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Sorry chaps for no CCC yesterday - blame Windows fu??ing updates - totally screwed file and folder permissions on two of our servers which resulted in all our scheduled jobs failing and all that goes with being horrible - thanks to OG for stepping in ( he's used to it )
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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These things happen - but I'm getting worried about your work / life balance: you seem to be letting work get in the way of the important things! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I think I've got todays - if I have do you want to take tomorrow as a "swapsies"?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ok ta - I thought I had todays too and then saw yours which is spot on
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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"You have to make a lot of mistakes to become successful." - John Johnson (brain surgeon)
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Not a good sales pitch for a brain surgeon
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Well, by the time you're a brain surgeon, you're technically successful.
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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Why? It's not exactly brain surgery, is it?
Oh, hang on ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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Chances are, the patient never finds out!
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Are you hinting Max Verstappen here? (F1 ain't that an acronym for HELP?)
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Just had an exciting email from "Eulah"! It starts: Quote: There you are! Are you searching for a winsome sweetie to have fun?
If I could be bothered, I'd do what this guy does but it probably wouldn't lessen the amount of ridiculous spam I get (as we all do, I'm sure).
419 Eater - The largest scambaiting community on the planet![^]
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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More "wince" than "winsome" you think?
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... on a feelin' and you're high on believin', right?
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Or, "he's hooked, he's hooked, his brain is cooked".
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About half a minute in - a few photos. So much pain.
Where Have All the Flowers Gone - Kingston Trio - YouTube[^]
No dry eyes at this end.
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Stevie Wonder wrote: All Beyond Fixing
We are blind to our blindness.
We have very little idea of how little we know.
We're not designed to know how little we know.
~Daniel Kahneman[^]
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Ever been asked to do this? I seem to be encountering this more and more -- the last company I worked for, I left because that was stated explicitly by the CTO as the new policy.
What would you do if you were told to do that? And by dumbing down, I mean doing things like avoiding LINQ (except for basic things), metadata, reflection, extension methods, and any of the C# 7.0 language features.
It seems that long gone are the days when companies actually invest in keeping developer skills up to par with the technologies the company uses. Or even more amusingly (not) keeping those technologies up to date.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Ever been asked to do this?
Not me, personally, but I have heard of this same thing from other colleagues. No bueno.
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Is it more a question of using the latest language tricks versus making the code more readable ?
for example
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: Is it more a question of using the latest language tricks versus making the code more readable ?
I agree, though I have no problem reading those examples. But I didn't know (and nothing comes up in google) that a ^ is what you use to index from the end of the array. If that's actually the case, I wish they'd just done what Ruby and Python do -- use negative numbers.
But really, I'm not talking "tricky" code -- I'm talking about simple things like knowing how to use reflection, or how extension methods work and guidelines on when to use them, or basic things like threading -- async/await, Task, TPL, even Thread.
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Marc Clifton wrote: But I didn't know (and nothing comes up in google) that a ^ is what you use to index from the end of the array.
The future of C# : Build 2018 - YouTube[^] - coverage of "ranges" starts at 55 minutes.
Apparently, using negative numbers was ruled out in a language design meeting:
If we use negative numbers, we could make it work for ranges in cases like a[1..-1]. However, we would not be able to make a[-1] work since it already has a meaning in the language. In fact, it would be a pretty a scary breaking change to try and introduce that since it would no longer throw a runtime exception and would instead start returning unexpected values.
"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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That is nuts. How does that help the business? Failing to challenge and educate engineers leads to mediocre and/or poor code, at best.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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