This made me chuckle:
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<El_Pompo> what would be the best language to build a crawler in?
<Emetri> jawa.
It’s a quote from bash.org of course. It might take you few seconds, but you will get it. Or not. Either way, I’m not explaining it.
Ok, here is a hint:
Get it?
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February 25th, 2007 at 9:24 pm (3097) [Quote]
*groans*
Posted usingFebruary 25th, 2007 at 9:46 pm (3098) [Quote]
Is that a good groan or a bad groan
Posted usingFebruary 26th, 2007 at 6:47 am (3099) [Quote]
I don’t get it…
Posted usingCan someone explain this to a no-native-english speaker?
It has something to do with Java, right?
February 26th, 2007 at 9:36 am (3100) [Quote]
Ok, here is the explanation:
One guy asks about what is the best language for building a “web crawler” - a piece of software that you can use to scrape the web for information. Search engines use web crawlers to build their indexes.
The other guy responds Jawa - the language of sand people from Star Wars who hunt for droids and cruise around with a ginormous “sand crawler”. Jawa sounds just like Java so the joke works on both levels.
I think a non-native speaker should be able to get it, as long as you are able to make the Star Wars connection.
Posted usingFebruary 26th, 2007 at 1:00 pm (3103) [Quote]
I did know what the crawler was about,
but i’ve never seen a star wars movie, so yeah, I couldn’t connect the two
Thanks for the explanation!
Posted usingFebruary 26th, 2007 at 1:15 pm (3104) [Quote]
Wow! Really? If you ever plan watching them, see the old ones, and skip all the prequels. They suck.
Posted usingFebruary 27th, 2007 at 2:16 am (3105) [Quote]
When I was a kid, I allmost never saw any movies at all
and that in a country where >99% of the people have cable 
Posted usingWe don’t even hav cable tv at my parents house
But I don’t regret it. Most of it is junk anyway.
February 27th, 2007 at 12:11 pm (3106) [Quote]
You don’t need cable to watch movies and TV shows these days. All you need is an internet connection, and some bandwidth to burn.
Posted usingFebruary 28th, 2007 at 4:16 am (3115) [Quote]
Apparently, you don’t live in Belgium.
Posted usingThe average bandwidth a customer gets is about 10Gb/month. If you transfer more, you have to pay a lot or continue surfing at 64Kbps
Nowadays, I see more and more movies, but these are either rented or in a cinema.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:28 am (3119) [Quote]
Oh wow. That totally sucks. Let me guess - you guys have 1 or 2 teleco companies monopolizing the market, and setting the prices the way they want?
I have seen this happening in Poland. We had one huge Telecom which was socialized, centralized and funded by government. Then they privatized it, and you now had this huge, publicly traded behemoth which owned 90% of the infrastructure in the country. Kinda like the Microsoft of ISP’s.
This is why it is nice to live in New Jersey.
I can essentially pick between 3 different cable providers in my area, and 3 or 4 different DSL companies. And I’m not even in a big city - just the suburbs.
Posted usingFebruary 28th, 2007 at 12:51 pm (3123) [Quote]
Jup, You’re about right!
Posted usingThe biggest two are fighting each other for us, poor customers :p.
There are some more broadband providers, but they are just too small. And they use the systems of the bigegst two, so their prices aren’t that smaller (or you just have less service or etc..).