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Signe
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I will tour guide for free beer. The tour will mainly consist of my favorite bars, but I suppose we can do monuments and shit as well. And I'll include a trip to Ben's Chili Bowl gratis.
Is this for DC or for Indian families' basements? Either sounds interesting. One sounds yummy, even. |
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Yegolev
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I've come to learn that India is a very diverse continent.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Signe
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By the way, Happy Friday the 13th, guys! Enjoy the full moon tonight!!  |
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ezrast
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I get "do the needful" a lot at work. I had no idea it was a thing.
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Phildo
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DC, but there are some delicious Indian restaurants around without having to go into basements.
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Salamok
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STOP
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Did I tell you about Doing the Needful or is that a goddamn weird Indian thing they say? My wife gets that shit via India and she has absolutely no fucking idea what it means. I need a turbandictionary.com. (i'm proud of this one)
For the record I unfortunately have first hand experience with the phrase. I wont bother looking at the link for the definition but you can tell your wife that it is basically a way of saying "Hey I am totally incompetent and this task has been assigned to me, you look like your head isn't completely wedged in your ass, oh and did I happen to mention that this task is really important and needs to be done? Could you just be a good sport and do it for me so we know it gets done right?" |
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WayAbvPar
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By the way, Happy Friday the 13th, guys! Enjoy the full moon tonight!! I am toying with the idea of going to play poker tonight. Between the full moon and Friday the 13th, some weird shit should be going on. Plus I should have good luck- I have the same first name as the Ft13th antagonist/hero (depending on your perspective), so I should win every pot I play until the very last, right? |
When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
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schild
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I've come to learn that India is a very diverse continent.
Naw, just a big slum. |
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Signe
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By the way, Happy Friday the 13th, guys! Enjoy the full moon tonight!! I am toying with the idea of going to play poker tonight. Between the full moon and Friday the 13th, some weird shit should be going on. Plus I should have good luck- I have the same first name as the Ft13th antagonist/hero (depending on your perspective), so I should win every pot I play until the very last, right? Right you are, Hero! And fuck the pennies, kill'em dead with nickles! |
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Miasma
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Sometimes I wish India was a first world country so that we could talk about the dark side of their culture without it coming off as racist. Like how I can call Germans humorless, the French cowards and Americans greedy.
They have absolutely no compunction against cheating or anything that would be considered corruption.
Edit: Canadians are dumb by the way, or so I've been told.
Edit2: This was a pretty dumb post and I regret it. Yes that matches edit one.
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« Last Edit: June 13, 2014, 10:25:29 PM by Miasma »
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Signe
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Srsly? I thought Canadians were friendly!
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Miasma
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Negative stereotypes only!
Indians are friendly too.
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bhodi
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No lie.
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"Do the needful" is what you say when attempting to define the problem would highlight your own ignorance of it.
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Nevermore
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And it's the newest dance craze!
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Over and out.
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schild
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Sometimes I wish India was a first world country so that we could talk about the dark side of their culture without it coming off as racist. Like how I can call Germans humorless, the French cowards and Americans greedy.
They have absolutely no compunction against cheating or anything that would be considered corruption.
Edit: Canadians are dumb by the way, or so I've been told.
Edit2: This was a pretty dumb post and I regret it. Yes that matches edit one.
Shitting on India doesn't make you racist. It's a shithole. The culture is a mess. The world treats them like crap and they're not busy proving the world wrong. Even Karl Pilkington couldn't find the bright side of India. And he can stumble on the bright side of almost anything. All he could figure out there was "they have very elaborate weddings." Indians, as a people, are fine. India as a place is just, like, whoooooooooooooooooooooooooa super-depressing. |
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bhodi
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I work with 90% indians and almost all of them say things like "I came to the US to escape from there" and "Don't go to india, there's nothing there worth experiencing". I don't know if it's true; I've never been.
Bangalore culture's something else, apparently - a lot of contracting money along with some american culture transforming a region from agrarian to metropolis in less than a decade makes for a really weird city. A small core of expensive nightclubs, self-worth defined by what you own, surrounded on all sides by dirt cheap labor and miles upon miles of cube-farm complexes from what my overseas co-workers say.
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« Last Edit: June 14, 2014, 10:18:09 AM by bhodi »
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Cheddar
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3 cancelled flights and around 24 hours hanging out at Newark international until I finally made it home last night.
Friday the 13th, indeed.
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No Nerf, but I put a link to this very thread and I said that you all can guarantee for my purity. I even mentioned your case, and see if they can take a look at your lawn from a Michigan perspective.
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Ironwood
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It's been a most agreeable fathers day.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Furiously
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It's been a most agreeable fathers day.
The kids were gone? |
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It's been a most agreeable fathers day.
Mine was lovely as well. Slept in, had lunch with with the family, took my son to a movie, then watched TiVo'ed WC soccer. Can't complain. |
When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Rasix
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I was given an hour of sleeping in, mostly so my wife and son could finish making my card.  Father's day is usually the day after my son's birthday party, so I never get or do anything special, which is fine with me. A Steam sale is usually soon after, so I use that as an excuse to buy games I'll never play. We usually get me new shoes on Father's day (woo hoo  ) , but nothing fit. Trying to find shoes that don't feel like some sort of exotic torture is pretty difficult for me. |
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« Last Edit: June 16, 2014, 01:23:44 PM by Rasix »
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Merusk
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We usually get me new shoes on Father's day (woo hoo ) , but nothing fit. Trying to find shoes that don't feel like some sort of exotic torture is pretty difficult for me. Foot too wide? Mine are 3E, I gave-up shopping at normal shoe stores once I found out Zappos carries 2 & 3e. Go up half a size in a 2e and it's the same as a 3e in most brands. Give 'em a look. |
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Ironwood
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It's been a most agreeable fathers day.
The kids were gone? Well, I guess so, since I only really have the one.  No, nothing like that, it was just a team effort to have a really good day and I think it succeeded. It's strange, but when you're a father (or parent), having a good day becomes much more of an effort. It can happen by accident, of course, but usually not. |
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Hawkbit
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I'm still a noob dev, but I'm starting to branch out and meet other devs to get a feel for personalities and tech exposure. I just got back from a lunch meetup where nobody knew each other, all from different companies. It was a great experience, even when the whole thing devolved into a passionate debate around paired programming vs. code review.
It's interesting to see how some people let the environment of paired programming get in the way of actually developing things. Actually, it's just interesting to see everyone's different idiosyncrasies and approaches to problems.
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WayAbvPar
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I think paired programming would make me stabby in most cases.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Trippy
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Nitpick: it's "pair programming".
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Hawkbit
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That's why I refer to myself as a noob dev.  Thanks for the correction. |
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Lantyssa
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That is an... interesting... concept. I don't think I could function under that system for long.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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croaker69
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They should call it Drifting.
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What may at first appear to be an insurmountable obstacle will in time be seen for what it really is: an impenetrable barrier.
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Hawkbit
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Like a Klansman in the ghetto.
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HaemishM
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Pair Programming? Is that what that's called? I've been doing that for years, only in my case instead of another programmer, it's the goddamn client or my boss (or both) sitting over my shoulder backseat driving my shit in Photoshop and Dreamweaver.
Needless to say, it makes me stabby and is a terrible fucking concept.
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Bunk
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This is a fun morning. Second straight day of my company being under a DDOS attack.
We made several major news sites for it - any publicity and all that...
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schild
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Facebook was down for 45 minutes also.
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Bunk
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We're one of the top two Real Estate sites in the US, and we've been down for the majority of the last 24 hours. It's not good.
My call center typically takes 700 calls a day, we took 3000 yesterday.
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schild
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