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+5 Thanks, I missed that. And yes, Why, Micrpsoft? Why?
Gus Gustafson
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OriginalGriff wrote: Why, Microsoft? Why? 
I've been observing that for decades. I've concluded that its part of a secret Programmer Works Initiative campaign they're running. They make poor design choices and poor choices of defaults simply to keep more of us employed. Its working. Thanks Microsoft.
This is a joke. This is only a joke. Had this been a serious posting... 
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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I regularly use cut without a selection as the most convenient way to delete a line, blank or not. It's faster than selecting and deleting. Copy less so (on a blank line) but it's consistent with cut. I use copy on non blank lines a lot though.
As for the Shift+insert etc keys, I believe their longevity is linked to their utility for left handers (use the left hand for the mouse). Despite using them back in the DOS days, I really burnt their use in to my brain when I had to swap my mouse hand.
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Probably it used to work that way by oversight back in v1 or something. They figured out it was dumb but were afraid of upsetting users by changing existing functionality (something they've gotten over  ), hence the option being added to turn it off. Of course the default is on so no one used to the old behaviour complains.
Can't really see why it's useful myself, but backwards compatibility and options for all the things used to be MS' forte.
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Obviously, it's that way so that noobs can more efficiently spam copy/pasta. Formatting is preserved so to facilitate finding and editing the magic numbers.
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I forgot, sorry.
The French work with The Germans when both the little company and the termination get all messed up (13)
Please can someone solve it, I'm not at work tomorrow. Where's Rage when you need him?
Hint: it is an anagram, or three anagrams, and don't mention the war.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
modified 14-May-15 9:28am.
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I suspect you are up tomorrow as well - certainly I can't make head or tail of it!
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That's the problem when you make them up, you're either convinced it is too simple or worry that no-one will ever think in the same direction that your brain wondered off when you weren't paying attention to it properly.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Collaboration
Anyone want to work out how I was trying to lead you to that?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Well, maybe if we all work together we could do it... 
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both
the little company - co
and
the termination - abortion
get all - all
messed up - anagram of coabortionall
collaboration, like the French working with the Nazis (Germans).
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Ah.
I think you may have over-thought that one! 
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Yes, there was a lot of crossing out on my note pad.
Tomorrow's will be nice and simple but not obvious (I think / hope), someone give me a prod if it isn't up at the right time, I'm supposed to be working from home in the morning but remembering to do things is not a strong point of mine these days.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I know that feeling - I have to stick everything in the tablet, or I'll forget... 
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Good morning!
This is your 09:14 WSO CCC alarm call!
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Cheers.
Working at home to take my wife for a medical assessment this afternoon.
Daughter been sick all night so taking her to docs this morning now as well.
Just trying to remember the clue I left on my work of yesterday.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Reminder for CCC
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Or simply this?
chriselst wrote: collaboration, like the French working with the Nazis (Germans).
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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"Notwithstanding the foregoing the participant grants Sponsor (and its affiliates and subsidiaries) a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable license to use participant’s concept and Entry for and in connection with its business."
So, you are looking for a knapsack-algo?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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More like weighted exact cover
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I stand corrected
So, what are you going to do with your $10.000?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yea I'm not going to win it. I'm giving it a try though, seems interesting
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: "Notwithstanding the foregoing the participant grants Sponsor (and its affiliates and subsidiaries) a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable license to use participant’s concept and Entry for and in connection with its business."
I would love to see it if there was "the ultimate solution" in the first round of the competition and the author then refusing to enter the second round and not sending in his source code but offering it to them for the money it's worth instead
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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So, they're basically looking for the equivalent of what a good CNC-lathe algorithm will produce. Why do I get the feeling that they are looking for someone to write the software that will maximize their printing opportunities, so they can take arbitrary designs and look to fit them into the minimum amount of space? And why does their name make me think of chimpanzees?
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