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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: The facts
Indeed they are, and very well put.
It seems that some things are constant in all governments, not just the US.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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dat nº 3.. And they wonder why nothing ever works right.
And that nº4 is even worse.
So pretty much you spend all day scracthing you head until the little bulb in your head lights up, and when you're in a coding spree because everything suddenly made sense... Sorry, you have to go now. No more worky work for you.
Wow
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Wait a minute we (US taxpayers) paid $640,000,000 (roughly) for this site to be developed and it's open source?
They ought to put Ruby on rails and run her ass out of town!
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Mike Hankey wrote: $640,000,000
aka, the amount of money the DoD spends every 12 hours.
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But not to develop a web site, I think that puts the $1500 hammer in a respectable light!
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no, not to develop a website (though the DoD has plenty of those).
but it did just spend $567M on planes that it will never use.
but again, they can afford to do that literally every day before lunch.
i'll bother being upset about the cost of a website for health insurance signup the day after the DoD's budget and spending makes a lick of sense.
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The more I learn about the government the more upset I get so my best course of action is;
1) Go into my room and scream? (not a screamer, but I am a cusser)
2) Slap my palm to forehead and just accept that it's a stupid/corrupt system?
3) Take massive amounts of drugs? (Tried that back in 60s only temp. relief)
4) Take up meditation? (That was the 70s and didn't help)
5) or just say f*** it and not let it worry me?
Choices choices choices!
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1) Come to Arizona
2) Buy 160 acres of worthless dirt
3) Dig a hole and cover it with brush
4) Purchase many guns and plenty of ammo
5) Crawl into hole with guns and ammo and wait for food to come to you
6) Avoid all forms of communication with the outside world that might be upsetting.
PS - I'll be in the hole next door...
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'll be in my hole with my illegal weapon!
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At least that comparative pittance was spent on developers' families and homes.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So a red ring of death on the heads-up will likely be followed by a red badge of courage?
[edit] ??? How on Earth did this get disconnected from the "iron man soldiers" thread and attached to this one? Is someone wearing a Stark Industries disinformation suit?[/edit]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 11-Oct-13 1:58am.
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I'm trying to remember a two part thing that was on the BBC about Clive Sinclair and Chris Curray (BBC micro vs ZX Spectrum). I can't find it on Amazon as a DVD, iPlayer just gives up. Is it out as a DVD and I have name wrong.
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I do indeed. It was an excellent programme. Details are here[^].
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I was right about the name, just can't seem to find it
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It's not out on DVD/BluRay. There are various random petitions online from people wanting it to be released, but nothing so far.
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Rats...boob tube it is then! 
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In those days, they didn't feel the need to publish everything as a DVD the moment it was broadcast (unlike today when I expect a "Best of Weather Forecasts 2013!!!!" to be in the shops for Xmas).
But...was this it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIcAyFVK0gE[^]
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Cool, I know what I'm watching tonight, isn't breaking some copy right using boob tube? 
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Could be - but then YouTube is full of clips from TV and Films so I suspect that either they have an agreement, or nobody cares... 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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OriginalGriff wrote: "Best of Weather Forecasts with the stars on ice2013!!!!"
Coming soon
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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see here[^]
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Thanks, boob tubed it last night. Why don't the BBC release it as a DVD? I know I would bye it (Ahh the days....).
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context: Ruby on Rails
So, here I was ready to write a new feature to verify I can recreate the bug before fixing it, and I started getting these "method not found -- 'activated' in Site" errors, telling me that the method "activated" doesn't exist in the Site model.
1. Yes it does - I added it into the DB a week ago.
2. It's right there in the code for the model.
3. The page runs just fine, why are the feature tests now failing?
4. And why doesn't RoR give me a stack trace, G**d****!
The 3rd item should have given me a big clue. But without the stack trace, I was still really clueless as to where the "activated" method was even being used. So I ended up diving into Rails' ActiveRecord and stepping through the callbacks into the code that it makes when parsing the Ruby code out of the HTML, and sure enough, it's calling:
def display_name
activated ? name : "#{name} (deactivated)"
end
and sure enough, "activated" doesn't exist, and sure enough, it's not even in the attribute collection for this record.
And then it dawns on me....
...I'm running a feature....
...which means I'm using the test datahase....
...which means I forgot to run 'rake db:test:prepare' to update the test database with my DB change I made last week!
Argh. It's been so long since I've had to fuss with the DB model that I forgot to migrate the changes to the test database as well!
Serious  and serious  for a non-stack-traceable, cryptic message that while correct, should be a bit more like "The record does not have this field defined!"
Marc
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Hundreds of years ago in the days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and I was writing some COBOL, I left off a period at the end of a line. I got 53 different error messages from the compiler, none of which said "Missing period on line 123" or something useful like that. In fact, out of all the error messages, line 123 was never even referenced.
It's nice to see consistency in the industry, nothing changes really. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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