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I'm a retired professional remodeler which involves a rigorous understanding and practice in the science that is procrastination. 
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Teach us almighty wise one... 
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The first lesson is to have a plausible excuse.
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Dog ate my material list?
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Quote: a rigorous understanding and practice in the science that is procrastination
That sounds like a great working title for an article. When can we expect to see it?
.... Is it gone yet" .... Is it gone yet" .... Is it gone yet" .... Is it gone yet" .... Is it gone yet"
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TnTinMn wrote: That sounds like a great working title for an article. When can we expect to see it?
Tomorrow!
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Or quite possibly the day after that... 
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TBD
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But you will probably tell me the same thing tomorrow.
....Is it soup yet? ....Is it soup yet? ....Is it soup yet? ....Is it soup yet? ....Is it soup yet?
I figure you should understand that quasi-cultural refernce.
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TnTinMn wrote: ....Is it soup yet? ....Is it soup yet? ....Is it soup yet? ....Is it soup yet? ....Is it soup yet?
Like when my kids were young and we would take a trip;
Are we there yet...Are we there yet...Are we there yet...Are we there yet...Are we there yet...
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My response to that is always 5 min.
David
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Mike Hankey wrote:
I'm bad about getting started but once I do I go to the end.
That would make a good fortune cookie:
"You're bad about getting started but once you do, you go to the end."
Especially when you apply the traditional ending to all fortune cookies. 
Marc
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Does it usually rain under the house? Or just under the laundry room? 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Well the pipes are leaking in the laundry room so I would say there're isolated showers.
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This Christmas you may find yourself at gunpoint, forced to dress up like a prize twat for a festive party. While the same costumes are available for both men and women, there are some distinct differences…
Sean will be wearing #7, so don't read past #6.
speramus in juniperus
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Talking to Carlo around a QA question, and I got to thinking: we have had good computing ideas which we later realise were really stupid and tried to forget. So: here are two of mine for your delectation. Please, forgive me - I was rather young when I came up with these two 
1) Compressing data by searching the output of a random number generator to find the where the actual data is generated. You could then send the seed value and offset as the compressed data, and regenerate the file from that.
2) Generating software by evolution: introduce random mutations in the binary file, and select the "best" working programs for round two. The idea being that you hammer together any old code which "sort of works" and the "breed" it to become perfect.
So: You come up with any examples in your career? 
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My current project is descending fast into "Kill The Designer" territory.
speramus in juniperus
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Um. Didn't you design it?
Kamikaze Koding again, are we?
[edit]Gah! "did" for "didn't" - IdiotGriff[/edit]
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It would be rude of me to take all the credit.
But it is mine and mine alone.
speramus in juniperus
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At 14 I send MIT the idea, that any binary number (2^n) can be presented as a b&w image. So running a loop from 0 to 2^n for a large n will give us meaningful images. We can see even pictures never taken...
For instance the number 7,349,940,589,383,007,744, presented on a 8x8 matrix gives the ä letter as was in the C64.
I'm still looking for the computer power to run such loop on really big numbers...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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Build a 10x super zip tool by repeatedly zipping the output 10 times. This happened when I did not have an understanding of how compression works and thought of it as similar to physically compressing a bunch of cotton
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I programmed an endless loop in one of my synchronization Service.
If a value couldn't be inserted the Programm added +1 to the index.
Well done exception handling!
The error was not the index it was something else.... -> endless loop
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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OriginalGriff wrote: Generating software by evolution: introduce random mutations in the binary file, and select the "best" working programs for round two. The idea being that you hammer together any old code which "sort of works" and the "breed" it to become perfect.
I tried that in a couple ways on a C64 -
First, just replacing opcodes with randomly generated ones.
Second, poking random values at various random ports, especially the video and sound chips. Lots of fun, that one!
Marc
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One I wish I'd pursued...
We used to record data a bit at a time on audio tape, with lousy density. I mentioned to the PhD I worked for at the University that I thought that I might improve data density by forming a different note for each byte value to be recorded, and he told me that it was physically impossible to save more data on the tape. Him being a Dr. of Physics and me a 1st EE student, I didn't argue it, and forgot the idea. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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