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Welcome to the Fogies Club! And congratulations!
Your membership card is in the post (along with the white stick and the earplugs so you can't hear the modern music).
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I'm something 2C at my age.
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Sir Pete's post gave this idea.
1. Become sincere. I have really become lazy. I spent good amount of time learning things a couple of years back and then thought as if I have conquered the World. Looking at my condition now, I stand no where. So get sincere. Not just with programming but with almost everything.
2. Save money. I have zero savings after close to 8 years of work. I have become insanely spendthrift.
3. Get fit. Thanks to Ingress[^] I have walked 90 KM in past 2 months. Other than that, nothing. Not those crazy muscle things but fit.
4. Learn to become politically correct/diplomatic (read lie and cheat). I don't want this but seems this is the in thing. It was and it always will. I am more than certain I will fail here.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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I thinking about having another crack at Haskel. Or Scheme. I keep starting, re-covering the basics, then stopping. It's a bit like starting off with algerabra: I can see how it could be extremely powerful & interesting but not being capable of it yet. I need to think of a project that'll make use of it.
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I started off with PHP, Ruby, Perl, Python. jQuery, Rails, HTML5, WPF and good old C++ last year. Spent a day and then forgot everything.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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I failed at last year's New Year's resolutions but I am going to go with the same ones again this year.
1. Eat whatever I want, whenever I want.
2. Gain 20 pounds.
3. Learn a new computer language (computer or otherwise).
Where I failed:
1. There were numerous times when I withheld and either ate something healthy or didn't eat something unhealthy. FAIL!
2. Weight went up and down and up; net result: about 2 pounds lighter than last year. FAIL!
3. I got a little more skilled at java and learned a bit of Mandarin Chinese (not enough to be useful). PARTIAL!
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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Hey I found you other 18 pounds. I wish you would take them back!
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d@nish wrote: 1. Become sincere
Off to the buzzword-forum with that one.
d@nish wrote: 2. Save money.
To contrast: "In China, however, households save between 25% to 50% of their income." 
d@nish wrote: 4. Learn to become politically correct/diplomatic (read lie and cheat).
How to Win Friends and Influence People[^].
d@nish wrote: I have walked 90 KM in past 2 months.
I do two kilometer a day. Two months would get me 120 kilometer. I walk too slow to be calling it a sport, but it forces the heart to pump, the lungs to breathe outside-air, the body to get used to outside-temperatures, it forces the ass of the chair; a good moment to meditate or listen to a podcast.
Do you have a dog? 
Humans always have multiple motivations for their actions. No action from a single motivation. A dog would help with walking, and it gives you a very basic level of being fit. Then again, you might want to climb beyond merely 'bit fit' and get 'good fit'.
..so donate a few jack-russel puppies to yourself this christmas - and for extra excercise, introduce a single cat next christmas
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Decades ago I resolved to put more things off. Since I haven't got around to making anymore resolutions since then, I consider myself 100% successful in fulfilling resolutions.
Will Rogers never met me.
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As someone on here once said
My new years resolution is not to hit a panda in the eye.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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I'm ok with 1920 x 1080.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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New year's resolutions:
1) Finally kill the zombie credit card balance.
2) Start saving amounts of money again to put my capital into over the top land.
3) Apply for Canadian residency(that one has been hanging around since 1999).
4) Do more with my lovely gadgets, especially video cameras.
5) Realise that I can spend copiously and save copiously at the same time, within reason(things are going great..and they're only getting better... )
6) Stop being Corporal Jones at work.
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My one resolution: more cowbell studying!
Going to try and get my 'first year' (which takes more than a year) at the Open University. I'm already almost halfway there.
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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Quote: Brain: The same thing we do every year, Pinky - try to take over the world!
Chorus: They're Pinky, They're Pinky and the Brain Brain Brain Brain Brain!
do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world!
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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New Year Resolution : become less tolerant
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My new year resolution is not to make new year resolutions... so far so good... 
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"become sincere"
An interesting quest, that. Once I would have thought that sincerity did require effort, struggle, even if that struggle had the paradoxical flavor of abandonment, of surrendering, rather than acquisition, or conquest.
