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'GNU Terry Pratchett', a charming internet tribute to the late Discworld author, reworks his telegraph idea from Going Postal "A man's not dead while his name's still spoken."
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Then we should let his name and his work to be spoken for long long time ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Companies like Apple and Facebook don't put employees through anything quite as exhausting as Thomas Edison's test for potential employees. OK, I guess I'm not going to be working for Edison anytime soon
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Yeah, well...I'm gonna go build my own light-bulb, with blackjack and hookers!
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I bet it didn't even cover debugging or how to use MSDN. 
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Which makes me wonder what programming language he would have preferred. With his seeming obsession with who various people were, I'm thinking he'd go with one of the cult of personality languages, like Ruby or Python.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Which makes me wonder what programming language he would have preferred.
Prolog!
failedTheTest(Kent) :- true.
Recursion: see Recursion.
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76-91; depending on how you score questions that had answers change in the last century or how close numerical answers need to be to the exact value.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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"Remembering random facts" != "Intelligence".
This looks more like a general knowledge quiz than an intelligence test.
"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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The oldest processor that fits the bill is the AMD Athlon 64 3200+, a part first introduced to the market in September 2003, 11 and a half year ago. It's slow (about half the Passmark score of the Baytrail-based Intel Atom Z3735G found in many entry level, sub-£100 tablets) but I chose not to underclock it.
The computer that housed it is a Mesh computer, one that comes with an Nvidia-powered Asus motherboard with onboard graphics, four 256MB DDR memory modules, a 40GB hard disk drive, a DVD ROM drive and even a floppy disk drive.
Think this accompanies the below article about Windows 10 having a small footprint nicely!
modified 16-Mar-15 16:27pm.
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I'm running it on an old Dell core2duo.
Works great!
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For small values of "run".
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Pricing raises accusations of "extortion" and "shakedowns." Why didn't I think of that?
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With current builds, Windows can efficiently compress system files. That gives back approximately 1.5GB of storage for 32-bit and 2.6GB of storage for 64-bit Windows. What will you do with all that extra storage?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What will you do with all that extra storage?
When in doubt, installing Windows 7.
Recursion: see Recursion.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What will you do with all that extra storage?
Cache uncompressed copies of the system files to improve performance.
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This week, as I was thinking about some of the kinds of rules I impose on myself, I thought it might be a good idea to come up with a set of rules that I think all software developers should live by. "Just keep on breakin' the rules"
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Rule 12: Publishing article with code is fun 
Ranjan.D
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Rule 0. There are no rules.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I have one rule to rule them all... Simplicity! Simplicity in everything you do. If you keep it simple you don't have to be clever, your code will be clear, you don't need comments, you won't write code you don't have to, you'll know what needs to be done and that's half of his best practices list all contained in that one simple rule. You'll get a lot of other bonuses from simplicity, like maintainability, reliability, done before lunch-ability...
And simplicity isn't just for code. Everything could be simple!
Simplicity really should be his first, second, third AND fourth rule, not the last.
I'm a preacher of the church of Simplicity, hallelujah! 
And actually we're so simple we don't even need a church 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Everything could be simple!
But, then how would people get away with stealing your money, providing terrible service and generally taking advantage of you? 
Simplicity is the best. 100% agree.
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string response = "Good post, but I totally disagree with #4: \"Comments are mostly evil\"";
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote:
It seems my church of Simplicity has found a heretic! Burn the disbeliever! (I'm very much in need of torch and pitchfork icons)
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I mostly agree so long as the comments 1) make sense and succintly say why the code is written NOT the what -- I can read the what --- no "declare variables" type comments, and 2) are succintly and appropriately updated when the code is inevitably morphed.
Useless or wrong comments are worse than no comments.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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