Quotes to live by!
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Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. - (Martin Golding) :~ There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. - (Alan J. Perlis) :doh: A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - (Doug Linder) Software undergoes beta testing shortly before it’s released. Beta is Latin for “still doesn’t work." - (Leslie Nielsen) :rolleyes:
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So do I, after I was hit by a Japanese tourist riding his bike the wrong way down a two way road in Cambridge...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
just for my piece of mind, just how do you travel the "wrong way" down a two way road? is it a Japanse thing?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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just for my piece of mind, just how do you travel the "wrong way" down a two way road? is it a Japanse thing?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
This may help: In Japan people travel on the left side of the road.
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This may help: In Japan people travel on the left side of the road.
they do that in cambridge too, it's the proper side
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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just for my piece of mind, just how do you travel the "wrong way" down a two way road? is it a Japanse thing?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
He was cycling against the traffic on his side of the road right up against the pavement.:mad: I have seen a few dunderheads doing that in Cambridge. :wtf:
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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He was cycling against the traffic on his side of the road right up against the pavement.:mad: I have seen a few dunderheads doing that in Cambridge. :wtf:
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
then he was probably american not japanese lol
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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CBadger wrote:
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - (Doug Linder)
Reminds me of a classic "Top Tip" in the Viz. It started with:
Save time when crossing a one-way street by only looking one way. - John Smith, Crawley
On the next page, they had:
Always look both ways when crossing a one-way street, in case a blue furniture van is reversing. - John Smith, Crawley Hospital
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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CBadger wrote:
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - (Doug Linder)
Being a paranoid motorcyclist, I now look both ways twice all the time.
Marvin is my hero
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but seriously though, I will not put my life into the hands of a complete stranger hoping (s)he knows the one-way street concept. Look at it as "defensive programming" ;P
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CBadger wrote:
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street
Actually, that's anyone who has been to Italy and survived...
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam
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OriginalGriff wrote:
and survived...
What about those that did not survive? ;P
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"That there's some corner of an Italian road system. That is forever England." Or France, or Germany, or ...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
