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I think so. They must have used other techniques to stay cool. Mountains of snow, windowless sun-side walls, good old suffering, etc must have helped. 
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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The real question is, Will he Carry 'er to the next level?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Did you know computers and air conditioners have a lot in common?
They become useless when you open Windows 
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Or have we done that yet?
I'm getting deja vu here...
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Surely you're not setting us up for another Shirley joke!
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More famous in death, than in life.
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Oh I dunno. "Police Squad! (In Colour!)" was pretty well known, and had some brilliant quotes: "We're sorry to bother you at such a time like this, Mrs. Twice. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then"
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"Is this some kind of bust?"
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"Yes, ma'am, it's very impressive, but we need to ask you a few questions."
"We can't let these vermin infest our city. We'll have a rotten, scum-sucking cesspool." 
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More talked about, I should say. At least where I live in the States, the "Leslie" term is used a lot. He is referenced far more in his death, then in his life, IMHO.
I loved almost all of his movies. He is missed, for Shirley.
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I meet him at a couple of horse shows where his daughter was riding. He was a rather good horseman himself. A really nice man and a pleasure to talk with.
Charles Wolfe
C. Wolfe Software Engineering
modified 15-Sep-15 19:28pm.
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Leslie Nielsen movies never fail to make me laugh, RIP
--P
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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He's Dead and Loving It.
I see I got an upvote (thank you). I am glad someone saw knew the movie.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
modified 15-Sep-15 9:38am.
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I was just looking at the post regarding comparing a program to a musical piece and it reminded me of a question a golfing acquaintance asked me on the course recently - he's my age (mid 50's) and never had anything to do with computers - ever. The nearest he's got is a mobile phone, but asked me the question 'how do you write a computer program?' - sounds simple enough, but after a minute the glazed look in his eyes and sound of the whoosh as my obviously inadequate answers to more questions passed over his head just made me laugh - try it sometime
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Ask him how and why you make a golf ball and he might get the idea that it's a about a lot of little details. 
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Usually I have to dig out someone's old junk, then use some of the bad language mentioned below, question the author's mental health, throw it all away and then get to work.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I have found that most people find what we do, extremely boring. As soon as you start with the "lingo", they tune you out. The light is on, but no one is home.
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Yeah, funny monkey[^].. Sorry, what were you saying?
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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More than the "lingo," it's the stepwise thinking through and abstraction of a problem that makes their eyes glaze over. Why, "that's just not fun" sayeth the liberal arts and business majors.
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"Bit by bit".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I explain it as "a repetitive process of continually breaking down a problem into simpler problems, until they are so simple a computer can understand them."
Then I add an analogy like cleaning a garage. I create piles for different types of "stuff". Sometimes I have a place for items in the pile, other times I need to split a pile up into two smaller piles to be able to decide where things should go.
Finally, my program won't work unless I find the right place for everything. There's very little room for a junk drawer in a computer program.
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I alway remember the first task I was ever given while working for some civil servant programmers while stationed at the British Army Headquarters in Germany.
In 30, 1 line sentences no more or less. Tell me how to boil an egg.
I always use that to show to how methodical and logical you have to be, to write computer programs to non technical people
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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If its an officer course then you only need 1.
Sergeant, get me a soft boiled egg.
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Pretty standard across the industry....
1) Allocate time for writing the spec, writing unit tests from the spec, writing code such that unit tests pass, functional testing, then release
2) Write the code
3) Write the units tests
4) Write the spec
5) Release
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In group introductions, the most common question is 'what do you do?'. Where some occupations garner adulation and spark a myriad of questions, 'software development' ranks right up there with 'accountant' in interest to the general public...which is fine as I'd rather not even try to explain what I do. My wife just tell people that 'he works with computers'.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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