10
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All the things must be 10!
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X Windows?
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Windows X.
Because: Windows X Server Edition.
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I'm sure Apple would love that
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I was going more for:
Which I'm used to calling
X server
due to CLI invocations. But now that I read the full official name, I see added benefit in @aliceif's suggestion...Oh, look, it even says people call it X-Windows, too? I honestly never saw that used. Well... TIL, I guess
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I thought it was called X Server too but didn't register that existing in "Windows X Server Edition".
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Oh, look, it even says people call it X-Windows, too?
Claiming that it's informally called X-Windows is pretty funny, because old-timers insisted that "X Windows" was not the name, dammit!
Once again, Wikipedia sucks the life out of a description.
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TIL in Pythong lambdas can have default arguments, which an interesting way to create curried function calls.
def handler(arg1, arg2, arg3): print "Doing stuff with %s, %s and %s" % (repr(arg1), repr(arg2), repr(arg3)) call_handler = ( lambda arg3, arg1="my arg1", arg2="my arg2": handler(arg1, arg2, arg3) ) call_handler("arg3")