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Maybe it's my fault (again) for not letting yesterday's winner know (I did, but I guess not in time) that they're responsible for today's...
...they (PeejayAdams) may yet post one, in which case it will take precedence, but in the meantime, nobody solved even one of my "bonus" clues yesterday, so I offer them here again to keep you all amused while we wait.
If PeejayAdams doesn't post a clue, it's the privilege of OriginalGriff to decide the process. Maybe solving one of 2-3 below,(the first really is too easy, and shouldn't count for anything), or he may want to post a clue of his own...
1. A bid to oust the President? (3, 2, 5)
2. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's a troll! (7)
3. Build a fake type (9)
4. Music an extreme revelation (8)
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They don't get posted exactly on time - sometimes work commitments interfere, and some winners line in widely spaced time zones.
Normally, if it isn't posted in a few hours I remind them gently using the atsign name feature: @Membername - where the member name is available on the member homepage. Like this: @A_Griffin
It sends a notification direct to the member.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I got #1 and #3 on sight last night, but didn't want to tread on any toes so I kept quiet.
I'll post #3 if you want.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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You're not treading on anyone's toes - they're there to be solved, so if you have the answers, post 'em!
I'll be glad you've got #1 especially - I was a bit concerned that no-one here could solve it!!
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One No Trump (bleeding obvious)
Construct (con - struct)
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Right on both counts 
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You going to give us the other answers now?
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#1 and #3 are done (see Peter_in_2780 above)
#2. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's a troll! (7)
Ans: Harrier
As in: harrier hen (bird); Harrier jet (plane); a harrier = someone who harries - from the verb "to harry" = to persistently annoy (a troll)
#4. Music an extreme revelation (8)
Ans: Discovery
disco (music) + very (extreme) = a revelation
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Given Twatter's bias, I presume that the employee was given a bonus and re-hired.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Nah, he'll have started his new job at Google by now.
*searches Donald Trump*
*no results found*
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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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You just spelled it incorrectly: FLATUS[^]
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Twatter - good call on the name. And perhaps it's most famous user.
If Twatter were biased the account would have been closed long ago.
Wait - I'll recast that: the bias is that they'll make more money keeping those posts coming by have more eyes to charge for when setting advertising rates.
Overheard: "Listen, Boris. If they close his account, why don't we give him a few hundred of our accounts!"
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With his Tweets he's doing him (and the country) a favor 
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Has Anyone Seen Mike Hunt wrote: if they find who it was.
They already know who it was which is how they knew it was done on the employee's last day of work.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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It's a pity he didn't manage to close every Twatter account.
You'd think that the simply act of refusing to ever look at the damned thing would be enough to avoid it. But no, every time you turn on the news, all you get is "Twat X twatted this, Twat Y twatted that, Twat Z twatted the other." People texting nonsense is not news! Teenagers do it every minute of the day.
Can media editors not understand the simple concept that I don't give a twatting twat what some twat has been twattering while they could have been doing something more productive with their twatty lives?
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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There may be a lot of idiots but it also features several really useful and enjoyable accounts...
such as:
National Weather Service Tornado Warnings[^]
and
NASA[^]
The former posts alerts as soon as they form which is extremely useful when you live in Tornado Alley[^].
The latter posts a lot of really cool pictures and updates of what is going on in space.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Has Anyone Seen Mike Hunt wrote: Nothing more to add, though I wonder if they can do anything if they find who it was.
They can sue them. They would need to prove damages though. Maliciously of course, just the suit is going to cost the employee.
Of course doing that would continue to provide publicity that it happened in the first place.
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So I was looking for an algorithm to "best fit" rectangles on a limited area surface (the screen, in other words, and the rectangles are forms/dialog boxes that are dynamically generated as needed), turns out this is called "Rectangle Packing" or "Bin Packing" or "Binary Tree Bin Packing" and it turns out to be a complicated problem to determine an optimal solution, something they call "NP complete" meaning there is no fixed solution, as in "nondeterministic polynomial time". Yeah, whatever, I just needed something that did a decent job, didn't have to be perfect. Once I figured out the right keywords to search on, Google led me to Fast Optimizing Rectangle Packing Algorithm for Building CSS Sprites
Very cool. The core algorithm can be stripped down to two files, and I tweaked it so I can select whether I want horizontal or vertical precedence, and unlike many of the other algorithms I found out there (mostly in one of those "J" languages) this one doesn't require that all your rectangles are known ahead of time, which was one of my requirements.
Thank you Code Project! (And the author, of course) ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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Marc Clifton wrote: whether I want horizontal or vertical precedence
I gave you a solution to that issue yesterday. 
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Quote: I want horizontal or vertical precedence
Quote: Thank you Code Project! (And the author, of course)
Thank you Matt Perdeck! (And Code Project, of course).
Fixed the precedence issue 
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Thank also the "mighty search box". 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I had a classmate in undergraduate school that did the bin packing problem for one of his assignments. It was in the context of putting boxes in a truck (i.e., UPS)? Cool stuff.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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That's my job every day except for me it's a three dimensional problem and it's on such a large scale that a tenth of a percent change can result in a difference of millions of dollars.
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