Blessed Geek

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Come unto me, all ye who are weary of heavy-laden clients and I will give you REST.

Agile is the substance of features planned for, the avoidance of milestones unseen.

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Mar 24	comment	Is there a word for numbers and letters, but not punctuation, etc? Alphanumeric can be used as a noun, but mostly used by itself with the words character/field/string implied. Whereas, 'alphanumerics' is a collective term.
Mar 22	comment	Valid? “The river is flowing.” The runner is running. The hot chili is hot! I saw cars in the car park.
Mar 19	comment	Is x plotted against y or is y plotted against x? +Fortiter, thx. Venting is a healthy exercise.
Mar 19	comment	Is x plotted against y or is y plotted against x? Your perspective is too restricted to your own field of expertise.
Mar 19	comment	Have American English speakers always used the term “last name” instead of surname? For a patient whose name is Zhou Enlai, who, say, happens to be tourist from China hospitalized in, say, the Univ of MA hospital and being admitted by his sister Zhou Enbai - try writing Enlai and Enbai as the lastnames, the hospital would either reject your form or you would screw up their systems. Therefore, for practical reasons in North America, lastname and surname are synonymous regardless of any academic opinions.
Mar 15	comment	What do you call a person who admits that she has a bad side and a good side too? bipolar / manic.
Mar 14	comment	Reading dollar amounts after “priced at” Three dollars ninety-nine.
Mar 13	comment	Is “great” used by native speakers to describe calamities any more? In the presence of words such as awesome, catastrophic, incredible, unbelievable, viral, etc, the use of "Great" now usually means "It's a pleasant surprise."
Mar 13	comment	How did the term “esquire” come to be used for lawyers? I vote this as the Q&A of the year, or the decade.
Mar 13	comment	How did the term “esquire” come to be used for lawyers? Some American lawyers appear to be a pompous lot. LOL2.
Mar 13	comment	“To sit in a Parliament” or “To sit on a Parliament”? I think it's fine that someone sat on the Parliament, just as Rand Paul sat on the US Senate for 13 hours the other day. By fine, I meant grammatically, rather than politically.
Mar 13	comment	Difference in meaning: “would have had to be” vs “would have had to have been” What the kreb have I done!
Mar 11	comment	Difference in meaning: “would have had to be” vs “would have had to have been” Conditional <=> Optative: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optative_mood.
Mar 11	comment	Difference in meaning: “would have had to be” vs “would have had to have been” Retrospective subjunctivities: He says he went to Israel. If he did go to Israel, he would blah .. blah. He said he had been to Israel. If he had, he would ... blah blah.
Mar 10	comment	What does “Sleep through the Second Coming” mean? +Lymington, someone has to understand the theology of dispensationalism, millenialism and tribulation in order to see that 2nd Coming theology does indeed propose that the 2nd Coming would awaken people or not. Does it propose the rapture occuring after the trib or before the trib. Before the supposed mil or after mil or mid-mil.
Mar 10	comment	What does “Sleep through the Second Coming” mean? Dispensationalism.
Mar 10	comment	When and how to use unusual vocabulary? Please edit the last sentence of your 1st paragraph to "frustration" instead of "frustrating".
Mar 10	comment	What does “Sleep through the Second Coming” mean? Please don't edit my answer by reducing its contents, but only for the case of grammatical improvements or correcting factual inaccuracies. Please refrain, whoever that had done it previously.
Mar 10	comment	The efficient use of space You are right - got a little mixed up.
Mar 10	comment	The efficient use of space Would the items in my suitcase get traumatised by agoraphobia when I practice "agornomics" on them to pack as much stuffs as possible in as small a luggage bag that the airline would then permit me to store in overhead bins rather than having me check the bag in as baggage? LOL - didn't vote you down but your answer is hilarious.