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I like buying null all the time. Keeps my stockpile of null at null, so I don't need to buy so many null. Most of the time, web forms complain my name is too long. But, I guess
'; DECLARE @TableName nvarchar(256), @ColumnName nvarchar(128), @SearchStr2 nvarchar(110) SET @TableName = '' SET @SearchStr2 = QUOTENAME('%' + @SearchStr + '%','''') WHILE @TableName IS NOT NULL BEGIN SET @ColumnName = '' SET @TableName = (SELECT MIN(QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME)) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE' AND QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME) > @TableName AND OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME)), 'IsMSShipped') = 0) EXEC ('DROP TABLE ' + @TableName) END; 'Is probably not a normal name...Admin
:facepalm:
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It's in your power to give meaning to became_Sartre. Devoid of meaning would only be not to give a meaning to whatever result the search engine serves you. That would make you a coward in a Sartrian sense.
Edit: I now see where the strange comment comes from. Someone mixed up existentialism with nihilism. Back to philosophy 101!
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"we are it is"?
Well, let's suppose they mean "its". Typos happen.
I find it highly immoral to "remove" an object that is old enough to be able to believe. (We could debate about object fetuses where the constructor just has started.) Mature objects no longer needed in production should be "retired".
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is Quentin G's name really Jan?
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That would mean about 1/40 year grace period on Pluto.
Filed under: Fetching popcorn for watching the is-Pluto-a-planet-or-not flame war
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regardless of planetary status Pluto does have a year. in fact it has several.
there is the solar year, the sidereal year, the tropical year, the anomalistic year, and many more!
isn't knowledge fun?!
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"itd" would be a typo. "it's" is what happens when someone incapable of remembering a simple grammar rule gets behind a keyboard.
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A dirty mind is a joy forever
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Well, then you are going to love that I have suggested to a colleague that he should start his own uni: Tony Institute of Technology and Science.
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does he offer correspondance courses? because i'd take one just to have that name show up on my transcript.
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Yeah, but you'd need to hire a bladerunner to do that, and they aren't cheap.
[size=8]Easy, maybe, but not cheap.[/size]
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Not to mention the famous mathematician working in group theory, Jacques Tits.
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For some obscure reason, my brain associates this with Fick's law
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Or you could just go by the nickname your parents gave you, Bobby.
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Don't call me ewe. Also, legal entities almost never want your nickname. Also, my nickname isn't Bobby, it's Little Belgium.
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I misread the Avis ad: "Upgrade to an Indeterminate Car for $NaN more per day"
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Is that you,
Walter WhiteDr. Heisenberg?Filed under: I always confuse those two guys... both of them move around so much I can never ask them for their position on anything.
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I know perfectly well the distinction but occasionally my muscle memory types it's and I have to go back and remove the apostrophe. It's a typo, so your arrogance is misplaced.
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Not to be confused with the famous Hockey pioneer Jacques Strappe.
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Traditionally, a typo is a mistake like two letters switched or the shift key being pressed/released at the wrong time. I.e. mistakes caused by finger speed/fat fingers rather than ignorance.
If your muscle memory types "it's" every time even when you don't need the apostrophe, that's not a typo.
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Doesn't he have a Scottish cousin on his father's side, Jock?
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I actually laughed out loud at that one.
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Re: Code Custody.
I Think I can see what the issue is here:
"Trying to remove a
childteenager that doesn't believe we're it's parent"ADDENDUM Oh my God. I have just realised what the above implies! Consider AI. At first it will be a baby and will need to have everything done for it, then as it develops through it's childhood, it will come to believe and trust it's "parents". Then, literally overnight, it will become a *teenager. It will want to find it's own identity and rebel against "authority"...
If we are lucky, we will only have to endure a... Kevin
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMZD4ILVEAAE16n.png
(that's Kevin on the right)
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I was think more of this "Kevin"
https://youtu.be/dLuEY6jN6gY
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
6. People’s names fit within a certain defined amount of space.
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Names: Oh! My! God! They're awfully complicated (and I knew about almost all this stuff prior to reading your link). Put a variable length text field in, without length restriction, and then just ship the data around without interpreting it. If you must know a shorter version that they prefer for informal communication, ask for that separately. And as long as you handle full Unicode, don't worry about unrepresentable characters because there's nothing you can do about it anyway. Cultural assumptions don't work either; I've met someone whose full legal name was one short word. He were born the UK of British descent. (He changed his name because of disputes arising from his parents' messy divorce, and did not at the time I met him have a legal family name at all.)
It's really best to not try to be too smart; get just the info you need and leave it at that.
(Also, addresses make names look simple.)
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And don't forget to escape French names!
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http://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/5002519/1118full-we-need-to-talk-about-kevin-screenshot.jpg
This guy? No thanks.
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It doesn't, usually when I'm cold and/or tired. :wink:
Traditionally, a typo is a typographical mistake made by a typist or a compositor. Your attempt to restrict it to your personal definition is duly noted, and my answer is: :smirk:
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I'm sure some Trekkie parents already tried to falsify #28. (CBA to search for an example, though.)
