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See Here[^]
I was surprised Spain was the main supplier, I suppose too many Mafia films warped my view.
However, the difference between Virgin and Extra is so small that it is not worth the price differential.
Too few of us have the discretion to taste or smell the differences, so why pay more?
Drinking, smoking and too many curries have left me somewhat dysgeusic and anosmic to the subtleties of EVOO, so I shall soldier on.
I would always buy virgin, simply because of the chemical straining used on refined oil.
I expect the cost is about to launch upwards at a fair rate of knots, but this shortage can be mediated if we all go out and panic buy lots of oil today!
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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http://xkcd.com/1182/[^]
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear....
:HeadInHandsShakingFromSideToSideGentlySmiley:
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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"Stubborn German wife shortly to perform informal fiscal obligations."(9)
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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http://io9.com/5988790/carrie-fisher-confirms-shes-returning-to-star-wars[^]
I sure hope we're not gonna see anymore of the golden bikini! Time hasn't exactly been kind to Carrie[^]
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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So tonight I got home and was greeted by my little dog, Taffy Too - a Belgian Shepherd mix about to turn 3 years old. Taffy was bored and wanted an adventure, and I have a pair of guns I haven't had time to fire, so off we went into the desert before the sun went completely down. Four miles out of town I found a good perch, with a clear field of view and solid backstop, so we stopped for a while; Taffy had no idea what was coming since she's never been near anything louder than an air rifle. I left her in the truck this trip, to help muffle the sound for her first experience with real firearms, but next time I'll let her out and keep her in the bed of the truck. I'd let her run free, but sadly there are still morons who think shooting glass bottles is smart, and I don't want her getting her feet sliced up.
The first volley with my Browning Hi-Power 9mm pistol caught her by surprise; I had a wet spot on the truck seat to prove it. That was just a warm-up, since I haven't fired that baby since I qualified for a concealed weapon permit years ago. What a sweet gun; despite my lack of practice, I nailed the 12 oz coffee can I brought along 8 times out of ten at a range of 50 feet. Terrible, I know, but I haven't practiced in years, and that's going to be changing real soon.
Next up was the Mossberg 20 ga. shotgun I bought while I was recovering from surgery 4 years ago, but never fired. I've never before owned a shotgun, owing to a bad experience at age 9 involving a gun safety course I took and firing a twelve gauge gun as part of the last day of instruction. It hurt - lots. The 20 gauge isn't at all like that - easy to shoot, little recoil, and probably quite effective at close range, as one would want in a home defense situation. Most of my other guns would go right through an intruder, out the wall, and possibly into another structure if I don't load them with the proper frangible bullets. Those FMJ thingies really penetrate, and that's probably not a good thing in a city. Taffy noticed the difference I think; another wet spot. But I still had seats, so I pressed on...
Out came the .243 bolt action Savage Axis. I set a somewhat larger coffee can at 50 yards with a large rock inside; the second shot ripped the backside of the can away and sent it flying, sans rock. I reset the can and rock and fired another dozen shots or so, and most hit square on. Having no bench rest and no way to reliably set the scope, I consider this to be rather good. I knew Savage is a quality gun maker, but I'm quite impressed with the out-of-the-box accuracy of the rifle. Taffy was impressed, too; I got a third wet spot on the truck seat.
I'd forgotten what a joy it is to shoot the .243 Winchester caliber. It's a flat shooting, high velocity round that has very little recoil. You've heard the term, "kicks like a mule?" The .243 kicks like a poodle, and a small one, at that. But if you want to hit something 1000 yards away, just aim 19" above it, and pray for no wind. The bullet is tiny, but it will do the job so long as it's not windy, and there's no brush in the way. I can hardly wait to get the gun I'm waiting for, and pre-ordered on the Internet. The Browning BLR in .243 Win is the nicest gun I've ever owned, and mine was stolen 20 years ago. The ones they make today aren't near the quality of the original, but it's still head and shoulders above any other. According to the dealer I ordered it from, Browning plans to start shipping the BLR the first week of April. But according to another dealer who called me today, Browning is telling them that they won't have any BLRs until June! I have no idea who to believe, but I'm not giving up on having my favorite gun back in the saddle.
