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Michael Beijer 
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TOPIC STARTER | I plead guilty, kind of. | Mar 2, 2016 |
Yes, I indeed said various not so nice things, but they were all in response to other not so nice things, and as far as I know, every one of the things I said was provoked. That is, I always try to be nice, until someone is not nice to me. I then try to still be nice, but sometimes fail. After all, I am a human being, with a name and a face. If you poke me, do I not bleed?
Michael
| | | | Michael Beijer
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TOPIC STARTER | This thread seems to have been hidden from view on the start page. | Mar 3, 2016 |
Oh well, it was interesting while it lasted, and we probably exhausted its potential anyway.
Michael
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Michael J.W. Beijer wrote:
Oh well, it was interesting while it lasted, and we probably exhausted its potential anyway.
Michael
Indeed, in fact the whole thing was not too different from a typical kudoz jamboree in the NL-ENG pair!
Btw I know your heart's in the right place
| | | | Oliver Walter
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| Google because ... | Mar 5, 2016 |
Tom in London wrote:
Every day I use a website with the strange name "Google". I have no idea who's behind it or who actually manages the site, but that doesn't make me not want to use it.
Well, Google was started by 2 students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin in the mid 1990s. The word "google" is derived from "googol" which, in mathematics, is 10 to the power 100 (because even then, there was a huge amount of information on the internet). It became successful because of the page-ranking algorithm they developed, which enabled searches to return, at the start of the list of finds, the target sites most likely to be the wanted ones.
Read about it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google
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Michael Beijer
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TOPIC STARTER | Lost in translation | Mar 6, 2016 |
Oliver Walter wrote: Tom in London wrote:
Every day I use a website with the strange name "Google". I have no idea who's behind it or who actually manages the site, but that doesn't make me not want to use it. Well, Google was started by 2 students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin in the mid 1990s. The word "google" is derived from "googol" which, in mathematics, is 10 to the power 100 (because even then, there was a huge amount of information on the internet). It became successful because of the page-ranking algorithm they developed, which enabled searches to return, at the start of the list of finds, the target sites most likely to be the wanted ones. Read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google
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