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It's a difficult balance.
Is it something that is used all day, everyday, by an office full of workers?
If so, then it's going to be difficult to replace: you have to factor user buy-in, retraining costs, as well as the direct replacement costs against the productivity / morale benefits at the end.
If it's use by one guy, once a month, and he follows a sheet of instructions to do it, then it's not worth it: chances are it'll be a couple of years until you realize it has subtle but critical differences nobody noticed.
Not just software either: ask the early adopters who replaced their Galaxy Note 6 with a shiny new Galaxy Note 7 ... 
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I used to break things all the time back in the 90's with my lack of experience, "great ideas" and 1000+ page software books on my desk.
The difference is that nowadays people break things with style and the latest technology and frameworks.
Being an old curmudgeon I just see people breaking things 
[edit]changed 'if' to 'is' and removed Oxford comma(yuck!)[edit]
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 15-Oct-17 7:35am.
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I think that exactly what experience does to you... Without it you force new ideas on everything ("if you have a hammer every problem looks like a nail"), with it you use new ideas only when it really has any use...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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compact /c /s:"C:\Users\Gilgamesh\Google Drive\VS 2012" /f /q /a /i /exe:lzx "C:\Users\Gilgamesh\Google Drive\VS 2012\*"
105537 files within 13449 directories were compressed.
4,136,069,484 total bytes of data are stored in 894,611,246 bytes.
The compression ratio is 4.6 to 1. Thanks to Sergey T.'s blog for making me aware of the LZX option in Win 10: [^] TechNet docs: [^]
Do I need to say that a pre-prandial-anti-demon-contraceptive back-up is worth your data ?
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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It was years since I thought to compress files in use (not on backup)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You forgot an "M" in the word "MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM". There are 28 M's in that word, you only put 27. Just saying.
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Awwwwww, look at the cute little kiddies pretending to be able to cook with two whole ingredients. For one, she's using the wrong bread. That crap tastes like gum or glue. It's gross.
Lemme tell ya boooooi, you want real food you go to the south...
New Orleans-Style French Toast "Pain Perdu" Recipe[^]
Once you have real food you realize why southern people are happy. 
Jeremy Falcon
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eh Jeremy, thought you were in Hollywood within the 'everything's made of plastic' state.
you would be swamped 24/7 by the "kiddies can cook/sing/fart" 'reality' shite.
not converted yet?
missing real food (and real people)?
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Lopatir wrote: eh Jeremy, thought you were in Hollywood within the 'everything's made of plastic' state.
Lopatir wrote: missing real food (and real people)?
Yes... big time.  Seriously, all the fakeness here can get depressing. Once you leave the Hollywood area SoCal is awesome... beautiful scenery, etc. But something about Hollywood attracts people who weren't loved as kids and have "issues" for it.
Jeremy Falcon
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You are right, it is total bollocks to use fresh bread. It is supposed to be old, hard, stale bread. Hence pain perdu, lost bread.
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Aren't you fat IRL? You're supposed to know your foods bro. If you don't know what good bread is then your fat card just got revoked. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Keep this a secret but no, I am actually pretty in shape.
And I just agreed with you about the bread, it should be good stale bread, not the soft sliced crap.
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Gotcha. Tonality is always so hard to tell online.
Jeremy Falcon
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I used the pseudonym fat_boy because it is an amalgam of the atomic bombs used in WWII, and I wanted to hit CP like an atomic bomb. Which I think I achieved back in the day.
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: French toast made with melted ice cream
Sounds nice. 
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So it's now tomorrow, I'm pissed and have to be up in about 4 hours 45 minutes. Off to bed.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
All the best from my side. And no, alc does not sovle it.. but I know it does sometimes helps to relieve the pain. It is dangerous
Your sincerely
Bruno
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... um ... O...Kay.[^]
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For the IoT?
You may want to add lots of chlorine, best viruskiller I know for those 'devices'.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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So we're down to comparing OSes with laundry detergent now. OK, I'll bite:
Windows: The detergent, while it does an adequate job, somehow can't be used with your perfectly good washing machine and you have to replace it with a much more sophisticated internet-connected one and comes with features you don't want or need, and if you look at it the wrong way, it stops working for reasons unknown.
Linux: It comes with a washboard.
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Only suitable for washing machine sized systems?
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I see apple hasn't cracked that market yet, no iWash.
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Reminds me of this classic...
NSFW-ish[^]
Jeremy Falcon
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I musta fed it a whole ream of paper this morning, but it still wanted more: it kept going "I just can't get enough", "I just can't get enough".
Sussed it though - it was stuck in Depeche mode.
(I'll get me coat)
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