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http://www.xkcd.com/1378[^]
Oh gawd Randall - that's terrible!
He should join us here with ones like that...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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No he can't, he made me smile and laugh where as you lot... 
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He did. With 'Nagy' nickname. 
Veni, vidi, vici.
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hit random and get[^]
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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And I got this: http://xkcd.com/1182/[^]
The prosecution rests...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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After ages as it seems. Every thing looks strange, out-of-the-world to me.
Time to find some 'gems'
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Carl von Clausewitz
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One of the reasons I feel relieved to have been in the same contract for a decade, because for sure there would have been a rewrite out there just waiting to give me nightmares!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: rewrite
And that's exactly what we are tasked with 
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Carl von Clausewitz
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There are some jobs/contracts that you would only take for the money 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I had to maintain a project in a previous job that was C# ASP.Net based, but was a rewrite of a VB6 project.
It had basically been rewritten line for line, and was a freaking disaster!
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I've had to work on a Java product that was largely a transliteration of Perl. That was pretty bad.
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I was getting the train in to work, and had been dropped off at the station a few minutes early.
So, I grabbed a coffee, a small packet of biscuits and a newspaper from the platform shop, and sat at one of those small, uncomfortable, metal tables, to drink and do the crossword.
So, my newspaper is on the table, coffee cup steaming by its side, and I'm perusing the clues when the well-dressed businessman sitting opposite me reaches over, picks up my packet of biscuits, and rips them open! He then proceeds to remove one, and munch away at it, without a care in the world.
I was nonplussed - I had no idea how to react (I am British, which may explain that). So, I did nothing. I stared intently at the newspaper, and desparately tried to find a clue in the crossword that I could answer.
What seemed like ages passed, and I still hadn't got a clue about either the crossword or the biscuit thief. So, I simply reached over to the packet of biscuits and took one myself.
A few seconds later, the businessman took another.
And so we went on, not speaking or even making eye contact, until the packet was empty.
The train finally arrived at the station, and the gentleman grabbed his briefcase, and stood and walked away from the table.
I, also, stood, picked up my coffee and my newspaper. And there, on the table, under my newspaper, was my packet of biscuits!
** This is a Douglas Adams true story (so he said) that I read about in Salmon of Doubt - and am still laughing about it now. Thought I would share (though he told it better than what I did)
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For those of you who cannot be bothered to read heres a clip[^] from Letterman.
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_Maxxx_ wrote: I am British, which may explain that
Good thing he was too!
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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If I recall correctly, Arthur Dent tells the story to Fenchurch as well. 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Congratulations! (just don't put it in a loop)
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: What about recursion?
See Here[^]
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I expected that one.
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Typically it's what it happens...
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Congrats dude. Well more in the way of congrats to Mrs Dude.
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Congrats, hope all are doing well.
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<joke>
CSC Says: Compilation error on line X
Did you mean:
var numberOfSons = ...
numberOfSons += 1;
?
</joke>
<seriousness>
Congratulations!
</seriousness>
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Congrats but don't you mean self replicating code? 
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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