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Welcome to a multiparadigm language. 
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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These are the kinds of questions I ask toward the beginning of a project. I'll often spend a significant amount of time trying to answer them, and ultimately give up in frustration. I'll then implement the complicated or stupidly repetitive or otherwise distasteful solution.
At some point, the light dawns. I discover the Zen/feng shui/bushido/elegant solution that also satisfies KISS and YAGNI. Rarely does the solution match anything I considered at the beginning.
It's like I need a certain level of brain injury from banging my head against the wall before I achieve satori.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I relate to this so hard.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Software Zen: delete this;
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I have a Wise (formerly Transferwise) account (mostly to help with the occasional US dollar payments I get as the exchange cost is trivial compare to my bank) and they have just started a Virtual Bank Card: Shop safely virtually anywhere![^]
It's like a physical bank card but you can have three of them at a time, and delete them when you don't need them.
So you can have a card, make an online payment and delete the card so it can never be used again - by you or by the shop. Given that I'm pretty sure it was an [large online company] employee that tried to use my card details to buy £5K of jewelry from Hong Kong about ten years ago after I made a purchase using it that's not a bad idea at all ...
Worth thinking about, if you just don't like paypal / ebay tracking everything you buy.
"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
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I've but one problem with it: I don't have (or accept having) an Debit Card. Here (US) they're often combined with an ATM card and I make sure that capability is not available
Personal experience, even longer ago than yours, was with a bank card "accidentally" being charged four times for a trip to the Caribbean (air, food and lodging). They were listed back-to-back on the same bill and probably had to do with a sticky key or fat finger - but it ruined use of that card until all was straightened out (a month). It was, however, not my money being held but that of the charge card company. My bank account (and thus my checks) were all working properly because the account wasn't drained. The CC company will work much harder to get their own money back. I like that degree of isolation from the spending, sticky fingers, and my money-hoard.
Also, these days, I get a % back from the CC companies on everything I buy. $hundreds/yr.
One-time use numbers would be a nice add-on for the CC's and I think that's available from some banks - I guess I should check what I have available. Foreign currency transactions: some of the cards don't charge a fee - others charge a lot - converting to/from $'s.
So long as I can maintain my perception/philosophy that they work harder for their own money than they will for mine when it comes to recovery and/or disputes.
UPDATE: More card issuers offering virtual card numbers to cut fraud risk - CreditCards.com[^] but I don't have any of the cards listed in the article (not that it's a new article or exclusive list).
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
modified 29-Apr-21 8:56am.
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I can't thank you enough (just an expression) for validating that my somewhat paranoia enforced rules are, in fact, totally valid and for the right reasons (seriously!).
Even the bank info - and I don't let anyone have direct access to my checking account: money is only pushed to pay bills - no one pulls money . . . except for me.
And that pulling of money is another layer of security: the majority of my cash resources are in online bankS that have zero public face. Only the ability to push and pull money from my checking account. They do not know about each other. So - money is dispersed, has no public face and no direct access method to reach into them - only they do the reaching.
Still - if I were deliberately targeted for an identity theft I'm pretty sure I'd get stomped.
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It's a good thing she didn't use a bar of Lindt ... that would be pain au chocolat!
"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
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You should never date girls from Lorraine. As Churchill said, the Cross of Lorraine is Doubly Cross.
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: You should never date girls from Lorraine.
Or indeed girls called Lorraine as they can have a detrimental effect on your eyesight, as alluded to in song ...
"I can see clearly now Lorraine has gone ..."
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I wanna know... Have you ever seen Lorraine?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I wanna know... Have you ever seen Lorraine?
Yes, I saw her up around the bend.
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She's a sweet hitchhiker.
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Are you implying she'll bring her twin sister and . . . ?
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At yeast she didn't knead you permission.
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Beurre side up?
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 Welsh girlfriend really did hit me on the head with a frozen baguette once.
I surprised her in the dark on her way back from the freezer (in a dark and empty factory building).
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Between two points, it takes two seconds to be single. (9)
"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
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That's 10 letters
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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When I read it, the deadline had almost passed, so the pressure caused a miscount! 
But maybe it's right, and OG miscounted! Not that I can explain it adequately, but it does have dual and two i's, and div is used in orchestral scores to split a section, usually in two, and...you can see I'm grasping here.
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Nope!
"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
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