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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: So, what I might take conclusion from this would be that you're of the point of view like "Nature is better than Computer world". I agree to you too. No. Not at all.
I'd not push myself into a corner with such reasoning - no reason to pick a favorite.
The computer gives me a place to create/invent, and otherwise push buttons to my hearts content - and for the most part, I can even undo what I've done. Since I enjoy my work I don't mind the time that passed. On top of all of that, it also puts food on my table.
It diminishes not, nor is it diminished, by natures beauty. Only today I ordered seeds: dahlias and cacti. Stunning beauty in form - stunning beauty in structure - I'd never want to do without either in my world.
So - if you wish to gather something from all of this - perhaps a bit of something from the poet Robert Herrick: "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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The Poem^
And one of my own:
Winter is neigh; we trundle homeward in twilight;
Swaddled, we prepare to endure.
Eagerly awaiting the passage into spring;
Forgetting how precious are these few moments
We call a lifetime.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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That was really a sweet poem, as it almost just took me back to my childhood, when I was just 5 years old living in our village, waiting eagerly to go outside and enter my own world.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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W∴ Balboos wrote: What's a smile worth these days? Dunno, how much do they have to pay the salespeople with their eternal fake smiles?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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W∴ Balboos wrote: What's a smile worth these days? At certain moments, a smile can be the difference between life and death.
But, generally, the worth of a smile is proportional to the degree to which it is ... unconditional, spontaneous, freely given.
Merry Holidays !
«OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. » Alan Kay's clarification on what he meant by the term "Object" in "Object-Oriented Programming."
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Well I am retired now and looking for something to stimulate the old intellect before it gets all rusted. So next year I will get proficient in coding WPF MVVM, which I never quite mastered. I may never actually need it, but it will sure improve my grasp of subjects like data binding. Of course, numerous articles on CP will help me along!
In the mean time, tomorrow at the Christmas dinner, we will have two guests that are well into computer technology. So we will be sure to raise a glass of kindness in honor of 10 million other Code Project subscribers, to wish all good health and prosperity in the new year. This goes double for the kind authors of the articles that I found so useful over time.
Allow me to close with an Irish toast:
May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back;
the sunshine warm upon your face;
the rain fall softly on your fields.
Fair winds and following seas.
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Long way before me to get retired... (27 years), but Christmas dinner starts for next 2 hours.
Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas
It's good to stay active and set goals for yourself. Been retired for several years now and love that I can do and learn things at my own pace.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Merry Christmas! And may the eggnog be forever spiked!
Jeremy Falcon
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Cornelius Henning wrote: May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back;
the sunshine warm upon your face;
the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Well I am retired now and looking for something to stimulate the old intellect before it gets all rusted. So next year I will get proficient in coding WPF MVVM
Just curious why MVVM and not MVC for which Visual Studio has sample applications to get you started.
I don't know the relative advantages and disadvantages of either choice except for the MVC project type in VS making MVC easy to get started with.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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I suppose I thought that MVVM is the later programming methodology of the two, and so has to be "better". I realize it will be slower to learn, but as I said I am retired and so speed is not that important to me. There are plenty of good MVVM examples on the web, so the absence of good guidance is not a concern. Hopefully I made the right choice!
You just cannot fix stupid.
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Here in the USA he would have been granted amnesty!
You just cannot fix stupid!
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Went down to the playground with the kids to let them play off some energy, just to find it thoroughly covered in broken glass. Extra effort made underneath the slides and swings.
Kids forgot it after two minutes, as a discovery walk was just as much fun.
All I can say is, have a Very Merry Christmas! Or celebration of your own choice.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
(√-sh*t) 2
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: have a Very Merry Christmas!
Same to you and your family.
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Too bad about the playground, it's disappointing to see what crap people can think of to do to other people. Glad your day was not spoiled.
And you have a Merry Christmas as well, hope you and your family get everything you want
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Funny, but I would expect to read something like that in the news here in the US, not in Europe.
Marc
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Hooligans of "night-before" revelry breaking bottles in the playground are the windless-alley-trees of living between life's skyscrapers. They should be topped, or better yet, dragged as stumps from the inter-building space by a long chain from a backhoe in the street to be left on the sidewalk for free pickup by city refuse managment to be recycled down at the landfill.
But this is Christmas, a high holiday, and where would making talk of such a grim nature be appropriate?
Merry Christmas to all and may all your alley-trees reach such heights that they keep from cracking in the trunk from ever increasing narrow-limbed-mass-arabesque-addition, to overtop the tallest buldings and spread like fat vines from building to building, sprinting now in the bright light under the feet of the chimney sweeps, roof to roof, a-going, practicing their dusty black craft.
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Hi All,
Just how many sarnies can you eat in 48 hours, just got back from a super market (despite all my protests!) and I am still amazed by the fact a large number of people are stocking for the siege of Stalingrad, Zombie Apocalypse & Invasion from Mars. How bread and milk can you use?
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Probably not all the celebrates will able to climb out of home until the end of the year passes...So it more 10 day preparation...
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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I never heard the term "sarnies" before and it apparently refers to sandwiches[^]. Why would you stock up on those though? I could understand if people would buy just more of the normal stuff to cook things but sandwiches? I mean you could then just as well call the delivery guys instead
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My point exactly! sorry Sarnies is a bit of English's short cut. It was just the quantity of bread that amazed me!
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