El Pibe

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I was there saturday, a pretty dull win over Hendon, but always good cheap fun! (?2.50 a pint, that's like 64 pints before kick off!!)

That was an eye twitch btw

don't worry hmb, at least I'm self aware enough to know when I'm boring people, I'll be sure to telegraph it you with some eye twitching or something if I sense it coming on; give you plenty of opportunity to slink.... ;-)

I was taking issue with the practical realities of infinite. It's all fine to say that mathematically def div_by_two(x) x /= 2 div_by_two(x) is possible. In the real world you'll end up stuck at an atom surely? In terms of systems being able to express that, you'll soon run out of digits on the right side of the dot, (or more likley throw a max recursion error in the above case). Given that it is a currency that exists only within the electronic sphere it has to be limited by the physical limitation of the bits in the register surely? Admittedly our prices are supplied at up to 24 dp which I always thought a little bit ott. Oh god, I bored myself writing that...

80 quid. watching desperately miserable midweek football or about 54 pints (between us) with me old muckers jah and park? Easy choice!!!!!!!!

how the hell does infinite divisibility work. I'd be hard pressed to find a datatype on any platform in any language that supports that. Only so many 1s and 0s on a bunch of bits of metal on a piece of plastic

It's worth remembering the statistics that 1% of all of us, 10% of prisoners, 25% of violent prisoners and 86% of people who comment on UK news websites, are psychopaths.

PA photography awards, after a slew of dull royals this one, well, frankly terrifying!!

This series started soooo badly, but (finally) kicked in around episode 4 (we were just about to give up on it) and it just kept getting better. 2 was pretty poor though. Ah well, have Love/Hate sereis 4 to go to, after series 3 which was pretty amazing...

here's a nice site, it's certainly a brain teaser and helps you to think pythonically. http://www.pythonchallenge.com/

An overzealous sub then. I thengyouverymuch!!

indeed it was, how are you finding it? just out of curiosity can you do a post here via epic. Do you have to log in every time you need to do anything to anything? The idea that 'autocomplete is handled locally' seems to fly in the face of what it's doing. Also even use of a proxy stull goes via your ISP, so I'm wondering what the gain is? I was being flippant earlier, but really why would anyone go for this over anything else if it just means more hassle?

...it's just they're all out to get you... Sticking it to the man or any other reason for considering it?

He might have said "rough around the edges", but a sub decided, rather than madly narrowing the kerning on a line, to knock a couple of words off thinking it would retain its meaning, to make the article fit. I've seen it done *coughs into hand*

yep same here. On ios I'm mostly playing Avernum, an old skool isometric rpg; a sort of poor mans baldur's gate minus the irritating voice acting. On android a couple of tower defenses (yeah, US spelling) Kingdom Rush and its sequel Frontiers (both on ios, and about as good as TD gets).

If he was born and bread here he probably said it was dough in the old days (he said, desperately trying to get a tedious circular thread lounged).

I've just given messageEase a quick go (it's free) and I have to say it's not bad, I managed to tap out the quick brown fox pretty quickly on my first go. Though I don't think I can be bothered to get it all into the cerebellum, I can see it being very efficient once you have.

THere are a couple of barking mad alternatives to qwerty keyboards http://www.8pen.com/ 8pen, I gave it a go and found it unusable, but some people apparently swear by it. and http://www.exideas.com/ME/index.php messageEase which apparently beat the officaial world record for Words Per Minute entry.

stick with swiftkey (ony for android) http://www.swiftkey.net/en/

Depends on the keyboard you're using but some of them function off an internal datastore of your usage, effectively learning common phrases and word pairings. Swiftkey is excellent at this, you can even point it at gmail, facebook and twitter to learn more. ACtually it's excellent full stop, being nicely configurable, supports multiple language predictions without having to switch language, and now has a swype style functionality that works much better in my experience.

It was difficult to feel much sympathy :D Hats off to the shop owner who said he was concerned about him whatever his motives were.

favourite crash blossom of the day "Work to cut reoffending under fire" I'm always picking pockets in the middle of a gunfight.

I really do think he meant rough [around the edges]. It was a bit, a few more empty units, a few more windows covered in whitewash like the old mirror shop, the tyre shop and so on. It has been a bit more spruced up since. I'm consistently amazed at how quick people are to take offence, you'd think people enjoy it or something.

pop my bubble of denial why don't you, I thought this was the season of goodwill...