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You know this hand with the one finger 
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Sorry, I should not have said Mr Complainer, more like Mr ****.
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I hope this isn't how your company tests its releases in Production.
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Size matters. 
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Country of origin perhaps?
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When I created this account back in August just about every post I made for the first month or so went straight to moderation. (Not complaining, just fyi. I just assumed it was the norm, and fair enough really.)
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I had that when I came back in my present un dead form a few months ago. Every post came into moderation before being shown. I linked it to the privilege 'Bypass spam checks when posting content'. It's easy to reach by getting silver reputation in any of quite a few categories. Once I had that, my posts appeared normally ever since.
Instead, the whole mess with ever changing layout settings began.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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If it's not broken...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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...brake it?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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See below. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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... fix it until it is.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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...don't break it.
Which is what a heck of a lot of "reengineering" projects end up doing.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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In the last 8 months we were just there...
We have a in-house 'monster', written in VB6 used to manage bugs and feature requests (you can call it a project management tool)...
We invited Jira to show us how to do it in the right way... after 8 months (of which most spent on convincing us to do thing in a totally different way we used to in the last 15 years) we sent them away...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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It's a difficult balance.
Is it something that is used all day, everyday, by an office full of workers?
If so, then it's going to be difficult to replace: you have to factor user buy-in, retraining costs, as well as the direct replacement costs against the productivity / morale benefits at the end.
If it's use by one guy, once a month, and he follows a sheet of instructions to do it, then it's not worth it: chances are it'll be a couple of years until you realize it has subtle but critical differences nobody noticed.
Not just software either: ask the early adopters who replaced their Galaxy Note 6 with a shiny new Galaxy Note 7 ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I used to break things all the time back in the 90's with my lack of experience, "great ideas" and 1000+ page software books on my desk.
The difference is that nowadays people break things with style and the latest technology and frameworks.
Being an old curmudgeon I just see people breaking things 
[edit]changed 'if' to 'is' and removed Oxford comma(yuck!)[edit]
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 15-Oct-17 7:35am.
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I think that exactly what experience does to you... Without it you force new ideas on everything ("if you have a hammer every problem looks like a nail"), with it you use new ideas only when it really has any use...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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compact /c /s:"C:\Users\Gilgamesh\Google Drive\VS 2012" /f /q /a /i /exe:lzx "C:\Users\Gilgamesh\Google Drive\VS 2012\*"
105537 files within 13449 directories were compressed.
4,136,069,484 total bytes of data are stored in 894,611,246 bytes.
The compression ratio is 4.6 to 1. Thanks to Sergey T.'s blog for making me aware of the LZX option in Win 10: [^] TechNet docs: [^]
Do I need to say that a pre-prandial-anti-demon-contraceptive back-up is worth your data ?
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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It was years since I thought to compress files in use (not on backup)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You forgot an "M" in the word "MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM". There are 28 M's in that word, you only put 27. Just saying.
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Awwwwww, look at the cute little kiddies pretending to be able to cook with two whole ingredients. For one, she's using the wrong bread. That crap tastes like gum or glue. It's gross.
Lemme tell ya boooooi, you want real food you go to the south...
New Orleans-Style French Toast "Pain Perdu" Recipe[^]
Once you have real food you realize why southern people are happy. 
Jeremy Falcon
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eh Jeremy, thought you were in Hollywood within the 'everything's made of plastic' state.
you would be swamped 24/7 by the "kiddies can cook/sing/fart" 'reality' shite.
not converted yet?
missing real food (and real people)?
Installing Signature...
Do not switch off your computer.
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Lopatir wrote: eh Jeremy, thought you were in Hollywood within the 'everything's made of plastic' state.
Lopatir wrote: missing real food (and real people)?
Yes... big time.  Seriously, all the fakeness here can get depressing. Once you leave the Hollywood area SoCal is awesome... beautiful scenery, etc. But something about Hollywood attracts people who weren't loved as kids and have "issues" for it.
Jeremy Falcon
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You are right, it is total bollocks to use fresh bread. It is supposed to be old, hard, stale bread. Hence pain perdu, lost bread.
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