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ScottM1 wrote: That seems like a horrible way to work to me.
No, not really. The Parallels Desktop VM running on my Macbook Pro runs great. I try to avoid working on Windows in any case since I like the Mac OS much better. But, sometimes work intervenes and I have no choice.
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I did exactly the same thing on Saturday with MSSE, a little more Windows and a little less Metro would be good!
I am still unsure about MSSE and am thinking of some third part AV (other than Norton!) 
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Windows Defender on Win8 has MSSE already integrated into it, so an external install is not required.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Windows 8 didn't only suck on saturday
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I tried to update to IE 11
<cheap shot>
I think I see the problem.
</cheap shot>
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I'm working in a mixed-threat environment with little-to-no documentation (leaning heavily closer to "no" than "little") of Excel spreadhseet files, Access databases, something caled Vista FileMan, xmod files, DAT files created and FTP'd to special locations on the network from SQL Server jobs, and the SQL server databases all appear to be populated with user-created one-time-use tables.
It's a f*ckin' mess.
All of the stuff was apparently created by a non-DBA or non-programmer.
I'd like to repeat that there's little-no-documentation describing why something is done, the order in which it needs to be done, or where the f*cking resources are that were used to create what I am loathe to refer to as "data".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I didn't know you were working on the same project, I also inhereted a mess. What are the odds  .
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8 months ago I got an AS/400 database, with no documentation at all, table and field name was in form of Tn/Fn and I had to interpret the meaning by its content. To goal to convert that old DB to used the data with our application that, that customer bought...Pure joy!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Screams "attempt at job security" to me (by the previous incumbent...)
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Well, a professional developer would have been able to see through the mess and fix it... Just saying! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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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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A professional developer would scrap it all and start over. It is really that bad.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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So you've scrapped it all and started again?
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Well, I can't delete anything - yet, but I can start implementing better alternatives and once it's all replaced...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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hell is other people's programs
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Chris Losinger wrote: hell is other people's programs
Hell is your own code after 6 months if you haven't documented it...
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Hell is my own code right after it's done - and it just goes downhill from there.
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Have you tried plugging the local ethernet into the mains outlet, to see if that will resolve the issue? 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I'm working in a mixed-threat environment
"If you don't get the coding done I'm going to shoot you then set you on fire"?
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By "mixed threat", I was referring to the software they're using to do their work.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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And to really make it interesting you cannot find a business owner for the entire process. Oh wait that is the system we are working on! Oh for a greenfield project again!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Is the word "Solution" not clear enough for non-native English speakers? It happens somewhat often where someone asking a question in QA will add more info, such as their code, as a solution.
Perhaps there is a better word?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I like "idiot" instead of "someone"...
Swearwords prefix it nicely as well.
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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I was trying to give the user the benefit of the doubt since I see it often and usually appears to be someone who may not natively speak English.
But yes, "idiot" fills in the blank quite often in QA.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: usually appears to be someone who may not natively speak English.
Yeah, I know that feeling.
This is one recently:
"where I can it and how to assembly referenced it EmailHandler include in c#"
...and that's after the request for clarification! 
Not, BTW, a suggestion that the user gets kicked. It's not his fault his English is poor. 
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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