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Hi Marc,
I'm fine, thankee; I am in peaceful Chiang Mai, in the north, a long way from where the current trouble is. Of course it disturbs me to see the tragic news about the bombings. Like most long-term expats here, I avoid speculation about Thai politics, and hope for the best for the future of the Thai people who I genuinely like, and for their unique culture which was never subjugated by a western colonial power.
Thailand remains a "Land of Smiles" for me, and I think I can say that free of any naive idealization.
It is Mother's Day here, today, H.M. the Queen's Birthday.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
modified 12-Aug-16 10:34am.
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Good to hear!
BillWoodruff wrote: It is Mother's Day here, today, H.M. the Queen's Birthday.
Happy Birthday to the Queen. 
Marc
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Glad you're OK. Bill-ji.
/ravi
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Write a complete application in javascript that has a maximum of 4096 dependencies. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Impossible. They said it can't be done. You won't believe what happens next.
This space for rent
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It made me drop my jaw! 
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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Was your jaw being held on by jQuery ?
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Yes, jQuery 1.7 and now they've released jQuery 1.9 all my jaws have broken.
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Ok, that made me laugh.
Jeremy Falcon
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So the week after next I will be back in Mexico interviewing candidates to take over from my current minions. First time I've done interviews, let alone in a different Country with people who speak a different language, so any tips pointers would be much appreciated.
There are two vacancies and four candidates have made it through to the 2nd interview stage that I will be conducting. Interestingly two of those candidates are a Father and Son!
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Pom Pey wrote: Interestingly two of those candidates are a Father and Son!
Ooh, I know this one! Hire both, and put the son in charge of the father.
What? That's what they always do on TV shows. 
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But you'll think the father is doing all the work, but it's actually his super-smart son doing the work, but the son knows no-one would employ him given his age. So he has to hide in the cupboard when the boss comes around, with hilarious antics resulting.
I should have been an 80s sitcom writer.
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Who's playing the dumb blonde with the big... assets...??? 
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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The boss' secretary? Barbara Windsor.
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Don't ask about any of the following:
Mexicans only drink tequila
they only eat tacos
they only listen to mariachi
all Latinos are Mexican
all Mexicans own Chippewas
all Mexicans wear sombreros
all Mexicans hop the border
all of Mexico is made of dirt
Mexicans ride on donkeys not cars
Google insists none of them are true.
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55378008 wrote: Mexicans only drink tequila
False. That was my father.
55378008 wrote: they only eat tacos
False. That was me.
55378008 wrote: they only listen to mariachi
False. That was my mother when driving. Nonstop.
55378008 wrote: all Latinos are Mexican
Probably true.
55378008 wrote: all Mexicans own Chippewas
True.
55378008 wrote: all Mexicans wear sombreros
True, never seen them wear anything else.
55378008 wrote: all Mexicans hop the border
Not only them.
55378008 wrote: all of Mexico is made of dirt
Very much the same dirt as in Texas.
55378008 wrote: Mexicans ride on donkeys not cars
False. Mexicans love their VWs.
See, I finished the test when can I begin posing as a Mexican?
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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CDP1802 wrote: when can I begin posing as a Mexican?
When Trump finished his wall and hands you the bill?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Dealing with JS, fancy JS libraries, HTML and CSS for a while now. Horrible things. Someone please make windows forms "cool" again as being "cool" drives everything now.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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I think this is more a question of "better" than being "cool".
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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that's why I thought that ASP.net was a good idea with clean "code behind", and I feel your pain as I experienced this myself, but luckily on a small web project
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Johnny J. wrote: and what happens: Microsoft develops a new version of AX in which they remove the Rich client and make the web client the only alternative.
As M$ had done any better in other staff lately 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Johnny J. wrote: but nowadays everything has to be web.
Not everything.  There's a lot of work going on in native mobile development.
/ravi
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You don't hate them. You just lack the "interest" to embrace them, or perhaps, you're just lazy to learn them? 
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