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If you want a pay rise, work as a consultant. In the USA, thanks to paid vacations, healthcare plans, 401-K, sick days and, not least, the fact that 15 separate taxes (8 on the employee's side and 7 on the employer's) are taken out of an employee's pay check before he ever sees it, it costs a company the same to employ a 1099 consultant at $60 an hour (=$120,000 a year) as it does to employ a W2 employee at $60,000 a year. Make that point, and you're in.
Then, as a consultant, you can get into the business of finding write-offs and so on, which, since you're now working for yourself, you can do for any related stuff you buy, the portion of your house (and therefore rent/mortgage/bills) you designate as your office, and so on.
Effectively, you should be able to double your salary without changing desks.
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"Despite having a testing time in the middle, this player converts energy into motion." (8)
Good luck!
Andy B
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... and by win I mean lose, as I have to come up with another clue tomorrow 
The answer is Actuator.
I'll leave it 30 mins for anyone that wants to provide the solution.
Andy B
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LabVIEWstuff wrote: and by win I mean lose
You do realise you still had an hour or so? It's a four-hour limit, not three...
But...
Despite having a testing time in the middle, UAT or TUA
this player ACT...OR AC...TOR
converts energy into motion.
ACTUATOR
But I have no idea how "a testing time" becomes either UAT or TUA ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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User Acceptance Testing - I thought UAT would've been a well known acronym, especially on this forum. Sincere apologies if it isn't.
Oh well, set the stopwatch to 4 hours tomorrow Andy  .
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LabVIEWstuff wrote: User Acceptance Testing
It's something that most of us would like to forget.
31.93.107: Check that the field is cleared when the Clear button is pressed.
31.93.108: Check that the drop-down list drops down
31.93.109: Hang yourself in the bathroom, because section 32 is way worse than sections 1-31
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Could be a Leslie, but I can't recall having seen it before:
WTF!
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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Ah. That'll be the Quantum Computing[^] effect.
I've known developers like that (and we get 'em in QA a lot as well).
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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What happened yesterday? Seems like nobody was able to post for hours (I know that I weren't)...
A hamster died and the rest had to go to the funeral?
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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After OG posted his famous 'Thought of the day', hamsters went crazy for 3+ hours... They tried to understand the phrase, but failed again and again...
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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Quote: We busted something
Was all I was told!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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LOL! I got that email too 
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Me too! IIRC mine was "something something busty in your town", you're referring to the same e-mail, right?
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* 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
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Quote: something busty in your town
That sounds more like Katie Price porn spam
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Did they include an offer for little blue pills?
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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No, they esplicitly forbade me to even think of them - I'm troublesome enough without aids.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* 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
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Now that's really a Leslie. Dead and loving it, so to say.
Still, that's only part of the story. It gets really interesting when the WTFs stop and are replaced by 'If I ever meet the idiot who...".
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: Still, that's only part of the story. It gets really interesting when the WTFs stop and are replaced by 'If I ever meet the idiot who...".
I had to test, fix and benchmark about 8kloc of "highly optimized" (teorically, in practice most of the time it wasn't performant) Assembly code (IA32 with full support to SSE up to SSSE3) which was both uncommented and undocumented, written by a guy who resigned years earlier.
That sentence was repeated quite often...
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* 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
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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How does the sentence usually end?
I usually would like to tar and feather him, throw him out of the guild and then out of the city.
Guards! 
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: How does the sentence usually end?
... and have a nice long chat with hims as it must be enlightening to speak with such an obviously alien mind. While beating him to death with a pillow or similar soft implement (it is slow enough to be satisfying).
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* 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
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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CDP1802 wrote: It gets really interesting when the WTFs stop and are replaced by 'If I ever meet the idiot who...".
Especially in my case, where it often turns out that it was the guy in the mirror.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Johnny posted the same below. I just give you the same answer:
We all learn and we are always smarter afterwards. That's not what I meant. To get me that angry, someone must have done something that borders on sabotage. Something that's obviously a very bad idea and is so deeply embedded in the program that simple refactoring will not help to get rid of it.
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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Aye, I also do things like that and then berate me months/years later 
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* 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
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Sure, but something in our own code that later embarrasses us for its dumbnicity, when we've learned more, it'll royally p1ss off anyone who's already got that "extra" knowledge.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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CDP1802 wrote: It gets really interesting when the WTFs stop and are replaced by 'If I ever meet the idiot who...".
I would never dare say that, because with my poor memory, chances are that it's me!
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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