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I dunno. Whyncha ask a Limey?
I usually don't spam with links but this I could not resist.
The Limey (1999) - IMDb
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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This thread is going from the sublime to the ridiculous!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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You mean it is going pear-shaped!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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That was a berry good one.
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Very sublemonal message, nice!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Put sublime in the coconut, you drink 'em both up
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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That left a sour taste in my mouth; I'm sure you can you C vitamin by that.
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You have my 10 for that! What kind of Balbooze have been having?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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My friend just started a new job a few days ago, she said the first day was OK, the usual employee orientation stuff. But then they put some crabby old guy in charge of training her on the database maintenance. Turns out that they are using MS Access 2000, so she tried telling them they could migrate over to Mongo or Apache database, something more secure but the guy bit her head off. So she tried showing him some examples of how much easier it would be to maintain and update the tables but he just won’t listen and just spouts off random nonsense that has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: Turns out that they are using MS Access 2000
You can't fix stupid.
Access sucks in so many ways...
".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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This is called legacy code. I love legacy code.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Are you a Highly Paid Consultant who charges 10x the cost of a salaried worker when you have to deal with it?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Shhhhhh..... 
And who the $%%$%$ gets 10x salaried? That's just nonsense.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Dunno, I've heard of highly paid consultants getting several hundred/hour.
As much as I like the stability of a permanent job and not having to do any of that icky sales and marketing for myself if I knew where I could get that kind of money I'd probably be doing it myself. At least for the year or three it'd take me to earn enough to buy a house with cash.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Well, 10x rate has not been my experience. Now, I have heard of consultants coming in via some consultant house - say for SAP. Or IBM, etc. Then you pay. But for small time consultants like myself? Nah, we make a bit more to cover things employees have covered by employers.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: You can't fix stupid.
How true!
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Access sucks in so many ways...
Care to elaborate?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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By what I had to live through, Access itself is not the worst problem. The die hard VBA fans, their culture of tinkering and their typically less than brilliant workarounds are the problem. They have no clue why nobody else came up with such brilliant 'patterns' and feel quite insulted when you must tell them that they have built an unmaintainable mess.
If I hear the word 'Access' in an interview, I'm out of there as quickly as I can.I make mistakes only twice: For the first and the last time.
I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.
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CodeWraith wrote: die hard VBA fans
Who said anything about VBA?..or did I miss something? 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: Who said anything about VBA?..or did I miss something?
I believe CodeWraith was alluding to the fact that many people who use Access use it because they can use VBA to manipulate it and then they think VBA is the best programming language ever and the associated issues with that.
As a matter of fact, why would anyone use Access if they don't use VBA? Well, I guess maybe because it's part of MS-Office.
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Access leads to VBA, VBA leads to bad code, bad code leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate ... to suffering and the Dark Side.
Ask any Jedi.
I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.
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CodeWraith wrote: By what I had to live through, Access itself is not the worst problem. The die hard VBA fans, their culture of tinkering and their typically less than brilliant workarounds are the problem. They have no clue why nobody else came up with such brilliant 'patterns' and feel quite insulted when you must tell them that they have built an unmaintainable mess.
Hmmm...I have worked in C, C++, Java, C#, Perl and SQL for decades. Certainly those that I have talked to suggest that JavaScript is similar.
And nothing suggests that any of those are chaos free.
So exactly which technology is chaos free?
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You don't have to give me reasons to think that JavaScript is junk. 
Still, the language is only a secondary problem. It's the culture of merrily hacking away without a plan or architecture and the myth that this is the one and only way to tackle everything. And when the day comes that the junk collapses under its own weight, then it's somehow your fault for pointing it out.
I honestly don't like to be called an idiot by people who never learned as much as I already have forgotten. Call me a snob, but I don't work in a place with such a culture. I know how it ends and having had the dubious pleasure once is enough.
I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.
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It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Old misogynistic bugger feeling intellectually and professionally challenged by a younger (I assume) women starts bullying her.
She should report him to her manager (and/or HR); if they do not get involve, she should start looking for a better job.
I'd rather be phishing!
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