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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I never had an intrusion of any kind,
I think you and your wife's shooting ability had more to do with that. 
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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Speaking of the wife and shooting...
She surprised me on Wednesday, and came home from work with a new shotgun she'd purchased during lunch (along with a few hundred shells of various density #2-#4 buck).
She wanted something a little lighter than the 12-gauge we already had (the "big" one weighs in at 7 pounds empty and has a 20-inch barrel), so she got a 20-gauge with an 18-inch barrel (5 pounds empty). She was definitely faster swinging it around a door jam than she was with the 12-gauge, and I'm positive the 20 won't kick as hard.
".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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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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That is some arsenal you two have. Home invader's better stay away, 'cause they likely are not leaving on their own power.
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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Home invaders, confiscationists, UN "observers", government reps that are there to "help" me - yeah - they're all in the same group...
".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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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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I've been using an ActionTec for several months now. No issues yet.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
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Get ready....it's probably near its end of life. 
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Netopia modem ... slightly remote from several of my boxes. Only one box, my development box, has any issue with the sychronization. "Periodically" is the word I'd use to describe the drop that occurs ... where IE9 suddenly won't refresh, etc. And there's no real reason I can think of for this to happen.
Wait for it ...
The box that perpetually is out-of-synch ... that dev box; it's very far away and ... yes, it turns out the reason why the connection gets dropped and is always de-synching is that the power fluctuates.
Try putting both the machine that drops the connection and the modem that needs to be stopped and started often on the same power hole.
Too lazy to do it myself.
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My preference would be to keep them separate unless you're severely space constrained.
My reasoning is that your modem is unlikely to need replaced unless it fails, while your router is going to be outdated every few years due to new wifi standards.
My cable modem is 7.5 years old and still works perfectly. In that time I've gone through 2 or 3 routers: possibly a wired only one (not sure if I futureproofed myself with wifi when I didn't have anything to use it at the time), next was basic 802.11g router, currently I have a an 802.11n (2 stream, 2.4 ghz only) model.
I plan to replace that one within a year to take advantage of 5ghz wireless on my next laptop. There's a fairly good chance I'll end up replacing that one in 2 or 3 years as well; 802.11ac still comes at a large price premium and (AFAIK) no current/near future laptops are going to support it. Under those circumstances I don't see much point in paying an extra $100+ today for a feature I won't be able to use for a while, especially since AFAIK none of the current models support the highest performance segment of the spec anyway: 80 vs 160mhz wide channels, 3 vs 8 concurrent spatial streams (at the cost of more antennas than a NSA listening post  ).
Meanwhile my cable is still only 15 down; well within the 40 that Docsis 2 maxes out at. Based on past history it's probably going to be at least 3 or 4 years before my ISP increases my tier to a level that would need Docsis 3 support; longer if having to upgrade their hardware and replace lots of leased modems makes them delay farther.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Good point. Thanks for the perspective.
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I hate wireless. It has never worked well for me and the only reason I have one is to download content to my Kindle Fire (which I like a lot) and as long as it is sitting a couple of feet from the wireless, everything is okay. In fact, I only plug in the wireless when I really want to download content to my Kindle.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
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I'm not going to buy it (I have it on CD and finished it a couple of times) but GOG are selling Die by the Sword[^] for just $2.99 for the weekend.
If you don't remember it, you use a mouse to control your sword (or a joystick IIRC) and the keyboard to move around, but you can pick up things and hit Orcs with them. One of the fun bits was hacking off an Orcs arm, grabbing it, and beating him to death with his own limb...
Well, it made me laugh, anyway! 
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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*MehGerbil moves Griffy's ticker a couple of more points to the right*
Sane | | | | | | | | | | ^ | | | Sick Puppy
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You're gonna need a *lot* more | s! 
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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OG is definitely trending to 11 on the Sick Puppy scale.
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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Well, if this is good or bad is very dependent of how sick the puppy is...
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Software Zen: delete this;
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This sounds like they could sue Skyrim... *AppleBehaviour*
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Nah - there are almost no rectangles in the game, even fewer with rounded corners.
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've been a bit discouraged with my career this week. I reached a point where I'd finished up some things and wasn't inclined to jump into the next project. I was kind of wrapped up in a malaise that I couldn't shake. This had nothing to do with where I work as the conditions are wonderful and the pay is more than I'm worth.
Then this morning I picked up a bit of work - a modification to a project I'd done a year ago - and I found a terrible, twisty, nasty little problem that I need to figure out. It isn't so difficult that I won't get it solved today, round about 5:00 I wager.
Now I'm happy again.
I think I like figuring out little problems.
I'm happiest when I'm looking at my screen and thinking what the elephant am I gonna do about this mess?
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About an hour or so ago I announced to the office "I'm pissed off with all this stuff working, I wish something would go wrong so I can have a problem to solve".
We had a livation (I made that word up I think) event last Thursday and everything has been cleared from my desk to deal with the fallout of which there has been almost none, and none that wasn't utterly trivial.
I like problem solving, I like having to think, I like something new.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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If you're bored I can send you a web page I've got where the CSS is picking a fight with the javascript/jquery/ajax refresh and a couple of the elements wont go where there 'sposed to be.
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I work on code at home, and try to include something that I've never done before. My current "big" task is my Media center PC software (I put that on the back burner when I developed an unnatural urge to re-do Anagrams as a WPF app). I'm back at it on the MAH project though, and am currently working on the back-end (SQL Server database with custom code instead of using bloatware DRM frameworks).
