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Nearby star family mishandled moaner dad (9)
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Andromeda (anagram of moaner dad)
Slogans aren't solutions.
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That was quick
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Damnit, I read that, guessed Andromeda just from the first part and the awkward transition to the second part, but didn't respond in time  I'm usually pretty slow at these too. Well done Peejay 
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I got a bit lucky with the timing today, I just happened to look within a few minutes of it being posted - they're usually long solved by the time I see them.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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How does "nearby star" lead to "Andromeda"? It's not a star, and it's 2.5 million light years away! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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When the universe is estimated at 93 billion light-years across, 2.5 million light years is "nearby". 
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Nearby star family (galaxy in loose terms) leads to it. Andromeda galaxy is the nearest one to ours. It is not a friendly one either. Just in few billion years, it will take over our nice little Milky way.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Ah, "star family", not "star". That makes more sense.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I'm even worse -- if I see a book like that in the bargain bin, I'll actually buy it!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Back at my old job we kept Pascal, VB4 and Clipper books around.
That stuff was from the 80's and early 90's.
We also had a VB6 book that we actually used from time to time 
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My shelf starts with K&R, a 1981 copy (I got it actually much later)...
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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I still have all my books from when I got my degree. I have loaned out the COBOL book as a monitor stand though.
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Old IT books are the gift that keeps on giving - I have a book on VB6 performing sterling work as a monitor riser.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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I currently have 7 programming related books doing duty as monitor/laptop stands at the moment. Web Programming with Rerl, VC++6, and a computer architecture textbook for the right monitor stand. My laptop stand stack consists of 3 old text books: C++ Algorithms, C++ Data Structures, Tanenbaum's Modern Operating Systems (2nd ed), and one classic i bought with my own money: Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Data. My center monitor was something I was able to pick out as opposed to something already in the office and available; it has a proper adjustable stand.
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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Code books are like old T-Shirts, just can't seen to justify throwing them out!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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My belly has made that decision easy.
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I hear ya, am getting there myself!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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As people prepare to evacuate their cubes they are cleaning out... I recently gained A UNIX System V book and a COBOL book. ![Jig | [Dance]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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can anyone point me to it? my search-fu is failing me.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Not the one I was looking for which is Multiple Return Statements - blog@CodeFX[^] but that's a good one as well.
thanks
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Look like one of the reason people like me don't use C++ at all at work....
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I think this thread would be more valuable, in the long run if it were in the C# language forum.
Yegor Bugayenko has some interesting views on this topic: [^].
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 24-Jan-17 3:34am.
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