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To spend more hours in sleeping - honestly. I really experienced this accelerates my coding skills
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Work in a "no-landscape" quiet office … 
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The TLDR is I need a bigger desk to take my current 2x 20" 1200x1600 monitors flanking a 32" 4k one and replace one of the side screens with the 30" 2560x1600 display that used to be my primary. Higher still is possible; from prior experience I don't see myself being able to put 4 displays to good use at once. Unfortunately my 1600p is a decade old and thus DVI only and will probably be forced into retirement when I upgrade my GPU because Dl-DVI to HDMI/DP is an expensive buggy garbage fire (the $20 dongles won't work at all even if they claim the resolution, and the $70-120 ones are buggier than the code posted to QA); if that happens I'll have to buy a 2nd 4k monitor to replace it for 8880x2160.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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I resolved to make french macaroons this year. I think this can actually be accomplished.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Should have been the top option!
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The trouble with people,
is that they want to hear only what they want to hear.
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I went there, too.
If I get a chance, I'll try to remember if I got around to getting around to it.
Someday, if you have the time, you can reply.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Yeah, me... ooh look, a squirrel!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Having just learned how to make a bed with a cat in it, I'm ready to
try another new skill.
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step 1. put cat into bed.
step 2. make bed.*
*see instructions on make bed.
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how to make a bed with a cat in it...
carefully...oh so very carefully...
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Actually it's more like:
Step 1: Remove cat from bed
Step 2: Grab the bed linnen firmly with one hand with the intention of making the bed while trying to keep the cat on the floor with the other hand...
Step 3: Repeat steps 1 and 2 infinitely until the cat gets tired and falls asleep somewhere else
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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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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VE2 wrote: how to make a bed with a cat in it
Try making a bed with a greyhound in it... 
My house. Every single morning.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Since the classic New Year resolution is to loose weight, I was expecting to see a resolution to hunt down and delete dead and unused code. 
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Last June I said, alright that does it, I wanna play the fiddle too. I'm an old accomplished lead guitar player, how hard could it be.
Well, I bought an cheap cheap electric violin nobody could hear and have been at it since then and got a new nice bow for Christmas and an acoustic violin but that's too LOUD for squeaky scratchy me, so it's in it's case till I get better. I spent the whole Christmas season playing Christmas hymns because they are slow legato and right in my wheel house. But last night I was able to do a genuine fiddle turn around lick, so onward and upward.
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I've spent the last few days writing my CV and a candidature.
After 10 years (!!) of ranting that new boss finally did what no one else accomplished before: get me past the point of looking for another job.
*starting rant mode*
Just imagine your software gets some payload (image) from a hardware device (camera) via ethernet. Sometimes that payload gets lost on the wire and you've spent the last five months collecting evidence it's the wire and not your software (yeah, where I work, it's always the software's fault). On your way proving you added a information called “timestamp“ to the collected data from that device (and found it nice the device offers such debugging information).
Unfortunately the documentation says it's an integer, that timestamp, but you see soon enough, it should have been a long as in your little C# reality (accessible via logfile) it's a long number constantly toggling sign. You think who cares, it's equidistant, the device works fine. You leave it like this. In your source code.
Now imagine your new electrotechnician boss who at some point in university had a C lesson. (Hint: RUN).
He looks into your logfiles (!) using grep (!!!). Who would have known, he doesn't understand the results o.O So he let's you explain line by line step by step what that logfile tries to say.
Two damn long hours later he knows why you're losing information o.O o.O o.O
There are bits falling over!!! (Original quote new boss)
Damn, how could I have missed that. Sure I'm losing information from that hardware device, as I'm taking some additional debugging information from the RAM of the PC (where it already is) and write it on .NET into the wrong data type - for sure it moves back in time and space back onto the wire where it knocks down all my precious payload. How could I have missed that?!
My cynical comment that I could simply remove that timestamp from the log went unnoticed - as well as all my other cynical comments in the last weeks :-/ So he stood in my back whilst I had to change that int to a long and do a rollout (stopping 8 running industry machines à 10 minutes).
Just imagine - the problem didn't go away! What a surprise!
So he spent the next days (<- plural) letting me explain (in pictures) what would have been my next steps (increase IP packet size of payload to get a stabler connection)
Then several days explaining him the source code (“I'm not interested in what Michael coded, I want to see your code - so where is that image in your code?“ - ending up at Michaels desk because he didn't understand what “my“ code does because it, well, uses Michaels code)
Then all in all after two weeks getting the hint from Michael (“yesterday he asked me where in that source code are those IP packets you're always talking about“ *AAAAAHHHH*)
(And that was just a summary, he has been plaguing me eight weeks by now)
*ending rant mode*
Tl;dr: So finally I'm leaving. YAY!
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Good Luck in your search
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I would love to rid myself of SSRS web reports! Tables rule!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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... to not make resolutions, and so far I have kept it.
In fact, I can no longer make any new year resolutions, for fear of generating a paradox (or even a pair'o'doxies) which could easily tear apart the whole fabric of the space time continuum.
And if I did that, Herself would make me clean up the mess.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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So, I was wondering about a resolution to not make resolutions.
Does resolution language allow recursion? (Post in Q&A ?)
I am quite sure it has garbage collection.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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. . . mmmmm . . . OK . . . I considered checking 'not procrastinating' as soon as I have a chance to get around to it.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I thought about upgrading my 30" Dell, but then thought do I really need it......it still works fine, so I'm staying on 2560x1600 for the time being. Although I have got a spare 46" LCD tv now in my office, so will maybe sling a cable into it as a secondary display. The previous tenant also left a 32" LCD in the villa, so will maybe see if it works as well!
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DaveAuld wrote: 2560x1600
Now I have resolution envy. 
/ravi
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