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Do you get an honorary degree for putting up with, (ahem) I mean using their products for 30 years? 
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Adding MSPDDS would make my email signature the longest in the group; not counting the disclaimer.
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Yet more money going the way of yet another fairly useless piece of paper.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft Professional Degree in Data Science.
FTFY: Must Prattle about Dreadfully Dull Stuff.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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"For now you can only get BMP". 
BBS = Beta Microsoft Professional.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Linus Torvalds has launched an epic, yet entertaining, rant against Linux kernel maintainers over their use of syntax in code comments. I always look forward to his nuanced and rational arguments
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Linus is a asswipe, but he's also correct (in this instance). I personally prefer the C++ style:
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I use C++ comments for actual comments.
I use C style comments for commenting out stuff.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: I use C style comments for commenting out stuff.
I just delete the offending code and let source control do it's job.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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This is only ever employed while investigating issues. I remove such offences well before checking in. Commented out code under source control is, without doubt, an abomination.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Nuanced or not, that dude should run for president!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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megaadam wrote: Nuanced or not, that dude should run for president!
Not being born in the USA, he can't stand for President of the USA. And why would he want to become President of Finland?
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
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They just have to change the constitution! So wot!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I think this, when I went to that site, pretty much sums up what I think and care about Linus and Linux:
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Marc
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SteveKing wrote: Read it here, without adblock-restrictions:
Thanks! It was too late at night to go searching.
Hah! I agree with him!
Marc
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After incrementally blocking all js on the site up to and including jquery I was able to get the plain text from the source to be displayed without munging.
OTOH before I went nuclear I domain blocked several 3rd parties I wasn't sure what they did. Thuggish anti-adblocking attempts only manage to shoot all your sites partners in the foothead because I've got better things to do than to start rolling back various blocks that might not have actually been needed. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Linus Torvalds wrote: I'm sure that looks really nice if [...] have nothing better to do than to worry about the right alignment of the asterisks.
I really see only one person worrying about it 
You'd think he'd see the irony?
In my opinion the best comment is no comment. And if every developer stuck to it this whole discussion would be moot 
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Linus Torvalds may be a driven, motivated technological genius, but where he fails so spectacularly is as a decent human being. I wrote a blog[^] about his behaviour only recently.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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A blog written at 2AM nonetheless (according to the timestamp)... 
Think he gets to be that way because in the open source community, there are a lot of people that may not know what they're doing yet they're trying to give feedback (report bugs, fix bugs, add features). Although you may think he's only discouraging work, I think it's probably because you can only get so many bogus emails from developers-to-be before you lose your cool. Give the guy the benefit of the doubt, he may have just gone through volumes of lousy emails before he lost his cool on someone. I can't even imagine how many emails he gets every day.
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Albert Holguin wrote: Give the guy the benefit of the doubt
He's had plenty of that given to him over the years, yet he continues to behave the way he does. As I said in my blog, he's lost top talent from his behavior and been sidelined by parts of the technology community.
And if he can't take the pressure from the workload, then there are plenty of other people who would share it with him.
There is NO excuse for behaving like a total jerk.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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It takes me back to when I wrote in COBOL. Comment blocks preceded paragraphs that awere to be kept to 50 lines or less, comment marks slewed each paragraph to the top of page on hardcopy, and horizontal tabs (HT characters) right-aligned asterisks for the right wall of the box. Given monochromatic and mono-type source editing and printing, a comment box was a useful construction. They were also where your versioning notes were placed.
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