Well done! you just volunteered for the next valenciano spelling-bee

Not. I had a taxi accelerate from a stop towards me so I jumped back and banged on the bonnet. I crammed onto the crowded pavement (sidewalk) and he started up again and I had to twist to avoid the wing mirror. I banged on the roof, as it turns out, a little hard. He jumped out the car, assaulted me then called the police. They weren't interested in his using a big black mercedes as a weapon, they were only interested in charging me with criminal damage. Took about 6 months to get to the point where they would just let me pay for his dent to get pulled out again. But he never replaced my shirt. Only bright side is he had to drive around 6 months with a dent in his roof and the thought that if he'd been more patient it wouldn't be there. /edit: this wasn't on a crossing, it was in a tiny narrow crowded street.

Hi all, I recently read (I think it was in the Clean Coder) about how other professionals like lawyers or architects are listened to whereas programmers are not, and why is this? etc. So this is a theme for me right now. As part of cleaning up our act in our team we have adopted Scrum and I've been browsing the web about code metrics because there's nothing like a bit of empirical data when you want to justify why you spent 2 days throwing away 5000 lines of interface code that solves a problem we don't have and hugely increases compilation times and dependencies. So I finally came across the CRAP metric. Apparently this is a genius way of measuring useful qualities about your code. I haven't read much about it yet because the website is brown with flies on it. really. So anyway, I've solved the question of why programmers are not taken as seriously as lawyers. http://www.crap4j.org/[^]

Yes, I thought THIS would be what the thread was about :^)

Kids? I have the same problem, sometimes with something as dull as facebook or youtube. Basic obsessive behavior. Lollies are to fruit as Lego is to woodwork as Computer games are to offline reality All give a quick result so are very appealing in the short term.

Surely no-one on the planet still thinks that Top Gear is anything other than a self-entertainment program? Fixed for you

Interesting* Fact. Berwick-upon-tweed is still at war with Germany. At the declaration of war, it hadn't been decided whether BoT was in England or Scotland, so England, Scotland and Berwick-upon-tweed declared war on Germany etc. By the end of the war, the matter had been settled, so only England and Scotland declared peace.

Our huge, international corp. just got off Lotus Notes and gave us all outlook, this year. It was like being able to see for the first time. Presumably.

This. Not the old part, obv. I'm in an open plan office and I like to catch up while compiling. Video content is therefore useless to me unless I want to spam the whole office with the noise, or put on headphones and miss the lunch van. Also you don't need to press pause on a page of text, you just stop reading. Then when you come back you don't need to use a seek bar to regain the context of where you were.