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I didn't even know she had a west country accent! 
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Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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/ravi
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Ok, as none of you know I am building a web based business in my ample [lie, limited] free time. And it is so much fun, it just makes the innovation juice pour into the brain with ideas. For example, obviously, when I go live I need to get a web host. Web hosts with shared hosting are cheap, dedicated hosting is expensive, and home hosting is a labor of love. So remembering how Plenty of Fish scaled so well (CDN, CDN, CDN) it occurred to me to CDN my own site (not erlglobal). (Bonus, cdn is cheaper, nearly than hosting)
So I am going to host all of the images, scripts css on the CDN, and the products and other shared JSON files as well. Working in an enterprise environment I would have never cared before but having to actually pay and control costs forces me to look at just what I am doing! I was kind of worried because ASP.NET is a resource hog.
Really, this is just one of the many things which I am not going to itemize, just so much fun. If only I had customers! But wait, I can't go live until it is perfect ... just ... one ... more ... tweak : ). BTW, why can't CC providers (braintree) provide a simple API? Easy Post wins on the simple API front. First place that advertised simple, easy, api that I was actually able to get fully up and running in under an hour.
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Have you looked at https://www.cloudflare.com[^] they offer free cdn + other services. I use them for most of my clients.
Quote: I was kind of worried because ASP.NET is a resource hog.
Compared to what? PHP on Apache?, node.js? I've run a site with hundreds of thousands of users a day on a pair of servers with dual 266Mhz processors and 256Megs of memory on ASP.Net 1.0 without issue.
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I had to take a break from MMA to help my brother out. He was having some hard times, so I had his 2 kids for a bit. I already had my other brother living with me, and my wife lost her job, so that was too much scheduling and finances.
Now everyone is out of my house. I have set up a schedule for modest saving since I spent everything I had put away to help the family. We can't save a lot, but meh whatever. At least we are saving again. So, that puts me in a position to do MMA again, at least short term.
I've picked a NAGA tournament in St. Louis MO that I'm doing in June. I hope to schedule a fight this summer as well. I'm super stoked. I just started back at the gym Friday, and did some sparring. So I'll be training there for fitness, MMA, and BJJ except for Tuesday and Thursday. Those days I'll be hitting weights and then programming on side projects.
On top of that, I have the spartan race april 26th and I get to finally have my vacation on the appalachian trail may 2nd - 12th. This summer rocks!
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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loctrice wrote: MMA
Note to myself : don't anger him !
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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I have found that being an in-shape programmer with a weight lifting hobby is bad for the career. No matter how much of a kitten you are people continuously go behind your back to your manager and claim to be intimidated. Just because I defenestrated one person, that one time. Sheesh, it was a one-story building!
Long story short, just because someone likes to fight out of work doesn't make them a threat. Physical fitness is a great zen.
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In our small group of around 15 people, we are two martial artists, two EX-martial artist and two fitness freaks. That doesn't seem to be a problem for anybody else... 
But then again, neither of us have defenestrated anybody. We work on the fourth floor...
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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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We have two ex-military police and several couch potatoes, and one nut that rides bicycles.
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I've had this exact problem before, so I know what you mean. I don't have a solution either. Just discuss it when it comes up I guess. Since then it's been something that I'm aware of, so I take care to be sensative to the problem.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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Why? Just because he's a member of Missouri Midwives Association[^]??? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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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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These midwives can throw a good punch.
shhh don't anger him 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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My eldest sproglet came to me this morning and said "Dad, my camera is all fuzzy." She handed it to me and sure enough the auto-focus isn't auto focusing, so I moved the zoom in and out to check that was all working ok, there were no settings to adjust, however as I moved it around I noticed there was auto focus adjustment happening.
So, I took the camera pointed it at something about 6 foot away, blurry as a blurry thing. Rotating the camera through 180 degrees so it is now upside down and for some bizarre reason, the autofocus kicks in and the image on the LCD is perfect. Rotates it back the right way up and it is out of focus again.
Can't for the life of me think why the camera would work when it is upside down, but not the right way up :-/
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Was it made in Australia??
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 and a kick in the arse is still as effective upside down as well you know..... 
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Sorry, I couldn't resist...
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Autofocus is evil; don't use it.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Your Children have Cameras that don't double up as a phone? 
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Of course they are too young to need a phone, so they are not getting one, plain and simple as that. The eldest is 9 and some of her friends have phone, so as you an imagine there is some peer pressure happening, but the words "tough sh!t" still come to mind.
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Your autofocus mask is loose.
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No he really does looks like that.
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DaveAuld wrote: Rotating the camera through 180 degrees so it is now upside down and for some bizarre reason, the autofocus kicks in and the image on the LCD is perfect.
Perfect, what more can you ask? 
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Similar but different. Daughters camera...take piccy "normally" and get white. Take piccy with flash and OK. Outside, inside, same result. Camera in bin.  Not so bad as it was six years old and only a $150 jobbie.
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