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A post-modern scientist is determined to test the sensitivity of a frog's response to the spoken command "jump."
Continue reading Of deafness and frogs.
Poptimistic is super-saturated richness, hyper-realism, brightly lit in even the furthest corners, up tempo, and generally positive.
We don't use the metric system in the USA. As a matter of fact, we wouldn't touch it with a 3.048-meter pole.
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A Microsoft 1.0 is Alpha, MS SP1 is Beta and MS SP2 is the 1.0 version. When the product is good enough it's discontinued and the whole cycle starts again.
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Over-engineering doesn't mean tight tolerances or precision parts. It means you just spent 3/4 of your budget to go from 95% accuracy to 96% when you only needed 95%.
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The number 65,535 is an awkward figure to everyone except a programmer, who recognizes it more readily than his own mother's date of birth.
[adapted from a comment in Excel 2007 Multiplication Bug]
