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TheWebDeveloper wrote: What is that?
What is that? What is THAT? God what is wrong with you?!
Are you living under a rock or something?!
Here you go[^]! 
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Mmm..mm... mm.... should I mention the spelling mistake?! 
Well, good try!
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Super Lloyd wrote: should I mention the spelling mistake?!
Be my guess
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There's a pattern I've noticed over the years, like evolution stuck in reverse.
If things are less than brilliant the better people leave. The less-able to do so (ie. not so good) stay. Invariably it seems to be those that have been there the longest take over and climb the ladder of team leadership/management.
Repeat the cycle and management gets worse and the project the same.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Yeah, scum always floats to the top.
At BAe I had a boss who started with the company 30 years previously sweeping out the hangers. Then he was holding bits for the radio fitters, then he was holding bits for some of other electronics engineers, then he was classed as an electronics assistant (still knowing next to nothing), then he became a computer operations "assistant", then he read a book on FORTRAN wrote some simple code. When I joined his section he was "Lead Developer" and was still ignorant, wrote the worst code I had ever seen and was a protective tyrant, not letting anyone (officially) see "his" code - which drove the core of a real-time system that couldn't do much without losing the "real-time" part of the job.
He went on vacation for three weeks and the Department Head asked me to investigate the core code and correct any inefficiencies. I rewrote the core in two days (it had been ridiculously badly written, the code equivalent of a 4-year old trying to write a letter to Santa) and improved data processing capability by over 2000% so that it could easily handle jobs nearly 20 times as large and complex as previously (actually in real-time now). The flight engineers and the Department Head were ecstatic but the "Lead Developer" was furious and tried to change everything back when he returned claiming my code was "all wrong" and "I didn't understand the underlying complexity of his model". His boss told him to lay off and leave it alone. However, he still stayed as my boss, so wrote poor performance reports, complained about my timekeeping (difficult, since I got there early and left a lot later than he did) and tried to "catch me out" (his words) in anything I did. Eventually his boss told him he would ignore anything negative said about me (and everyone else - it wasn't just me) and to get with the program.
Finally, after I, and another colleague had put in our resignations (not the last to do so), citing him as the primary reason for leaving (and for a lot more money, they didn't pay well) he was reassigned to be a "special projects coordinator" working with a German partner company (slightly more money but, most importantly, outside the union system). They complained about him and he was fired immediately!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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What an adventure! 
My case is not as bad, fortunately!  This time....
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Yes. That man, Mr Clifton, has done it again. His second book[^] is out with Syncfusion (Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly). You can't argue with the price.
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Way to go, Marc. Awesome!
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Awesome thanks for the link and congrats to Mr. Clifton, I guess we should call him that now eh? 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
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.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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yep saw it this morning and downloaded to my collection...
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LOL. I didn't find out until today!
(And no, I'm not too modest, I just broke the news all over the Lounge!)
Marc
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Now I know why their computer sucked at last: they were busy playing with atoms[^].
Sorry, no time for a Nielsen check.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
modified 4-Sep-14 3:16am.
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I am switching constantly between a german keyboard layout at work and a french at home, and when I am in a hurry, the fingers tend to go mixed up --
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Old news. That's at least a year old, maybe more.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: That's at least a year old, maybe more.
If only Youtube could show when a given clip was posted...
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dandy72 wrote: If only Youtube could show when a given clip was posted...
You know, I didn't even look. I just remember seeing it a long time ago.
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When does old news become very old news?
Considering this is Technology related and the pace technology moves at, considering this was posted in April 2013 does that make it Ancient History rather than 'old news'
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No need for a Nielsen check it is only 15 months old....probability of a repost is high, but unless memory technology has improved in the grey matter, the [majority of? ] folks here wont remember.
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http://www.infoworld.com/print/249057
5th paragraph
"Foley is very careful to maintain a semantic distance between "Threshold" and "Windows 9." Many people think the terms are synonymous, but longtime Chinese leaker Faikee continues to maintain that they are two separate products, possibly headed in different directions."
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Keep your story straight; there is no Windows 9.
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Windows Threshold is not Windows 9, is my original story, and as far as I was aware Windows 9 did not exist, and except for a potential leak that could be fake - it still doesn't exist.
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Problem is that you are an ignorant fool who knows very little. You are like the person who, when others are admiring a sunset, snidely remarks that "the sun never sets" and then keeps repeating it ad nauseam.
Threshold is Microsoft's internal code name for the next version of Windows, whatever it may be called commercially. This is an R&D project, so some feature will be implemented early while others will be dropped entirely, perhaps permanently or maybe pushed off to a service pack or next major release.
You screaming that this isn't so just makes you an ignorant fool. Then, like most ignorant fools, when you are proven wrong, you change your argument or claim that you never said something you clearly said. Worse comes to worse, you simply deny reality; you look at the sun and claim it's the moon.
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I'm from the north east of England. What is this sun thing that you keep speaking of?
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