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Your email doesn't work....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I'm reading a good book on anti-gravity.
I can't put it down!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Did you read the book on angular momentum? I think it was a spin-off.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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You should next read "The Yellow River" by I.P. Freely.
Jeremy Falcon
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or "Under The Bleachers" by Seymore Butts.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Don't tell me they even got sold 
I don't know what is worst... the books or the comments below?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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"The Practical Pyromaniac" - I found this book interesting 
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I found it repulsive.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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I got a book on the quantum photoelectric effect, but every time I turn the light on to find it, it jumps to a higher shelf.
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I mean things like a function name that is on your head at the moment
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I'm not high enough to understand what you mean. And I'm Dutch, so that's probably saying something.
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This actually works well with meaningful names...you just have to think in camelCase! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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No, but I have tried to perform a ctrl alt del on my brain once.
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Quite dangerous, because the contents in the head may suddenly disapp
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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My sources tell me that a secret survey carried out by the Wampeter Group for Microsoft to assess the mass-psychological reaction to using "Windows 9" showed that a significant percentage of key decision makers ... people who could make the choice to move hundreds of thousands of machines in networks to the next version of Windows ... were World War II baby-boomers now in high executive positions.
These decision-makers negative pre-cognitive reaction to "nine" was based on their memories of how significant Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, "Cat's Cradle" was in their adolescence, and the fact that, in the novel, "Ice9" [^] was the substance ... a polymorph of water solid at room temperatures ... that threatened mankind with extinction, and the the planet with frozen oceans.
In addition the wide-variety of other cultural expressions that spun-off of Vonnegut's book over the following decades [^] all reinforced the contemporary meme of "something-followed-by-nine" as dangerous, toxic, even threatening apocalypse.
Microsoft, like all other corporations these days ... aware of such classic marketing horrors as the flop of the GM "Nova" car in Spanish speaking countries ... "nova" in Spanish means "no go," conducts surreptitious research and surveillance, including testing subliminal insertions of content into television, and radio broadcasts: all of this, of course, sub-contracted out to multiply-nested layers of independent sub-contractors on a need-to-know in order to create plausible deniability.
Of course, this is all further proof that this is the "best of all possible worlds."
« I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief » Immanuel Kant
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I thought it was because 7 ate 9...
*ducks*
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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Nine ducks? That must have taken a lot of pancakes and hoisin sauce.
"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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I don't know whether any of the higher ups at uSoft are Lennon Fans [^] but I had a feeling that the obsession with the number 9 might have had something to do with it.
Quote: Revolution 9 was an unconscious picture of what I actually think will happen when it happens; just like a drawing of a revolution. All the thing was made with loops. I had about 30 loops going, fed them onto one basic track. I was getting classical tapes, going upstairs and chopping them up, making it backwards and things like that, to get the sound effects. One thing was an engineer's testing voice saying, 'This is EMI test series number nine'. I just cut up whatever he said and I'd number nine it. Nine turned out to be my birthday and my lucky number and everything. I didn't realise it: it was just so funny the voice saying, 'number nine'; it was like a joke, bringing number nine into it all the time, that's all it was.
John Lennon
Rolling Stone, 1970
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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If this is true, I bet they will skip "Windows 13" as well. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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They've already done that with Visual Studio - the successor to Visual Studio 2013 (which is v12.0) will be Visual Studio 14.0.
Anna ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Tech Blog | Visual Lint
"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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BillWoodruff wrote: significant percentage of key decision makers
Sounds like a granfalloon was involved. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Granfalloon - Thanks for reminding me of this concept. 
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