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Do extend this offer to the GIT too. 
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That's a deal. Utrecht is nice centrally to the Netherlands. Let someone pick a date!
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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If it goes ahead then post a picture on facebook and/or Twitter as proof and send me the (reasonable!) bill for the first round of drinks.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Tx, but I don't think it will happen 
Chris Maunder wrote: and send me the (reasonable!) bill for the first round of drinks.
That many Dutch members on the site?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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"meating"
There's a BBQ!? Nice! 
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That's not quite the "meat" he had in mind! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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A typo, but one with truth; no talking about code on an empty stomach
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Sort of morbid, I suppose, but I just released at least one person on my Skype contact list is deceased. Creepy. Would be interesting to have an AI that could take their place and simulate their personality, sort of like Black Mirror's episode "Be Right Back" (season 2.)
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Did that person re-send a request to add him back into your contact list 
Bryian Tan
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Marc Clifton wrote: released
Spellchecker not smart enough.
This is a problem all over the internet including CP. I know of at least one popular article where the author is dead but questions are still posted regularly.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Says the little cowboy who ranches code 
modified 9-Apr-18 11:27am.
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(add creepy music)
I Skype dead people
I'd rather be phishing!
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I for one, am so stubborn I intend to talk back even when I'm ded; because there's an API for that.
Skype Developer Platform | MSDN[^].
Bastard Programmer from Hell
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I look forward to your article when you get it working
<sig notetoself="think of a better signature">
<first>Jim</first> <last>Meadors</last>
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This was all over the crazy news this morning: Man 'cements microwave to head' in Wolverhampton - BBC News[^]
Clearly the IQ's involved are low and the level of artificially elevated mind states high but what were they trying to prove? Maybe I've already answered that.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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I think this an awesome news.
Now we just need some shark mounted laser and that would have been like totally awesome!  
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Should have just turned the microwave on and done mankind a favor.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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So today I've experienced what a lot of people are complaining about...
Insufficient privileges!
Up to now I've always been a sysadmin on all servers and databases, just because we had small teams where everyone did everything (and I did deployments, mostly).
I now work for a company that has developers and admins and (somewhat) clear roles for both of them.
So I deploy an application (using VSTS, which, apparently, has more rights than me).
And it doesn't work...
Ask an admin if he can check out a log file for me, yes there, no not there, that other folder, yeah, that one.
Then ask if he can change a config for me, yes that config, that value, no, with an A, not an E, yeah, like that.
Then ask if he can check that same log file for me, yes that folder, over there.
Then ask if he can install a certificate for me, yes I really need it, it's from a third party we need to run our business, yes really, on the local computer, no not the user account, yeah, like that.
Then ask if he can, again, check that log file for me.
Then ask if he can run a SQL script for me, that database, no that one, seems the schema is new, just type CREATE SCHEMA, no just do it, you need to type GO after a CREATE SCHEMA, no GO, yeah there, try again...
Log file again.
Things are getting messy, turned out the IIS app pool didn't have sufficient rights for the certificate.
Great, that works... Next application 
I'm not complaining that the sysadmin doesn't know how to do his job, but this took an entire afternoon while it should've taken about an hour.
I'm a developer, I've written the software, designed the database, deployed it to our test environment...
Just let me do my job on other environments as well
Computers are my job, I kind of know how they work... 
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You're singing the song of my people.
".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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In a nice strong baritone as well.
(I periodically have to remind the IT people to not f*ck with the wizard)
Software Zen: delete this;
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At my previous site, the system administrator (server side) was just that.. the administrator. And the network people could do there job.
Following a 'merger' and shift of responsibilities to corporate, neither can do there job.. the system administrator does not have access rights to the nodes to make sufficient changes - he is a glorified part swapper, and the network? That is contracted out to a firm - you now just hold the door for them and escort them throughout the mill.
Bigger is not always better; let people do there job.
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Welcome to the world of PCI compliance where even sysadmins don't have any privileges. Where some random QSA (Qualified Security Auditor) who is basically unfamiliar with your business or business rules gets to convince management that removing IT access to all servers and data, except the glorified few, somehow automagically makes everything "better".
And where getting anything deployed to production requires an act of congress because everyone knows that developers, who have worked for the same company for 30 years, can't be trusted.
And if something bad should happen to the only two people who are actually allowed to approve deployments to production, then no one is deploying anything until the one network person who actually knows where all the skeletons are buried can worm his way into the deployment system and approve someone else.
Because apparently, this is how everyone else does it.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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Sander Rossel wrote: Computers are my job, I kind of know how they work...
Because every time I've heard that it was aaaaalwaaays true!
(Not implying that it doesn't actually apply 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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I am so in the same space right now. Had some guy from "IT" respond to a ticket I raised with some cr@p that started "I've talked to Microsoft and...". :sniff:...anyone else smell that? Then a business critical month end process crashes and when I ask for a registry entry to be changed he demands "a business case" before IT can "authorise the use of that Access database"
As if it's not soul - destroying enough to be working as a "VBA Developer" I have to watch a bunch of cowboys pass themselves off as an "IT" department providing zero service to the business. Jeez.
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My job title, and the AD groups I am in, says I am a DBA and System & Server Admin.
We (my coworker, in the same job) have been trying to install an MS SQL cluster on a server since August.
I think I'll just leave it at that. Use your imagination: think about permissions and HBSS and DNS and AD and VMs and about how each teeny tiny aspect of an enterprise system is individually controlled by different people, in different parts of the country, and how each request has to go through a ticketing system that averages about three days from submission to assignment.
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