But now, being of grandfatherly age (but never acting like it), I see sincerity as more of a spontaneous shining forth of one's true nature when, somehow, the monkey-mind gets out of the way.
An aspect of "being" rather than "behavior" ?
Happy New Year !
“I'm an artist: it's self evident that word implies looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying : 'I know all about it. I've already found it.'
As far as I'm concerned, the word means: 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'”
Vincent Van Gogh
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So, we've reached the end of another year and it's time to take stock of my achievements this year. Let's start with what I actually wanted to learn this year - DirectX - I really wanted to master it this year. Sadly, I'm not much further forward at the end of the year than I was at the start of the year; life got in the way - specifically, four months of my life either preparing for, or taking part in, Intel's UltimateCoder competition. Okay, so that finished just before May, but then I continued on with my journey into Perceptual Computing, as well as trying to help Chris and CP out with an entry for the recent AIO competition - there was a lot of work in that, which ended up keeping me busy until the middle of November.
So, here we are in December. Am I disappointed that I didn't push forward with DirectX? Heck no - I got to work with Intel a lot, and they are really cool people (hats off from me to Bob Duffy and Wendy Boswell at Intel for being such great sports). On top of that, I've finally managed to start something that I promised I'd work on for Chris a while back. It's actually proving to be a huge amount of fun, and there will be a very big article from me about this. On top of that, I'm exploring new opportunities that I'm pretty excited about - more if, and when, they come off. Plus, I'm now learning Haskell - my brain is melting with how subtle things can be in it.
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It was really bad if you where disappointed with the your achievements in 2013 - it's a very impressive list even without DirectX...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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Thank you.
Add 2013 to another year wasted. Check.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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I'm sure you haven't wasted it. If you look for the positives in the year, they will be there. I could have focused on the fact I didn't achieve the one thing that I said I wanted to at the start of the year. On the other hand, there were so many great things happening that were too good to miss.
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I am alive and not in jail is one positive. Other than that, professionally, a really disappointing year. Personally, I accomplished a lot of things I always wanted to. So that was great.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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Wasn't Eddie Haskell the smart ass you couldn't trust in Leave it to Beaver? I mean really, how stable could such a platform be?
You got a lot of cool stuff done this year, even if it wasn't what you planned. I'm somewhat familiar with that experience.
Apress called me out of the clear blue sky about writing for them again and before you know it, I had a two book deal that was nowhere in my plans for 2013. I had intended for this year to be all about getting back into music again but the books were what occupied my time for the most part. However, I got them wrapped up by September / October and have finally been able to fiddle around a bit with the original project I had in mind.
There's been very little music going on, but I now have the infrastructure and tech stuff set up, which is its own kind of fun. Over the holidays I plan to grab that beat up six-stringed thing in my living room and try to remember how it works. I'm sure there's a manual lying around here somewhere.
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Yes it has been a very interesting year for me too.
conversion from vb.net to c# completed in the early part of the year.
Learnt alot things to a good level about c#.
Did courses on MVC for an upcoming project next year to go across the group. In the downtime I am learning angular.js.
Which I hope to use in a couple of personal projects also.
Looking forward to the fun of 2014 and learning how to write techincal specifications 
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Two years ago, I saw an answer(with a nice link) in Q/A section. I forgot to bookmark that one on that day. After somedays I forgot that answer too & everything(like what it's). After sometime I had same thought frequently to find that link. I remember only that's a .NET question. Without any clue(s) I tried some search using some keywords(changed frequently) but no luck. Many times I did the same thing like monthly twice/thrice minimum. Same thing continued till recent time.
Even the link was not much useful or important for me, I wanted to find that. It's just like finding answer for CCC or MQOTD.
Finally today I found that answer(link). This question[^] helped me to find that.
And the answer here[^] by Carlo.
I know it's a silly thing but now I got a special feeling by achieving this.
And the wonderful thing is the date of that answer is exactly 2 years ago(19-Dec-11)
The end.
thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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