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What is a benefit in our line of work is that as long as someone is paying attention it is impossible to for someone to fake the funk.
You either are the surgeon, or the patient, but not both.
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Slacker007 wrote: surgeon, or the patient
I thought it was dog or fire hydrant.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I thought it was dog or fire hydrant.
You are most likely correct. I was trying to be clever and witty but that is clearly not on the docket for today. 
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I'm the fire hydrant, but I've been electrified.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Then it's good thing I can't produce a laminar flow.
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You old dog, you!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Then it's good thing I can't produce a laminar flow.
I doubt a fire hydrant is designed to do that either. Put the flow in a slightly inclined trough and you could produce one too.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I thought it was dog or fire hydrant.
Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue!!
Sometimes you get the elevator... usually you get the shaft!!
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My advice would be: "Do your job properly, and keep paying people who can do other jobs properly".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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codejet wrote: My advice to all owners of all small software development firms ; have some idea of what technologies and programming languages your employees are using
Depends on the level of his/her involvement. If my boss isn't coding, I'd rather have him stay out of it altogether than have him "know enough to be dangerous".
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codejet wrote: My advice to all owners of all small software development firms ; have some idea of what technologies and programming languages your employees are using to make all those products that bring in all that money for you.Dont emabarass yourself!
Myself I prefer that they have a great deal of knowledge about how to sell the product and hire those that can also sell it. And that they are successful in both of those.
And then stay out of my way and make sure I get paid.
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I tell my boss the reason I took the team to c# was so he would no longer understand the syntax and could not interfere! Works too, he gets horribly frustrated when he peers over the shoulder of one of the developers and can't understand the syntax.
The real reason is that there is more support for c# on the interwebs!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I worked on a small team that had a boss like that.
Our worse nightmare was to walk in on Monday morning and see the boss's sleep-deprived face.
"I just got a new feature almost working this weekend, I am sure that one of you can finish this off by lunch time."
Meanwhile, various interactions broke four other modules in the system.
Aarrgh!
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A useful DotNet error handling structure that you could have explained to him in five minutes.
I dislike when 'knowledge of particular language syntax' is confused with 'programming ability'.
It's like if Einstein asked you what some english word meant, so you assume he is an idiot.
I wonder who is designing the GUI, and defining the functionality of your application.. eg all the stuff that can be done before you start typing code... eg 90% of the software design.
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I would have explained to him had he asked. I am not bragging about my programming abilities. I honestly think my boss is a better programmer than me. However he is so out of touch with how I do what he instructs me to do . I am 100% comfortable with this....i think my job is very secure. He should just stop disturbing me thats all. I would explained to him the syntax in 5 minutes but that would have encouraged him to continue disturbing me.
By the way I do not think your Einstein analogy is appropriate for this situation.
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codejet wrote: I do not think your Einstein analogy is appropriate for this situation.
I doubt there was any comparison to Einstein directly, everyone has blind spots where they aren't the best and that analogy seemed appropriate to me here.
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Perhaps you just need a programing language with layman's syntax:
fish
{
...
}
catch(e)
{
...
e.release()
}
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...has any body seen Mi KeHunt?
Just rang the insurance mob cause the car runs out of registration in 12 minutes and I need over priced private Compulsory Third Party insurance as part of it.
The pucking wankers close their phone service at 22:00. Don't these bell ends understand that there are people in third world countries that will work around the clock so people like me can call after they have finished work. Now I have to wait until 07:00 to call up again and tell some twat they are a Mike Hunt. Then I have to hope to get them to give it to me quickly and for closer to $500.00 and not the $889.49 their stupid online quote site provided. I mean I then have to pay anoth $339.00 on top for the registration part. Compehensive insurance is another $800.00+ per year.
Bought the car for $5,000.00 and pay close to $2,000.00 per year every year just top be able to drive it. That don't include mainenance or running costs (Can anyone say more than $4,000.00 per year in petrol and it's only a 2.5l engine).
I'm not sure how I am going to manage to have 2 cars insured with 2 different insurance companies in another 30 years and drive both in to 20+ luxury cars and write them off so I screw said companies over and feel like I have almost broken even with them on costs.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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You lost me around pucking wankers, but I take it you're upset?
Try Hovercraft for Android, voted "a game" by players.
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ONLY 2,5l? Maybe that's the problem in the first place?
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Insurance is always a rip off, but be thankful you aren't young: the average cost in the UK for a 17 year old on a small, slow heap is £1096 per year - rising a LOT if you live in an awkward location or get any speeding or similar offences...that's AUS$ 2019 just for the basic insurance...on top of that is road tax and such like. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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To insure both cars cost less than £800 for fully comp. 
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Mine works out at £201.39 fully comp, with protected no-claims (9 years - before that it was all motorcycle insurance and they wouldn't transfer the no claims years from that).
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ha I can beat that,
Both cars together < £400
Bike ~ £180
But then I live in the arse end of the universe where you only ever see tractors and not the Chelsea ones either...
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I'm Italian, I have a 0.9L car, I have inherited the best merit rank (It grows better each year without collisions, there are 18 of them and the 1st is the cheapest - means you drive since 20 years without collisions) from my parents thanks to a pretty new law AND I pay 500 € (roughly 750$) a year.
AND gasoline costs 1.6 € (approx 2,5 $) per liter. Plus, my 14-years-old car costs no less than 2500 €, so approximately 3800$.
Yes, I know something... and as a programmer my wage is about 1800$/month...
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