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    Question No new years thread

    Most boards get a "Happy New Year" thread by now. Is it taboo or something to do so on this one?

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    It's because we use a different calender here.
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    Yeah, it's all hexadecimal here, with 0x100 days per year
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    It's people like you who give us the stereotype of geeks
    When's new years?

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    Sometime next year.
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
    I get maybe two dozen requests for help with some sort of programming or design problem every day. Most have more sense than to send me hundreds of lines of code. If they do, I ask them to find the smallest example that exhibits the problem and send me that. Mostly, they then find the error themselves. "Finding the smallest program that demonstrates the error" is a powerful debugging tool.
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    > It's people like you who give us the stereotype of geeks
    You mean like we can't tell the difference between xmas and halloween because dec 25 == oct 31 ?

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    You mean like we can't tell the difference between xmas and halloween because dec 25 == oct 31 ?
    I personally cannot tell the difference between -40 degrees Celsius and -40 degrees Fahrenheit.
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
    I get maybe two dozen requests for help with some sort of programming or design problem every day. Most have more sense than to send me hundreds of lines of code. If they do, I ask them to find the smallest example that exhibits the problem and send me that. Mostly, they then find the error themselves. "Finding the smallest program that demonstrates the error" is a powerful debugging tool.
    Look up a C++ Reference and learn How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

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    God, I hate the lot of ye!

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    This is the only board that I visit that didn't have one. Not surprised though, this isn't
    your typical, warm-fuzzy board.

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    Hey hey hey now! We are very warm and fuzzy here! We just like to save the warm-fuzziness for the elite nobility. Peasant users don't receive of it.
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    It'll always be them and us; Rich vs. Poor, Smart vs. Dumb, Expert vs. Novice. It's a good thing that death is the great equalizer, else I doubt Heaven n' Hell could accommodate so many swelled heads.


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    In my opinion we were all too busy celebrating to worry about what was on the board or not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by citizen View Post
    In my opinion we were all too busy celebrating to worry about what was on the board or not.
    I personally was drinking at 9PM and drunk by 2AM... I woke up around noon on the 1st, took a train home, got there around 2:30PM and by that point I felt it was a bit too late.
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    I had a wild night too, Sly.
    Was at a friend's watching a movie. Heard fireworks and gathered I'd missed the countdown. Ah well.

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    > Most boards get a "Happy New Year" thread by now. Is it taboo or something to do so on this one?
    But there is one
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