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Just curious: What programming languages do people here know (counting excel/VBA)? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 11, 17:04 13
- I learned some Basic and Cobol - back when we had to type it on punch cards and hand to the computer operator to run the program :) - Meg Sep 11, 17:24 1
  - we still had to leard how to read punch cards -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Sep 11, 18:04
- T-SQL. Can do some basic html, JavaScript, and it's been years since I've played with PHP. -- nm - JaxSean Sep 11, 17:20
- C C++ Cobol LISP Fortran Java VB Korn Bash -- nm - budice Sep 11, 17:13 2
  - Fucking LISP... That shit makes no sense. -- nm - Ender Sep 11, 20:21
  - PHP, Pascal, Basic, SQL -- nm - budice Sep 11, 17:14
- Basic, some cobol, fortran and pascal. -- nm - Spawn Sep 11, 17:10
- know none, used to know, basic, assembler, pascal, c, cobol, xal plaus a few others i've forgotten totally about -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Sep 11, 17:08 2
  - If you don't mind me asking, how old are you? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 11, 17:09 1
    - 54 -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Sep 11, 18:03
- PHP, SQL, Bash, Javascript, Ruby (and Rails), C++ - those are my main ones. I've got a few other ones I'm rusty on. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 11, 17:07
- I don't know any of the ones I want to know. -- nm - Max Sep 11, 17:06
- VBA for Excel (basic), Access (pretty strong), Sql for Oracle (competent) and enough to be able to follow-along with code elsewhere. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 11, 17:05
Wonder if they wheel out the Slap Yo Mama Red Zone tonight -- nm - budice Sep 11, 17:01 2
- Here. -- (link) - Spawn Sep 11, 17:09
- Because teams frequently use another team's promotions. - the wrong element, bad guy Sep 11, 17:08
early morning in Hong Kong -- (link) - con_carne Sep 11, 16:59 [Image] 3
- -25 Spawn Points - Spawn Sep 11, 17:19
- wow -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Sep 11, 17:06
- Very nice. (I'll have to look into adding a 500px integration - it's not as easy as flickr) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 11, 17:00
#lessthanhumblebrag - Kim and I got both halves of Final Jeopardy. - David Sep 11, 16:58 6
- What was the wording? -- nm - Reagen Sep 11, 17:04 5
  - 1 of the 2 movies in the last 30 years, one a drama & one a comedy, to win Oscars for Best Actor & Best Actress. -- nm - David Sep 11, 17:05 4
    - As Good as it Gets is the easy one... -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 11, 17:09 3
      - And Silence of the Lambs -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 11, 17:10 2
        
        One dude guessed Terms of Endearment, which is cruelly incorrect. - David Sep 11, 17:14
        
        That was the easy one. -- nm - Spawn Sep 11, 17:11
(some) Ravens fans still loyal to Ray Rice -- (link) - Strongbad Sep 11, 16:43 2
- I actually expected articles about people on twitter supporting him. - the wrong element, bad guy Sep 11, 16:52
- There are still Michael Vick zealots on the Falcons board. -- nm - David Sep 11, 16:44
OH at work: "If your wife falls in a forest and no one's around, does it still cause a suspension?" -- nm - Beryllium Sep 11, 16:40 1
- only if you use a branch thicker than your thumb to make her fall -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 11, 19:10
Bill Simmons: It’s official: Roger Goodell is the worst sports commissioner of my lifetime. -- (link) - Beaker Sep 11, 16:33 1
- The fact CBS was given the Goodell interview just plays into the conspiracy. -- nm - budice Sep 11, 16:40
Small study: Psilocybin (magic mushrooms) helps smokers quit more effectively than Chantix and nicotine patches -- (link) - con_carne Sep 11, 16:24
Dear ST, Please help me remember to buy an IPO on that other site this weekend. Sihned, your good friend - Spawn Sep 11, 16:18 1
- 150? damn !!! -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Sep 11, 16:34
Teenager reveals horrific details as sex slave in ISIS captivity -- (link) - DaneDukeNuuk Sep 11, 16:18
Dc Comic Teen Titans property being developed for TV as Titans for TNT... -- (link) - Remlik Sep 11, 16:11 8
- Season 1 should be the Terra story arc. -- nm - David Sep 11, 16:38
- so they'll have 3 universes on the go. Arrow/Flsh on CW, this one and their movies -- nm - Beaker Sep 11, 16:29 5
  - forgot Gotham and Constantine -- nm - Beaker Sep 11, 16:30 4
    - and any animated series they may have going on -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 11, 16:30
    - plus maybe Supergirl -- nm - Beaker Sep 11, 16:30 2
      - on HBO? :) -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 11, 16:31 1
        
