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Love KY bourbon, drank enough of it that I feel like I should have stock. Maker's mark is my favorite.
But duty keeps me here
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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You must be at elevation.
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Pretty close
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: You must be at elevation.
Florida has elevation? I guess they measure elevation in feet below sea level. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: Florida has elevation?
Inches above sea level...
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Mike Hankey wrote: WTF this is N. Florida.
Good! It's about time I stopped hearing about the balmy 80 degree weather and y'all start having a taste of what's been going on up here in Union country!
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I don't think anyone's been left out of this arctic blast.
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Singapore too, so cold I wore a t-shirt at home yesterday (of course still in short pants)
felt like 20 degrees here too... but we got them sensible degrees here of course.
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I suggest that you buy a wide shovel, or be prepared to spend a couple days at home. It won't last long...
Will Rogers never met me.
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The shovel option is looking real attractive...except; the roads in this area have shut down.
It's 31F and I've been without power for 7 hours. Water pipes froze and because it's raining and putting a layer of ice on everything I'm having to shake ice out of the awning on my camper.
Gonna be a long night if power don't come back on.
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Is a partial engine a quasimoto?
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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Are you revving mad?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Just trying to spark a controlled explosive discussion to see whose firing on all cylinders this New Years Day.
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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I have a hunch you may get be right. I’ll get back to you
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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In my continuing self-learning regarding MVC and ef6 (both of which I still find abhorrent, btw), I've established a way to create much of the content on my personal website from a database, and discovered how to pass multiple models to a given view. I've also managed to reduce the lines of code in my links pages from 20-100 lines, to just eight (counting the using statements and model definition, due mostly to my efforts regarding the database and HtmlHelper extension methods).
My only real sticking point right now is understanding how the bootstrap navbar works.
".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'd like to learn more about what you're building, John. Oh, by the way, Happy New Year, my friend...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Hello, my name is Jon. I am 30 years old, i was looking to learn coding and possibly make the career jump into the technology world. Was hoping to get turned into the right direction, what’s popular? What’s the best path for steady job outcome? I can only do online schooling since i have a family to provide for and a full time job at the moment. I appreciate any input! Thank you all for your time!
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If you are just starting out, then the best method is to find a night-school course, or failing that a good book: Addison Wesley, Wrox, and Microsoft Press do good ones (and you may find your local library can lend them to you). Follow from the beginning to the end, and do every exercise - you should learn enough to get started on building experience (but don't expect to be a top-notch programmer in a week, it takes quite a while to build up the "mind-set" that you need).
I'd suggest starting with C#: it's flexible, relatively simple, and is used for everything from websites to desktops, to mobile devices.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: I'd suggest starting with C#
I agree 100% But would add that the best development platform to start with, will be Visual Studio 2017 (Community Edition.) VS2017 CE is a free download. I would also suggest he learns Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). However, it is a lot to learn for a newcomer. He will have to be seriously motivated. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Definitely agree on VS: there is no better dev platform anywhere! 
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While I do love me a good programming book designed to be read from cover to cover, is anyone still publishing valuable books on recent topics? Seems to me now that documentation is all online, but documentation is not a replacement for good tutorials...and those have moved on to random blogs. So while you can find answers for very specific questions, I find it's not as easy to find an organized series that progresses on a given topic like a book does. In other words, a lesson plan.
OTOH, it seems like the Microsoft Virtual Academy has a substantial number of good places for a beginner to start, if one was interested in video.
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The trouble with online tutorials is there are a huge number of them, and they are mostly total rubbish produced by people who know little more than the people they are "teaching" (and who have no idea how to teach, it's a skill, and a difficult one to learn as well).
But you don't need the "latest and greatest" to start with anyway: get a damn good grounding in the basics and learn to think think a developer; you can pick up the latest bells and whistles later on.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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My problem in my case is that I need to "unlearn" over 2 decades worth of traditional desktop/server development habits and start thinking like a web developer (if I was to get in that area). I mean, I can put together some HTML/CSS/scripts, but the result would be "a web site obviously done by an old-school developer". It's not just "the latest bells and whistles"...it's an entirely different mindset. It can obviously be learned, but (personally) I'm having a hard time finding something that will teach me to leverage what I already know, and make good use of it in a web environment. Blogs generally do a terrible job of this sort of thing. And web development books waste too many pages going over the basics that the totally inexperienced need--and those books end just as it starts getting interesting.
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