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Some things are just too good to be true.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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We all knew it, we were just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I bitched at the BOM because their report was out of date, the response was that the report had been superseded 7 months ago but they had not updated their web site information with the new report name. So there will be a few people in your position because the structure is different 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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So, completely off topic. Helped the daughter move out a couple of weeks ago and we went through all my stuff in storage getting washing machines, dinner sets, kitchen stuff etc. out for her. I was actually looking for something completely unrelated for me.
So in the last box I find my Coconut. Got this when on holidays in Cairns in 1972 as a 4 year old. The wife has tried to throw it out several times over the years and is for some reason unhappy to see it has found it's way back in to the house.
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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My boss and I, fortunately, control the production data base (at least the in-house ones). It was an unsaid rule that no one would change someone else's stuff without contacting the other. Preferably before and not after, the before state only used (rarely, fortunately) to fix a bug.
Now we have a number of outside vendors and sources - and every now and then they ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) with their data. A couple of them will, at least, contact us before they make what could have been backward-compatible changes. At least they tell us.
Can you, perhaps in the fullness of time, take charge of your data sources?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Can you, perhaps in the fullness of time, take charge of your data sources?
Nope - a different contractor owns the data, and despite the fact that we all work for the same people, we have no control over someone else's data.
We have one data source where the contract wasn't renewed, but everyone still wants the data it was producing. It's been dead since Oct 01. I've heard that another contractor is going to be picking up the slack, but who knows... Until something on the other end happens, we can't pull data from that source.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I stumbled upon this while searching for other obscurities and thought it was just obscure enough to obscure this message board for a while. 
Xyzzy (computing) - Wikipedia[^]
Hint: It's related to a very famous video computer game (not much video in this one).
modified 3-Jan-19 14:49pm.
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Nothing Happens.
Darn it! I have just revealed my age!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: Nothing Happens.
You know your stuff!
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No, I don't grok it. Don't care to grok it either.
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They'll be removing your membership soonly. 
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Another answer that proves how many hours I have spent playing TOCC (The Original Colossal Cave)...
Plugh!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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FEE
FIE
FOE
FOO
I used to have the FORTRAN sources for that on microfiche!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I had the source on green stripy paper. A friend and I wrote a customised version of it (in FORTRAN 4) to run on our college computer (a Pr1me 300B) with our own messages and map. Nobody liked it much so we gave up and I wrote a version of the early Star Trek type game instead which proved immensely popular - so much so that we were instructed to restrict access to it as all terminals were permanently occupied with students playing it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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OriginalGriff wrote: to have the FORTRAN sources for that on microfiche!
It might take you the rest of the year to top that statement!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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It does date one slightly, doesn't it?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Forogar wrote: proves how many hours I have spent playing TOCC (The Original Colossal Cave).
It was all in the name of QA, right? 
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Youngin!
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: Youngin!
It's the rare insult that makes you feel better.
I just arrived late to the game.
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Extra credit for using both "grok" and "xyzzy" in a sentence. Mr. Peabody apparently fired up the Wayback Machine for you! 
Fun game, back in the day. I spent countless hours lost in those twisty little passages. As a result, xyzzy.txt remains one of my go-to names for a temporary/junk file.
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Eric Lynch wrote: Mr. Peabody apparently fired up the Wayback Machine for you!
That's correct, Sherman.
I really loved the Rocky & Bullwinkle show. I also liked Tennessee Tuxedo[^].
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Wow, that's fantastic!
Now I can to Xyzzy every day!
Nothing happens.
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So I want two lines to not be treated as a paragraph.
Like this:
Line1
Line2
Not this:
Line1
Line2
Google, find this. Says:
A paragraph is consecutive lines of text with one or more blank lines between them. For a line break, add either a backslash \ or two blank spaces at the end of the line.
In Bitbucket's wiki, backslash doesn't work. Two blank spaces does. So now there is a totally f***ing invisible whitespace that indicates a line break.
God, I hate markdown.
Latest Article - A Concise Overview of Threads
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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It annoys me enough in QA, and I have it disabled there! Even disabled, it manages to creep in and add code blocks, strike throughs, and such like stupidity to code. Fortunately, it's only there until I refresh a solution, but ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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