The other gun I pre-ordered won't be available for at least 6 months, thanks to Obama. Reagan is known by historians as 'The Great Orator;" Obama will be remembered as 'The Great Gun Salesman." When it arrives I'll need a whole new set of reloading dies, and a lot more powder. The Browning BAR in .30-06 Springfield is a really big rifle, and more than adequate to take down any North American game, or any coffee can of any size or brand. I'm sure Taffy will heartily approve, and I'll need a wetsuit for the drive home. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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This[^] is just freakin' incredible!
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I have spent most of this evening incorporating three new companies.
Shares issued and assigned and all the necessary documentation sorted.
I even managed to produce initial accounts ready for trade starting.
My house is now an asset of a holding company of which I hold one share, the remaining shares held by a second company.
I am the majority shareholder of the second company so I control what happens to the house whilst not actually owning it.
Rental income goes through a bank in Latvia, (so easy to set up as Latvian banking law does not need you to be present to open the account).
This is then used as capital investment in the UK but is deemed to be foreign investment so is treated better for corporation tax purposes.
The third company is a trading company that will be used to reclaim any VAT I can get away with not paying.
It is being funded by the Latvian money and whatever profit I can generate here.
(An odd mix of haberdashery and printer supplies).
I am employing my wife and paying here up to the tax free limit so we can get a better benefit of the income tax system.
What is truly great is that a) it was relatively simple to do, and b) is completely legal!
And some of you wonder why people become accountants.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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This still kills me that, on a Mac, the tried-and-true wheel scrolling is reversed when you use the default "natural".
Natural if you're scrolling using a touch screen. Very unnatural (if there's such a thing as a "natural" wheel scroll) when using a scroll wheel.
The irony being, of course, that while "natural" scrolling would make sense if they had touch screen PCs and laptops, Apple has been so vocal about how dumb an idea it is to have a touch screen PC or laptop.
Maybe they should ask users of touch-screen ultrabooks to see how traumatised they are.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hugo_Chávez[^] has popped his clogs.
Don't know if the Venezuelans will be happy or sad.
It may well affect the rest of us though given his oil policy.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Inspired by the Guitarist link a few threads down I went to listen to some music.
If I search for Psychopunch I'm getting Beach boys among "Similar Artists". I wonder what algoritm they're using?
When I'm listening to Gluecifer I'm getting a screaming large frame around the video with commercial for a band I never heard of before, One Direction. Judging by the picture I never will hear them either
When I listen to Oomph! I get the same kind of frame with a commercial for Britney f***ing Spears.
Don't they have my viewing history recorded?
"The ones who care enough to do it right care too much to compromise."
Matthew Faithfull
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So when testing one of my applications on a VM (actually, testing the installer, but the best way to make sure it installed correctly is to actually run it afterwards), I was running into a "MissingMethodException" when trying one of the primary functions of the program (note, it launched just fine, and I could navigate the GUI to get to this point). I tried the exact same executable on my machine, and it ran perfectly fine. I poked around and made sure it was using the correct versions of the included DLL files, then thought to check the version of .NET installed. I noticed I only had .NET 4.0 Client, so I figured maybe I had something that was only in Full, and check the target of my build...which had apparently been set to .NET 4.5 
So, after setting the target back to 4.0, it worked just fine...but why did the 4.0 CLR try to run code for 4.5? (Although, it was mostly successful!) I would have thought there should have been an error at launch time telling me I was running the wrong version 
tl;dr Apparently the .NET 4.0 CLR thinks it can run .NET 4.5 programs.
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Has anyone used any good project management alternatives to MS Project?
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I'm working on a webpage that opens a modal, then presents the user with a series of steps in the modal (a sort of wizard). Progression through each step is done via AJAX.
There are some links in the first step that are styled like buttons, and when you click one to proceed to the next step, the content for the next step is shown, but the buttons remain. However, they are just ghost images... they don't have hover effects like they normally do. And if I do CTRL+A to highlight the entire page, they disappear (they also disappear if I drag the modal or resize the whole window).
Doesn't happen in IE or Firefox, only Chrome. The Chrome debugger does not show any errors, so it seems to be just a display artifact. I suppose I could spend time trying to fix it, but I'm just going to hope it goes away once I get "real" content to put in each step.
