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Sometimes the real world is even worse, but things tend to even out in the end.
I once was asked to write the justification for a complete engineering computing system to the tune of many millions of US$. Looking at the specs, I realized it could all be done on a PC (actually a 80286 machine back then). My boss went ballistic when I told him I couldn't justify the expenditure, got someone else to write the justification, called me a non-team player, etc.
After a week or two, I thought, maybe I was wrong, so there's only one way to know - write the software and if I can do it, I was right. So I spent about 3 or 4 weeks working on it at home, in the evenings and weekends on my own time, on my own PC and I got it working. So, naive me, I took it to work and proudly showed it off. Big mistake. My boss made me take it off of the company computer, forbid me from using it for my job, and later wrote in my performance evaluation that I worked on worthless projects that the company had no interest in that were outside my job responsibilities.
Well, that just plain pissed me off, so I asked for and got a release of copyright and letters from the company renouncing all rights to the software.
Later, when I left that company, I ended up selling the software commercially and the company bought about 30 licenses to the software and paid full retail price for the software they could have had for free.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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morzel wrote: Don’t you just love such people? 
It means they were dissapointed that your cut/copy solution did not work. It means that some fool saw "shiny" and posted an emotional response when confronted with reality.
Post an insult and post a link to it in the Lounge.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I think you should be grateful, he was interested enough to enter into a discussion (I have a down vote with a single . from one cretin), and I suggest he did read your article but missed the bit about the follow up. Probably so excited about identifying a flaw in your testing. So bitching about his response in the Lounge is completely uncalled for IMHO.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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My MenuRibbon (and its companion class MenuRibbonItem) has reached the v0.1 stage!!! 
By that I mean you can use it and it has drop menu or drop ribbon and dropping, mouse tracking, highlight works fine!
Now I have to make it look more polished, and I might put in CodePlex[^]
I know, I know, why not CodeProject[^]?
Mmm.. what if I can't be bothered writing an article? Takes time too and... this control is only a rain drop in my secret project to take over the world in my spare time!!  
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Super Lloyd wrote: Mmm.. what if I can't be bothered writing an article?
Just create a Workspace then.
The console is a black place
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mm... I dunno.... have to think about it..
Might be good idea!
It's just .. what's the visibility of Workspace?
Anyhow I will investigate that tomorrow... time for Reapers of Soul! 
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Super Lloyd wrote: what's the visibility of Workspace?
Visibility as in "Who can access my code", or visibility as in "Who can find it from Google"?
The console is a black place
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Visibility as in 'what is the colour differential between the text and the background'?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I mean Google visibility of course! ^^
And even here, I never for Workspace explicitly, must play with them!
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Rather low, but I'm certain that this is because Workspaces is still a fairly new kid on the block.
The console is a black place
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Super Lloyd wrote: Takes time too and...
- You'll get valuable feedback
- You'll get votes
- You can put a new article on your resume
- You'll help us understand it, without having to Google each method
- It's fun
Start the article, work on it once a week/month, and publish when done 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Mmm...
speaking of which.. there is a little bit of a mystery...
Sometimes one can see an unpublished article, sometimes one cannot... not sure what's happening here?!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear)[^]
Whilst reflecting on the day and all that it represents, I was link hopping around wikipedia and found the above link....long story short - Polish army adopt an orphaned brown bear, put him to work moving ammunition at Monte Cassino, fed him beer and fags, teach him to salute and event draft him as an official private so he could board a British transport ship....
C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.
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King Neptune[^]
A pig, born the same year. Raised over $200 million (in today's money) to build battleships.
I don't really understand how that works, but it seems they kept auctioning off bits of him, but nobody ever got the bit they bought.
An officer in the US Navy he was buried with full military honours.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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The Colonel-inchief of the Norwegian Royal Guard is stationed in Edinburgh[^].
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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The worrying bit is:
"He is the first penguin to receive such an honour in the Norwegian army"
It's the "...in the Norwegian army" bit - it implies that Norway is in the habit of knighting penguins.
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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Now tell me that the uniform[^] doesn't make you look like a penguin. 
Oh, before you start claiming I should respect people in uniform etc, I once wore it myself...
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"Penguin" isn't the first word that spring to mind, no...
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 self-respecting penguin would wear that hat, but the dress is quite fetching.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Well, it cept you warm but thats about it. On cold days, the hat was a nightmare. And I think I must be in several hundred different photo albums around the world.
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Or they penguin in the army? 
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Busy Much?
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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It's your fault for the remembrance post.
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I am oft seen criticizing our cousins who live in the Colonies.
But not today.
Whilst I remember and thank all those who took part in the D Day Landings, I am thankful for the bravest and most worthy of them all.
The young American soldiers who landed on Omaha Beach had the worst of it.
This is not 'Saving Private Ryan', this was 8 hours of hell.
If any deserve a salute for sheer bravery under fire it was they.
1500 dead, 3000 injured, 2000 missing.
It was hell, and still they fought and won.
To those still alive I say thank you, to those that died that day, your life was not lost in vain.
Victory was assured and the war was turned by the actions of those scared young men on that lonely beach.
I do not often dwell on such things, but this was a time when courage was plentiful and despite the fear and the stench of death, the job was done.
One can only hope that such a thing is never going to be necessary ever again.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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