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by ghiotion 19y ago
I hope this doesn't come out the wrong way, but why isn't it as simple as that? I'm sure the Enron accountants could come up with a better valuation model, but that doesn't necessarily make it so. It's a simplistic formula, but it seems r
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by ghiotion 19y ago
Wow. Add a few puns and one C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker, this could be a comment thread on reddit. That ain't a good thing.
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by ghiotion 19y ago
"The way of Cobol" sounds like a kung-fu style; perhaps something akin to Drunken Master Style. Or some strange Battlestar Galatical ethical mandate ("To behave ethically Captain Apollo, one must conform to The Way Of Cobol"). I take your
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by ghiotion 19y ago
As Hemingway penned at the end of The Sun Also Rises, "Isn't it pretty to think so?" I've got no love lost for Java (I use JSF in my day job), but it isn't going the way of Cobol. Java continues to reinvent itself, be it Applets -> J2E
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Robotics - The Uncanny Valley(androidscience.com)
1 points by ghiotion 19y ago|0 comments
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by ghiotion 19y ago
I seem to constantly be quoting John Carpenter's The Thing. "'Cause it's different than us see? 'Cause it's from outer space. What are you asking me for? Ask him" "I realize you gentlemen have been through a lot, but if you can find the
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by ghiotion 19y ago
"Dogs and cat's living together... mass hysteria!"
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by ghiotion 19y ago
Lebowski seems like a pretty safe bet: http://mattmaroon.com/?p=52 I guess if you only own one movie, that's a pretty good one.
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by ghiotion 19y ago
> I personally own one DVD, because there’s only one movie that I sometimes suddenly feel like re-watching without having to drive to Blockbuster or wait a few days to get from Netflix. I'm almost paralyzed by my desire to know what tha
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by ghiotion 19y ago
My God. I never noticed that, but you're absolutely right. I'm a vi guy myself, but all the other, more _visually_ oriented developers in the office don't read code from top to bottom. They scan the methods in the structure tab on eclips
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by ghiotion 19y ago
good point. but hey, that's even cooler.
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two rules every developer must know (or why i zone out when my boss drones on about insurance rules)(dogic.blogspot.com)
1 points by ghiotion 19y ago|0 comments
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by ghiotion 19y ago
this is obviously a rhetorical question.
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by ghiotion 19y ago
> "Since joining Mr. Fujita's school, I have had five successful relationships," says Hachioji Robocop, oh my god!? his last name is Robocop!?? that's the best thing ever. i bet i could get laid 100x as much if my last name was Roboc
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by ghiotion 19y ago
I ran into a nasty bug(?) recently in the way Excel processes CSVs. I create a well formed CSV from a Java Web app which the user downloads. They open the CSV up in Excel and modify the data for an eventual upload. However, during the sa
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by ghiotion 19y ago
I know. I thought long and hard about posting this on here. I'm a long time reddit reader who's gotten disgusted with reddit. But seriously, this is one of the funniest things I've seen on the Web. Thanks for your input.
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What would happen if you drank nothing but whiskey for 30 days? Super-size me (with whiskey)(youtube.com)
2 points by ghiotion 19y ago|2 comments