Strangest bug I've seen in a while. 
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Sure, it's on another discussion site[^], but that doesn't mean we can't also discuss it here.
Personally, while it certainly doesn't fit in the "missing" category, I see them moving it closer and closer to a hybrid C#/JavaScript language with each new version.
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.....with an unfortunate headline/photo combo[^].
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Since I had to restart to install IE10 (ack! spit!) I thought I'd do something I probably should do more often: delete my entire Chrome browser history.
Well Elephant me! All my extensions re-enabled, Chrome back to working properly again!
This isn't the reboot - the PC is off every night - it just looks like an incompatibility between something in my browsing history / save entry data that the latest version of Chrome didn't like. Odd. But worth remembering if you get the same problem...
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Hi All,
I just need to winge. I have a project to replicate a PSION hand held easy though I, set up a Serial Port,
off I go copy the commands and done. The joys of non-responsive comms, data backwards that must be read left to right but sent back right to left. Commands that some times need a space other times not. The nice hex values that are reversed and need to bit wised & to get some data out of them. The fact that you seem to be able to tell it to something it will not respond so you tell it again it then does it twice some commands needing a CR LF other a LF only. Documentation that is not really relavent. Being told on a Friday that you are not updating one number, you then get it to update the number but you are not told what it's maximum / minimum if you are updating the original or just a saved copy. The customer has all the available hardware so you make a change and have no idea if it works.
Please tell me I'm not the only one! normally I have around some idea of how the system works not this time!
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For all you music guys out there, I thought I would start a bit of a holy war.
While normally I would go with Jimmy Page, today I am in a David Gilmour mood, mostly because of this song[^]. I don't know if anyone else can get tone that clean while playing a riff that dirty. 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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'cause since the latest upgrade to V25, Chrome is running badly - slow, using huge amounts of CPU, and not loading pages every time I ask for them. So, I thought "They'll fix it soon - I'll use IE for a few days".
Oh dear. Where is the spell checker? IE 9 doesn't have one. If you spell as badly as I do most of the time (I think faster than I type, and tend to miss keys a lot) then it really helps. Ok, I'll upgrade to IE10 - that's got it built in....
"IE must restart your computer - do you want to do it now?" No, I don't - I don't want to restart at all just yet, why do you need to do that anyway? "NO". OK - I'll restart when that job over there is finished...What the heck "Download?" I didn't ask you to download anything, I just said no. What is it you want to download? Won't tell me huh? Or what I should do with it when it is downloaded...
Now I remember why I don't like IE. Nothing works properly and it seems to just tray as hard as it can to get in my way... 
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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I am getting a certain sense of Schadenfreude from this[^], even if it caused one of just-in hebear's "songs" to be played on The Home Service briefly this morning.
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Following the troll who liked to draw peoples profile pics I posted here yesterday.[^]
This man[^] has gone one better by finding people on Facebook with the same name as him and dressing up as their profile pics before sending them friend requests.
What this has taught me is I'm wasting my life away at work and I should be thinking up ultimate trolls. I'm even contemplating dying my hair blond in order to recreate DD's Profile pic.
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"Torment and obstruct people."(9)
Not that easy perhaps, but solvable.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Movie Quote Of The Day
A: I'm sorry, I don't speak English.
B: You are speaking English right now.
A: No, I only know how to say, "I don't speak English" in English.
Which movie?
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And with "I", I mean the tax paying citizens of South Africa (only about 5% of our entire population)[^]
This[^] site took 3 years to make at a cost of R140,000,000 (roughly $14,000,000 US)[^].
Despite claims [^]that is cost only R40,000,000 (roughly $4,000,000 US)[^] do you think it's justified?
Just like any other government spending in SA, the tender was probably awarded to a family member or friend of someone in government, who then most-likely registered a new company, http://www.cherryonline.co/[^] and sub-contracted the job to maybe a single web-developer.
More on this:
http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2013/03/04/free-state-wordpress-website-worth-40-government-paid-r40-million[^]
http://news.howzit.msn.com/top-news/fstate-website-cost-r140m[^]
http://za.news.yahoo.com/meet-government-wordpress-cost-r140m-build-042234291.html[^]
Things are getting bad here, our "leaders" have the emotional maturity of little children and the power to do what they want.
modified 5 Mar '13 - 4:40.
