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Customer: A pessimism consultant - what's that?
Me: I tell you the uncomfortable truths you need to hear in order to help you improve
Customer: That doesn't sound useful
Me: You are not ready to improve
Customer: ...
Customer: ...
Customer: ...
Me: Here's my invoice
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But were they ready to pay it?
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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And now you know why the pessimism consult is just that.
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From video to video I hopped and found another gem. Veena Srivani - YouTube
I don't know if her real name is also Veena because the instrument she plays is a Veena.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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lw@zi wrote: Veena Srivani - YouTube
Here in India, I get some of her performance videos as WhatsApp forwards. Really nice.
modified 21-Sep-19 4:51am.
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I found this Youtube channel where the recreate popular music from popular Hollywood films using Indian music instruments. I liked it. See if you do: Tushar Lall - YouTube
I really liked the idea of using apple's siri to add to music.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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_Users_Terminate();
Software Zen: delete this;
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You'll be back, right?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I even have the ancestry and the high school German to be able to do the accent!
Software Zen: delete this;
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Hasta la Vista Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Windows 10, baby!
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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that's going to be unpleasant for the garbage collection.
Message Signature
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How did you know this is a C#/WPF/.NET application?
Software Zen: delete this;
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An old C system I once worked on had a routine abortOrphans() .
veni bibi saltavi
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oh my.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I think that is a paradox.
Or does it require a pair of docs?
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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According to democrats, that's okay (and it's called "full term abortions" now.).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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We once created an object factory whose core function was named GOD - General Object Dispenser.
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I like specificity with wording, so reading this I had to look up whether abort or terminate would be the best word choice.
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Many years ago my team was working with an inherited system based on FoxPro. The original designer had used abbreviated table names like ASS instead of Assignment. A normally straight laced co-worker bust out laughing one day when he had to write a SQL statement "INSERT INTO ASS ..."
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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In a similar tone...
Many years ago, we had a small network of Sun machines. The machine names followed the names of the planets in our solar system. The QA guy (who was a 1st-order asshat) was incensed when he was given the machine named... wait for it... you know it's coming...
Uranus.
Software Zen: delete this;
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My favorite was when I was in printing, there was an old Sun Systems network printing interface that, when shutting down, declared "Killing the orbix daemon."
I loved that line so much, I stole it and built a D&D adventure around it.
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Years ago I implemented a message dispatch function name WhoCares(). It stuck around that way until a coworker added a popup dialog box to it that displayed a tracing message usually written to a log file.
At some point that popup appeared and the customer service folks had kittens over it. Apparently they read it as "we don't care about this", when in reality the WhoCares() function was deciding which routine to pass the message on to, you know "who cares about processing this, I'll pass it on to them". Anyway, the customer service folks didn't have a sense of humor about it and I was forced to change it's name to the innocuous "EventProcessor".
To this day I still refer to it as "WhoCares".
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In a CRM I worked on, had a method that cleaned up sales records,securities and associations for reps, I look at it quite fondly on a regular basis.
KillRep(x)
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my hubby used to work helldesk in college and he said he kept a paperclip around for rebooting the imacs and an icepick around for rebooting their users.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: an icepick around for rebooting their users
Software Zen: delete this;
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