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CHill60 wrote: You've clearly got the knack
I've always said "I want cats instead of children."
Today that dream came true 
Although I could still get children someday and that would kind of ruin it for me... Selfish children ruining my dreams! 
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Definite case of pictures or it didn't happen, you realise! 
Nevertheless, congratulations to Nika on her wise selection. What? You didn't think it was down to you in any way, did you?
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Member 9082365 wrote: Nevertheless, congratulations to Nika on her wise selection. What? You didn't think it was down to you in any way, did you?
I already made the joke that Nika actually brought back her previous owners 
Member 9082365 wrote: Definite case of pictures or it didn't happen, you realise!
Working on it! I'll probably upload a few tomorrow
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Now that you've got a real cat, stop browsing those cat videos on the Internet and save some bandwidth for the Humanity!
I personally don't like cats (or any other pet, for that matter) but it's nice to know you two are getting along.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Agent__007 wrote: Now that you've got a real cat, stop browsing those cat videos on the Internet and
Did you stop browsing pr0n when you got a girlfriend?
I think not!
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Sander Rossel wrote: When I told the care-taker I wanted that cat she was surprised because Nika wasn't so good with people.
The simple truth is: If I am good to the Nika, Nika will be good to me. The fact that she's purring means that she trusts you completely. Getting the trust of an animal is not easy. So,  cat
Addendum: Our cat is sleeping on my lap right now.
modified 20-Aug-15 4:44am.
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Avijnata wrote: If I am good to the Nika, Nika will be good to me.
That's mostly how it is
Avijnata wrote: The fact that she's purring means
That I make the ladies purr in enjoyment
Avijnata wrote: Our cat is sleeping on my lap right now.
That's great! Nika is still a bit shy. Mostly she walks away when I approach her. When I do get to her she let me pet her for about a minute before she goes off again.
She'll be mine in a few days though
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I love both cats and dogs and have plenty of them. The main point with a cat is that it chooses what and who it likes and not viceversa.
While with a dog if you're not abusive and the dog hasn't mental problems you're 100% sure of its affection, while the cat must be won over each day. And it has its spaces too, that you must respect... just like with people 
Good luck with your newly acquired cat
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den2k88 wrote: with a dog if you're not abusive and the dog hasn't mental problems you're 100% sure of its affection
Even some dogs don't like some people for no apparent reason!
den2k88 wrote: Good luck with your newly acquired cat
Thanks
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Gratz! Good to hear you don't need gloves
I did not see a picture of Nika in the link you posted last time?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Nika was there
She was taken from the site yesterday because I took her home
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Sounds logical; nice pictures in your last post
Bastard Programmer from Hell
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Indeed. The cat might like some too! 
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I did, but she seems impervious to its effects!
I think I developed an addiction though
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Fair warning - don't try this on your machine unless you have a VERY recent backup and restore point. I have no idea what Intel thought they were doing, but once you get it installed, it won't leave.
Further, it installs so many elephanting entries in your system PATH, you may very well exceed the 2047 character limit. Apparently, Intel doesn't check.
It's like they are amateurs.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Linky?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I have Visual Studio, gives me the best experience! I don't need to try anything at all. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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That's the odd thing - it's integrated with VS2013. I installed it back in July and forgot about it, silly me. I spent a couple of hours trying to figure out their model - never did really comprehend what they were offering a developer...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: It's like they are amateurs.
Well, what do you expect from hardware guys (and not even hardware, but that voodoo magic of etching millions of nanometer wide traces on thin wafers.)
I figure, they hired a bunch of idiot kids and idiot Java/Ruby/Python developers from third world countries around the world to quilt together something that works for their limited test cases.
I could be wrong though.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I could be wrong though.
"... whatever you're left with, regardless how improbable, must be the truth."
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.. said Mr. Spock
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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(Fresh off my discussion of BubbleSort, I've decided to move on another sort of topic [pun intended].)
It seems to me that there are only 5 really important sorting algorithms, although the others have their place for specific situations. There is BubbleSort (recently discussed) and InsertionSort, the latter of which is typically the best quadratic sort, and that has some use for smaller sizes. And then there are the big 3, QuickSort, MergeSort & HeapSort, which AIUI are generally used for the stable & unstable sorting functions; the unstable one seems to be IntroSort, which generally uses QuickSort, but cleverly figures out if the worst case (or something close) for QuickSort will happen, in which case it does HeapSort instead. My understanding is that QuickSort has the least stochastic expected time, but that it can go to quadratic time for the worst case, and that HeapSort has the fastest worst-case time, but still has a better stochastic expected time than MergeSort, so both are to be preferred, so long as equal-valued entries do not have to be in the same relative order. MergeSort has the least stochastic, and perhaps worst-case time (or at least not too bad of a worst case time), if the relative order of equal-value entries must be preserved, and so is used for stable_sort.
I understand how all of these work, except for HeapSort, which seems to be very complicated. It seems to rely on the fact that the binary heap tree can be automatically mapped to positions in an array, and that comparisons are done between positions that only differ by a single bit, with the result being swapped with the position corresponding to the previous bit. Somehow this simplicity is exploited so that the resultant algorithm is very efficient. I wonder if all but the top algorithm nerds really understand it.
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