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Thanks for the advice, I did as you suggested and it actually worked. I will now have an offer in hand before any of my references receive calls.
Officially totally worth the risk posting it here!
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I'm delighted to hear the outcome was successful !
Congratulations on your new job, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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References or referrals? I always react suspiciously to such blackmail and probably for good reason.
I would tell them that there was an interview and if they are interested they could make you an offer, references or not, otherwise good luck.
it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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I don't know which part of the world you are in. I recently changed a job and in process I made it clear that I was not willing to share my current employers contacts. There was on company who wants to include but I told them it will be a deal breaker for me and they relented.
Try to understand if that is must have or nice to have deal and set your own conditions. If you are not willing to give them, tell them it is a deal breaker, unless you don't want to loose the opportunity. In that case you are stuck.
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Here is today's FSOW OTD. It's an easy one, hope you guys get it 
It ain't too late right? 
(`o-)
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Looks like a clock - but doesn't fit 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 27-Oct-15 4:28am.
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As he hasn't stated the number of letters how do you know ? Also it does fit 
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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5 symbols, means 5 letters...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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CLOCK XD
although someone thought it aint gonna fit
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Someone's thought was right actually, and yours too.
It was a CLOCK basically but his dad named him as TIMER
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Maybe WATCH
or TIMER
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Yep, TIMER is the right answer.
Congo, you're up for 28th October Two K and Fifteen
modified 27-Oct-15 6:58am.
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Aren't you supposed to state the amount of letters ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Counting has come a bit out of fashion, hasn't it?
I just tried and it came out about fiveish.
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I got 4.75 - but one of my fingers is a lot shorter than the others.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No need for this kind of precision here.
4,75 looks kind of fiveish to me.
If I look at it out of the corner of my eye it definitely looks fiveish!
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I don't have the time for that
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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In FSOW:
Number of symbols in the clue = number of letters in the answer
So it's not necessary to mention the number of letters in FSOW, they say
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Not always OG had a strange one a while back that didn't - just saying
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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If it ain't sheep OG does have some difficulty counting.
He even messes up whole numbers, which are inherently the easiest to use in counting. :P
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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That's totally Vader's TIE fighter from the original Star Wars... You know, that great trilogy for which they thankfully never made any more sequels...
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... if I'm the project manager to be - why you force me to use a specific technology even before we started?! I'm quit...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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It's not the PM's roll to decide on the technology. The sole responsibility of the PM is to ensure that the project is delivered on time and to budget. It's not even their responsibility to ensure it works. The hardest part about a techie moving to being a PM is letting go of the technical side.
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Granted - not PM decides on the technology (however in this case there is no development team jet, and it was expected of me to create one)...I had no objection to such statement from the development team, but it came from the owner...
I do not care if he has a thousand nephews just finished learning AngularJS on a five day course...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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There may be other considerations coming into play here that you aren't aware of. For instance, he may have license issues over a particular IDE/language combination or he might have a set of platforms planned later that you aren't aware of. Never assume that you know what factors the owner is weighing in.
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