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Bob is watching. Bob is always watching... ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif)
Jeremy Falcon
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who is Bob? Inside joke?
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Bob is the little green man in the CodeProject logo, occasionally wearing fashionable outfits 
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There's that little buzz when you know you wrote the code, you designed/built the hardware and now it's doing exactly what you wanted it to do! 
It's why I keep doing it!
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Pretty neat is right term. If you remove the glare on screen using a shadow you might get a better pic.
Feels good to get something working. Software/hardware/both.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I tried taking it at night and had to get up close to it to really show it, and then you couldn't see the PC.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I know you mentioned it before - but what's in your chassis that needs 3 LARGE fans like that?
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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There are actually 4, and they're not really large. They're the smallest of the 3 common sizes of PC fan I've seen. The case is smaller than it looks. Those fans are 120mm.
The chassis is an open air design. It's not sealed. There are air gaps along the edges of the glass. The fans keep positive pressure on those gaps while helping force hot air out of the chassis.
Edit: I need to add - those fans are rarely on full blast. They are all regulated by my PC. They are also super quiet and mounted on rubber isolators.
On one side you have a 320W GPU and NVMe. On the other you have a 180W CPU, RAM and more NVMe.
Under load, that can generate some serious heat, so those fans are up to the task when need be.
Most of the time this PC is as quiet as a church mouse.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
modified 28-Jan-23 12:03pm.
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any picture to share here?![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
diligent hands rule....
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Yeah, in the OP.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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No BBQ?
I'm out.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Why does the column name in my code have to match the column name in the database?
It just feels so.... restrictive.
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It doesn't. SQL allows you to alias names. You can also use a view. You can also map things in a slew of other ways too.
For $19.95 USD, I'll show you how. Inflation...
Jeremy Falcon
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And if this was a joke on the programming question issue.... mad respect. That was quite nice. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Because it makes sense.
What reason, to have the name 'X' in database and in the code it is 'Y'.... If you like that, happy confusion in the future 
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It sort of like calling people by another name, that is not theirs.
"Hey Bob, how are you today?"
"I'm not Bob, I'm Charlie!"
"Who's Charlie? You must mean Debra. Wait right here, I'll get her/she/they/them."
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Keep me out of this 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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People do that all the time though 
My grandma's are both named Elisabeth something something on their birth certificate/passport, but we call them Bep (quite a common name here for old people).
I recently found out Dick is a nickname for Richard, Bill for William and Bob for Robert.
A lot of people have birth names that are different from the names we actually call them (sometimes the names are at least related, but often they're not).
And when a woman marries a man she suddenly gets a new last name (and is proud of it too).
Luckily, all of these are getting more rare 
My complete name is simply Sander Rossel and that's what people call me too 
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Use of nicknames vary greatly from one culture / country to another. Here in Norway 99% of the population are called by their 'real' names - to the degree that Bill Bryson (yes, yet another Bryson quote!) tells in "Neither here nor there":
"I had had huge difficulty persuading the staff at the Kredittkassen Bank on Karl Johans Gate to cash sufficient traveller's checques to pay the extortionate 1,200 kroner bus fare - they simply could not made to grasp that the William McGuire Bryson on my passport and the Bill Bryson on my traveller's cheques were both me"
I've seen it from the other side as well: Don't expect every Norwegian to have a middle name. Today, it is seen more often, but in my generation, I hardly know of anyone with a middle name. I wanted some information from a USA web site that required me to create a user, asking for my real name, and they insisted on a "middle initial". American forms for specifying names almost invariably has a field for the middle initial, but you may leave it open. Not on this website, it insisted on an alphabetic character, A-Z. Space, hyphen or other punctuation marks were not accepted, you had to reveal your middle initial. Of course you have one - everybody have a middle initial! Sure, I don't think I've ever met anyone from the USA without a middle initial.
We do use double first names: My best buddy in childhood was named Per Erik, one of my current friends is named Per-Kristian, my father was named Torleif (Tor Leif, but as one, unhyphenated word). The double name is always used in full: If you asked me when I was ten if I knew of any 'Per', Per Erik would never occur to me. Per-Kristian is not some 'Per' that I know today. If you suggest that my father was named Tor, I would protest; that is simply wrong.
In my parents' generation, it was more common to have a double, unhyphenated first name, but use only one of them in everyday life. I knew my mother's other first name, but didn't know until several years after moving out from my parents' that my father had a another first name! They would never indicate the initial letter of the other first name as a "middle initial" - the other name is still a first name, not a middle name! The same goes for lots of other people of that generation that I know.
I guess that one reason why we rarely use nicknames is that the major part of Norwegian first names are short, 1 or 2 syllables. All the 4-syllable names I can think of are really two concatenated names. Most, but not all, 3-syllable names are also concatenations of two names, a single-syllable one and a 2-syllable one. So we don't have any need for shortening down the names!
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Mandatory middle name?
An ex-coworker had a girlfriend from Indonesia, and where she's from they simply don't have a last name...
Apparently, it's legal in the Netherlands to not have a last name as long as you don't have the Dutch nationality.
As soon as you get Dutch nationality you need to pick a last name.
Anyway, she didn't have a last name officially, but for most forms she had to use her made up last name (which was official-ish, I guess).
What's more, they got a child, and a first child can have the last name of the mother or the father.
Most pick father, but they picked mother, so the child doesn't have a last name either.
I believe (s)he(?) gets to pick both his nationality and last name when (s)he turns 18.
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My previous employer had a number of employers from India. They were complaining when we were redesigning our business cards from landscape format to portrait: Their official name was so long that it didn't fit in. In one case, even if you put the first and last name on separate lines, both were too long to fit. Not very surprising: Every one of those people had a nickname, usually of two syllables, three at most.
Another thing to be aware of: If you ask one of those guys whether his long name has any particular meaning, be prepared to spend the night to hear the explanation! At least to some of them, the true meaning of their name is quite significant - far more than for any European or European American that I have ever discussed the matter with. Quite a few have no clue about the origins of their name, except possibly those who can refer to this or that biblical person. (And it stops there - they don't know the meaning or origin of the biblical name, and hardly know any treats of that person that they associate themselves with.)
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You use column names in your code?
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Having worked on a system that used some of Jeremy's mapping alternatives I recommend that you NEVER do this, attempting to track through from a field name on a form/class that is different to the column name in the database is a nightmare.
You would be just adding complexity for the sake of it, adding multiples to the support cost and the supporting dev will have a wax effigy of you and be sticking needles in it!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Having worked on a system that used some of Jeremy's mapping alternatives I recommend that you NEVER do this
I'm trying to collect $20 though...
Jeremy Falcon
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I have frequently seen that kind of arguments, and very similar ones, used to justify that end user with a vague idea about the meaning of English terms nevertheless have to accept them, because those are their real names, and using anything else would be confusing and misleading.
It would be fascinating if Chinese hardware and software developer switched to a similar approach.
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