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Nice ... congrats
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Thanks!
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So you have become one of the "consultant" brigade. Having done that for a decade in the mid 90s I can sympathise with your plight. It is an absolute nightmare when you have too much work in the pipeline and it is even worse when the pipeline is empty.
It is very much tougher if you are also raising a family, inconsistent cashflow creates tensions you would not believe. Try to get some sort of work/life balance.
Be wary of expanding you workforce, management requirements expand exponentially beyond 1.
Congrats with getting it started and good luck keeping it going smoothly.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I can sympathise with your plight. It is an absolute nightmare when you have too much work in the pipeline and it is even worse when the pipeline is empty.
I have experienced the latter, but not the former.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: It is an absolute nightmare when you have too much work in the pipeline and it is even worse when the pipeline is empty. And so far there hasn't been an in-between!
Mycroft Holmes wrote: It is very much tougher if you are also raising a family, inconsistent cashflow creates tensions you would not believe. Try to get some sort of work/life balance. No issues there, single without kids, plenty of savings and very little monthly expenses
I have an uncle in that situation though and yeah, stressed out, always worrying about the money.
Mycroft Holmes wrote: Congrats with getting it started and good luck keeping it going smoothly. Thanks!
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I just got a call from Amazon (the robo-lady's voice and caller ID BOTH said so). A purchase of $640,000,000 has been charged to my card!
Why oh why didn't I answer it instead of letting it go to the machine!
What shall I do? What shall I do ?
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Call Microsoft in India and ask them to assist you?
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Too late for that . . . they called on the other phone. It's now US$740,000,000. For something related to data.
Both phones? This is beyond even microsloth in India's powers. Perhaps I ought contact the prime minister. He called last month and needed some emergency funds.
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Slightly off topic, but there is a series on Netflix called Jamtara which is a story about similar issue. I saw it and liked it.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Declare bankruptcy? Leave the country?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I know a Nigerian Prince who can help out. He, apparently has $30million he would like to share with someone. You just need to send him your bank details and you will be a rich man!
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5teveH wrote: I know a Nigerian Prince who can help out. He, apparently has $30million he would like to share with someone. You just need to send him your bank details and you will be a rich man!
I only help these folks if the payoff is in the billions.
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Ask for a refund before you go any further...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It's easy. Ask Siri.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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wait a sec, what .. what ?? come again ...
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... and a courier arrives with a parcel - a Codeproject mug for winning an article contest!
I got two of 'em now!
Thank you CP, the hamsters, everyone who votes in competitions, my agent, everyone I had to sleep with to get this award, ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Oh my oh my - you have shattered my image of you.
Previously [^] you made it clear you had no need of these mugs. Yet, clearly, you went out of your way to make sure no one else (who may, in fact, need them desperately!) got them, re:Quote: my agent, everyone I had to sleep with to get this award, ...
So yet another of my illusions about the intrinsic good in humanity is shattered.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: illusions about the intrinsic good in humanity
What intrinsic good?
Quote: ... for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ...
(Genesis 8, 21)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Careful ! You may get a flood of replies.
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That's true. Abrahamic scripture holds that there are no true innocents, although at times it suggests that children are. I think the takeaway I get from it is children are *more* innocent but nobody is free from sin.
I'm not religious but I take an interest in this stuff.
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Some children are innocent. Some are not.
I can testify to this after being the leader for my daughter's Girl Scout troop. Two of the girls (K and L) were sisters. K was a sociopath, and L was her weak-willed stooge. I learned to keep the two of them under a constant watch while we were doing activities. I felt sorry for them as their home life was not very good, and tried to make allowances based on that, but I felt an embarrassing amount of relief when they switched schools.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yeah I'm not sure I know much about the capacity for children to commit evil generally. It's not a subject I've spent much time thinking about even, but I'm just reflecting on what scripture says. It's far more certain about these things than I will ever allow myself to be. Still, I find it interesting.
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A FWIW thing:
At least in terms of religious teachings, children are not accountable for their sins until they reach effective adulthood. I couldn't say what the christian thinking on this is, except that in some circles they would consider a baby damned if it died before being baptized. I suppose that implies they're not even innocent at birth. Jews, on the other hand, hold the parents responsible for their "child's soul" until the age of majority (from ancient days, this was essentially puberty: 12 for girls, 13 for boys).
I'd be curious about some of the other religions, particularly the eastern ones, and how they weigh in on when you become responsible morally and ethically for your own deeds.
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I don't disagree, but I'm not sure that's quite what I'm getting at. Even if a parent is responsible for a child's soul the question is is that child's soul truly innocent, or is the simply parent responsible for a child's potentially wicked acts regardless of the innocence of the child? Say you had a boy that tortured animals. Maybe the parent is on the hook for that socially which is part of what scripture speaks to - but wouldn't such an act, even under Judaism leave the child in need of some of that soul cleansing process that happens after death?
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Soul-cleansing process.
Nothing like that actually in the bible - not even heaven or hell, let alone some sort of pergatory. Those are later construct to help keep the believers in-line (obedient and donating). No "devil", either. Even in the various books of prophets, Satan is an obedient servant of deity.
Interestingly, if you think about it, "Adam and Eve" did not sin when they ate that forbidden fruit from the "The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil" because they didn't know the difference between good and evil. On the other hand, religiously speaking, I am pretty certain the tree was put there specifically for them to eventually eat of its fruit. This expands into (obviously) quite a philosophical discussion. Suffice it to say, think of "creation" had they not eat that forbidden fruit: what would have happened? Answer: Nothing. Ever. Creation would have been over and prolonging it's existence would be pointless.
I think I've probably violated some sort of lounge rules but I'll make sure I don't make a fight out of this - the thing is, it's about faith - by definition, a thing without proof. My faith is no more provable than anyone else's - for if it were provable it wouldn't be faith.
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