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When People Aren't Stupid Usenet Is Even More Useful.
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When people aren't stupid Usenet is even more useful. Too bad this
happens so rarely.
-- Jef Poskanzer <jef@well.sf.ca.us>
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When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. -- Jef Poskanzer (jef@well.sf.ca.us)
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) wrote: >The trouble is that getdate() is relatively >costly and Geoff is reluctant to run it on every single article .
..and then all sorts of people started coming up with rube goldberg schemes to avoid parsing dates....
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night Removes the colors from our sight Red is gray, and yellow white But we decide which is right And which is a quantization error.
-- Jef Poskanzer, from the doc to his oh-so-cool program -- that converts color bitmaps to greyscale ones....
BASIC: [acronym, from Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code] n.
A programming language, originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental timesharing system in the early 1960s, which has since become the leading cause of brain-damage in proto-hackers....
To Willie's widow, Lily, and her new husband, Teixeira de Mattos, Wilde said, "I am dying beyond my means.
I will never outlive the century. The English people would not stand for it....
Supposedly, it is possible to score goals [in field hockey].
However, this rarely happens because hitting people is so positively reinforcing....
Ahem. Hello, everyone. Before last year's Hallowe'en show, I warned you not to let your children watch.
But you did anyway. Mm. Well, this year's episode is even worse....
BASIC /bay'-sic/ n. A programming language, originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental timesharing system in the early 1960
which for many years was the leading cause of brain damage in proto-hackers....
For nations that waste their inheritances- even nations that are profligate -usually do so in ways more subtle than individuals.
Bad habits and bad advice take longer to inflict their damage...