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I guess it's the hungarian [by marriage] in me 
My FIL used to make coffee so strong your eyes watered before you drank anything. I got used to drinking strong coffee and I habitually drink while cogitating. Works in my cube, as all the best code-monkeys say.
veni bibi saltavi
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I come by it through my maternal grandmother. She made coffee so strong the family referred to it as battery acid. I make mine strong, but unfortunately it has to be 80% decaf to keep my blood pressure down  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Code 5x faster? 
Bryian Tan
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: working day is purely espresso driven. 5 so far today...
...Resting heart rate is at 197bpm. Normal thus far.
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raddevus wrote: 197bpm. Normal thus far
...for a cheetah during its sprint. I conclude that you use the Agile development methodology.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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A week made of 168 hours... You have about 100 hours to spend. 50 to more work and 50 to drink to forget all that work... I believe in 50 hours one can drink a lot...
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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Luckily I don't sleep too much
I have nowt to do at the weekends really, so I am capable of doing 20+ hours Saturday and Sunday and then I normally do 2-3 hours when I get back in the evening.
veni bibi saltavi
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So - interestingly:
About a year and a half ago I went from contractor to FT/permanent (only 35hr/week, same money!)
I handle a website for a twelve-lodge district (charitable part)
Currently, I can hardly handle a single shot of booze. So, now you know where you are headed.
R.I.P. ?
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When I was, albeit much younger, I was supporting the retail operations for a large bank in Hungary; that's how I first went there. It wasn't unknown or even rare to work 18hrs straight through and 100 hour weeks were common. The last thing I could say was that I didn't have time for a small sherry* once in a while**. 
* Okay, a large number of G&T's
** daily
veni bibi saltavi
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Always better to turn work away then to not have enough.
Time to up the rates?
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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A lesser-level IT group member was suddenly terminated Friday afternoon. No reasonable cause was given - effectively labeled redundant. That, when tied to why he was told he'd be redundant, just doesn't hold up under even mild scrutiny. Some other events coming out of HR (Human Resources) that also may bode ill. Furthermore, all of IT (at all levels) was kept in the dark about this event until it was executed.
Hang on, kids! There's a fan, and a shovel, and someone's probably going to use it.
Appropriate quote(s) from Hamlet goes here.
[update]
2017.03.07: They 'took' another one. I'm reasonably convinced that what is now called a 'reorganization' is going to include getting rid of IT, altogether. Some IT-ites figure we have about three months left.
Curiosity got the best of me: I created some SQL so I can see who's being terminated as of 2017.02.01 .
[/update]
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modified 7-Mar-17 7:50am.
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As long as the HR guys keep their jobs -- and remain a drain on the company's financial resources and everyone else's will to live -- they're happy.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Consider that "all" isnt true, but some people are lying because they are forced to do it.
I guess that some lean managment decision was taken to bring costs down.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Actually - they've been hiring a lot of staff (not IT) - and this guy is very competent and flexible. Hence - there's something afoot and it's not going to end pretty.
Perhaps, present company, included.
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HR are the bane of human existence. They plot and scheme, all the time pretending to add value whilst demoralising those around them.
Stay strong and/or drunk! ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
veni bibi saltavi
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Sounds like he was singled out. Maybe he got fired because he got too friendly the boss' wife, or maybe just because he was spending too much time in The Lounge...
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Considering the amount of work he got done, this will have some big ripples - not in terms of programming (he's not part of that), but it's a constant day-to-day. One of those support people so the rest of us can get something done. If they were hunting for dead wood, I could have shown them plenty.
The question is even the "them" party. I doubt HR had any more to do with it than carrying out. The selection came from elsewhere. Also - the place where I work rarely, indeed, every lets an employee go - they will re-purpose them. He'd already worn a number of hats, IT only the latest. He was a competent employee and got along with people, including, so far as I knew, the upper management.
So - mayhaps he ruffled someones feathers he shouldn't have, but it's quite out of character. Analysis, particularly with all of the background I know (that you couldn't) is that he's either a sacrificial lamb to justify a followup step(s), a scapegoat, or perhaps replacing all of IT with outside vendor services. The last of these would be, if they simply go by their own corporate experience, a blunder of epic proportion.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: The last of these would be, if they simply go by their own corporate experience, a blunder of epic proportion.
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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NUMBERS
1 is 3 and 2 is 3 and 3 is 5 and 4 is itself and 5 is 4...
What is the rule behind this statement?
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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The number of English letters in the number's name.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Number of letters in the word for the number:
one, two, three, four, five, ...
3 3 5 4 4
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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"I" is the walrus.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes, Yoda, you are a walrus. 
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: Yoda, you a walrus are.
FTFY!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Please don't call me Shir--
... Am I getting movies mixed up, again?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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