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Sometimes for amusement, Mike Hankey retrieves the mail by using a fly rod.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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On the eighth day, Mike said "Let there be grilled steak!" and there was grilled steak.
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And Mike saw the steak, and it was good. Upon consumption of the steak Mike said "Let there be beer!" and there was beer.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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And Mike saw the beer and it was good. Then he said let there be bacon. And there was bacon.
What we got here is a failure to communicate
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Mike did not, in fact, create bacon (this is a commonly held mistake). Bacon created itself to satisfy Mike.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Bacon created itself to satisfy Mike.
Jeremy Falcon
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And Mike saw the bacon and it was good. Then he said let there be a quiet centerfold-like woman, with which to share his bacon, beer, and steak. And there was quiet centerfold-like woman.....
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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And Mike said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
And Mike made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and Mike saw that it was good.
Now I can have grilled steak sayeth the Mike.
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Don't think you're going to get away from having your own Chuck Norris facts.
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My turn in the barrel eh Pete? 
Good ones all! And your fellow cohorts came up with some fine ones also.
jeron1 - You've reminded me it's time to get out in the stream and do a little fly fishing, it's been a couple of months since I last flipped a fly.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Just took delivery of a new pair of waders, only if I could find time to get out.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Time is a precious commodity you don't find it you make it.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
modified 15-Aug-14 2:58am.
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Mike Hankey wrote: Time is a precious commodity you don't find it you made it.
So true. 
As I get older I realize it is the things I never found time to do that I regret not having done.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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"Who is stupid, you or me?" my boss asked. I told him everyone knows he doesn't hire stupid people.
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Obligatory Dilbert[^]
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Congrats on the promotion.
But personally, I stopped dealing with "promotions" and "raises" years ago...as a matter of fact, I stopped dealing with being an "employee" years ago.
I set my rate at the highest that I feel the market will bear. I work for whichever buyer has the most interesting crap to do and will pay me what I demand. When that contract ends, I repeat the process; in this way, I do my best to never leave money on the table and I never have to justify to some middling manager that I "deserve" more.
Rule of thumb: if I'm not terminated in a year, I'm not charging them enough.
"I need build Skynet. Plz send code"
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Interesting: I have a number of rates!
It varies by length of task: shorter is more expensive; by hassle factor: more hassle == more money; by payment record: pay my invoice slowly, you pay more next time.
And added to that is the basic hourly rate which comes in two varieties: one for customers I like to work with, and a much, much higher ones for ones I don't.
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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OriginalGriff wrote: by hassle factor: more hassle == more money;
Yet your answers in Q&A are 'Free'.
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Didn't I send you my invoice yet?
How remiss of me - I'll get it out to you ASAP.
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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P0mpey3 wrote: Yet your answers in Q&A are 'Free'.
and many.
I barely have the time to fart these days, with family and job, and all. If I had to make a living from self employment or contract work, I don't know how I would have the time to frequent the forums on a regular basis.
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Yeah OG is obviously not one person but a group of people operating under the same name.
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Typically there is enough work around for clients that I want to deal with that I don't have to worry about working for clients that I don't want to deal with. But, it goes without saying that I don't want to sell to customers that I don't want to deal with lol. So, if I set a price for them *and they accept it*, I didn't set my rate high enough and that's a miscalculation on my part. The point of my price for them is to price myself out of the market, but when I talk about my "market rate" I mean the rate that clears the market; not an asking price that gets rejected.
I typically land contracts that fully allocate me to a single client at a time, so when I say "THE rate" it comes down to my market rate at the time that I negotiated 'my current' deal. I've never had to lower it, but that's not saying that I never will. ...but this "economic downturn" has been very busy and a very profitable one. 
"I need build Skynet. Plz send code"
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Yes, same here.
BTW, True story: A friend of mine had a computer store years ago and there was one customer who always came in and hassled him. My friend just smiled and whenever the customer bought something, he added a one liner to the invoice/receipt: "Pita charge 15%."
One day the customer finally asked what the "Pita charge" was for. After the acronym was explained, my friend's competitors never forgave him.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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