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I'm about to go into a handover meeting.
One of the Devs is leaving and he's handing over his work to me and another chap...
He's a VB developer.
Yes - handing over maintenance of legacy VB projects.
I'm not a programming language snob - but my desire to get back into VB (which I really have never used in any great way) is somewhat less than my desire to ram my wedding tackle into the workings of a fully-wound music box playing "Goodnight Sweetheart".
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Well, not really, but Solar Power doesn't sound nearly as menacing. And Solar power is fundamentally nuclear in nature, after all.
Yup, tomorrow we go live at the office with enough photovoltaic panels on our new covered parking structure to sell significant excess back to the power company. I know it sounds odd, but we aren't our own power company, since our office is off reservation. All that remains is to pop a couple of fuses into the protection panel and we're on, generating an estimated 20kW during daylight hours to serve a peak load of about 12kW worst case. The excess is more than enough to offset the cost of the minimal power we use at night, and whatever is left over should pay for the system in about 7 years. Since we're a tribal entity, we don't pay any taxes, so the federal tax incentives don't apply to us; even so, it's a net positive for us within a few short years.
Of course, the customers at the bar next door have already attempted to fling beer bottles onto the structures, but they're a bunch of woosies; all they managed was to break glass on the concrete parking pad. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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So Curiosity A computer goes down ...
"The timing of the glitch would frustrate Nasa as Curiosity had just begun analysing rock samples, the BBC's science correspondent, Jonathan Amos, said."
Coincidence? Or were little green feller's involved?
When they analysed the corrupt memory, the following was in the dump
47:65:74:20:6f:72:66:20:6d:79:20:6c:61:61:61:61:6e:64
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Evidently, my work proxy is blocking some of the Code Project ads, because I see this some of the time:
Advertising pays for our servers and bandwidth. We try hard to ensure advertising is on-topic and not annoying. Blocking ads hurts our ability to add new services.
Makes me wish I could pay to go ad-free on Code Project with my login.
Would you all pay an annual fee to use Code Project without ads? I suspect only the really heavy users among us would do so, which probably means it's not worth Code Project's time to implement that functionality, sadly.
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The email body:
Quote: Hi,
Full-time…young guys only…and US Citizens and Green CARD….. don’t need people with all the skills mentioned in the JD.
it then goes on to state the position and that "JD".
My reply:
Quote: -snipped name-,
This is not only offensive and illegal, but you've left no indication of
what "young guys" are to you. I can assume that a four year degree and
three years of experience means you are looking for someone around 25
years old? I could also assume that you read my profile and/or resume and
know how old I am, so you're looking for someone in my age group but no
older?
Your email, aside from being illegal and offensive, is also typed very
poorly. Job applicants are generally expected to be professional and have
well written cover letters, even in a profession where it's not necessary.
It may be a good idea to have someone proof read your emails....maybe use
sentence... and not periods...for email.
Thanks,
If it moves, compile it
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I ordered a Raspberry Pi about 6 weeks ago, completely forgot about it, then yesterday I found an email I had ignored from the seller (they had been sending some newsletters that I keep forgetting to unsubscribe from, so I assumed it was one of those) saying it had shipped and would arrive today. Now I have it, and am getting ready to install Raspbmc[^] and try to make a home media system from it (nothing fancy, I just want something that supports more formats than my current media system, commonly known as an "Xbox 360"). If it proves capable, I'll have to go out and buy a NAS and a dedicated SD card (just planning on using my tablet's for now, not like my tablet is using it).
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Websense is software that allows the net Nazis at your company to block certain websites. I was just browsing this list, which I think are the types of sites Websense can block. If you expand "Baseline Categories", you can see the categories, and many of them make sense (e.g., adult material, drugs, games, gambling, spam, and so on).
However, I found some of the categories a little interesting, including:
- Abortion (which is split into pro-life and pro-choice, so presumably you could block just a certain perspective)
- Education
- Government
- Health
- Job Search
- News and Media
It seems Websense would be a wonderful tool for oppression!
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My tablet just popped up a reminder "Sue (Michelle work) birthday" so I reminded Herself that she needs to get a card for her boss.
Of course she wants to know how I knew...
