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mark merrens wrote: Only when I run out of milk!
Wrong. If no milk, harden up and have an omelette, no matter how much you wanted scrambled eggs.
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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Omelets are for girls and Australians.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Steak without the fuss, let us know how that goes (could be dangerous to health though  )
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Well. Quite a surprise.
Little bit of salt, and some pepper rubbed into the steak, then 2 x 10oz steaks sealed in separate bags, and dropped in the machine at 55C. 2 1/2 hours later, removed the bags, heated a pan to super hot, little bit of olive oil and in with the steaks. 30 seconds per side to get the Maillard Reaction going, and serve.
You know how a medium rare steak looks? Pink in the middle, with a brown layer round it? Not like that at all.
This was pink, edge to edge, top to bottom, side to side. The same uniform "cookedness" at the ends as in the middle, with a 1mm crust of brown crispiness top and bottom.
And it was wonderful. The soft, moist texture of really good fillet, with the taste of good rump, juicy and cooked to perfection. Except the fat, which was seriously nasty: gelatinous, chewy and vile - I'll cut it off before I bag it next time.
Bear in mind that this wasn't Wagyu or Kobe beef, or Aberdeen Angus, or Welsh Black - this was Coop Rump: supermarket-sealed-in-plastic-and-hung-in-the-van-while-it-was-in-transit steak. Ok, the Coop stuff is better than Tesco, but it isn't restaurant quality meat.
But this was restaurant quality food, or as close as I'll get at home. Hassle? None, except washing up the ziplock bags afterwards. No poking at the meat to see if it's the right degree of springiness, no huge pans taking up the whole cooker for ten or fifteen minutes.
This is a kitchen gadget, yes - and not a cheap one. Having said that, very little good kitchen equipment is cheap - the last set of six knives I bought was about £120 and I know you can spend a huge amount more than that. But to my surprise it does what they say it does. It cooks food precisely, accurately, and consistently. It doesn't matter if the butcher cut one steak half an inch thicker than the other - they will both cook the same. If I wanted, I could do six steaks at the same time - there would be a queue to flash brown them, but not a long one. And it does fish, and chicken, and lamb, and pork, and vegetables, and...
...and tomorrow I have to box it back up, wrap it in some pretty paper, and leave it alone for three and a half months... 
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Okay, before you put it away, I want to see you bake a cake in that thing... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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OriginalGriff wrote: (I don't eat eggs so I wouldn't know)
You lost me right there. Real men eat eggs and always eat eggs with their bacon, never any type of sauce is to be used.
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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Nope, don't eat eggs. Blame my father, I do.
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Sure, post your address and I'll send you some.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Your signature tag is misleading. It needs to read:
There are only 0000 0010 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.
But, it should really read:
There are only 0000 0011 types of people in the world: those who understand binary  , those who don't  , and those who are indeterminate on the subject at hand. 
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Doesn't that fall under the "don't"? 
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I's rather have one of these[^]. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I have one of those. Also a moose for a shelf.
Also a pen holder shaped like a gnome lying face-down dead; the pen sticks in his back.
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Everyday so much questions are posted wanting ready-made code or asking what is this,how to do this,send the code etc.So one more tag NoEffort could be add under that red flag in QA section,  .
Shuvro
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What nobody answering your questions?
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The NoEffort tag has been there for some time, try filtering questions by the NoEffort tag and you'll see it goes way-back
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Perhaps you must first take a quiz on how to debug code before being able to ask a question. So many of the questions I see could be answered if they put a silly breakpoint and used their eyes to see what was happening.
Why so many developers do not understand how to debug is astounding to me.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Possibly they don't like to spare times for debugging a code rather than just asking it in CP, .
Shuvro
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Chances are no one has taught them.
Probably because there are no books on debugging for the lecturer to copy his lesson take inspiration from.
I strongly suspect that nobody teaching IT at uni has any experience at all in actually using it in the real world. Hence the prevalence of SQL Injection prone code and so forth... 
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Quote: Chances are no one has taught them.
Quite possibly. I'm a self taught developer so don't use that excuse with me. 
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Yeah - and you know how to use the debugger!
I think a lot of it is how old you are: the older, the more likely to respect and relish a debugger, because (certainly when I started) debugging involved shoving extra punched cards into the deck to print a specific variable and then finding out what happened 3 hours later... 
That kind of thing makes you appreciate how wonderful a tool you have in front of you: breakpoint, examine, scratch head, single step, examine, swear, change value, change code while it's damn well running, continue from a different line. Brilliant!
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Quote: extra punched cards
I've heard of those things. 
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Be glad you never had to use them!
When your code needs wheels to move it around, I guess you get the idea behind "modular programming"... 
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There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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