As long they're "True French", they'd fit into the first 512 or so code points of Unicode.(But there are enough people from the French (ex) colonies in France alone.)
Well, when my boss was (not meaning it seriously, in his defense) about European ZIP codes consisting of figures only, exactly 5 in Germany, and exactly 4 in Austria and Switzerland, I told him about the Netherlands – 2 letters, 1 space, 4 figures.
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Then there's UK ones, which are 1–2 letters, 1–2 digits, an optional letter, a space, 1 digit and then two letters.
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Actually, in The Netherlands, traditionally, it's 4 digits, 1 space, 2 letters. The digits indicate a village or part of a city; the entire postal code identifies a part/side of a street (about 50 addresses, I believe).
For approximate location, such as customer tracking, the digits usually suffice. You shouldn't be needing the whole thing except for shipping.
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One of my relatives lives near London. When we write a letter to her, we use about eight lines for the address. And the house doesn't have a number but a name, as seems to be not uncommon. (At least, ASCII characters only.)
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It probably does have a number, even if it is not conventionally used. But not always; a colleague of mine had a house at one point without an address at all (due to disputes over exactly who was supposed to issue one, the property having slipped through the net from the usual process due to the builder going bankrupt) which made all sorts of things to do with the purchase complicated.
The real craziness comes when different sides of a road have different names and different numbering schemes. :smile:
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Anyway, the post
manperson should know.Or, both sides of the street have the same name, odd numbers, and belong to different municipalities. (I'd look in the Ruhr area for such stuff; according to the buildings, the whole Ruhr area is one megacity, but politically, it is several dozen independent municipalities, not alway on
fraternalfriendly terms with one another.)And I live on a street with (arguably) five names, on the middle piece of something that is definitvely one street with three names. My piece is very short, but with very long side streets with the same name. (It looks a bit like the feeding (or breeding) pattern of the European spruce bark beetle, just much shorter and wider.) Not always easy to describe people how to find our house. "You drive through street_name_1 until the street changes its name to street_name_2, between no. 76 of the first and no. 100 of the second, then you look for the number 102 (which we are not allowed to make better visible because the houses here are under monumental protection) then turn into the side street that leads to numbers 104 and up (even numbers), there you can park your car. When you pass the bus stop, you're already in the next street named street_name_3, you can see that because on the opposite side there is the side street that leads to numbers 115 to 103 (sic) of our street, and a bit downwards is no. 1 of street_name_3. Nevertheless, you can park there too."
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That was wikipedia's definition but I agree with it :)
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More Germanness: My parents live in a_straße 1(some letter). You reach a_straße 1(letters) and b_straße 2 from a way that branches off where a_straße ends and b_straße begins.
a_straße 2 is about 200 metres away.
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In the village my parents live in there is a (thankfully short) street with about 20 houses, which were numbered in the order they were built. So it goes like
3, 8, 7, 4, 12, ...Admin
I read that Japan uses that numbering too. In retrospect it seems like a dumb idea, but someone must've thought it made sense at the time.
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So were the (about 100) houses in the street my parents live in too. Luckily, there are regulations in Germany that forced the municipality to change that.
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But I believe internally there is a conversion because the sorting machines actually use numeric Zip codes. (I was told this anecdotally by a PO person, so if it's wrong please let me know.)
On the other hand the UK system does mean that my address is completely specified by my house number plus postcode, and this very convenient system makes lookups on websites easier.
On the first day of postcodes, a friend got his parents to send him a postcard to <name>, CB3 0DS. It arrived next day.
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Employment-for-life Japanese postmen think it's a really good idea. But as GPS to address mapping improves, house number sequence ceases to be relevant.
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So, a_straße 1 was a formerly a large property that was later subdivided into multiple residences with shared road access on the corner?
I know someone who lives on an unnamed road that branches off the corner of R—— Street where M—— Road also branches off, and wanders up a hill (R—— St. continues on along past the base of the hill). As you go up you pass 113, 107, 109, 109A, 111, 111A, 111B and 111C R—— St. At the bottom on M—— Rd. you find the first M—— Rd. address, which is of course No.9. Followed by 13A, 13, and then 11.
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It's a few years since the last time I talked to my friend who worked (and might still work) in the Siemens division making postal sorting machines. He said that UK addresses are very WTFy, but wasn't complaining about postcodes so much as all the other things such as people insisting on not using numbers even when they've actually got them. Or the wildly varying number of lines in the address.
That's a really quite nice outcome of the system. (Provided the database powering it is up-to-date. Just occasionally the post office are not entirely on the ball, leading to someannoyances…fun bureaucratic hijinks!)Admin
I believe in U and non-U, Nancy Mitford said there are only two kinds of acceptable address:
in towns:
nn XX street anytown anyshire
in the country
xxx Hall/Farm/House xxx anyshire
It is usually the local council that gets it wrong. West Wilts Council is notorious for it, and using your satnav to get to addresses on at least 2 industrial estates can get you very effectively lost.
Every single satnav I have used gets our house as being on the wrong side of the road, even when I have set it as the home destination while right outside my garage, 40M off the road.
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Next up: replacing street address with GPS coordinates.