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Does the bull own the rabbits in the meadow ?
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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Is that one of those zen koans? Feels like I should know more about the cosmos if I only knew the relationship between bulls and bunnies.
TTFN - Kent
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Mu.
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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CodeProject has always been and, I believe, was always intended to be a Microsoft-oriented site. Rumor has it that several of the early Microsoft top management folks slept with Bob before they discovered pretty girls. Once they were billionaires they had more options, of course. Other technologies are welcome, but we don't see them very often.
Will Rogers never met me.
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You can't prove anything and besides: all the photos have been destroyed. It never happened, dammit.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Bad news, Chris; when he's drunk, Bob talks, and he's a cheap date. All those times you've been binging with the rodents in the server vault, Bob's been skipping over to Bullhead City for a little jet ski action and cheap beer. Like I said, he talks... I don't, of course, but I take notes... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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How much programming is done for Microsoft operating systems*, and how much for other systems**?
* By people who are willing to take part in something like CP.
** By people who are willing to step away from their mutual back-slapping/bitch-slapping societies and take part in something like CP.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hearts don't show in my emoticon list, so I was going with what I had!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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You're lucky, I don't have neither hearts nor kegs. A life without love and alcohol (or at least one of the two) is an empty life 
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You do now[^].
/ravi
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Thanks Ravi!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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They do now[^].
/ravi
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.NET's kinda been big in the news lately.
But no, Microsoft haven't bought a share but if they have a spare squillion lying around then I'm happy to negotiate from our tax-friendly hollowed-out-volcano island HQ.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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If they ever do buy into the Project, don't forget that you promised, years ago, that the first 5,000 members would get Preferred Voting shares, and the rest mere non-voting Common stock. Or warrants to be granted at our whim...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Was I drunk when I said that?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I think we all were, back then... ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
Will Rogers never met me.
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Went to see this the other evening at the cinema. It tells the story of the breaking of the Enigma codes during WWII. The film centres around the story in relation to Alan Turing whose sheer intellectual brilliance was key to breaking the codes. He is portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock fame) who does a fantastic job of showing both his genius as well as his total lack of empathy and social skills.
The film also shows the prejudice he faced for being homosexual (it was a criminal offence in the UK at the time).
I highly recommend this film. It tells the story of one of the founding fathers of modern computing and a flawed genius through his incredible efforts during WWII. Sheer brilliance 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Thanks for the tip. I'll watch out for it to arrive in this backwater.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Dominic Burford wrote: a flawed genius
In what way was he flawed?
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Just from the OP, "total lack of empathy and social skills" spring to mind.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Brady Kelly wrote: total lack of empathy and social skills
I doubt that was a fair description of the man. Like most people he had good and bad points, but to call him flawed suggests that he is somehow outside or below the 'norm'.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: I doubt that was a fair description of the man. Like most people he had good and bad points, but to call him flawed suggests that he is somehow outside or below the 'norm'.
There was absolutely no criticism of Alan Turing intended, certainly not for my part. I have long admired and respected him. I remember first coming across him during my degree, where we were taught about how his works laid the foundations for much of modern computing.
Like many geniuses though, he lacked many of the basic social skills that most of us take for granted. This is particularly pronounced in those with autism or Aspergers. He was bullied at school, which may have increased or at least contributed to this behaviour.
Geniuses are often portrayed as flawed individuals. It's maybe a phrase you're not familiar with, but it's certainly commonly ascribed to those with superior abilities.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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