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For the sake of your family, please stop smoking.
I have buried both of my parents because they smoked; my mother was 55, my father was 60.
My children never knew their grandmother.
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..I see it is time for my smoking-break. I do not intend to stop, and do not intend to live longer just to please other people.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I'm also -unfortunately- a heavy smoker. Stop doing this self destructive behaviour is not a bad idea
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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It is not "self-destructive", unless you want to classify driving a car like the same.
It can be an unhealthy habit, but given the amount of unhealthy stuff out there, I could not care less. I don't want to live 200 years healthy, I'd rather have five minutes of fun.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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That's my attitude as well, or used to be, but since I got into the running and in particular swimming it's become painfully obvious what it's doing to me and my breath control. My Gran smoked three packs of major a day and lived to 93, but she died of emphysema. I spent some time in hospital recently, and it brought the memories back. It's not about living longer, it's about enjoying the life you have.
So, I'm planning to go full-on Rocky 4 this Winter; running in the snowy hills around Zurich, pounding bags, lifting weights, starting international incidents over personal grudges....
I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, sh*t-kickers and Methodists.
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I don't have children or a wife to worry about, that's probably part of why it's taken me so long to get my head together and just quit; you can rationalise self-harm a lot easier when it's just you.
I have two main motivating factors; I am getting quite seriously into distance running and outdoor pursuits in general, in fact it's more true to say that I always have been, but lately I'm finding it difficult, huffing and puffing, and I don't want to lose that part of my life that gives me so much joy.
Also, I'm seeing my folks at Christmas, and I want to be able to hang out with my Mum and not smoke, she hates it when I smoke and it guilt-trips me to bejeezus.
"This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedivere. Explain to me again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes"
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Stick with it you will be ever so pleased when you come on the other side.
By all means don't drink even a sip of beer or it will be game over.
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So are you using the money you're saving on smokes to buy a boat to commute with?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Good luck!...I quit in 2012 and never looked back...it's amazing how much money you save after ...once you're past 3 weeks, it's all gravy and sugar free gum after that.
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I hate them. I can never remember whether I installed Stupid Salamander or Lackluster Lynx.
Just use version numbers when referring to them FFS!
And Android names too.
At least browser versions don't affect me directly, they can increment the numbers as much as they like.
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Indivara wrote: Just use version numbers when referring to them FFS! I agree. I use 13.04 on one of my machines and have never been able to remember its name. Quick Googling and it's "Raring Ringtail".
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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I agree -- and I tried to tell Microsoft that when they thought that dropping version numbers in favor of "Windows 95" would solve all their problems.
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Indivara wrote: Lackluster Lynx.
I actually use Linux a lot nowadays but yeah, this naming convention is a bit ridiculus. It doesn't really matter though, you just have to remember your version # or run: sudo lsb_release -a
That gives you the code name and some other description info (mine):
Distributor ID: LinuxMint
Description: Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela
Release: 17.2
Codename: rafaela
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Mac names bother me as well...Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion, Yosemite...you never know what you have.
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Desert Lizard ... coming next, after Captain ... er ... Capitan
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Turkish Gecko after Desert Lizard
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I wonder when would Canadian Bob come in!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Quote: you never know what you have. El Capitan?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Those are version names, used for an unknown purpose. If you do not like them, please instead of that remember the version numbers. The versions are very simple, for example, Ubuntu 14.04 (year: 2014, month: 04), Ubuntu 15.10 (year: 2015, month: 10). So on, this way remembering the version numbers is much simpler and you know when the version was released.
Android names are based on Alphabet... Ah, cut it. Just call them 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 and so on. Use their names only when you are hungry.
However, did you upgrade to Wily Werewolf this month?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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That's even worse. Major versions should increment when there is a major change in the OS, independent of when it was released.
And no, I don't think I've gone past Treacherous Tapir.
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Online communities... are difficult things!
All hail CodeProject for doing an excellent work so far!
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Super Lloyd wrote:
All hail CodeProject for doing an excellent work so far!
So far. But I do see it slipping. Years ago CP was a very good place to both ask and answer questions. Though lately, especially in the Q&A section it is not so anymore. At least not for me.
If someone asks a question about 'A' then answer the question about 'A', do not tell them that 'A' is the wrong approach and they had better use 'B' instead.
I also see beginner questions being down voted, probably for being too simple. We all started knowing nothing and we learn by asking. Most times beginners just need a point in the right direction, and Google is not the direction they need.
I also find that the more difficult or obscure questions do not get answered.
The powers that be at CP had better be careful of this or soon CP will go the same way as SO.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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A lot of the "beginner" questions that get down-voted earn it because the person isn't really asking a question. You get stuff like a post of a homework assignment. No question, just the homework assignment, like they want you to do their work for them and just hand them the code.
You get stuff like, "how do I fix the error in this code?" and then they don't supply the error message, the line it throws on or post a huge code snippet and expect you to hunt through the code to find any and all problems.
How about opposite? "I got this error message ... How do I fix it?" and don't show the code at all. Well, you might want to start with showing us the code that threw it!
Stuff like "How do I use this library?" and give you some name of a library nobody has ever heard of. No other questions or specifics about what they're doing or any problem they're having.
After 10+ years around here we have noticed the quality of questions going down hill. It's not so much a technical, "beginner" problems that get down-voted. It's usually the OP's lack of communications skills in merely asking the question, such as the ability to provide a context or even has some comprehension of "what would someone need to know about this problem to help me solve it?"
Asking a question is a skill. With the passage of time, it seems that this is becoming a lost art instead of a basic educational necessity.
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Your points are valid.
Dave Kreskowiak wrote: basic educational necessity
It is very apparent that many questioners have very little basic education. If they did they would know some simple mathematics, how to consult documentation and use Google to do research.
Many of us are professionals who learnt to program because a computer was a better tool than a slide rule. So we are used to mingling with a certain cohort and take certain rules for granted. The internet has brought us in contact with many and different people. This is a challenge which I have thought a lot about. Laziness accompanied by a complete lack of shame should not be rewarded but a genuine effort to learn can only be applauded. How to adjudicate this is the conundrum.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
modified 4-Dec-15 0:44am.
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