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Especially when the coders don't think too hard!
Amazon sent me an email today, with a books list - Sous Vide Cookbooks if you must know - and I followed a few of the links.
One of them looked good, but had a warning: "Ordering for Christmas? This item requires additional time to dispatch and will arrive after December 25."
And in little letters quite a distance away: "Publication Date: 17 April 2014"
So...might not arrive in time then...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Ordering for Christmas? This item requires additional time to dispatch and will arrive after December 25.
OriginalGriff wrote: And in little letters quite a distance away: "Publication Date: 17 April 2014"
Maybe they mean after December 25 2014 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Publication Date: 1st April 2014"
Since you are an old dog, you know, the eyes are not fail-proof anymore. 
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Is it me or is CodeProject flying after that little down period a short while ago?
I think maybe Chris received a brand new batch of super hamsters. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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No, Sean has threatened to wear the Mankini again if they didn't buck their ideas up.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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'again'? I thought he was lobbying to make that the company dress code.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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And Chris is lobbying the UN to have it outlawed as a Crime Against Humanity.
speramus in juniperus
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There lies the problem. Sean has the draft that requires signing, but will only let people near it on Fridays. Casual[^] Fridays...
speramus in juniperus
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Chris! Quick - employ Stevie Wonder and Helen Keller!
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Wouldn't they have to feel their way around the mankini? 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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That, I suggest, is their problem. They knew the risks when they took the job! 
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OT, your link reminded me, where is Luc nowadays?
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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He threw his toys in the air over QA.
speramus in juniperus
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And it's possible he was right - we do get a lot more garbage than we did "when I were a lad"...
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When you were a lad there was no intarweb, it was all on punched cards!
That said, when I was a lad 'bleeding edge' was mag tape. 
speramus in juniperus
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Yes I remember, but as far as I'm concerned, codeproject is about the articles (and the lounge  )
Just skip the QA if it bothers you. I miss him a bit, like anyone with more brains than attitude.
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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I've suddenly gone off my lunch 
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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I heard rumour that someone went to visit the hamsters with an electric beard trimmer and a toilet tube, and gave them choice to 'pull harder for the team'
speramus in juniperus
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Well, that would make me pick up my game too. 
[I hope my boss doesn't see this  ]
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Following on from yesterday's maths, here's a more logical [but still mathematical] problem.
The Prisoners:
The warden of a top security prison meets with the 23 prisoners as they arrive and he tells them:
You may meet together today and plan a strategy, but after today you will be in isolated cells and have no communication with one another.
There is in this prison a "switch room" which contains two light switches, labelled "A" and "B", each of which can be in the "on" or
"off" position. I am not telling you their present positions. The switches are not connected to any appliance. After today, from time to
time, whenever I feel so inclined, I will select one prisoner at random and escort him to the "switch room", and this prisoner will
select one of the two switches and reverse its position (e.g. if it was "on", he will turn it "off"); the prisoner will then be led back
to his cell. Nobody else will ever enter the "switch room".
Each prisoner will visit the switch room arbitrarily often.
At any time, any of you may declare to me: "We have all visited the switch room." If it is true (each of the 23 prisoners has visited the switch room at least once), then you will all be set free. If it is false (someone has not yet visited the switch room), you will all be put to death!
Devise for the prisoners a strategy which will guarantee their release.
You can easily google this, as I found it on the interweb, so play nice and try to apply some thinking. Go on, I dare you! Double dog dare you!
speramus in juniperus
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If the switches are not connected to any appliance, then they cannot be light switches. They are simply switches.
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Correct, they're just two switches marked "on" and "off". The strategy is what switches go where, when and why.
speramus in juniperus
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I know the rules, but it also said they were light switches. I'm just being picky 
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Maybe they are painted in a light colour? 
Or it could be that the switches in question weigh significantly less than other (heavy) switches 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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