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marriage ? 
still ongoing … Mindless masochistic stupidity … 
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I can remember two occasions where I was forced to work very hard over several days, and even through the night.
In the first case the night shift was required because an unsalvagably damaged TeX file forced me to rewrite ~70 pages full of formulas (and a minor amount of text) based on a recent printout.
In the second case it was due to our company unexpectedly failing at an attempt to extend our deadline (IIRC the main reason for our problems was a constant influx of change requests from the client).
Other than that I was lucky enough to enjoy rather sane working hours. There were certainly spikes of work, but none so critical to have left a permanent impression in my mind.
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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I spent 2000 hours over a 2 year period writing a Fortran program with just myself for design and coding. A total redesign of an existing mess. It was fun at the outset. Lots of second guessing and loneliness in the middle. Please make it stop at the end.
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That just gave me FORTRAN flashbacks. I feel your pain.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: FORTRAN
Now there's the sign of an old hand, when you still spell it in upper case like God intended.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Amen, brother.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I have put in quite a few 48 hour stretches working on resolving very complex issues... 
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Chris Maunder wrote: What's the worst you've pushed yourself through?
It's a continuing saga! 
Currently it's a new reporting app that my non-coding senior partner has dreamed up. She calls me multiple times a day to see where I'm at on it. As long as I continue to make progress, I can keep the beatings nagging whining to a minimum.
To be honest, I've not entirely 'bought in' to this project and it's being done with a new set of widgets, so a bit of a learning curve involved. Luckily, they're really good widgets and really well documented. (actually, one of our sponsors)
I know what you mean though about getting through a process that is tedious and lasts more than a week or so. I just went through a rebranding of a winforms app having close to 100 screens. It wouldn't have been that hard except the designer chose a gradient background and image that required visiting each screen and moving things around to accommodate the new design. The hard part is getting started...once you have a routine, a rhythm, and a purpose it's just about getting it done...and hopefully, a better product for all the effort. At least it makes the time go faster!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I was one that thought social media had turned people into zombies (sure looks like it, almost run more than a few over)
but now that there's millions that use sm as their sole source of information (if not sole form of interaction),
would switching sm off make people into e-zombies?
"brains brainsss" ...--> "phones fffphoneees"
stay safe, be smart: buy shotguns, not smartphones.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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I just bought a new smartphone, and I'm not a eZom... ooo shiny ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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lopatir wrote: (if not sole form of interaction),
That is exeactly my impression - that quite a few people has sm (that abbreviation had a different meaning a few years ago!) as their sole form of interaction.
I have a number of "friends" who, when we sit down for a cup of coffee or a beer, put their smartphone on the table before the cup/glass is there, to dive into som SM app. I don't need to say a word. In fact, it disturbs them. First I have to make some sound to catch their attention, and then, what I say must be more interesting than what the smartphone provides. Especially one of my friends never care to let me speak the sentence to the end before he interrupts me with some "uhuh"-like sound and dives into his phone again. His social obligation was fulfilled by looking up.
I no longer invite people to come to me to see that movie I was talking about (I have got a decent projector and movie room): Three out of four times, my invitation is met with: "I can probably find it on Netflix myself". A friend of mine really wanted to read a book that I own; I said he could borrow my copy. But no: He never read paper books any more, so if I couldn't provide a digital copy, he would try to find it on some book streaming service.
Being digital and internet isn't enough: At least two of my friends do have email addresses, but check their inbox biweekly, at most every week. If something is urgent, it has happened that I send them an SMS to ask if they have any comments. The standard answer is "I have looked at it, but haven't had time to study it closely". Yeah, right. Both have zero understanding for my rejection of FB.
Twenty years ago, there was a Swedish youth movie marketed internationally as "Show me love" (the original title, "F**ing Åmål", was not acceptable in the free and liberal USofA). This was when the most advanced mobile phones had polyphonic ring tones, but the teenage boys were extremely fascinated them, comparing ring tones and thickness and lenght and games and whathaveyou. A really funny episode is when one of the girls makes repeated tries to catch the attention of her boyfriend, but he is so immersed in comparing mobiles that he ignored the girl completely. So she gives up, walks over to the fixed-line phone, in the same room, and calls him up. To that he responds! - and she breaks up with him over the phone 
20 years ago, that was really funny. Nowdays: That's the way you do it, isn't it? Except that you use FB or some other SM thing, rather than an old style phone.
Sometimes I say to myself that maybe "sm" is not redefined that much (as seen from an old-style "human values" point of view).
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I had a friend who claimed she stripped naked and stood in front of her boyfriend in order to distract him for a few moments from his phone. He got interested in her and things were looking better but then his phone dinged and he went back to look at it! She got dressed, left and has never spoken to him since.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Smart girl...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Is a "Reserved" restaurant table just for really shy people?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Possibly a restaurant table used by outgoing folks that sent all their food back?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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perhaps they are having seconds...? 
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ahh, more strange English:
re-served? served again?
if they haven't showed up yes shouldn't it be pre-served?
... which may also explain why they haven't shown if that refers to the customers
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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lopatir wrote: why they haven't shown if that refers to the customers
Motörhead[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Eh, I've got one confirmed case about that far away from me as well.
Think about it this way. You'll either get it or you won't. If you do get it you'll either die or you won't. With the mortality rate, odds are you'll be fine even if you do end up with it. Live your life, don't panic, be responsible, so on so forth.
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RJOberg wrote: don't panic
Well, unless not doing a damned thing about it is panicking, it's reasonably possible that I'm not.
Anyway, can't stop, I have to find a bogroll wholesaler.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yeah. And when you think "it's a 3% death rate" that's kinda understandable. When you rephrase that to "225,000,000 people will die" it becomes rather more serious ... same figures, different way to look at them.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I thought that the world's greatest expert on everything said that the mortality rate is well below 1%.
We have to trust the words of our great leaders -- they wouldn't be elected unless they were completely beyond reproach.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I refer the honorable gentleman to our earlier conversation: The Lounge[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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