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Slickedit ads
My pet pevee needs some venting;
"SlickEdt iz liek cheatzing"
"Top 10 reasons not to use SlickEdit: 1) you're a moron 2) see 1 3) etc."
"dv n suff on 40 dif plfrmz in 967 dif languages no wai"
I am paraphrasing here because the ad system here read my thoughts and decided not to show me any more SlickEdit ads while writing this post. Good call.
Am I the only one who is ready to punch the SlickEdit team in the face?
Why are they marketing to 9 year old 4-chan frequenters? Do they code much?
Gaaaaah. It makes me long for a detergent commercial.
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RE: All aboard the Atheist Bus
My dinosaur example was an anectdote for why I am what the above post calls a "soft" atheist. I won't claim that there is no god(s) is the absolute truth, since we can't ever prove they don't exist. However, I will say that beliving in such things is even less sensible than beliving that there still exists dinosaurs, since we have evidence that they existed once. There is no more reason to belive in dieties than to belive in the tooth fary or santa clause, and I have a hard time understanding why anybody belives in it.
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RE: All aboard the Atheist Bus
You can prove things within systems comprised of axioms of your choice. However, when I was talking about physics, I meant the part that seeks to model nature. We don't know the axioms of that unfortunatly. Exact science (well, math) is bliss. Nothing in nature is so by definition (except to religious people).
On a related note:
How do you know zero dinosaurs are alive today?
You don't. In general you can't ever know things on the form "X does not exist" in nature, because you can never be sure you've examined all candidates for X. There's a funny example of white vs. black swans if you search for it.
But there's plenty of evidence that they are extinct, so I guess you can call it a fact in this sense. In scientific context, I would prefer to call it a theory, since it implies that it has to predict something (I won't find any dinosaurs) to be useful, and the possibility that I may be proven wrong ("No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong." - Einstein).
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RE: All aboard the Atheist Bus
Neither physics nor dieties are facts (in the sense that they are or can be proven). The difference is that there is observable evidence supporting the theories in physics, whereas dieties are pure imagination.
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RE: Locked out of the wha..?
I got my new credit card yesterday, and during an online payment, I was asked to set up a "verified by visa" password. And they asked me to give a security question and an answer, in case I forgot the password.
I never got that. It will always be way easier to remember or guess the answer than the password, so why not simply ask the question instead of asking for the password?
For the record, I chose the question "I am not Sarah Palin" and the answer "dbQ!!"!"apoewDfd_Fgøæergznvbm++e132123AADGBMNZgb". Try gyessing that, punk!
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RE: How not to create a PHP downloader script.
No, PHP sucks. That doesn't mean you can't make good stuff in it though, just that it's harder.
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RE: Code snippet
@bjolling said:
In my opinion, a public method called Get<something> should have <something> as the return type. If it can't correctly do what it says on the can, it should throw an exception.
So GetLength should have Length as return type? I'd prefer int :P
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RE: Enter MIAP - With the unique learner number.
@beerful said:
3. Dates are required to be in the format YYYY/DD/MM
No. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!Oh well, it was fun having a date representation with only one interpretation as long as it lasted.
That said, it sounds like every other piece of software for teaching institutions I've ever run into. The last place I'd want to work is in their IT departments, at least if I'd have to deal with this every day.
On the other hand, maybe somebody is playing a cruel practical joke on you. Yeah, that's a comfortable explanation. Maybe it's TopCod3r?
Edit: Thank you for ignoring my line breaks, oh incredible forum software.
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RE: School mail WTF - one email to rule them all
OK, it's not that big a deal, but still :-)
A few weeks ago, during the summer break, somebody sent yet-another info mail out on the university mailing list (for all of CS). I don't blame them for the following, because nobody could have seen it coming: somebody was on vacation. *gasp*. The automated vacation response was replied back to the mailing list "from" e-mail, which also happens to be the broadcast e-mail. After a few iterations, it looked something like this:
I am currently on vacation. Reach me on my mobile: 123-456-789.
> I am currently on vacation. Reach me on my mobile: 123-456-789.
>> I am currently on vacation. Reach me on my mobile: 123-456-789.
>>> I am currently on vacation. Reach me on my mobile: 123-456-789.
>>>> I am currently on vacation. Reach me on my mobile: 123-456-789.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Blah blah blah meeting saturday (or whatever).
Then it somehow stopped. Until somebody replied:
Why am I receiving this e-mail? That meeting has already been held!
which was forwared to the entire mailing list..