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True story:
We once had a technical writer who couldn't understand the terms "least significant bit" or "most significant bit". We spent several discussions explaining this to him.
His first draft of the manual he was working on was filled with the phrase "least important bit" and "most important bit". He insisted that was easier to understand  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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That is an awesome story! Working on the Apollo project, were you? 
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Kodak was pretty high tech! I still remember the Kodak Cineon (Digital film post production) as a wet dream!
Also... In my grey-haired memories a lyrics fragment pops up.
Had a dream last night
Aint Kodachrome and and aint black-and-white
Couldve been Simon n Garfunkel...
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Check this[^] out. You can't even say "No. Don't write anything." 
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Just another example of why one should try to avoid outsourcing anything!
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I once told my folks I wanted a cake that said "Happy Birthday, $username", but then they thought it had something to do with money.
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Wanna turn that frown upside down? Wanna turn your life from a doom laden Scandi-noir to somewhere over the rainbow? Just change your theme tune[^]!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Wow, haven’t been here in a long while - thought I’d stick my head in the door and see what’s what, and also share a story of me being an idiot.
I started getting into WPF/MVVM quite a while back now, then work got in the way and I dropped it like a hot potatoe.
Then work got very quiet and I ended up losing my job (but luckily found another almost instantly) before I left I copied off* the WPF/MVVM stuff I’d been playing with so as to pick it up again later.
Now is the time to pick it up again as it looks like I’ll, once again, be unemployed – but that’s another story.
So, I get out the USB Drive with the Projects I had, try and open the files and – #Best Family Fortunes Noise - UHH-UUHHHHH# - Access Denied!
I completely forgot that there had been an update to encrypt all local files on the laptop just before I left, and I hadn’t copied off the encryption key!
Stupid boy.
So now all the stuff I had learnt and struggled with and neatly sorted out and made sense of, is useless – completely unreadable.
At least I still have all the bookmarks of the best articles I used the first time around.
So, here we go again...
* = BTW the stuff I copied off was completely 100% NOT company confidential information, I was using the work laptop at home in my own time to learn something new. Heck, I doubt they even have a clue what WPF is!
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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Save your good stuff on github or bitbucket then!
Both offer free Git account!
And you can even make it a private git account on bitbucket! 
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OK - for the future this sounds like a plan!
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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+24. Too bad I can't up-vote anymore for this.
I save EVERYTHING in Bitbucket, that needs/is worth saving.
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Ask the NSA/GCHQ if they have a back up key.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Just ask your ex-colleagues to decrypt it for you.
Wout
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1.21 Gigawatts wrote: potatoe
Dan Quail[^] is that really you? 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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USB drives are typically FAT, and you have to reformat them to make them NTFS, which few people ever do. FAT doesn't support the built-in file encryption, so unless they used something else, or you reformatted the drive to NTFS, then its probably just an access permission problem -- try taking ownership of the files and directories on the new system.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Once again a major update to Windows 10 has completely failed to break, complicate, or in any way affect my computing experience negatively. Have you no heart? How long must we endure this unrelenting torrent of seamless improvement? I mean, sure, I'll learn to carry on but ...
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Because every once in a while, even Microsoft can get it right. Remember Windows 7?
They do try not to do it often though, so that you don't start to expect it...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Are you talking about the KB3159398? One of the worst MS updates, ever...
You always obtain more by being rather polite and armed than polite only.
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Because 9082365, because.
veni bibi saltavi
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Do not update things if the update does not fix a present problem.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Arg, I hate them. What was the point of learning how to troubleshoot and fix computers if it aint gonna break?! 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Yeah, I mean, at this rate, I'll be out of a job fixing other people's computers in 3,500 years or so.
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If you don't use cortana, most recent updates are unlikely to affect you -- unless the updates to cortana break other things, of course.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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From: Barclays plc
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Barclays
Yea, I'm going to click that.
veni bibi saltavi
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