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A thoughtful Scottish husband was putting his coat and hat on to make his way down to the local pub.
He turned to his wee wife before leaving and said,’ Maggie - put your hat and coat on, lassie.’
She replied, 'Awe Jock that's nice are you taking me tae the pub with you?’
'Nay,’ Jock replied ‘I'm turning the heat off while I'm out.'
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Do I get a bonus for actually being Scottish
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Dominic Burford wrote: Do I get a bonus for actually being Scottish
Yes, thickened arteries and early mortality I believe.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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That'll be where he deep-fried the bonus!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Leslie already posted this above.
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About two years back I had developed a very rough App called "Gestop". The ideas was to have a 3D gesture controlled desktop and controlling every app through gesture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbA55znyGXA[^]
After posting this video, I really got some brutal thrashing in the forum, being ridiculed for fantasizing something that would never be a reality.
And this January laptops are launched with the same concept. Of course the technology is much improved, the control is way too smooth but the seed of the idea is now a plant. And it's only going to grow by every day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrQX46G9hF4[^]
( Watch between 30 sec to 45 sec).
So posting it in the same forum!!!!!
PS: Here is the original forum posting. Found out!!!
http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=4470252#xx4470252xx
modified 7-Jan-15 7:30am.
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Can you find the original post, it would be interesting to see the replies.
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It seems to me cumbersome to an extent that make it useless for normally able people, however this kind of development can be very important to people with accessibility problems (I know someone who uses his computer by moving his eyeball - the only thing he can move!)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Grasshopper.iics wrote: After posting this video, I really got some brutal thrashing in the forum, being ridiculed for fantasizing something that would never be a reality.
Reading the original thread you linked to I see most replies being either encouraging or giving constructive feedback, and one offhand dismissal from a poster who mistrusts every technological advance of the last 30 years.
I don't think that counts as a brutal thrashing.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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This was the one I was talking about!
http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=4470268#xx4470268xx[^]
"Quote: Do that, by all means. I would be the last to tell you to always stay on the beaten path and do things just like everybody else does. But when you do that, you must always take into account that your ideas, no matter how much you like them, may be impractical.
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That was the one I was talking about too.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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That isn't a brutal thrashing. I thought it was good feedback.
Gesture clearly will have a place in the future, no doubt, but will it ever replace mouse and keyboard? Not likely.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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This is great on a tablet when using it while cooking : just wave to get on page 2 of the recipe instead of putting your dirty hands on the tablet (or having to wash them before).
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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If your hands are dirty while cooking you doing it all wrong! 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Ever tried kneading dough without getting messy hands, wrapping chicken in bacon or even just slicing an onion?
Now if it's KD or beans on toast, I'd agree! 
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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You can do that with android already.
I turned it off, because it's a pain in the a***.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"Gestapo" was the synonym for the secret service in the Nazi-era in Germany. So it may not the best choice. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I can't watch YT videos at work, but history has shown us that visionaries are often ridiculed by the general populous. So, I wouldn't sweat it too much.
Jeremy Falcon
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Not one mention, that I can find, of 2015 is the palindromic binary of 11111011111.
veni bibi saltavi
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Not in Hex, it isn't: 0010 0000 0001 0101
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That's not hex. That's Binary Coded Decimal.
Truth,
James
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