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None of them here. So you'll have to expand your definition....
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RossMW wrote: July means half of winter is done
Winter didn't start till 21-06-2017.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Wishful thinking on my part...
We normally consider June, July ,august as winter rather than the offical 21 june
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'Round here, summer begins around mid-March and runs through late November. Then there's a four-day weekend known as autumn. Followed immediately by winter, which is when you might want a light jacket.
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Summer half over?
Not here in Cobb County Georgia, USA.
School started today.
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I extend my sympathies to the county's children
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for Jul 31, 2017
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Then again, there are some needs that are never filled.
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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for all the rest there is kickstarter....
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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So finding undiscovered / unfulfilled needs is a need that nobody's filled yet?
"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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Yes; it's a meta-need.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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If there is even a remote possibility that you'll want to localize your application, create all the strings first and use them instead of literals.
Really. Trust me on this.
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Literals (or better the lack of them) make one of my personal code quality metrics, and not only for resources. Another one would be 'stringly typed code' (or hopefully the lack of it).
And then we had that guy who dilligently put all his SQL strings in resources. As if we ever needed localized queries.
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Generally a good idea, but there is a limit to that strategy. I worked on a product that was internationalized, and we discovered that the SMTP server wouldn't talk to it any more. Some strings should not be translated to the user language...
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Don't generalize too early.
You don't know what the future will bring.
About twenty years ago I was assigned some maintenance on part of a system. The code needed to read and write fixed-format files to communicate with a third-party system. Someone had gone through to a lot of trouble to make this positions and lengths of the field configurable -- "See? You just change the config, to don't need to recompile... " I can hear him say.
Except no one _ever_ needed to move or resize the columns. My first task was to _add_ two new columns. And _adding_ columns to the convoluted configuration process was a PITA!
(Aside: that third-party product wasn't Y2K-complaint and was replaced anyway.)
By the time I had left the company I had completely redone that subsystem to make it flexible in a completely different way.
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... and I wanted to ask him wether hackers are encrypted after death.
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What, pray, do castrated rams have to do with it? Is this a suggestion to curb my behaviour?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You have the balls to ask that?
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I think we should snip this conversation before it gets out of hand
cheers
Chris Maunder
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You think we've reached the cut-off point?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Let's just hope he's not able to reproduce such a baaad post.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I inherited a few guns this weekend from my dad (passed away last year), One was an old Stevens double-barel break-action shotgun (circa 1960's) that he inherited from his brother, another was a 7-shot .22 revolver circa 1965, but the gem (probably of interest to the brits on here) was a Webley Mk "V" revolver with a 6-inch barrel, also inherited from his brother).
This is the rarest of all the Webley revolvers in terms of production numbers (3700-4000 produced), which makes the following fairly disheartening.
The rifling has been removed, and the barrel threaded for a choke, so it could shoot 45 shot ammo with moon clips. The gun was used as a varmint pistol. As a collector's item, it's worth nothing more than to serve as a curiosity, and it would probably bring more money as scrap metal. As a self-defense pistol, there are far better .410 pistols available that would make bigger holes in bad guys. Since the rifling was removed from the barrel, I can't even return it to original condition (even if the parts were readily available). What a crying shame...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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There ought to be a law against mistreatment of such collector's items. (OTOH, who would they sue? )
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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