I do the manual coding because I like to, and see no reason to avoid it. After all, it's not like I'm on any real schedule, and my project manager is my wife, who isn't too terribly bothered by Media Portal right at the moment. On the other hand, I cringe whenever I use Media Portal, knowing full well it needs to be updated, but not wanting to deal with the process (and mostly because of the additional plugins I use).
In any case, I've gotten to the point where I can scan a "media source" (a drive on my network) for .iso and .mkv files, query an online movie database, and associate queried data with the selected file. I got to the point that I'm ready to save the movie info to the database, and realized I didn't have a database. I can also put additional DVDs into drives and usb thumb drives, on any of the systems on the network and watch those "on the fly" (they're not added to the database, but show up in the list of available movies under the genre "Removable Media").
All in all, I'm having a great time futzing around.
".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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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Hey, whatever piques your interest.
For me, I like building things. It's completely freakin' awesome that I can make something out of thin air. (Has that ability ever existed before in humanity's history?) Bonus if the thing I make is useful to me. Double bonus if other people find it useful.
And we live in a time in which those things I make can be put it in front of thousands of people instantly, for next to zero dollars.
Making things is fun. That's what keeps me interested.
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Judah Himango wrote: Hey, whatever piques your interest
Congratulations, Judah!
I do believe you are one of the first people I've ever seen that spelled that word correctly in an online forum. I don't know how many times I've had to throw up in my mouth a little when someone's interest was 'peaked' or 'peeked'  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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The correct programmer term is peeked.
Peek[^]
So he spelled it wrong.
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I pride myself on this sort of thing. (It drives my wife crazy.)
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It drives my wife crazy too. It doesn't help that she has an M.A. in English, and my spelling and grammar are better than hers.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I am a programmer because I like that there's at least something that will do what I tell it to, without fail, every time.
Currently reading: "Winter's Heart", by Robert Jordan
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Brad Stiles wrote: I am a programmer because I like that there's at least something that will do what I tell it to, without fail, every time.
The bad part is when the program does what you didn't realize that you told it to do. 
Fletcher Glenn
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Intimidate is the word for me, whenever a new project falls on my lap. After researching and analyzing my approach, it becomes an adventure with highs and lows.
What we do is pretty amazing. Turning nothing into something, that at least one person can’t do without.
I’m a happy programmer.
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If I don't have a new project lined up by the time I'm wrapping up an old one, I tend to get a little down. Of course the same applies to finishing up little nit picky stuff, thats more search and replace than working on an actual problem.
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MehGerbil wrote: I think I like figuring out little problems.
That's why we are here, because we like to solve problems, little, big, easy, hard, nasty, difficult problems, once you get bored of doing so, then it's a good time to change carrers.
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MehGerbil wrote: the pay is more than I'm worth.
Where do I send my resumè?
MehGerbil wrote: Now I'm happy again.
Sometimes I have the same feeling. Sometimes I think I'm becoming lazy, specially because new projects (or features) require a lot of boiler plate code that I'm not willing to do anymore. I find solving the problems much more joyful.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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I love the aspect of programming that I can turn nothing into something, as others have mentioned here. Certainly writers and artists are like that, but our stuff actually does something.
I generally describe programmers as hardworking lazy people. We only want to do something once and we will do an incredible amount of work to do that.
When I discovered that all you had to do was give instructions to a machine and it would follow them flawlessly forever, I was hooked.
I was also astounded that something I found incredibly easy, was something most other people found incredibly hard, if not impossible.
I used to play chess, but after I learned to program, I stopped. I figured with chess, after all that thinking and planning, at the end, only a game was played. If I put that same effort into a program, I'd have something that did something when I was done.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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It is my hobby - also means I'm playing most of the time and not "working". When there is too much o "work" i.e. non programming stuff like management and unnecessary housekeeping (like filling in spreadsheets that nobody looks at), then it is time to leave.
Even better is maintenance work: putting in new functionality and fixing bugs. If the bug fix doesn't work, you blame the guy before. If it works, you get the credit. In what other job would you get a win-win situation? Adding new functionality to badly written code is quite fun. When else would you get a chance to rip out something that is so awful and just rewrite it.
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well, I just replied to a post and spelled 'queue' as 'que
So that indicates to me that it is time to stop pussy-fanning about and go to bed before my PooperPig code is completely fnarkled.
incidentally, writing OpenGL ES 2.0 code is highly not recommended after alcohol...
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_Maxxx_ wrote: incidentally, writing OpenGL ES 2.0 code is highly not recommended after alcohol...
Strange: I find that the more alcohol I drink, the better code I tend to write...
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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They always look better after alcohol.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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THAT I don't know - because another thing is that the more "code" I "write", the more blurry my display seem to get - Must be something with the display driver for all I know... 
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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You sure you're not using a gaussian blur filter shader more than you need to?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: They always look better after alcohol.
Don't talk about his wife like that...
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I assure you, she prefers me like that.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Well it does work both ways I suppose!
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Johnny J. wrote:
_Maxxx_ wrote: incidentally, writing OpenGL ES 2.0 code is
highly not recommended after alcohol...
Strange: I find that the
more alcohol I drink, the better code I tend to write...
Well... You kinda sound like Nagy Vilmos to me...
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Johnny J. wrote: I find that the more alcohol I drink, the better code I tend to write
I always think that's the case until I look at it sober
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Mandatory XKCD[^]
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
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I was going to make this into a survey
What Indent style do you use?
* K&R
* Allman
...etc.
But I then thought I wanted to also check not only on indent style but indent size 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 8 spaces - or do you prefer TABs and if so what do you set your editor tab width to?
So I put it here for general argument discussion...
Personally I use TABs with width of 4 and Allman style.
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits.
- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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I don't use braces - I use a belt!
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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I prefer suspenders, but that is our little secret.
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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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