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Hi All,
I said the infamous phrase 'I know a bit about that' at a standup (or sit down, as I always do to be awkward). So that has promoted me to Fibre Optic expert who knows all the connectors, bend radius, data rate and most scary a fusion welder. What I meant was I have used fibre optics in the past for serial data lines and have laid them in existing trunking. They were expecting Autocad designs of trunking that could be built! Warning for new players! 
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Could never happen to me. There is not a snowballs chance in hell that I would volunteer ANY information about what I can an cannot do. That can ONLY lead to more work. 
The only possibilty of hearing me volunteer for something is when the issue has already - irrevocably - been assigned to somebody 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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Johnny J. wrote: That can ONLY lead to more work
Or your boss realizing you have value. 
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New contractor trying to make a good impression, with the task I was assigned complete faster than they were thinking...
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Oh my ... a fusion welder ...  I can help with that as I had a lot of practice with it while doing some fibre optic research many moons ago. This was fun ... But, Autocad design of trunking is not my cup of tea, I must admit ...
modified 2-Mar-21 9:26am.
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Haven't seen it yet, sounds like a prop from Star Trek, "Scotty, put that Trible down and get the fusion welder"!
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sounds futuristic indeed ...
modified 2-Mar-21 9:44am.
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Where I worked in the late 90s I became the go-to person for custom serial cables.
That's about the limit of my ability to do hardware work.
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I have often stated, "a little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing." It has a related corollary, "what ever you do, don't admit to having what ever little bit of knowledge you have." That's where the danger comes in as you found out.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Don't be the person who knows who how to get thing A talking to thing B if you are not on the project, You are hounded to death by other teams, who can't be bothered to read the document you wrote on thing A talking to thing B as they 'just don't have time' to waste (by that reasoning you are merely playing minesweeper and nothing else)  .
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Yes, I've been there too. It's very, very annoying.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Hear granny's legs the wrong way around? (11)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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"WITH 'ER SHINS" I suspect. But only after you pointed it out ... I completely missed the "LEGS"-"SHINS" connection. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I think the "hear" part makes it a Homophone indicator, so it may be the other spelling. I quickly searched, "withershins" is the "opposite", whereas the other spelling is "wrong way around".
I don't want to swoop on this as I think Greg did all the hard work.
edit:
Ignore me, answer got posted while I was typing.
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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Yep. I'd also accept WIDDERSHINS (widow...)
Have a free gift of Wednesday!
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Let's say you had a genie in a bottle that could make your daily developer life slightly better. What would it be?
I think about this a regularly and it's not necessarily things like "A better IDE" or "a faster computer". Often it's things like
- A TODO list that thinks like I do
- A means of managing source code reviews simply
- A set of templates that actually work
- Something that will scan my setup & tool/component versions and fix it all up (Python, for example, is a nightmare)
- Something that will actually help solve those Nuget / .NET DLL reference issues
- A way to emergency fix my code using my phone (hey - sometimes I break things properly and I'm not near a computer when the screaming starts)
- Something that warns me when a package I'm including (pip, npm, Nuget) has an issue (security, use of a bad library, deprecated soon etc) without needing to do anything (I want a popup notification)
I could go on, but I'd love to hear your wish lists.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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so many things.
a final end to source dependency hell.
a big undo button that lets me unhose my dev machine after I destroyed it.
a shiny object I can distract clients with when I won't have the deliverable they want, when they want it.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: a shiny object
You mean a knife?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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honey the codewitch wrote: a final end to source dependency hell.
OH PLEASE YES !!! THIS THIS THIS.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Organizations have to get rid of all of the shims, especially the manager types.
~d~
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I've been called a shim before, but not professionally. I've only ever understood it as
1. A slim chunk of material used to space two things or otherwise wedge them into position
2. A (usually dodgy) adapter or interface unit of some type
3. An anti-trans slur.
I'm assuming #2 here? maybe between developers and the people at the company that sign the checks?
Real programmers use butterflies
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I think of them as being interfaces, kind of like that guy in "Office Space" whose sole job was to take specifications and hand them to the developers.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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