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I noticed in the (nearly) defunct soap box a disparaging implication about the "Thought of the Day"
Well - OG's Thought of the Day is one of the highlights of the lounge - I look for it (hoping it's on-time and the best words aren't already used) - certainly long before even considering going to the Soapbox to vent* and otherwise totally waste time in a kid's food fight with listeria.
Scanning one's entire vocabulary with that awkward point of view to come up with something is probably very stimulating for some or other odd part of the brain.
Actually, one thing about it I'll miss: the place to post those non-KSS jokes, rare as they were. A good laugh is always, well, a good laugh.
Venting on the soapbox === pharting into the wind . . . it was necessary to phart, but the blow-back is always looming.
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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 |
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That nearly gave me a heart attack!
I keep a DOCX file with all the TotD's I've posted in a (sometimes vain) attempt to avoid reposts. And I thought I'd just check now big it is: must be pretty huge given how many years I've been posting them ...
Location: X:\Future Posts - on my NAS so I can add to it from any device
Size: 53.9 KB (55,246 bytes) - Wow! Smaller than I expected!
Size on disk: 3.99 GB (4,294,967,294 bytes) - Oh, oh. Looks like a NAS problem ...
Checking, rechecking, disk status, file system integrity, ... all looks fine.
Hang on, it's doing that for all files ...
Oh, yes. RAID5, so it's stored "smeared" across disks and it's reporting the size of a physical disk as the smearing occurs in a disk sized file on each of 'em ... phew!
That had me worried for a moment!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Agreed.
I'm not that much into pun threads, so I don't read them all, but they're an institution that a lot of people like.
The CCC is the same (credit where it's due: Dalek Dave started that off, and contributed it solo, every day for years).
Things like that are affable and friendly, and contribute a lot to the tone and atmosphere of the Lounge -- and are unique to the CP Lounge.
I'm dreading the influx of ill-will and bad manners that will probably result from the closure of the soapbox.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well - my ill will and bad manners were reserved for the soapbox.
It was, in fact, sadly enlightening how much "soapbox" was lurking in so many minds. It's still there. Maybe they'll just move over to stackoverflow?*
* Uh-Oh. There's that ill-will, again.
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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 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: OG's Thought of the Day is one of the highlights of the lounge
I agree. Which also proves my point. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Ok, so which one of you jokers programmed THIS[^]??? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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indeed an informative error message … 
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I always preferred this: Adobe[^] - Microsoft used the same message with early C++ compilers as well.
Very helpful.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Or This one[^] - So what is it? Success or failure?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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My colleagues keep complaining that my software fails and I keep having to correct them... My software successfully reported that it was unable to complete its task.
There's a difference.
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After "here comes the choo choo" Johnny's mom used more aggressive methods to make him eat his vegetables.
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At one time I was working on a business critical WinForms application.
Sometimes we'd get an (really unexpected and random) error in our software and display an error like "An unexpected error occurred, please contact an administrator."
We couldn't display what really happened as we simply didn't know.
The problem was, users would just ignore it and continue, resulting in invalid orders and production data (which was usually discovered days later).
So our solution was quite simple, include the technical error message and stack trace in a screen filling error message.
Now that the error looked a lot more intimidating users were hesitant to simply ignore it and almost always called in an administrator who would then start over to prevent invalid data and report to us so we could actually fix the issue
If it looks stupid and it works then it ain't stupid 
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I can see that being effective.
Forgive me for stealing the idea.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sander Rossel wrote: So our solution was quite simple, include the technical error message and stack trace in a screen filling error message.
But, but that is my standard error message functionality, with a button to email it to the front line support. Then crash the application, works about 95% of the time.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Then crash the application, works about 95% of the time.
You'd think crashing the application would work 100% of the time, unless an unexpected error occurs while unexpected erroring
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Johnny J. wrote: which one of you jokers
Did you not see the signature?
Broccoli[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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AE-35's have never failed, so it's the computers fault and you need to start pulling its RAM out (without turning it off first).
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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modified 26-Aug-19 8:39am.
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That still was real quality! They were reinstalled in 2010 and HAL was his old merry self again.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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OriginalGriff wrote: pulling it's RAM out
But if the bug is caused by a misplaced apostrophe, it can be quite difficult to trace.
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That's dirt on your screen, I'm sure.
(Please ignore the "modified 15 secs ago." message at the bottom of my message, that's a typo) 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's "bullying by vegetables", and it's a crime.
while (!(success = Try()));
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Hmm.
There's a time for humour, but when someone suffers a program crash is not one of them.
If I'd lost work/time/effort over such a crash, my immediate instinct would be to kick the smarmy wanker in the teeth.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I laugh so I don't cry. Oh look, the parser I released has a crippling bug that will require a rewrite hahahaha.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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