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You must sound like me. The steering wheel in my car has been in therapy for years.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Johnny J. wrote: find me at home
I'll let Prince Charming know. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Nice. Every year I dress up as my doppelganger.
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That makes two of you! 
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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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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When a boolean is wrong, are you only off by a bit?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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chicken or beef?
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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That brainteaser gives me a byte!
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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A byte?! You may be more than a bit wrong.
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I'll check-sum references and get back to you on that.
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You're off by a cubit.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That's just details of implementation.
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True!
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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You post such boolsh*t it would be false if I said it was funny.
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In a hour or so I'll go home for the weekend... Then they will start the W10 update process... Look forward to Sunday...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Then they will start the W10 update process
A true Halloween fright night! 
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Don't you prefer a treat instead?
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Quote: Cross your finger
You must have one heck of a finger!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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So - we have done the age thing, so how about the experience thing?
In 1960 I was given a Heathkit EC-1 in kit form by a rich relo. I built it, and then programmed it to solve very simply calculus problems, with the output sent to a Heathkit oscilloscope - it was an analog machine!
Then there was an eight year gap until university, an IBM 1130 and Algol.
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My first experience was a programming class on AppleII probably in the early 80s (1982-ishy ?? )
I remember the class room, it was a bright room, everything smelled new.
And also on Sinclair zx80 at school (but again, I don't remember much).
I'd rather be phishing!
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BASIC on a GE time-sharing teletype with punched paper tape for program storage in 1966.
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Me, too. 110 baud dial-up on paper tape.
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COBOL, gawd help me. On a ICL 1900 running George 3, on punch cards, with operators who actively (and for good reason) hated students. You'd get your deck back with bits of lettuce stuck to them, half of someone else's program upside down, and a core dump two feet thick.
The lecherer (for he was indeed a lecherous sod) allowed three attempts to get your code working: three deck submissions. After that, you lost 10% of available points for each run.
Following term was FORTRAN and a breath of fresh air.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The same guy worked the input/output window at my college. 1979, SPSS programs on punch cards, submitted in shoeboxes. You got your cards back and a stack of green bar printouts. Syntax errors cost you the time to fix and resubmit. Logic errors got you thrown out of the basement.
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