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I was dunno. It is not a real word!
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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So long as it is in the dictionary...
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Wordle 359 3/6*
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Wordle 359 4/6
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3/6
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GCS/GE 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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These days - more like this...
Which is why Wednesday starts retirement 1.0.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Congrats for tomorrow (it's Tuesday in Oz) and welcome to the leisurely, relaxed group. No dealines, no managers (the wife does not count), no users, no irritating coworkers. Sit back, code when and what you want to, or not!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I give it to October/November to get my head into a better space. I have had too much pressure and too many failures over the last eight months. After that I will get bored and need another contract!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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On a related but irrelevant issue, did you know it is technically illegal to photograph or take a video of the Eiffel Tower at night, but not by day?
The French have an odd interpretation of Copyright law, and the lights it is covered with are an art installation which is subject to copyright in France (but not anywhere else in the world).
Strange what you can learn from t'interwebs, isn't it? Why Photos of the Eiffel Tower at Night are Illegal - YouTube[^]
"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 often feel like others are disassembling the tower as fast as I build it 
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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What do you build at work?
I always feel like it's a structure of sorts. I lay the foundation, put up the framing, and start building the floors up as I go. A header here, a cpp file there, until the fool thing starts to be self supporting.
Mmmm wait. I'm fibbing. This is how I used to do things before about 2017 when my mind blew a gasket.
Now I just attack whichever part I'm inspired by until it starts to breathe on its own - seems like a devolution of sorts but my code is more elegant now.
I digress, the point is, such structural approaches served me in the industry for years, especially when working with teams of devs.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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<rant>
For me at work, I am the guy that is called in to fix all the broken parts.
I used to design and write applications. Now I am just the janitor, cleaning up the mess left by others. And I don't mean just bugs, but code that should have been strangled in the crib...
And yet, these same developers that wrote this code continue on with new projects....
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Quote: Chief Technology Officer, NVision Ideas Inc.
Andreas Mertens wrote: Now I am just the janitor, cleaning up the mess left by others
Looks like you should have some say in that, no?
"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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I am the CTO of my own company. But currently I am engaged in long term contract work, and that is my situation now. Though I am exploring options to change that....
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Andreas Mertens wrote: Though I am exploring options to change that....
 Sounds as though it may be necessary, good luck!
"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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Sometimes my approach is as structured as in the photos, but usually I bounce around between high level and low level, often refactoring when I notice various details about the code. It's very different from constructing a building.
However, my response actually had nothing to do with work per se. 
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honey the codewitch wrote: Now I just attack whichever part I'm inspired by until it starts to breathe on its own
Must... not... quote... Young Frankenstein...
As I've gotten older I tend to do the "hard part" first. That's the part I don't understand immediately or need to learn. I usually do that sort of thing in a throwaway program where I don't have centuries of ancient lore to keep in mind. Once I get a good feel for that, I usually have an outline in my head for the rest of it. A long time ago I tended to do the easy stuff first, and put off the hard part. Of course you know that means I got to throw away a fair amount of the easy stuff because it no longer made sense after doing the hard bits.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Relatable even if for different reasons. I like a challenge, so I go for the hard bits first.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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You get it all done, the last frame shows it tilting to the right, and it's cropped poorly?
Every. ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing. Time.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I have 2 desktops wired to Ethernet ports on cable modem. One directly to modem via its ethernet card and the other through an ethernet switch. High speed internet provider (I'll name name's if anyone asks) stopped by without notice to work on the neighborhood cable box, which is in my back yard, that provides service. After they left, directly connected ethernet devices failed to connect to internet. When I finished recovery I discovered that the ethernet card directly connected to cable modem was not functional. Diagnostic confirms. Fortunately I had a second card on that box and it worked fine. The other computer ethernet card was protected by the switch, I guess, but only work if I bypassed the switch. Wireless functionality was unaffected. The takeaway, turn off your machines if directly connected to modem and maybe detach them from modem if cable guy shows up.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Did they upgrade the boxes? Cable modems switch up a couple of the wires in their ports. Some TX and RX pair is reversed - I forget the specifics. Some cards can compensate, some don't. Presumably all hubs can. This is all fuzzy recollection of stuff I half remember reading I don't know how long ago so take with plenty of salt, but your problem could have been related to that.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I do not know what they swapped in the box in my yard, but shortly after I discovered the problem, I replaced the cable modem (about 3 years old) in my house with newer one (I rent the cable modems, I don't use my own ... another story). Same symptoms, same problem. The desktop affected is a 2 year old HP so it's covered by warranty and it's hardware should be state of the art. Your line reversal sounds plausible. But the cable modem is connected to the box outside by a standard RJ45 coaxial so what it's doing electrically to the cable modem is a mystery to me. Cause and effect say the cable guy did something to cable box outside to cause my cable modem inside to damage my computer's ethernet card. Worked fine before he arrived. Not so when he left. My computers were online the whole time. Grrr
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Yeah, if they didn't touch your cable boxes themselves, then the only thing I can think of is a power surge or some kind of firmware reset signal they sent over the line. I mean at this point you could be looking at an "act of God" if you'll forgive the expression. Sometimes hardware is just like that.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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