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Curse Points can be converted into Amazon gift cards, though I mostly mod for fun.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Thanks. I've found the job market mostly wants people who have some sort of online presence and I thought, you know what, I could add to my articles on Code Project.
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Mate! Good to see you again.
While you were away the interwebz achieved a level of unprecedented enlightenment and cultural acceptance. Frank and open minded discussions dominated the forums with an earnest desire on both sides to listen to what the other was saying and to understand things from their point of view.
Programming questions dwindled down to a few well thought out and well written nuggets because reading the docs and searching through the vast quantities of published help became the in thing. Answers, by and large, are now succinct, accurate and lacking in both snark and condescension. Obviously the entire rating system is now abandoned because there's really no point if everything is a flat "5/5".
Javascript has finally been abandoned (and who didn't see THAT coming!) and the one true language is back at the top of the heap. We did think of renaming the site to The FORTRAN Project but we had too many CodeProject mugs lying about and didn't want to be wasteful.
Oh, and JSOP's posted a long, heartfelt piece on why peace through arms is an entirely backwards way to look at things and had a metal worker friend turn his pieces into delicate hanging mobiles that, in his words, represent "the inhumanity of man's search for themselves through steel". It's quite an emotionally charged sculpture. Oh, and he brought a Prius.
OK, so maybe some of that is a bit exagerated but you get the gist.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Nice to see you too 
Wish I was taking what you're taking. In my absence, I've had to take restraining orders against people threatening to kill my kids, I've lost Facebook profiles to mass reporting and lost track of all my old school friends, and I've disconnected our home phone to stop the threats. Reason - I got involved in supporting refugees. I recently read a story on internet bullying and most of the things the book talked about in a round about way, I immediately recognised who it was talking about.
Oh, and I try to spend as much time as possible coding in Javascript or Typescript
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Actually Dave filled me in on your travails. When you do something you never do it halfway and for that we respect you. A lot.
Hang in there mate. We're still here doing what we always do and you're always welcome.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Well, thanks, I appreciate that. Work has been a bit quiet and I realised I would love to be involved here again, and maybe write a few new articles (posted one today already!!!)
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Chris Maunder wrote: Oh, and he brought a Prius.
Chris Maunder wrote: any advertising, any trolling, or any abuse of the rules will result in your account being removed...
Just sayin' 
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As long as no one tells @JSOP we're all safe.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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CodeProject told me - you've been hoisted by your own petard.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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*waves*
I've had a Prius for 12 years.....
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Christian Graus wrote: I've had a Prius for 12 years.....
Shush! 
and *waves back* but geez... if jsap finds out... hoo boy...
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S'okay - I use all the gas you guys save.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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This is soapbox material.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Hi!
It appears we both had a "I've not looked at CP in years" moment.
It's almost two years now since we packed up the house into a shipping container and moved to The Netherlands and it's been a big adventure. I'm guessing you're still lying low on facebook after the drama?
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Hey Christian, welcome back !
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Playing around with rPI's, learning more about Linux (and liking it, go figure), 5 months into the new job[^] and loving it (whereas the old job I was hating), winning at poker (Texas Holdem), losing at poker, and wasting time watching Merlin[^] 
Latest Article - A 4-Stack rPI Cluster with WiFi-Ethernet Bridging
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Waiting for you to come back with the latest news about Qantas.
A bloody boring passtime, I've gotta tell ya.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Okay so I came in 3 pages late.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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In time for some of us[^], I'd wager.
I would suspect that there would be no rejection problems, either.
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i want something aftermarket
i think a tail would be productive.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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It's all fine and dandy until the printer runs out of ink, err, um, tissue?
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Quote: The resulting heart is made up of extremely “young” cells, and researchers are now working on a method to “grow” a mature heart.
err, if my heart's worn out why would I replace it with another worn out version? I want the new and shiny one that'll give me another 80+ years.
...hmmm, suddenly I've got a hankering for fresh nuts.
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Oh fer...
"Researchers Succeed in 3-D Printing an Artificial" whatever?
Really?
And what, exactly, is it that's printed on man-made printers that is not "artificial"?
I wish that the 1,073,538,964 Interwebs news sites would considering using writers contributors who know anything at all about the English language!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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