        i'd love to see them get a superhero show. Cinemax & Starz would screw it up, and Showtime would make it boring. -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 11, 16:34
- Damn. You beat me here. Just coming to post. -- nm - Volnelk Sep 11, 16:17
24 year old woman found to have no cerebellum -- (link) - Reagen Sep 11, 16:04
my tomatoes survived Snowpocalypse and shall live another day. or six. at least six. -- nm - Reagen Sep 11, 15:57 6
- Grow potatoes on Mars, and then I'll be impressed. -- nm - David Sep 11, 16:02 4
  - potato potahto. -- nm - Reagen Sep 11, 16:04
  - Ray Ray will colonize that bitch. -- nm - Spawn Sep 11, 16:02 2
    - laughing. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Sep 11, 16:03 1
      - boobies! -- nm - Spawn Sep 11, 16:04
- graft them onto some tobacco. they'll be fine. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Sep 11, 16:00
Hasdawsonlefttheofficeyet.com -- nm - ty97 Sep 11, 15:57 1
- no -- nm - Spawn Sep 11, 16:04
OMG I almost forgot. guys. guys. teach me a trivia! (you have like 15 minutes.) -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Sep 11, 15:50 19
- Peyton Manning is only the 2nd QB ever to beat every team in the league. The 1st was Brett Favre. -- nm - Volnelk Sep 11, 16:18
- "ABBA's song "SOS" is the only Billboard Hot 100 single to have both a title and a recording artist whose names are both palindromes." -- nm - Roger More Sep 11, 16:08 1
  - Too bad A-ha never released Madam I'm Adam as a single. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Sep 11, 16:34
- The first movie with Dr Hannibal Lector was Manhunter not Silence of the Lambs, and Brian Cox played him. -- nm - Was Bar Was Sep 11, 16:03 5
  - oh, who all has played lecter? that's a good one. -- (link) - peggy ann mcamanda Sep 11, 16:04 4
    - Connery/Lazenby/Moore/Dalton/Brosnan/Craig all played James Bond, but so did Woody Allen and David Niven. -- (link) - Max Sep 11, 16:06 3
      - Don't forget Barry Nelson -- (link) - amoxy Sep 11, 16:13
      - Well, Woody played his nephew Jimmy Bond -- nm - Roger More Sep 11, 16:09 1
        
        That's true, not 007. -- nm - Max Sep 11, 16:12
- Adele and Ariana Grande are the only two female lead musicians to have three hits in the top ten simultaneously. -- nm - Max Sep 11, 15:59 2
  - *nice* -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Sep 11, 15:59 1
    - For Ariana, that happened last week with Problem, Break Free, and Bang Bang. -- (link) - Max Sep 11, 16:04
- tomatoes and tobacco are related and can be grafted onto each other. -- nm - Reagen Sep 11, 15:59
- German Chocolate Cake was invented in the USA by a man named Sam German. -- nm - GregW Sep 11, 15:57
- Moses, Samuel amd Jerome are the 3 stooges real names. Moe, Shemp, Curly -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 11, 15:55 2
  - But Groucho Marx's first name was Julius. -- nm - Was Bar Was Sep 11, 15:57 1
    - it still is :) -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 11, 16:01
- Oscar the Grouch was originally orange. The Three Musketeers bar was originally in 3 parts that were 3 different flavors. -- nm - mara Sep 11, 15:52
- July 2, 1928: W3XK,America’s First TV Station Goes on the Air -- nm - amoxy Sep 11, 15:52
"You never watched kids in the hall as a kid?" "No, I lived on an island, there wasn't much TV choice" "Were there any bears on the island?" - Beryllium Sep 11, 15:40
The week in NFL concussions -- (link) - mara Sep 11, 15:14
I would so fucking buy this. -- (link) - Mop Sep 11, 15:10
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      - Is my be on the hotel room? - ty97 Sep 11, 15:56 1
        
