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You're part of his pack obviously - start earning your keep
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Many (many many) years ago I saw a mother cat catch a bird for her kittens.
The birds landed - maybe 15 feet away. She crouches. Inches forward, then . . . she spring ! The birds all take off in a rush almost instantly. Then she jump and pulls one out of the air - 8-10 feet in the air. I was quite astounded.
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Actually, got two of them as in NY State's Finger Lakes - hey, even curmudgeons need some time off
Gorgeous Gorges.
That area is amazingly beautiful. The water falls, which are quite abundant in the gorges they etched, were not at their peak (it's been rather a dry summer) but a 215' tall falls is always impressive (that's about 66m). Healthy trip, too, as all but one of the falls required a decent trek through absolutely beautiful forests growing on steep hillsides (I did say gorges).
One trek, to the Rainbow Falls, include a trail with an amazing number of steps (832 of them, fortunately, not all at once). The 215' trek to Taughannock falls was much gentler, alongside a large flat glacial stream (much of the bed showing). One of the informational signs points out that the side we were on gets little sun and is mainly coniferous whilst the other side gets a great deal of sun and is composed primarily of deciduous trees.
Ithica, NY, is also the home of Cornell University - and they've quite a nice botanical gardens.
Anyway - it's our replacement for a cancelled trip to Hawaii arranged about a month before the COVID outbreak. With NY States infection rate now extremely low, a driving/walking vacation was in order.
So that's why I wasn't here to entertain and annoy - if anyone noticed.
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Plain rude - and no different! (9)
"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
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Can I answer and let @petepjksolutionscom to do tomorrow anyway?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Hmmm. Not sure.
I think that might be a little unfair?
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Probably...
I do the easy part and left the heavy lifting to others...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Plain rude - and no different!
(def) [rudeandno] (anag)
unadorned
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You are correct, and up tomorrow!
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I'll let @petepjksolutionscom set it if he'd like. He can just post it before you "Oi!" me. If it's not there, I'll post one after the roosters have crowed where I live.
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Fine by me!
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No you solved it Greg you set one
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I think your trademark trickeries are starting to work against you. If I see one of your clues with a non-letter character, I expect you are trying to mislead.
(I got distracted today before I could answer, but I had the solution)
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In future I will pack 'em with non-printing characters just to confuse you!
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Hi All, I'm stuck on a call from those that pay and it doesn't look like it's going to end any time soon - I can either post one tomorrow or someone can jump in now - Sorry chaps
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OK - I was about to post an "Oi!" for you ...
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I need [^]
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Unless...
Nah, I will not rub it in. Sad enough that you all have to live that way.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I met him at Freei, a netzero knockoff startup during the dotcom boom, where he was a sort of project manager / creative lead. He was my boss. As an aside, but kind of funny, his first day of a two week vacation was my first day of work. I had no idea what to do with myself. That place was a zoo, but he followed *me* later to another company he got me hired at through his connections and then we had a lot of fun there, wrote a lot of code (well, he directed) went to comdex - i digress
I think one of the reasons we got along is we were both very creative individuals. I've met a lot of software devs (not all of them, but plenty) that are as well, and among them you find some great code.
but too many of them spoil a software house because we're not necessarily as methodical, at least that's my theory.
and maybe we write code too differently, even from one another. I've pained myself to adopt practices at a house a work at, but left to my own devices like I am these days my code tends to be instantly recognizable as mine, if that makes sense. And that's not necessarily a good thing.
Related, but t subject shift
I also have a condition I live with that impacts my short term memory. It's a neurological issue that's otherwise no fun, but eventually realized how much it impacts the *way* I wrote code.
For example, while I'm not averse to say, making a GetCircleRect() , or GetLineDistance() function - and I will - I tend to make functions longer than a lot of people, but i realized, I can't read code very well when they're broken up more, because i forget some of all those little details of the functions and documentation and code discipline can only get you to the 80% mark in that regard.
My peers break up methods way more than I do. Far more.
Also, I don't know how many of you have seen those code metrics tools that rate the "cognitive load" of a method on a developer - the idea is the more "complicated" a method is the higher the load, and these sorts of metrics prefer code to be broken up much more granularly than I am comfortable dealing with. It confuses me to be broken up that much. But the longer functions don't. I think the reason is I make up for one deficiency with another ability - i can deal with cognitive load better maybe than the general population, but my short term memory is shot, and we use that as a scratch pad to help us in all kinds of ways.
This is one way I think it has influenced the way I write software. My code style is identifiable from afar (but then so is the way i walk - according to friends and family )
I am a cockeyed developer
I'm not complaining about it. It's just something I've come to understand about myself, and i think somewhat about development itself and my relationship with it, and I think it's interesting.
I also get mania, and under that spell I've produced things like Parsley (i don't want to plug so search if you're interested) which is a really creative endeavor that i churned out in under a week. So that's not all bad.
Generally I am confident in what I write and I think my code speaks for itself, braceless if statements and all. Still, I don't think there need to be too many of me around, our code would be a zoo.
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 19-Jul-20 20:16pm.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I have a friend that would fashion art out of old TV tubes Vacuum tubes or picture tubes?
I think a picture tube's resemblance to a boob inspired the apropos book title The Glass Teat, a collection of newspaper columns written circa 1970, critiquing the TV shows of the day. Its author was the well-known sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison, who thrived on controversy. There was also a follow-up, The Other Glass Teat. I'm guessing that you'd enjoy them if you can find them.
Yes, I've noticed that you write long methods. On the other hand, I refactor common fragments and other things to the point where I can forget where a virtual function call ends up going if the code hasn't been touched for a while. Then I have to step through it with the debugger or capture a function trace as a reminder.
Software has been written to generate music in the style of various composers. The same could probably be done with software. Now there's a project for you!
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Sorry, CRT tubes - picture tubes.
I'll see if I can find those columns.
Greg Utas wrote: Yes, I've noticed that you write long methods. On the other hand, I refactor common fragments and other things to the point where I can forget where a virtual function call ends up going if the code hasn't been touched for a while. Then I have to step through it with the debugger or capture a function trace as a reminder.
Okay, you get it - now just imagine this. Imagine you just looked at the function 10 minutes ago. And yet you forgot where it ends up. That's what happens to me. Some of it anyway.
I find i can keep track of what my eyes can see, so my code takes up a lot of real-estate on my screen. What I can't see, i can't remember. That's not exactly true, but it's true enough. I can kind of remember, but it gets fuzzy fast. So if i'm dividing up functions in an IDE it means i can't see all the code i need to see at one time to make something work.
I've lived with it all my life, but only made the connection to my code within the last year or so.
ETA: I almost forgot this
Greg Utas wrote: Software has been written to generate music in the style of various composers. The same could probably be done with software. Now there's a project for you!
I've been eyeballing code synthesis for my next code generation projects. This is where you endeavor to generate code that works like a human wrote it.
It's very difficult, but presumably you could plug different styles in if the system were sophisticated enough. It would need to be pretty amazing.
Real programmers use butterflies
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