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Dean Roddey wrote: With my life... But I assumed he meant customer as in he's a contract programmer and the customer is the company he's writing the code for.
I don't assume; and it's not a very good idea to place yourself in the customers' seat.
Dean Roddey wrote: BTW, I have to report that I don't pay me well, and the benefits suck.
Have you considered threathening yourself with a strike? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Dean Roddey wrote: Am I the only one who uses the 'Chaos Pattern' as a development tool?
No, That's what I do, too. I usually start with an outline in code, perhaps as comments, then start fleshing out and testing as I add pieces.
I tried writing detailed specs first and found it to be a waste of time as I quickly found the need to modify the specs for reason of practical implementation.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I think this is the first time (at this new job) that I worked on SQL batch job doing more than 15 millions INSERTS (and DELETE, and etc...) since the batch import was buggy and I had to recover from many ooopsies..
New record for me!
Arguably I might have done massive SQL in 2008 too.. but I forgot! 
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You'll be playing with the big boys soon enough.
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Yeah! 
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: You'll be playing with the big boys soon enough.
The implications of this statement have certain "Michael Jackson-esque undertones". What are you saying he's been doing until now? 
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What? I thought MJ became famous for playing with himself...
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Well, no. But when he died, he did have so much plastic content in his body, they decided to melt him and make Lego blocks out of him, so now it'd be little boys' turn to play with Michael Jackson.
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Well, I successfullydefended my PHD dissertation today, finally, so now I can officially claim the title of Dr. It only took 8 years thanks to a stroke delay, but it's done, so now I'm trying to figure out what's next.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Congratulations Walt, I know it's been a long time coming but now it's yours...Dr. Fair!
I do all my own stunts, but never intentionally!
JaxCoder.com
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Over here, the Ph.D document is called a dissertation, Thesis is for undergraduate and Masters stuff. My Disertation was "Development of an integrated Reservoir and Operational model for Marginal oil fields.
Basically it was applied math and numerical solution of partial differential equations implemented in C#
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Congratulations Doc!
Now what?
PS: I hope you used a better spell checker for your thesis than the one you used for the subject of this post! 
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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I hope so, too!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Congratulations! Having supported two of my offspring through their PhD's, I have a fair understanding the the sheer foot-slogging grind involved.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Selected a secret lair location yet?
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No, I'd love to go on teaching and further research, I.e Academia, but so far no possibilities have crawled to my doorstep.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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<bugs-bunny-voice>
What's up, Doc?
</bugs-bunny-voice>
Seriously, congratulations!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Congratulations!
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Congratulations Sir! ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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Exceptional! Congratulations, Doctor Fair!
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Well done!
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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My Ph. D is in Petroleum Engineering.
For me, a major accomplishment was standing up for an hour for my defense. That's the longest I've been able to stand since the stroke 5 years ago.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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