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The FAI has just announced a benefit for injured Liverpool fan Sean Cox.
Trouble is one of the players on the Irish side is listed as Kevin Foley.
So it could be the little known Kevin Foley (footballer) - Wikipedia[^] or the very well known (in Ireland)
[Kevin Foley - Gaelic Footballer] who is both a contemporary of Mr Cox, and from the same area.
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I just ordered a... PIANO! 
Back when I was in school I played the drums and I even had piano lessons when I was like 15 or 16 years old (I just realized that's half my lifetime ago!  )
I haven't played the drums in years and it will be very difficult now with the neighbors and all.
But I miss making music and I also miss having a hobby other than (writing about) programming, studying or watching Netflix (which, apart from Netflix, is just more work, and Netflix isn't really a hobby, but laziness).
So I decided to pick up piano again 
It's going to be a digital piano: PX-870 - Privia Series | Casio Music Gear[^]
I'm pretty excited!
In a few weeks/months/years these hands of mine will create beautiful code AND beautiful music!
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Wow, nice!
And if you get lazy...
Quote: 60 songs are included in the built-in Music Library
You can have it play some music for you!
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And still hit the keys so it looks like I'm playing it 
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Nice!  Next step, get a MIDI interface and hook it to the 'puter. That's good for teaching software and also for working with alternate waveforms through a virtual synthesizer. Beware though, with the MIDI, you may have to tweak sound card settings, and even then there tends to be a perceptible latency.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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My next step will be to actually learn how to play the piano 
It's nice that as a techie your first impulse is to fiddle with the MIDI interface and hook up computers though 
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Congrats!
About six months ago my son started piano (PX-135) the weighted keys are really nice, well he's starting to sound a lot better the last month or so. I started guitar at the same time...and I still completely suck, good gawd it's difficult, but I'm actually beginning to enjoy the struggle.
Have fun! 
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For some reason six strings on a guitar sounds harder than 88 keys on a piano
If you're playing an electric guitar just turn on feedback and tell people you're playing metal, no one will hear you suck 
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Sander Rossel wrote: So I decided to pick up piano again
It's going to be a digital piano: PX-870 - Privia Series | Casio Music Gear[^]
So it's body building AND playing piano
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Lopatir wrote: So it's body building
Never again, every time I start physical exercise I get stressed and unhappy and quit after like two months 
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Very cool indeed.
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That one sounds like it's got a lot of useful features. I'd much rather have something like this than a so-so baby grand. Having actual hammers inside for an accurate action, and basing the sound on a 9' grand are big advantages. It would be nice if they gave you Haydn/Mozart and Chopin/Liszt piano sounds too, but connecting to Hauptwerk on a pc would probably deliver those.
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Paul Kemner wrote: It would be nice if they gave you Haydn/Mozart and Chopin/Liszt piano sounds too
They wished they had that Sander sound!
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So we're planning here for a cloud computing seminar and everyone in my squad (all guys) are already starting to work with promotion, presentation etc. While I'm the only one that still has issues with color scheme used in flyer
I guess you just can't help your girlish instincts no matter how technical you might pretend to be
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When I read the title, I was going to tag you here as a counter-argument. 
The sh*t I complain about
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Agreed, the title has nothing to do with the body of the post. 
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I guess what she's trying to say is that women worry more about color schemes than about code while the men are already out there coding?
If aesthetics is that important to women you'd except more women to work with CSS though
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The point was simple. The idea of "perfection" is so deeply rooted in female brain that we tend to get stuck onto something that might be so trivial to men (like color combination) until we have that feeling of perfection. I think guys are mostly of type 'just get it done anyway'.
Just an opinion.
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I've met too many programmers who certainly weren't aiming for "perfection"... "burning pile of sh*t" better describes it
Then again, the only woman I worked with, and who was heavily certified, fell into the burning pile of sh*t camp.
One of her projects cost me a weekend of about 30 hours to rewrite because literally nothing worked.
Another one of her projects caused a lot of production issues, it even deleted data in database columns that weren't even present at the time she wrote it! 
Those were the only two projects she's done for us, which was two too many.
So at least not ALL women strive for perfection
I worked with another woman, but never on the same code base (or even the same language), so all I can tell you is that I "think" she wrote decent code.
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The "perfect" code doesn't exist.
LOL she must be really talented. I bet you can't delete the non-existing columns from database. Just kidding.
Experience speaks louder than words so I think there's no point for me to debate.
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I'm just saying both men and women suck
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One needs to have good knowledge of human psychology besides being technical to understand the connection.
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I'm pretty sure the lack of females in CS has nothing to do with flyers or brochures, etc.
Just saying...
With that said, this is starting to change here in the States with more younger females getting into STEM/CS/IT/etc. than ever before.
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Seems to me like you have a lot more in you[^] than worrying about color schemes
I wish there were more women in IT, would be a nice change from all the testosterone.
I'm afraid we'll need a significant cultural shift before that happens though...
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Sander Rossel wrote: I'm afraid we'll need a significant cultural shift before that happens though...
Yes, but not in the way you may think.
To borrow a quote from a Ferengi: We have no interest in ending patriarchy, because we all hope to become patriarchs ourselves one day.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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