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here's a link : E-bay link[^]
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I'm still clinging to my first HP keyboard from '98. I've had this keyboard for my entire 20+ year career. Lately, I've got a few keys that have started sticking...time for a bi-annual deep cleaning...maybe I can get a few more years out of it!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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The seller has only one other product[^], which is just as much of a bargain, but it's a shame because I was hoping to get a second-hand Amstrad keyboard for under 5k.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I used one of those... About 30 years ago, when I was programming in PL/1 on an IBM mainframe using the ISPF environment. I was developing a CCITT Group 3 image decompressor - strange how some things stick in your head...
And after that, I started using VAX/VMS - and DEC had good keyboards as well... It wasn't until I started using PCs in the late 90s that keyboard quality was something that I noticed - because they all had dreadful dome switch keyboards... I use my Filco Majestouch (brown Cherry MX switches) exclusively now...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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Worked on DEC machines for quite a few years, good machines.
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At that price I'd hang on to that baby until it fell apart!
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Me: Maybe I'm just too demanding?
Therapist: We've been over this before...
Me: Or maybe I'm just like my father, too bold? Or maybe I'm too cold? Or could it be that I'm just like my mother? She's too sensitive and never knew.....
Therapist: Get out
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The question is: are you a prince or a princess
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Or just a squiggle?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It looks like the therapist feels better... Keep up the good work!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I doubt his father's name was actually Tubold.
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Robert Conrad died at 84.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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and roughly 149,999 other people too. (not all 84)
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
modified 9-Feb-20 0:38am.
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What?
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Mortality rate - Wikipedia[^]
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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You should go ranting elsewhere
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Just tell him to 'Knock it off!'
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Used to love Black Sheep Sqadron.
R.I.P.
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Same here, I used to watch it dubbed into French in the late 70's and early 80's and it was one of my favourite tv shows at the time.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I'm trying to cleanup this LL(k) table builder code that i ported from Javascript to C# and it's a nightmare. It's as disorganized as my desk. There are global-ish fields everywhere and very few comments.
Plus I don't understand how it actually works. I just ported it is all. I haven't dissected it and it's very difficult to do so - basically it would be an exercise in software forensics.
The code I'm porting was produced by two graduate students, and while they built something I couldn't, and so props to them for that, they did so with the most horrible code I've seen since the last time I reviewed an academic's code.
Is it that universities can't teach people to write clean software? Or do I just have terrible luck finding it?
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: Is it that universities can't teach people to write clean software?
FTFY!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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i was trying to be charitable.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Part of the problem is that software "engineering" and computer science are rather different beasts. If the faculty is focused on computer science, it won't put much emphasis on software and may not even see it as a worthy pursuit. It's just a craft that must occasionally be dragged into various areas of computer science.
The problem is actually more widespread. My experience is that many companies with large software teams don't act as if software is important to their success. A software team is mostly seen as a cost center, and there is little drive for good design. A technical career path for people who prefer to focus on software doesn't exist or is weak. Among other things, a firm that runs a good software shop often has a software architect reporting directly to the VP of Engineering, and that person is compensated the same as the VP's other direct reports.
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My experience is worse: most of the current generation of students - or at least those I've seen - believe that "development" means "drag'n'drop from Smack Overdose"
And while I'm all for Modular Software, the modules do at least have to be in the same language ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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