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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: samir on June 09, 2009, 09:21:39 AM
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Hope this is untrue.
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/06/exclusive_vh1_shelves_best_wee.html
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I like how all but one person in the comments section just completely bags on Paul F. Tompkins and subsequently proves how useless their feedback is. Thanks for the insight, pseudonymous person I know nothing about and therefore have no reason to value the opinion of!
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I'm going to write an angry email to Evan "Funk" Davies.
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Since Sarah "dropped the ball" I feel compelled to offer this to the "thread".
MSDN
Canceled versus Cancelled
There are these annoying gray areas when coding that eat up way too much time but if you don't get it right, you look like a jerk later on. Here's the situation: one of my teammates has two events, both signifying that something was cancelled. He had named the first FooCancelled and he named the second one BarCanceled. When he noticed the different spellings, he decided to use Word as the arbitrator: “Whoever gets the red squiggly loses! Fight now!” Anyway, in an upset decision Word said they were both winners. Looking up the word on dictionary.com verifies this: they are indeed both correct. However, being a developer and thus lacking the ability to see anything other than in Boolean terms, I can't accept them both as being equally correct.
So, the question is: which one should we use? The Framework only has a couple occasions of it, that I could find, and they opt for “canceled.” I prefer the double “l” because I find it easier to read.
We're gonna flip a coin for now, but if the coin lands on its edge, I'm freaking out...
[Update: I should have checked our Manual of Style first, but for some reason I didn't. The mos says: one “l“. Google may have sided with the two “l”s, but I gotta run with the mos... Canceled is victor! ]
Published Friday, February 06, 2004 1:36 PM by tristanc
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I like how all but one person in the comments section just completely bags on Paul F. Tompkins and subsequently proves how useless their feedback is. Thanks for the insight, pseudonymous person I know nothing about and therefore have no reason to value the opinion of!
Yeah, I was kind of freaked by that too. I haven't watched this show, so maybe I'm missing something, but I find it difficult to understand how people could dislike PFT so much.
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I like how all but one person in the comments section just completely bags on Paul F. Tompkins and subsequently proves how useless their feedback is. Thanks for the insight, pseudonymous person I know nothing about and therefore have no reason to value the opinion of!
Yeah, I was kind of freaked by that too. I haven't watched this show, so maybe I'm missing something, but I find it difficult to understand how people could dislike PFT so much.
Probably because his lack of plastic surgery makes him an odd fit for VH1.
These are probably the same people that miss Leno.
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Never read the PFT message board on IMDB.
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Never read the PFT message board on IMDB.
I just perused it. Imagine a bunch of rank amateurs criticizing a professional like PFT. They're all jealous because he has a job that they would all kill for.
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Never read the PFT message board on IMDB.
I just perused it. Imagine a bunch of rank amateurs criticizing a professional like PFT. They're all jealous because he has a job that they would all kill for.
Yeah, of course I did too. I actually didn't find it as harsh as the NY Mag link above, but I did find this guy:
(http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/cc360/bpb_photos/pft_ggallin.jpg)
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I like how robertjohnson11 used the slash instead of "to" to save time and space.
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This is pure hearsay and conjecture, and I shan't waste my beautiful mind any further by reading such heinous drivel. Good day!
EDIT: This disappointing development is confirmed by PFT himself at his Twitter page. Way to go, people. Man, I fuckin' hate people.
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Man, I fuckin' hate people.
PLEASE move this to the hate related thread.
Thank You.
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PFT's got bigger fish to fry. He's Bigger than The Best Week Ever. So much bigger!!
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PFT is an awesome guy, a tremendous talent, and a hilarious comedian. This is just the beginning for him!
On the other hand, though, if his career slides enough, I might just be able to get him to be in a play. So I guess I have a conflict of interest.
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PFT is an awesome guy, a tremendous talent, and a hilarious comedian. This is just the beginning for him!
On the other hand, though, if his career slides enough, I might just be able to get him to be in a play. So I guess I have a conflict of interest.
You can get buffcoat in a play right now! No acting experience, unwilling to show up for rehearsals or anything else.
Scratch that, I guess you can't. I was almost a star.
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PFT is an awesome guy, a tremendous talent, and a hilarious comedian. This is just the beginning for him!
On the other hand, though, if his career slides enough, I might just be able to get him to be in a play. So I guess I have a conflict of interest.
Even wildly more unlikely, I might get him to take one of my math classes. How fun would that be?
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Since Sarah "dropped the ball" I feel compelled to offer this to the "thread".
MSDN
Canceled versus Cancelled
There are these annoying gray areas when coding that eat up way too much time but if you don't get it right, you look like a jerk later on. Here's the situation: one of my teammates has two events, both signifying that something was cancelled. He had named the first FooCancelled and he named the second one BarCanceled. When he noticed the different spellings, he decided to use Word as the arbitrator: “Whoever gets the red squiggly loses! Fight now!” Anyway, in an upset decision Word said they were both winners. Looking up the word on dictionary.com verifies this: they are indeed both correct. However, being a developer and thus lacking the ability to see anything other than in Boolean terms, I can't accept them both as being equally correct.
So, the question is: which one should we use? The Framework only has a couple occasions of it, that I could find, and they opt for “canceled.” I prefer the double “l” because I find it easier to read.
We're gonna flip a coin for now, but if the coin lands on its edge, I'm freaking out...
[Update: I should have checked our Manual of Style first, but for some reason I didn't. The mos says: one “l“. Google may have sided with the two “l”s, but I gotta run with the mos... Canceled is victor! ]
Published Friday, February 06, 2004 1:36 PM by tristanc
Hey, I never picked that ball up. I just quibble when the mood strikes me. If anyone bothered to make a tally, she or he would discover that this happens fairly rarely. I think it's just that some of you assume I'm always judging you. Which, of course, is often true, but I mostly keep my withering disapproval to myself.
That said, the rule of thumb in the US regarding doubling l's is not to do so in unstressed syllables. Thus "canceled" is more standard. "Cancelled," however, is perfectly correct here and de rigueur across the pond and probably even across our northern border.