        How did name become be? Stupid phone -- nm - ty97 Sep 11, 15:57
    - Haha - ty97 Sep 11, 15:18
- You just missed it. -- nm - Spawndroid Sep 11, 15:13
Poll: The economy is still "struggling." You agree/disagree strongly/somewhat. -- nm - Max Sep 11, 15:06 15
- Strongly agree -- nm - Krusty Sep 11, 16:08
- I disagree but I also think that the American economy is fundamentally broken due to the flaws in corporate structure. -- nm - David Sep 11, 15:50
- mildly disagree. it's not struggling, it's just a bit tepid overall growthwise...nm - x Sep 11, 15:47
- depends on where you live imo so I will agree and disagree -- nm - CQ Sep 11, 15:39
- Disagree. But it's a narrative Republicans want you to believe so you'll vote for them. -- nm - Mop Sep 11, 15:33
- somewhat, I mean, its been over 12 years of tax cuts for the wealthy and where is the f'n trickle down? - zeitgeist Sep 11, 15:32
- Perhaps this is the real economy sans war and economic bubbles. Modest growth. -- nm - budice Sep 11, 15:20 2
  - we've had punk growth for long enough that it is more or less the real economy...nm - x Sep 11, 15:53
  - I agree but I wonder if the stock market is at sustainable levels (honestly don't know) -- nm - con_carne Sep 11, 15:24
- Agree. We are only now starting to see wage growth that matters, and underemployment is still an issue. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 11, 15:16
- Slight disagree but understand why most people agree - ty97 Sep 11, 15:15
- Disagree. The economy is doing the best it's done in ages. Unfortunately, it's not affecting everyone equally. -- nm - TWuG Sep 11, 15:12
- Disagree somewhat. The economy as a whole is doing okay. A large percentage of the working class is struggling. -- nm - mara Sep 11, 15:11
- strongly disagree -- nm - the one percent Sep 11, 15:09
- Disagree strongly. -- nm - notch si Sep 11, 15:08
Toronto Film Festival Diary: Adam Sandler’s Crime Against Cinema and a Great Documentary’s Crime Against Humanity -- (link) - Beaker Sep 11, 14:56
Senate Republicans Filibuster Constitutional Fix To Overturn Citizens United -- (link) - con_carne Sep 11, 14:52 2
- If you can't get enough votes to break a filibuster on a constitutional amendment, you sure as hell aren't passing it. -- nm - Was Bar Was Sep 11, 16:00
- Including McCain, who originally called it the decision the worst ever. -- nm - mara Sep 11, 14:56
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one of my all time favorite releases is $5 on Amazon..Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting.... -- (link) - Remlik Sep 11, 14:50
I never knew this 9/11/01 pic from the International Space Station existed -- (link) - con_carne Sep 11, 14:46 [Image]
I know it is like Homer quitting Moes when he stole his drink, but I think I will stop watching the NFL (as CQ is) - Beaker Sep 11, 14:43 1
- Umpossible. -- nm - Spawndroid Sep 11, 15:21
Internet Slowdown Day Generated 1,000 Calls Per Minute To Congress -- (link) - con_carne Sep 11, 14:40
Someone made a site where you can make fake twitter push notification screens. I made this one ... without thinking about what day it is ... oops -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 11, 14:38
SanDisk releases 512GB SD card -- (link) - con_carne Sep 11, 14:32 2
- Sweet. That sort of thing will be great for my new laptop. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 11, 14:56
