Roger Wright wrote:

To those who gave their lives in defense of Liberty and Human Rights

Ooooh, so that's why you went to 'Nam :-D that's a joke, people. lighten up?

It depends. Letters and commonly used characters, no. Less common characters (~, !, %, ^, & among others), yes.

Infinitely better than "we're looking for low-pay programmers to write boring glue code - we also accept typists (ps: also one Management position available to mentally handicapped people)"

A sledge hammer?

Have you considered that their current employer may not allow them to contribute?

I don't really think that's fair, many programmers just play around with stuff and don't actually contribute, that doesn't mean they're bad

Michael Martin wrote:

Alternately what other Non-Adobe PDF viewer do you recommend?

Evince. It also sucks in that it doesn't remember any changes you make to the window, but you get no trollbar crap and it also doesn't attempt to be "clever" by ignoring your ColourFringeType setting and it doesn't want you to update every other day (in fact it doesn't want you to update Ever)

I get in a loop: Magnitude > Ordering > Mathematics > Quantity > Magnitude

Because OCR is getting better. Things like KittenAuth are much harder to break for a computer, but easy for humans.

Are you Fermat?

That would explain it, they're supposed to use cod but you're probably right

I was served Fish Fingers today, and right before I started eating them I noticed a strange toilet-like odor. Turned out the fish fingers smelled like urine. Any normal human being would probably have thrown them in the bin at that point, but I wondered.. would they not only smell like urine, but taste like it as well? So I took a bite, and because it didn't taste like urine (yes I know what urine tastes like :) ) I ate them all.

Of course it is, but that's not the same as starting the war

They didn't, they just invaded Poland and then France declared war on Germany.

What else do you suppose people do with booze? They don't buy it just to chuck it away do they

So you just compared religion with an incurable disorder - am I the only one seeing the irony of this?

Maybe that's just because a ♯ is near-impossible to type? edit: usually when the # is in a picture, they do use ♯, but not when it is in text.

In my experience different people use different quality metrics - sometimes even complete opposites. Some people like crispness while other people call that "harsh", to some people contrast is everything but others think high contrast makes the picture look unnatural, etc. So I'd say you'd better go look at them yourself - our opinions are likely to be different from yours.

In general the optimizer isn't very good, I know. This case struck me as particularly silly though - comparing a constant with itself, really? And the 32bit JIT compiler does get it right, that one just throws the exception without checking whether integer equality is still a reflexive property :)

Oh that, yes it does make a difference, without the optimize switch the code is even more horrible. But sadly it was already on (by default on release builds) so I really have to blame the JIT compiler for this..