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"This process is affectionately known as 'bootstrapping' --- for obvious
reasons (at least if your native language is English it is obvious)."
Apparently my native language is not English...
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On 17/06/2011 4:08 PM, Invisible wrote:
> "This process is affectionately known as 'bootstrapping' --- for obvious
> reasons (at least if your native language is English it is obvious)."
>
> Apparently my native language is not English...
Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
--
Regards
Stephen
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On 6/17/2011 8:08, Invisible wrote:
> "This process is affectionately known as 'bootstrapping' --- for obvious
> reasons (at least if your native language is English it is obvious)."
>
> Apparently my native language is not English...
That's because you didn't read the classics, remember?
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Coding without comments is like
driving without turn signals."
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On 17-6-2011 23:02, Darren New wrote:
> On 6/17/2011 8:08, Invisible wrote:
>> "This process is affectionately known as 'bootstrapping' --- for obvious
>> reasons (at least if your native language is English it is obvious)."
>>
>> Apparently my native language is not English...
>
> That's because you didn't read the classics, remember?
Knowing your classics is part of being a true English(wo)man.
Apparently Andy was born in England from English parents and was raised
in England, yet he still lacks some fundamental Englishness.
Can we conclude from that that not everyone in England is educated in
private schools?
--
Apparently you can afford your own dictator for less than 10 cents per
citizen per day.
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On 06/18/2011 05:58 AM, andrel wrote:
> Apparently Andy was born in England from English parents and was raised
> in England, yet he still lacks some fundamental Englishness.
> Can we conclude from that that not everyone in England is educated in
> private schools?
>
>
think it has more to do with when rather than where
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On 18/06/2011 9:58 AM, andrel wrote:
> Can we conclude from that that not everyone in England is educated in
> private schools?
Duh!
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Regards
Stephen
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>> Apparently my native language is not English...
>
> Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
...an expression I've only ever seen in computer documentation as an
explanation for why it's called "booting".
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On 17/06/2011 10:02 PM, Darren New wrote:
> That's because you didn't read the classics, remember?
It's not just books, apparently. Consider, for example,
http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20110620
I have literally *no idea* what this is about. Presumably because I
haven't played the game...
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>>> Apparently my native language is not English...
>>
>> Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
>
> ...an expression I've only ever seen in computer documentation as an
> explanation for why it's called "booting".
Same thing here. I've never, ever, seen that expression in any
non-computer related context. Ever!
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On 6/21/2011 8:30 AM, Alain wrote:
>>>> Apparently my native language is not English...
>>>
>>> Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
>>
>> ...an expression I've only ever seen in computer documentation as an
>> explanation for why it's called "booting".
>
> Same thing here. I've never, ever, seen that expression in any
> non-computer related context. Ever!
Ah, well, I will just put on my readies and run out to find an example!
Note - Not sure what 'readies' is, nor did most Americans in like the
1850s or so, when Mark Twain quoted some Brit he was with, in a hotel,
during some mess involving a cat on the roof, making noise, the Brit
being nearly naked, and his subsequent slip and slide, into a diner
party, from said roof. The comment was, "If I had put on some readies, I
would have got that cat.", roughly (not the exact quote).
Apparently, someone, when the phrase "booting" was come up with, was
still using the word. Same with "readies", in the context of.. shoes
maybe, in Twain's time... lol
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