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... before Easter! On holiday next week, hopefully enjoying sunshine and relaxing time. See ya, suckers (in a couple of hours anyway)!
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Have a good holiday. Send us a postcard, if you think of us.
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UsernameNotDefined wrote: Have a good holiday. Send us a postcard, if when you think of us.
FIFY 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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We are only off on Monday 21 April 
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Good Friday is not a holiday in your country?
I've taken 4 days of holiday time next week, most people are still at work. But we get two national holidays around the Easter weekend, even if you don't take holiday time.
Ed: still at work because tests are currently broken 
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Its a national holiday From Friday till Monday but not all companies take all the holidays across the year, they pick up 15 days only from the national holidays we have during the year.
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Being a software programmer is one of the best jobs these days for your pocketbook and your job security, but it can be incredibly bad for your mental health.
Two things are going on that are literally driving programmers crazy.
One is something known as the "imposter syndrome." That's when you're pretty sure that all the other coders you work with are smarter, more talented and more skilled than you are. You live in fear that people will discover that you are really faking your smarts or skills or accomplishments.
Women programmers frequently confess to suffering from imposter syndrome, and that's not surprising. The syndrome was actually first documented by psychologists Dr. Pauline Rose Clance and Dr. Suzanne Imes as a particular issue for successful women. It's also the subject of a number of self-help books geared toward women.
But a lot of male programmers increasingly say that that they feel it, too.
These people tend to apply extremely high standards to themselves and not to others. Imposter syndrome is common in professions where the work is peer reviewed. Writing software is just such a field, particularly open-source software where anyone can look at the code and change it.
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Thanks to my boss I am sure I will never suffer from this again.
The last thing he told me was : Do not use foreach for this list to interate though the items. Better use linq....
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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i guess knowledge was not the reason why your Boss actually became your Boss... 
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Hahaha this is good one 
I sometimes let resharper to change pices of code to linq as he advises, just to enjoy the result for a while and ctrl-z it back
Sure - 5-6 lines of code became one, but perfectly readable code vanished...
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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You've been reading the same articles I have.
I think I suffer from Imposter Syndrome or at least have in the past. I am more confident in my skills now but I say in programming or software development keep an open mind. A person may have more experience than you on a certain aspect of a project or vice versa.
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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"Two things are going on ... One is ..."
What is the other? The suspense in your post ... 
I think what you describe is true in most areas where there is a high skill level, for some people. I always feel insecure in that regard in work, academia, sports and any team scenario like that, though only a bit (to the level where it drives me on, not makes me fearful or paranoid).
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Just look at the Q&A and you're cured 
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And the other thing is? I mostly feel the opposite. Or I pose so. Does that mean I have negative imposer syndrome?
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Mohamad M. Mohamad wrote: Two things are going on that are literally driving programmers crazy.
Mohamad M. Mohamad wrote: One is something..
And second ?
Thanks,
Milind
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Mohamad M. Mohamad wrote: Two things are going on that are literally driving programmers crazy.
One is something known as the "imposter syndrome." ...
What's the other one?
What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
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Mohamad M. Mohamad wrote: Women programmers
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I (think of myself as ) am a woman programer and I can think of several other CPians, who are also. You better not say anything wrong (bad) about us or something may happen. Be prepared and be scared !
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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I meant no offense ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
My best mentors in learning, programming and on the job have been women to whom I owe a debt of gratitude.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Yes, its true the best programmers are all women 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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True, true, my wife has me programmed.
...oops, gotta' go.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I suffer from imposter syndrome...
...now if I can only keep that imposter from across the aisle from entering my cube and pointing out the obvious and unrelated issues. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Nice job copying this[^]. Excellent ctrl+c/ctrl+v skills.
No offence, but the reason I even looked for plagiarism is that I just couldn't believe you had suddenly become so articulate. You could try adding errors the next time you "borrow" some text without attribution.
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Damn. We still don't know what the second thing is.
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"I'm poster" syndrome - where I feel I am the poster of a message...
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