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Marc Clifton wrote: Isn't that the definition of "prototype"?
But prototyping is a dying art.
Suddenly you made me realize there's a reason there's a "pro" in "prototype".
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If it ain't broke don't fix it!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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If you find there's a better way that won't take you a long time to implement... use it. You'll thank yourself later.
Jeremy Falcon
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If you work for an organization that measures progress by lines-of-code, then comment out the existing stuff with
#if 0
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#endif and add the new approach. If not, then remove the old stuff and go on.
Software Zen: delete this;
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[well, it went by so fast, we missed it...]
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You had enough time for the light to travel roughly from the monitor to your eyeballs. How much more time do you need?
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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You need to get your eyes checked - you are sitting way too close to the monitor! (About 30cm away)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: you are sitting way too close to the monitor! Too close to my monitor, is it?
(Gratuitous and uncalled for reply: )*
Well - even at roughly 30 cm it's safer than being sheep in Wales.
* But never off topic!
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There went again...
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Best part of the source, ever!!!!
mov dl, 0x00 ; drive 0 (floppy disk)
Emphasis on __ FLOPPY DISK ___!!!
Glad I've kept mine from DOS 3.3
I like the scraping sound the disk makes when it spins in the drive. Very soothing.
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It's seriously nostalgic to think of the days you could type [A] [:] and then [Enter]
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I still can - one of my NAS volumes is mapped to the A: drive.
Bit bigger than a floppy though...
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Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk?
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Nah, the best was "Keyboard not present, press F1 to continue"...
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I actually did that one day last week. Of course, it was in a virtual machine hosted by my Win7 box running MS-DOS 6.22. I needed it in order to be able to build(*) an old application I've suddenly become responsible for .
(*) Using Microsoft C 6.0
Software Zen: delete this;
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Wow, that is amazing - well, depending on how you look at it.
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A couple of weeks ago we laid off 6 of the 11 members of my group. I 'acquired' support of a number of older products that are still in the field. One started out life 25 years ago, running under MS-DOS on an industrial PC in a rack-mounted cabinet. Now that software runs on a small board the size of a credit card mounted inside the equipment cabinet, affectionately known as the "PC-in-a-box". I've got the ability to build the app should an issue arise.
Of course, it may take me a month or two figuring out where to cut and splice...
Software Zen: delete this;
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I guess it looks nicer from an outside perspective, but all of this stuff you are working on sounds so much more fascinating than working on cloud apps
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It is interesting, once you get past the dank morass of despair working here has been the last four years or so. Layoffs every 8-12 months, re-organizations that seem to only serve to "stir the pot", and engineering management by former hardware engineers who don't understand software, don't want to understand it, and wish it would just go away.
Software Zen: delete this;
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DNA wrote: "The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses.
To explain — since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation — every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.
The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife.
Trin Tragula — for that was his name — was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
And she would nag him incessantly about the utterly inordinate amount of time he spent staring out into space, or mulling over the mechanics of safety pins, or doing spectrographic analyses of pieces of fairy cake.
"Have some sense of proportion!” she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day.
And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex — just to show her.
And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.
To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion." Scale of the Universe: A sense of proportion[^] (uses flash)
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That seems to have been "borrowed" from: The Scale of the Universe 2[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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OriginalGriff wrote: in order to annoy his wife
He had to actually do something to achieve that?
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Yes. I would have at least a few weeks of work ahead of me if I wanted to annoy my wife. Getting married would be one of them.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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