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Now you mention it I'm sure it will get reported, oh well.
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Shouldn't be. That thing is cool. Not sure what I would do with it, but still really cool.  
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
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He now puts the 'Fest' into 'Oktoberfest'[^].
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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I'm still looking for a Dalek themed coffee pot that plays different Dalek voices depending on what's going on.
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| Add Water | HYDRATE | | Start Brewing | PERCOLATE | | Brewing Finished | CAFFINATE |
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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You forgot one:
Decaff EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You will be UpVoted.
You will be UpVoted.
You will be UpVoted.
REPUTATE!
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£150  !
Extortionate! Extortionate!
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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55378008 wrote: DD Where are you?
Why do you ask when you know the answer? Don't you see his blood shot eyes peeking out from the inside of that contraption? 
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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I was reading Cornelius's (@cornelius-henning) post about plugging gaps in his understanding of C# and his story is very similar as mine. I also taught myself how to program 30 or so years ago from Basic, Assembler, Pascal, to C#.
I was wondering, how many here on CP has a similar story? Are you self taught or do you have a CS degree in programming?
(This would probably make a good poll, if it hasn't been done already.)
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
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I have a CS degree, but most of what I know now, I learned by myself in the last 20+ years.
C# did not exist, C++ was far from what it is now, IDE were mostly non existent.
OpenGL was just born (who remember GL).
Unix was still strong and everyone loved X11 and Motif
The web was still gopher and FTP and newsgroups.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Funny, my degree is in Professional Chemistry. I guess it is as valid as the old CS degrees now. 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
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Maximilien wrote: I have a CS degree, but most of what I know now, I learned by myself in the last 20+ years.
Ditto. Every technology I knew when I graduated, or learned during my first few professional years, has long since been superseded.
Which is not to call anything I learned a waste. Everything I learned then was a building block for everything I know now. 
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Donathan.Hutchings wrote: Are you self taught or do you have a CS degree in programming?
To be perfectly honest, what I learnt on my CS degree course all those years ago was ... um ... useless knowledge for the most part. It wasn't until I was out in the real world that I learned how to really program - but since it was a "thin sandwich" course with 6 months Uni, and 6 months industry the transition to "actually able to do it" started at the end of my first year.
I have since always found most "recent graduates" in CS have always be ivory tower b*llsh*t merchants who think they know it all because they can spout the words ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I have since always found most "recent graduates" in CS have always be ivory tower b*llsh*t merchants who think they know it all because they can spout the words
Oh yessssssssssssss! Do I see a lot of that on a daily basis?
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I have since always found most "recent graduates" in CS have always be ivory tower b*llsh*t merchants who think they know it all because they can spout the words ...
I've run into the same type of folks.  The other kind of "programmers" are the ones who studied for the Microsoft Certs and nothing else that drive me crazy. They have the same attitude.
Dilbert - Vast Power Of Certification
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
I have since always found most "recent graduates" in CS have always be ivory tower b*llsh*t merchants...
In my opinion, that's because they learned (about) how to program, not solve problems. Two very different things. By using the former, you only know how to manipulate the problem to adhere to the computer languages you know. If, however, you know how to solve the problem, the computer languages you know are irrelevant (i.e., any one of them will do).
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Self taught.. worked my way through Commodore machines from 1981 (VIC-20, C64, Amiga A500). Stuck with just Windows for a while, then ventured into Mac and Linux. Still try to keep learning new stuff as much as I can 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
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Similar... Commodore PET - BASIC then Assembler, then C64.
College was VAX/VMS BASIC, VAX/VMS Assembler, COBOL, PASCAL, RPG...
Then I hit the working world and started using VAXVMS FORTran and FMS (forms).
Self taught on VB and largely stayed there.. when I have to program, its VB.NET now.
Largely administer OSISoft tools, so not a lot of programming.
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I remember using VAX at college for COBOL programming. BASIC was where I lived for quite a few years, although I did tinker with machine code on the VIC-20 and C64. The Amiga had enough BASIC compilers to live without assembler
I've done C# for the longest period but there's been C, C++, VBScript, VBA, Pascal (at school), various versions of BASIC, a weird language called Omnis, a proprietary one called Protel, Swift, a bit of Java every now and again, plus all the usual javascript and CSS frameworks.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
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Cool! A Commodore guy.  I started on the Tandy machines. My first was the TRS-80 MC-10. I checked out a book called "100 games in Basic" and typed every one of those things in. The tough part was on the MC-10, you had to use a pencil to type on the keyboard, because the keys were so small. 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
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Yeah, Commodore were sensible enough (perhaps because of their typewriter experience) to put a half-decent keyboard on their machines. The Sinclair computers were capable machines but the keyboards were (IMO) awful.
Funnily enough, I've recently bought both a Commodore Amiga (A1200 this time around) and a Commodore C64. It's weird using them again, although I have to say that using the Commodore 64 again gave me a bit of a warm feeling. With the Amiga, I'd originally had the A500 with Workbench 1.2/1.3 - the newer version on the A1200 isn't as nice.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
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I soldered together my first computer and wrote machine language programs almost 15 years before I ever started to study anything.
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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Wow! That is hardcore! 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
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It just means that I had to finish school first and then did not want to see a school for a while. That's why I signed up for an outfit that calls itself 'Luftwaffe' for a few years.
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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