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I typed that at work and was in kind of a hurry.
Our office is often used for meetings. Imagine a room that's about 15x15 feet with 12 people in it (and four desks).
Today was a meeting day.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Our office is often used for meetings
Maybe put up a sign "Enter At Your Own Risk, And Remember ..."
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Unfortunately, the sign wouldn't be accurate at the office. :/
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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You can't believe how much time I spent practicing to spell and pronounce that word.
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No, please tell, what is the battery life of one of these[^]?
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
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I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).
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See, I'd go with something like:
A bullet leaving the chamber of my 9mm can travel
approximately 1000ft/sec.
Hope you brought your running shoes.
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My guns are bigger than 9mm (and travel a bit slower than a 9mm to boot).
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: My guns are bigger than 9mm (and travel a bit slower than a 9mm to boot).
You're supposed to shoot them, not throw them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm leaving my current job working on big data projects using machine learning to detect fraud in online advertising streams, writing fast code which routinely has workings sets of 10s of Gigs at a time, crunching 1000s of transactions a second. The only way to increase performance is to move things to a distributed scaled out "cloud" type architecture.
I'm giving it up to work on a simple internal business application, and I couldn't be happier about the decision. What it comes down to is that I've met most of the people that I'm going to be working with and it seems like a nice pleasant place to work.
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book,
only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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Andy Brummer wrote: pleasant place to work
Did you make sure it has a coffee machine before you made this decision? 
Just kidding. Congrats on taking up something that you wanted to do.
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Abhinav S wrote: Did you make sure it has a coffee machine before you made this decision?
no, no, I forgot to ask!
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book,
only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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Andy Brummer wrote: no, no, I forgot to ask!
You did not negotiate right!
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I know, the box of fresh baked cookies they sent me threw me off. 
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book,
only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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Simple business applications are mind numbingly boring. Unless you get to work with other developers who are hell bent on turning something simple into rocket science.
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I know, there is already some of that which I'm going to have to clean up over time. It's a 30 user app and they are using the entity framework with WCF data services so they can do hand coded AJAX stuff on the front end. 
The usual stuff, wanting to cram every latest greatest frame work in all at once.
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book,
only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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I'm having great fun taking a small business app from barely usable to a great product. The app is dead simple, but I get to play with any goodies I want to make it look nice and work well.
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Perhaps I'm not Geek enough, but what I enjoy most is writing apps that help people do their jobs better or faster. I wrote a simple client server app a few years ago; stored procedures in SQL Server and a client front end in VB6 (which we need to port to Dot NET now). Nothing super challenging, but lots of coworker satisfaction.
I wrote a simple VBScript for another coworker who could never remember how to map and open a shared drive. She was forever grateful.
To each his own I guess.
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Dale Lanz wrote: Perhaps I'm not Geek enough, but what I enjoy most is writing apps that help people do their jobs better or faster.
So do I which is why I tend to rub people the wrong way here from time to time because I think the end result of what I do is more important the process of what I do. I would never hire a developer who seemed *too* in love with the tools and not focused on the end users.
Yesterday they said today was tomorrow but today they know better.
- Poul Anderson
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Relinquishing surely?
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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The sagacious wordsmith has spoken. So shall it be. 
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yes, 2 major typos in my last two posts. 
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book,
only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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You might be losing geek points, but totally replacing them with man points. Figuring out that you don't actually like what you are doing, and replacing it with something you do like - that is one of the hardest things to actually do. The more responsibilities you have (i.e. family), the hard it gets.
Good on ya.
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Thanks. It's a major win for my family. Way better benefits, more time with them, more money and a stable future, rather than sticking with something which probably isn't going to pay off even though it was a nice geek challenge.
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book,
only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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Andy Brummer wrote: The only way to increase performance is to move things to a distributed scaled out "cloud" type architecture.
Think hardware[^]. Seriously a lot of high-performance stuff is heading over to FPGAs.
I doubt it. If it isn't intuitive then we need to fix it. - Chris Maunder
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