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Versailles - visit on a summers day, the gardens are wonderful!
"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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They were indeed, even though it was only in May. 
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My wife went to Versailles once.
I was working in Paris and she came along for the ride.
Good times, great restaurants!
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An incredible place, you could spend a month just wondering around and not see everything.
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It has been calculated that to see every the exhibited piece without lingering or hurrying it would take about 9 months.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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August 1974... Not too crowded to stroll round, but rubbernecks (mostly leftpond by the sound of them) more than ten deep around the Mona Lisa.
The other highlight of that visit. My sister-in-law's schoolgirl French at the ticket box trying to sort out whether we wanted 3 tickets to the second level of the Eiffel Tower or 2 tickets to the third level.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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First time I was in Paris, in the Metro at Gare l'est, I overheard an American Lady (a Karen in modern vocabulary) trying to buy train tickets to Barcelona from a French Lady (what's the French corresponding version of a Karen?) at the ticket booth.
It was a culture clash at a monumental level.
The American lady refused to understand that she needed to go to the train station one level above, and the French lady was, well as French as you can get. 
Got dual prejudices confirmed in one go.
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Seem's like Q&A's been around longer than I thought.
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Was there back in the 80's. What I remember is that you have to sift through a lot of oysters to find the pearls.
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Do demons with a headache take Ibuprofane?
"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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Yes but they have a devil of a time opening the child proof bottles.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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If they can fiend some - or else they'll ghoul to the for-mercy and buy what they can, or, if in a devilish mood, put the clerks in the back room, Tylenol up and just steal something.
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Demons don't get headaches; they give them.
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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I saw this article today (Thanks CodeProject!). Code Generation from XAML in Visual Studio is Mind-blowing Awesome - James Montemagno[^]
The level of excitement in the article about generating a method when using a property in XAML is laudable, but, IMHO, amazingly shortsighted.
Here it is 2021, and the great minds at MS are still stuck in the 1980s command line mindset and thinking far too small.
In the 1990s, Alan Cooper[^] and a few people wrote the mother of all rapid application development IDEs, which became the Visual Basic IDE, and later Visual C++ and Visual Studio IDEs. Drag and drop UI design. And it was the envy of development tool manufacturers, and often copied.
IMHO, it is embarrassing that MS no longer hires people the caliber of Alan Cooper and his team. MS has followed the road of hiring cheaper, lesser minds who cannot produce the innovation, quality, and productivity they once could.
Honestly, I look at the state of not-so-rapid application development (after 30+ years for the technology to improve) and the plethora of "command line kiddies", and I shake my head in disbelief. If Montemagno thinks that is mind-blowing, he has blinders on.
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I avoid the command line. I just send my Cobol coding sheets to the punch room and then submit the card deck. Super fast turnaround I usually get the compiler listing by the end of the following week. 
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And, praying that you haven't missed a full stop. Those were the days! 
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How many boxes of fan-fold paper does it usually take?
A moderately amusing story of the old days : In the late 1980s and early 1990s I worked for a company that made robots. It used Microsoft BASIC in ROM as the core of the robots so programs for them were written in BASIC with our motion control extensions. One guy printed it all out and it took an entire box of fan-folded paper. You could see Bill and Paul's names in it too. That listing was kept on top of a central file cabinet as a monument until the company folded.
"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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Rick York wrote: until the company fan- folded.
FTFY.
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Remember that 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Reminds me of when they would let "user reps" design user interfaces, and then leave it up to the developers to figure out how to populate the view model required to support that particular view (which was usually a convoluted mess of unrelated entities / fields with little reference to the actual data model).
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Cp-Coder wrote: Interesting that Java is way more in demand than C#!
I have never seen a demand for Java in the job market where it was more desired by employers than C#.
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Having retired 10 years ago, I haven't had to go job hunting in years, so I wouldn't know.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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