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Because "hippo" refers to horses, so the etymology of the word concerns French potted meat from a horse which won huge rosettes that were joked about by others in Latin.
So anyone who's not completely stupid can see why it's used to describe a fear of long words, right?
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I may have hippophobia, but I don't know as I've never come across one.
I am, however, terrified of hippopotomonstrosesquippedalioes.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Agent__007 wrote: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it is "an artificial long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust."
So is the OED saying that other words are not artificial?
Where did they come from, then?
Or does the OED need to look up the meaning of "artificial"?
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Well I don't know, but the questions are on you given that you are British. 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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My answer?
I think that the OED is on the way to becoming as ridiculously silly a dictionary as the Websters.
It will take them a couple of thousand years to become that silly, but I'm sure they'll get there.
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Hi everyone!
I'm in the early stages of developing a multi-tier application. I have some requirements that rule out the use of some standard components, e.g. using any standard ORM framework. I would like to present my concept in more than just a few lines and get some feedback on it. What would be the best way of doing (presenting) that? An article? (It's not a ready solution but might give ideas to others.) Or in the "design and architecture" forum? (I fear it will get only 1-2 replies and then vanish on page 2..)
- Sebastian
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If you've already built that project and you're having a great sample that you would like to share with others, then yes you can write an article and explain it enough, so that if any without enough understanding (or at maximum with zero-understanding) would be able to understand that concept fully. Share the code samples, the problems that you encountered and how you tackled them.
Why would you use the design and architechture forum? That is meant for questioning for beginners, if you've built it then what would make you believe that you're going to share your project as a question?
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: That is meant for questioning for beginners
Not at all. The forums are a place to have discussions on topics. QA is the place for quick answers. None of this is just for beginners.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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manchanx wrote: Or in the "design and architecture" forum?
The discussion forums are the correct place to have a discussion like this.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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"design and architecture" ought to be the right place.
But first be sure you mean "tier" and not "layer".
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While AAZ had a question about Design & Architecture which he might have held closer to the vest until more CPians had sounded off on the nut of your question,
manchanx wrote: the best way
, in my opinion, would be to write an ARTICLE and include a project where illustration of the concepts you're developing are addressed.
First!
Then, when someone either has questions that you can answer or has comments you can highlight by noting them with comments of your own, you can link to example in your article, and it's mini forum, in a disscusion such as D&A.
Often in Discussions the bigwigs impart much wisdom, which bypasses the hoi oligoi, but they have to be prodded by tacit knowledge which only you and they might have about the subject.
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Wise Words:
Never be testy after a bad software purchase/release.
modified 12-Feb-15 8:34am.
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Only trust a computer which you have misprogrammed yourself.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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Is this a variation of: "don't trust any statistics that you didn't fake yourself"? 
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You should ask yourself that question when every car has an autopilot and you bet your life on a microcontroller and some jerk's questionable programming skills.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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Just to add a little of thrill ...
nowadays cars have most of the controls based on software untested and unprotected.
link[^]
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Indeed.
Be testy before a bad software release.
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... so I'll probably go silent for a week or seven. 
veni bibi saltavi
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If you mean 64-bit Chrome (i.e. Canary) then I've been using it as my "main" browser for a year or probably more: It's good, but it does tend to "bog down" a bit and can end up using a whole core to do nothing at all. It needs forcible closing from the Task Manager when that happens.
Only real PITA thing is that it doesn't install as the primary browser - so links from emails and so forth open a new (32 bit chrome) browser which takes entirely too long.
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OriginalGriff wrote: does tend to "bog down" a bit and can end up using a whole core to do nothing at all. It needs forcible closing from the Task Manager when that happens
Must be built from the exact 32 bit source then. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: 64-bit Chrome (i.e. Canary)
OriginalGriff wrote: Only real PITA thing is that it doesn't install as the primary browser
You can't make Canary the default browser, but the regular version of Chrome has been available in x64 since v37:
http://blog.chromium.org/2014/08/64-bits-of-awesome-64-bit-windows_26.html[^]
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- Homer
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I wish they'd tell you these things...Thanks!
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