- And I wonder how much longer 4gb cards will be available...forget 2gb. -- nm - Meg Sep 11, 14:54
Krusty, "I seen"-tence you to 5 years hard labour for that post -- nm - zork Sep 11, 14:25 1
- Seent it is perfectly cromulant. - Krusty Sep 11, 14:58
st - slow afternoon poll: what is your favorite kind of mustard? if you don't like mustard, you can say invisible -- nm - Epiphany Sep 11, 14:19 26
- invisible. (TMI inside) - peggy ann mcamanda Sep 11, 15:49 3
  - "or she" -- nm - Max Sep 11, 16:00 2
    - Spin that bottle. -- nm - Spawn Sep 11, 16:24 1
      - But make sure it's a ketchup bottle. -- nm - Max Sep 11, 16:52
- honey dijon when cooking with chicken, spicy brown on certain things, and french yellow for dogs and burgers -- nm - CQ Sep 11, 15:42
- INVISIBLE -- nm - JD Sep 11, 15:29
- invisible is too passive for my hatred. -- nm - Spawndroid Sep 11, 15:15
- I've become partial to horseradish mustard. -- nm - CovingtonCat Sep 11, 15:08
- Spicy brown. That yellow stuff is banned from my house. -- nm - Krusty Sep 11, 14:59
- Whole grain, spicy brown, Ralphs Sweet Hot. -- nm - Meg Sep 11, 14:47
- Dijon, only since it goes into my mac and cheese recipe. Beyond that... Invisible -- nm - J Sep 11, 14:41
- Inglehoffer whole mustard. The packages are too small though - con_carne Sep 11, 14:37
- Some variation of Dijon -- nm - Roger More Sep 11, 14:36
- Plochman's plain yellow. And I have the many, many mustard bottles to prove it. -- nm - Kim Pine Sep 11, 14:35 2
  - Seriously, we're good through 2030. -- nm - David Sep 11, 14:42 1
    - If the world is ever in crisis, at least I know where my bunker is. :) -- nm - budice Sep 11, 14:44
- grainy spicy -- nm - Andie Sep 11, 14:34
- plain ol yellow -- nm - groiny Sep 11, 14:27
- Spicy brown. -- nm - kelly Sep 11, 14:25
- Spicy Brown -- nm - Epiphany Sep 11, 14:24
- Sierra Nevada Spicy Brown -- nm - amoxy Sep 11, 14:23
- none -- nm - Beaker Sep 11, 14:23
- flung -- nm - Max Sep 11, 14:21
- Classic Yellow. What I have discovered is a Mustard BBQ sauce which is good (Basically mustard + BBQ sauces mixed) -- nm - budice Sep 11, 14:21
- Most of the time, French's Yellow. Sometimes, like on a sandwich, I'll go for one of those fancy coarse ones. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 11, 14:20 1
  - This. The pretzels at World of Beer they serve with a honey mustard, though, and that's delish as well. -- nm - JaxSean Sep 11, 14:23
SLJ as president makes me wonder how long before a real US president has a shaved head -- nm - zork Sep 11, 14:16 10
- We came so close with Herman Cain -- nm - Roger More Sep 11, 14:35
- Unless it's a military dude or Lady Gaga backup dancer, aint no bald dudes getting elected in the tv age. -- nm - Max Sep 11, 14:24 2
  - Say my name. Say it. -- nm - President Heisenberg si Sep 11, 14:27
  - It's so accepted by younger people that I'm sure it will trickle down (up?) in a while -- nm - zork Sep 11, 14:26
- Remlick 2016! -- nm - budice Sep 11, 14:17 5
  - crap I need to burn some VHS tapes then. - Remlik Sep 11, 14:22 4
    - like they could tell which head was which. -- nm - groiny Sep 11, 14:38 3
      - shit I had long hair back then. -- nm - Remlik Sep 11, 14:51 2
        
        my point stands -- nm - groiny Sep 11, 15:05 1
        
        godamnit groiny...stop by funny. it doesn't suit you. -- nm - Remlik Sep 11, 15:10
The stories behind five stationery icons -- (link) - DaneDukeNuuk Sep 11, 14:15

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