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Usually, "carved in stone".
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Here[^]
Similar to "etched in stone" or that you are carving the stone, not casting the stone.
Marc
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: There are many ways to work with stone, but the amount of heat needed really prohibits casting it.
Would that not be cast of stone?
Cast in stone implies to me that the stone is the mold, and something else is cast in it.
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That's even worse - imagine trying to make the cope and drag from stone - they'd weigh a ton, and the mould itself would have to be really simple as it would need to be carved.
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I'm glad you did
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: using all my life* ... *ish
- since otherwise I'd have to assume you were using a ghost writer from the grave - it always strikes me as 'odd' people say 'all my life' when they mean 'all my life so far/up to this point in time'
(maybe I'm too old/weird for this place)
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Yes indeed - and by definition, nobody can achieve their life long ambition, unless that ambition involved their demise.
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I sometimes think it is the most important environment of all. However, some...most, don't. Yet they want me to pull great things out of my arse. I tell them, I can't shoot fireworks and daisies out of my arse without a proper functioning dev environment.
WTF, Bilbo!! 
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Pretty addicted to Visual Studio, myself. If I have to work on a language that's not natively supported, like PHP, I get an add-on like VS.PHP. I even bought the addon for Arduino development because the one that comes with it sux.
Having to learn a new environment's operation, look and feel is a distraction is why, I guess.
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I was going more for inconsistent data in the databases, under-performing servers, etc...
BTW, I hope you are using Visual Studio in a development environment, versus let's say, production. 
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Ah, I see...when you say 'development environment', to me it means the software you use to write and test code 
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DaveX86 wrote: o me it means the software you use to write and test code
To me that is a tool, not an environment.
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Ah well, to each his own...when I started programming we used MS DOS Edit and command line compiler to build it...and it was a luxury compared to using MS DOS Edlin, which was a luxury over BASIC on Radio Shack TRS-80
From that perspective, Visual Studio is an all in one development environment because you never have to leave it.
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We often moan about VS don't we (slow, bloated...)? And then occasionally we encounter something similar and find it's even worse.
Kevin
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After working years (too many) with outdated bcb6 (Borland c++ Builder 6), I'm fascinated from VS.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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"Here is a screwdriver, now go cut that plank in two."
Pretty damn important I'd say. The quality of the tools and environment has definitely an impact on the quality of the endresult.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: the tools and environment has definitely an impact on the quality of the endresult.
Exactly.
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Unclear. I think the other responders assume you mean "IDE", but that's not how I read it. Please edit and clarify your post.
I, myself, have worked a few times with only a production environment and it was fine. Lesser developers would have run screaming.
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The ashtray next to my keyboard was once deemed a piece of the equipment we could not do without.
So, they were replaced with potted plants. Works equally well as an ashtray ofcourse, but the plants usually die after a day or two.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Then you would be one who takes his laptop to a "gentlemen's club" and works from there?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: and works from there?
No, I don't work when I'm there.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Now if only I could get my hands on some firmware... 
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Another one of those "scale of the universe" thingies, this time in terms of what Earth music you'd pick up at different distances:
http://lightyear.fm/[^]
When you get to the end, there's a nice illustration of exactly how far our culture has spread.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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No wonder aliens are staying away from us!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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If this music is evidence of intelligent life, the interstellar FCC should be on the way to shut our down our transmitters.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
modified 19-Jul-15 4:32am.
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It's all wrong. I wouldn't be listening to any of those songs if I could avoid it - except a couple perhaps.
I didn't wait until the end of time - how far out does it go?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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