In other news today...
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@Boner I think that sounds like it would have been a classic on the Bad Ideas Thread, β¦
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@dkf thought that minutes after I posted. I promise the next story of catastrophic sphincter abuse will go in there.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
579522 β Buy cots for the JS interns
Comment #27 seems particularly apposite.
Weird. The page opened up directly scrolled down to that comment, and didn't bounce around all over the place for 10 seconds. I thought that was literally impossible to do in a browser.
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@tufty said in In other news today...:
In other news, local man killed for using "should of" in the place of "should have"
I just read a book - a physical book published by a proper publishing house, which I would have thought would employ at least one copy editor - which consistently, for the entire book, used "should of" and "would of" instead of "should have" and "would have".
I expect that sort of thing somewhat in the numerous free e-books I get on my Kindle (though actually confusion of homophones seems to be the most common problem there). But isn't fixing such errors one of the things publishers are supposed to be doing in return for their cut?
FWIW this book had a foreword by Newt Gingrich. Not sure how or if that connects, other than to point out that it's not merely some semi-illiterate's self-published work.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in In other news today...:
it's not merely some semi-illiterate's self-published work.
Evidence suggests otherwise! Mind you, it also suggests that the editor was either one of the semi-illiterate or had a moment of being massively unprofessional. I mean, Newt Gingrich? What were they thinking?
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@Lorne-Kates said in In other news today...:
"If this square represents 10, and this square represents 100, how many of the first square do you feel will fit into the second square?"
Until I get a stack overflow.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Scarlet_Manuka said in In other news today...:
it's not merely some semi-illiterate's self-published work.
Evidence suggests otherwise!
Nah, though it may well be true if you omit "self-". Which was my point, really, publishers are supposed to fix this stuff up in return for their slice of the money but this one seems to have not bothered.
Mind you, it also suggests that the editor was either one of the semi-illiterate or had a moment of being massively unprofessional. I mean, Newt Gingrich? What were they thinking?
Name recognition, perhaps? The book itself seems to have been intended as a jeremiad of sorts - it was a mix of moderately entertaining post-apocalyptic scenario and annoying hand-wringing over "oh why didn't we harden our systems against this specific kind of attack". So there's also a chance they were targeting it to a demographic for which that would count as a positive endorsement.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in In other news today...:
physical book
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@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
![ha ha you're using Firefox](data:image/webp;base64,...)
Yes, yes I am. And I don't even see the alt text. What the hell, Firefox?
Here's the image for the other user(s) of Firefox.
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@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
ha ha you're using
Firefoxany browser except ChromeFTFY.
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Rule of Law, COMPLAINs.
When the President does it, that means it's not illegal.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in In other news today...:
FWIW this book had a foreword by Newt Gingrich.
Like... back when he was in office? Or now? Because now I'm pretty sure he'd write a foreword for a book of sounds my cat makes.
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In other news today: Google open sources Parsey McParseface.
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Google... just call it
parser
so you don't look like childish morons...
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@Scarlet_Manuka Seems par for the course now. I read this yesterday, on what is apparently 'Financial Website of the Year':
"Yesterday's vote was unanimously in favour of cross border changes, with 640 MEPs voting for and 61 against."
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@coldandtired said in In other news today...:
"Yesterday's vote was unanimously in favour of cross border changes, with 640 MEPs voting for and 61 against."
It could be unanimous if they decimated the Parliamentβ¦
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@coldandtired said in In other news today...:
apparently 'Financial Website of the Year':
To be fair, I guess they didn't claim to be the Literary Site of the Year. Or even the Understanding What Words Mean Site of the Year.
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
strippers should not weigh more than 160lbs.
True, but if you have to make a law for it, don't bother.
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@antiquarian said in In other news today...:
True
You and Rep. Kenneth Harvard do not know how to party :fat_stripper:
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
You and Rep. Kenneth Harvard do not know how to party :fat_stripper:
You don't need a fat stripper to have a good time, you just have to stay away from the hottest girl in the club.
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Is this for real?
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@loose said in In other news today...:
Is this for real?
I hope it isn't, and that the assertions of the Chinese foreign ministry are true.
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@loose
Baby, the other, OTHER white meat
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@loose said in In other news today...:
Is this for real?
Smell test says no. Accusing another culture of eating people is one of the oldest slander tricks in the book, and the denial came with an actual source for the photos (Resident Evil promotional materials) which is easy enough to verify.
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@loose said in In other news today...:
Is this for real?
That corned beef is actually Chinese people?
That explains why I was hungry an hour after eating it.
:avacado:
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@DogsB My friend, Badger, got a kick out of that.
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*clicks*
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The school said itβs pleaded with the bus company, RivLab, after parents complained and nauseated students snapped photos of the fetid conditions last month.
It continued: βOnce again the bus arrived in this unsanitary condition yesterday and again today. The students were crying when they arrived. The families are asking for a full refund for the remainder of the school year.β
A RivLab employee refused to give a refund and instead claimed the company had done its job β getting the kids to and from school safely, according to the station
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@Lorne-Kates said in In other news today...:
Much quote, great wow. ;) Thanks, NodeBB for making @Lorne-Kates 's life just that much harder,,,
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@Boner And then they had to post pics and video (apparently, proxy blocked that but not the subtext) of naked women. Clickbait yay!
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@Tsaukpaetra watched it on your behalf. Bit of side boob but mostly blurred out.
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
watched it on your behalf
Appreciated, but lets not start a conversation of artisticality of your viewing things on my behalf.
Edit: Ermagarhd, Proxy started throwing up on me (probably due in part to the aforementioned side-boobs).
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I honestly think this guy is me or at least very good at writing what I'm thinking.
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@DogsB I'm a shitty programmer, and I seem to do ok.
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The guy is passionate and eloquent, but once you pull away the layers of rhetoric, his basic point seem to be: It's OK to be shit.
Fuck that.
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@cartman82 Well I don't give a shit what his point is.
My point is that the things that the programmer group-think makes for a "great programmer" are usually completely unrelated to the things that contribute to the creation of great software. And a lot of them are harmful to a person as an individual, for example, declaring that "great programmers" always spend all of their free time writing yet more software.
And so a programmer who's not-so-great at the stereotypical things may actually be great at the actual process of creating usable software. Maybe the shitty programmer's better at creating the software because instead of spending his entire weekend working on some open source bullshit, he went out with a church group and met new people and it gave him some great perspective on how they interact with computers.
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Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!
*fake edit : okay its back
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
Had a similar one yesterday in Hamburg.
One guy called the cops because he saw another guy "sort of prancing around" at a red pedestrian traffic light while wearing a seemingly heavy backpack. Plus, he then disappeared into the direction of a nearby governmental building.
Queue 30+ police cars, our SWAT equivalent, a bomb squad, traffic blocks and what-have-you.
Well, they found the guy. The "prancing around" was due to him going for a jog (and thus not wanting to stand still while waiting for the light to turn green). The heavy backpack? Additional weights for training. The governmental building? Not even open to the public on that day. And his place of work was next door.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
due to him going for a jog
What, the brightly colored apparel wasn't cue enough?
TIL I should go for a jog for some excitement...
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