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Great story, John, and, for some reason, makes me think of the movie "Casablanca," when Bogart says to Ingrid: "We'll always have Paris." [^].
Sometimes I think our moments of personal excellence, transcendence, selflessness in loving kindness, are the only things that persist when our wetware shells are dis-animated ... but, other times, I just don't think.
cheers, Bill
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: He shook his head, said, "Simply f*ckin amazing", and walked out of my office. Later that day, he told me he felt like he was only slowing me down by being there. 
The biggest advantage is that the weaker one in the team has an easier time learning. If he is not learning, he is not just slowing you down, but also wasting his own time - otherwise the slowdown might have been justifyable by having a second dev that knows the details of the application.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Later that day, he told me he felt like he was only slowing me down by being there
At least he was one of the few people smart enough to recognize that.
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My definition of pair-programming:
Person A should stop everything and help Person B with 'our' project. As much as I hate being Person A, being Person B would be worse. (a dependent)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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That's brutal!
I'd rather be phishing!
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Is that really a surprise? For the same reasons you are expected to go down with the Titanic and let them sit in a life boat instead. Or why more than 90% of all deaths at work being men is perfectly acceptable while so shockingly little is done to make women feel safe. Or generally why every Feminazi thinks to be automatically entitled to everything, we of course only get to keep everything that's too messy or too dangerous for them.
They simply judge us by the amount of security and support we can provide and nothing else. You are supposed to work your ass off or kick the bucket if it must be. And while you are at it, don't complain and feel proud and happy to make those sacrifices. Just try it and see what will happen then.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: you are expected to go down with the Titanic and let them sit in a life boat instead
It's called Birkenhead Drill[^]
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Who knows how many names it had before that. It's truly the oldest version of the Darwin Award. If we were not hard wired to play along, most would certainly try to save themselves.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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well it does make sense for replacing losses. The children are the immediate future adults (workers, breeders) and if required can start sooner. Need the women to make future replacements (babies). Only need one or two men to service a whole brood of women.
jus like farming, hundreds of cows/sheep but only a few bulls/rams. (and these days the bulls are outsourced and supplemented with science even less required).
face it, our only true useful roles are down to: something to complain about and washing the car.
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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Lopatir wrote: face it, our only true useful roles are down to: something to complain about and washing the car.
That's how they like to have you. Good boy. If you don't know what you are supposed to do, they will never get tired of finding some tasks for you. This way you are 100% at their service and under control.
I could not live that way. I'm not made for that.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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face it, our only true useful roles are down to: something to complain about and washing the car.
Lifting heavy things and killing bugs.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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theoldfool wrote: Lifting heavy things and killing bugs.
 So true!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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From that article...
Quote: As a code of conduct, "women and children first" has no basis in maritime law. According to disaster evacuation expert Ed Galea, in modern-day evacuations people will usually "help the most vulnerable to leave the scene first, likely to be the injured, elderly and young children.
Somewhat re-assuring, not quite there yet, but I've put in some time pre-qualifying for that elderly priority 
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It's my son's on the same day (but he is 9 years older). I guess that makes me ancient. 
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You may give your juvenile (older than me!) a Garfield coloring book... 
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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And he would still appreciate the joke.
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I've noticed that whenever I download a TAR file (and it usually is TAR.GZ) and decompress it, there always is yet another compressed file that needs to be decompressed. Why don't folks just do a single compression?
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Because a TAR file isn't a compressed file.
A GZIP file is.
So them UNIX folk put files in a TAR then GZIP it.
Deal with it.
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double de-compression? you're doing it wrong. the proper [as per design] procedure:
1. un-gzip it and redirect the output to the tape device,
... (may necessitate co-ordinated use of 2 hands if tape device doesn't have automatic start/stop control)
2. rewind the tape
... (on some sites a separate rewinding machine - submit both the tape and duly completed rewind request)
3. and then: un-tar (tar -x) it from the tape reader into the destination directory.
... (please remember: folders are where you keep your forms and notes, files are stored in directories.)
some new-fangled versions of tar have gzip built right in, many operators cant grok that.
kids these days: always looking for shortcuts.
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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Files are not stored in directories. (Nor in folders of course.)
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good point, the directory is just a list of name and inode number pairs.
Such a simple system, could elegantly do things back then that NTFS still hasn't come close to without a whole mess of complicated hoops to jump through.
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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For first, you compare part of the file system to a file system. Second, NTFS is more inode than inode itself, as it stores the file data itself as attribute. Third, for Windows there is NTFS since 1993. In the Unix world since we have seen at least half dozen über weltmeister open source, free as in freedom file systems, every one leaving everything else in the dust. So much about extensibility and stability.
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Tape? Tape? We don't use such new-fangled magnetics here!
Send it to the card punch!
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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