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Always nice to know that what you spend time working on is actually useful to someone.
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My company hosted a conference for our resellers and demanding customers, and we gave presentations on what's new and great with the software we create. (Answer - everything, especially the bits I wrote  )
After the intro, I gave the first presentation. I felt like I did an OK job at best - bad pacing at the start, forgot some highlights along the way, so I had to go back and fill in gaps - but afterwards I had great feedback. Aboout a third of the attendees came up and complimented me on it. They're not going to come up and tell me I sucked (OK, one might), but they didn't need to say nice things.
Partly bragging, but mostly pointing out how perspective can be really different about the same event.
Iain.
ps, the company I work for now asked me to come and talk about working for them on the strength of my codeproject presence. Be nice, and write helpful articles, and Karma works! That was a fun backwards interview. "So, tell me why I should come and work for you..."
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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I've done that on more than one occasion, it does your self belief a lot of good when you think it was bad and yet you receive praise. On Saturday, as an example, there was the family party at Mrs Wife's work and the kids did lots of little acts - singing, poetry, music and my Ickles did a puppet show. After they were done they sat down next to me, close to tears, worried that they'd got it all wrong. This was in contrast to the comments afterwards, when everyone said it was great and for many the best part of the day. I thought they were very good - but they are mine - and some could have praised them because Mrs Wife is the boss, but on the whole I think the praise was genuine.
speramus in juniperus
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Congratulations, Iain !
"What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts.
Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Don't call me babe!
Which movie?
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- ...You called me Babe.
- I did? When?
- Just now.
- Babe... I guess I did.
- Babe...
(No connection...)
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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The Story of George Herman Ruth? 
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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... when she is waiting in the car.
It took so long to get this far...
(OK, I know it's babY, but now I can't get the tune out of my head).
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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"Pig in the City III: The Revenge"
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A: Where will you go now, B?
B: Well, I hear Paris is nice this time of year.
A: Mind if I tag along with you?
B: Don't mind.
A: I do believe I'm falling in love.
B: Get in line!
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modified 19-Nov-18 21:01pm.
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Rambo : First blood
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Babe
"WAKE UP, NEO."
"THE MATRIX HAS YOU..."
"FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT".
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Dirty Dancing
speramus in juniperus
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Silvio & Ruby.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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"Sonny & Cher - The Aftermath"
(yes|no|maybe)*
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I have a great job right now - putting together a recommendation for a new laptop for me. It needs to be able to do 4 hours of REAL work, not this "light use fluff", have high res, enough space for multiple versions of VS, and a VM or two, and be portable.
I have my eyes on the 512Gb SSD version of this:
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/ideapad/yoga/yoga-2-pro/[^]
Any other recommendations? As I'm the main GUI writer in the small company I work for, I want to have touch and hi-dpi on one of my machines, just to make sure our software will play nicely with them - and I miss my laptop from 5 years ago that had 1900 x 10something...
The price of the Yoga above is making my boss wince a little, but not refuse, so no $3000 swiss made gold plated ones please...
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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It doesn't look like it has touch, which is a point against - not a deal breaker though. I'll see if it's available here for my list.
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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It does have touch....
Does the second word in the opening title not give it away, or the whole section on the touch capabilitites....
The touch Ultrabook™ with stunning...
Incredible
Touch
Technology with a human touch
Zenbook UX301 is wonderfully tactile, but that goes well beyond just the feel of its sleek, smooth and durable glass design. Windows 8 is designed with touch in mind and a dedicated ASUS Human Computer Interface team help make it even more intuitive to use with features like a responsive multi-touch display, and a large touch pad with multi-touch support. The backlit keyboard with automatic brightness control also means you'll always have a clear view of the keys, so you can stay productive, even in complete darkness. So whichever way you like to work, Zenbook UX301 has you covered.
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That'll teach me to not just immediately press the "specs" button, and scroll down instead.
Defo on the investigate list then.
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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