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Depends on how important the charity you're sponsoring is to you. Apparently it can be done in less than 9 days in a wheelchair, so you'd only have to take one week of work off. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan, I said Quote: You can probably go from Land's End to John O'Groats on a unicycle.
I can't even ride one.
Let me know when you're going, I'll chip in some sponsorship!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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If you can find me a 50k sponsorship I'll learn to ride and start on the 32nd of Nevember. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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If I could find a 50k sponsorship I'd learn to ride one myself.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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COBOL's a pleasure compared to RPG !!! (IBM AS/400 for example)
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I've never "played" with RPG (unless we're talking Doom!), but I've had my time with AS400 "screen scrapes".
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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heh - I love the way people say 'this is right, wrong, do it this way' but at the end of the day, if that's the only way you can make it happen, well ...
so good on you for 'screen scrapes'
'Mr Pragmatic'
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Hey now, RPG was the bomb compared to Assembler. I loved the AS/400
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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oh Im not dissing it - if its all you have, then you just use it (and ILD-RPG 400 was a different animal) - I used to have RPG modules calling all sorts of system routines - loved it
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Garth J Lancaster wrote: RPG
(Making sign of the cross)Hisssss!!!
A hardware plugboard as program, gack!
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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Exactly. When reading Piebald's post, also I thought of some "serialized as text" compatibility mode. That's progress in these times...
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As the song said, "There's nothing new, except what has been forgotten". To add my bit - some things should be forgotten.
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Trends and fashion seem to work in cycles and we may be reaching the tipping point:
Auto[^]
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To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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I am reminded of the quote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana.
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"Then the jar-heads decided to..."
This is the first I've heard of the involvement of the U.S. Marines in programming lore, and I must say, I'm skeptical. Weren't they too busy in the Halls of Montezuma and the Shores of Tripoli to be flipping bits and decoding bytes and such?
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B. Clay Shannon wrote: This is the first I've heard of the involvement of the U.S. Marines in programming lore,
I know, it's a bad pun on my part of Java libraries known as JAR. 
Marc
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B. Clay Shannon wrote: This is the first I've heard of the involvement of the U.S. Marines in programming lore, and I must say, I'm skeptical. Weren't they too busy in the Halls of Montezuma and the Shores of Tripoli to be flipping bits and decoding bytes and such?
My boss learned to program in the Marines in the early 90's- using Ada no less.
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The U.S. Marines are part of the U.S. Navy. The U.S. Navy gave us Admiral Grace Hopper. Admiral Grace Hopper gave us COBOL. 
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As well as ForTran? I didn't know that!
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RESTFul services are also a big step forward.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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And don't forget how hard we all worked to get rid of the "Mainframe+dumb terminal" structure and introduce distributed, networked, intelligent workstations instead.
Now they push the Cloud: centralized data and processing again, but with your data controlled and protected by the lowest bidder... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I never understood why to allow C++ records to use methods, or act like classes. It's confusing.
I now that those methods are used as constructors or to assign values.
Sometimes, developers need to work with both, structs like "Pure C", and "C++" classes.
Usually when they need to interact a Object Oriented Application, or, with large massive data, or with low level O.S. data that is not Object Oriented, or just a legacy library.
When I require to use both "struct (s)" and "class (es)", I avoid adding methods to "structs".
Just my 2 cents.
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JSON is more lightweight as opposed to XML (no tags required - but does imply foreknowledge of the data formatting).
As well - you don't have to worry about malformed tags et al.
This is particularly important when trying to reduce traffic on the wire...
XML is "pretty", but can be a pig on the wire.
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Rene Pilon wrote: XML is "pretty", but can be a pig on the wire.
True, but the fact that we have to serialize data to in JSON / XML is absurd to begin with, and is a "workaround technology" to deal with doing something that HTTP was never originally intended to do.
JSON is simply a bandaid on a corpse that refuses to die, and yet it has also become a way to animate other monsters.
Marc
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Zackly! Long live SQL Server!
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