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I thought you had a cat under your house! They love to snack on protein, especially if it's easy to catch. But not too easy, or it's no fun.
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 let the cats live there to clean out less wanted species... At least a cat can be easily spotted before walks in to my plate...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: At least a cat can be easily spotted before walks in to my plate... If you only knew the power of the Dark Side! When the little lion decides to raid your dinner, it's all over before you know what is going on.
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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Sometimes it happens - in a fancy Parisienne bistrot (in Paris) we happened to find a worm in the salad. We notified the waiter who then changed the plate with a new one and discounted it.
It didn't happen again the other times we ate there. Sometimes s*** happens... I would be very wary though about cockroaches because rarely there is only one.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Ask for a tour of the kitchen
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Good suggestion. Might as well try when/if I go there next time.
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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virang_21 wrote: Good suggestion. Might as well try when/if I go there next time. It would be unsanitary to give tours to all customers in the kitchen and have their dirty paws touching everything, of course; some may entertain you, some won't.
We like to show our workplace and talk about computers. A proud owner and a proud cook will do the same, if you ask a bit polite and during not-too-busy hours.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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As long as cockroaches are only found in wife's plate...
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That is too funny... .. unfortunately we shared the same dishes...
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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virang_21 wrote: He offered us a dinner on the restaurant
His, or somewhere else?
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I've been thinking about this and still can't decide.
One thing's for sure, it's a way better question than the one for the current Straw Poll - can we have it for the next one?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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We had a similar experience on a first trip to a restaurant at lunch.
The owner waived the bill for all four of us, even though only 1 dish was affected.
We declined the offer of free dessert; we never went back.
The General Tso/Tao chicken was also the worst we have ever had.
Theory:
A live roach would never be cooked.
The roach eats some poison and then makes it into the vegetables/rice/etc where it dies.
This poisoned roach is then cooked into your meal.
Question:
How much of the roach poison ends up in your food?
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That depends. Was the cockroach from your place, or theirs?
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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Some things that just bug me about the tools I'm using...
GIT - After all these years, I can't be the first person who wants to manage multiple separate but tightly related code bases as one repository and avoid the overhead of constantly having to keep them in sync, configure them the same, etc... Or where one part of it is to be public and the other part not. It seems crazy to me that the leading SC solution is so lacking in this key aspect. If you are on a team and all pushing to (now multiple) common repositories, it seems like it would be even more psycho.
Visual Studio Code - Related to GIT above, cannot deal with multiple repositories so you lose GIT integration if need to have separate repositories, which the above will often force you to do. I just started using VSC on my own C++ stuff and was really appreciating seeing what had changed, which lasted a few days until the above forced me to lose that ability.
And, though having the intellisense stuff is very helpful, it can be incredibly intrusive and annoying sometimes.
And, it seems to want to force you to have all customizations be per-user. Clearly in many cases you would want global configuration that is enforced/available for a project and shared by all users of it.
C++ - Why has the committee spent all this time creating a cathedral to container abstraction, while seemingly ignoring the fact that you can't write even a modest C++ program and remain within the standard? I.e. you have to throw in a bunch of third party bits and bobs, because there's been not much progress towards a reasonably full featured cross platform (even if some of it is only applicable on the mainstream) system. I think that the latter would do far more to allow C++ to compete against things like C# than the ability to remove every third odd numbered duplicate vector element.
Similar to above, while ignoring fundamental things like enumerations, which suck in C++. I've done a lot of work on my own to make them very strong (if you are interested : [^]) but it just seems like stuff like that are core language issues.
At some point C++, if it's going to survive, is going to have to just cut off some of the past and move forward, IMO.
I'm sure there are others but my coffee cup runneth dry.
Explorans limites defectum
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rough day ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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They are all rough. I just had a compile going on and figured I'd vent a bit.
Explorans limites defectum
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I grew up with SourceSafe. I am a single developer and don't work in a team. I have never yet found anything that competes. I don't know why MS dropped it.
I feel your pain... every day.
I don't know anymore. I just don't.
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What did you replace it with?
VSS had 0 security if you were working in a team/networked environment.
It would never pass a corporate audit.
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As I said, I am a single programmer (1 man shop). I do not work in a corporate or team environment. . I still use it for my VB6 legacy support work.
So far I have replaced it with a 9TB Raid 5 array and different backups for each day of the week Monday through Saturday. (Never work on Sunday). I tried Tortoise SVN but was extremely unhappy with the lack of documentation, and how cumbersome it is. I also tried TFS, with similar complaints.
If you know of anything for revision control NOT for someone working in a Team environment, I would love to hear about it.
It is hell getting old but still beats the alternative.
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I would have recommended SVN, but you already tried it. Did you ever try the SVN command line without Tortoise? Just recursively commit your whole directory tree whenever you want to make a recovery point.
If you ever need to recover, pull the commit number you want into a new directory tree.
Mercurial or git with a local repository would probably have similar behaviors.
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I gave up using command line when CPM died. But thanks for the suggestion. Please check my reply to BR.Bill, below.
One of the problems of working alone is there is no one that has used any of the new software revision systems to explain the how to and ins and outs.
"One is the loneliest number...." 3 Dog Night.
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Ed Aymami wrote: So far I have replaced it with a 9TB Raid 5 array
Just noting that source control and back ups are two different things.
One should do both.
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I know that. But we all do the best we can, with what we've got.
I have found that rarely do I need to go back more that a day or two to fix a horrendous blunder, the way that I work. (Slowly and methodically). It is one of the advantages of working alone.
Age, experience, and hard work usually overcome youth and talent...
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Ed Aymami wrote: I don't know why MS dropped it.
Oh, man, there's not enough time to unspool the full answer.
SourceSafe is a corruption machine. If there's one thing SourceSafe does really, really well, it's corrupt your source base.
But there are a ton of other reasons!
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