So I told her that Google knows who I am (true) and that we are together. So it looked at her NI code and worked out where she worked, then found her bosses name, and searched the internet to find out her birthday and sent me a reminder because it can't contact her directly.
With a straight face.
She is now getting kinda paranoid and doesn't believe the truth: I put an annual reminder in my system last year when she asked me to get a card for Sue. 
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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I managed to find a place that has a small supply of 84 proof Maker's 1.75L. They aren't allowing online sales of it, nor are they jacking up the price. I bought 3 for myself this weekend. My question is, if anyone is really interested, I could sell some bottles. I plan to make a run to buy more, and could pick up extra. I don't want to gouge myself, just help out any big fans of bourbon while making it work my time.
This 750ml bottle (empty) went for $51 (About double the retail of a bottle with bourbon in it).
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Makers-Mark-84-Proof-Bourbon-Collectors-Bottle-42-Alcohol-750ml-/271160698284?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f226fe5ac&ssPageName=RSS:B:SHOP:US:101[^]
I'm talking about a sealed 84proof 1.75L with the bourbon in it.
I know it's spammy sounding, just figured I'd post here before making another run. I'd also consider trades for 9mm or 22 ammo (still a major shortage here).
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Pictures from a developer's life.[^]
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second is listening, the third memory, the forth, practice and the fifth is teaching others!
modified 4 Mar '13 - 11:16.
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Since Office 365 was first introduced, I've wondered why an MSDN subscription didn't include an Office 365 subscription.
Suddenly, there it is - got an email notification yesterday. Nice!
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I was looking at this link[^]where a guy trolls people on the interwebs by claiming to be a art student and wanting to draw them. I found the first few funny but when I got to the girl with the yellow hair I totally lost it in a giggling fit. Very embarrassing.
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No, not a programming question, and no, not a "recover from a Friday drinking binge" question.
Just curious, what different techniques people use (specifically for WinForm apps). Do you roll your own persistence class? If you're a .NET developer, do you use ApplicationSettingsBase[^] ?
I'm also curious, if you develop client/server apps, if you store your app's state information locally or in a database so that your user can use any client machine and the UI is configured to their preferences ?
And yes, I'm talking about UI things, such as last window size and location, but also more interesting things such as what columns the user selected to be visible on a grid, what display order, what sort order, etc. Same with, say, a tree control - what nodes were expanded and what nodes weren't? Plus things like "exit without asking" info, and so forth.
Heck, do you even save the user's preferences / state of the UI?
Marc
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I was asked this question at work. My first thought? How the hell do I know? I can't be done just like that. I would require to rewrite whole application. How much time it takes to make application for medium-sized company? 2? 5? After 10 it usually still under work and people are thinking about rewrite it in some other/better technology.
Worse is that I don't even know what is doing. There are now complete documentation, I saw it once and I don't have complete access to code. So how much time it would take? To hell with that. Whatever I will say it will be wrong anyway; nobody can predict that.
Give me 5 people and 2 years, I could care to try.
No more Mister Nice Guy... >: |
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I use Opera as a last resort browser when it seems that all the anti-ad extensions & add-ons won't allow the website to work properly. Since I have none of that on Opera, like I do for Firefox especially, and to some extent Chrome, it always seems to work properly. And while I don't mind the ads on the specific page I go to, I do get bugged by the ads that are displayed on the initial tab page in Opera - something that seems to be optimized for my location as I get ads for the USA when there, and ads for Russia when I am there.
Any ideas?
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... when you walk away from the computer to think through what you are doing and on your return trip over the cable so switching off the computer where you hadn't saved your work.
That feeling.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
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I have a car whose registration is T3XED.
So I just bought the texed.co.uk domain.
It only works because of the care involved in choosing the registration in he first place.
I do not forsee much call for R782KPL.co.uk!
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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I just failed an online test for a job application!
OK, the test was nice and there a nice trick, bad on me to miss it!
But, the most negative report was...
I didn't write extensive unit test for a 4 lines method in a 10 lines program!
I am miffed!
They didn't say unit test was mandatory, I provided unit tests for all the other puzzles. I debated with myself providing it for this simple sample and I decided it was too preposterously simple to deserve unit tests!
Ho well, job searching is a very humbling activity... :/
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