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I'm senior enough that I have a chance at getting what I want, we now have 2 monitors instead of the 14" thing they wanted to inflict us with, some of us have managed to get local admin rights and a few other perks. IT do take their revenge however, I'm bloody certain there is a policy somewhere specifically for our team that crucifies the systems.
However I'm fighting back and turn my machine off at lunch time, their favoured time for inflicting their scan and crap on the machine. This has the net effect of extending my lunch break by 30 minutes as the machine is unusable when I fire it up after lunch.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Ah, but a quite common condition for developers is that of the lights being on whilst no-one is home.
It's called "Monday morning".
So if no-one went to work on Monday mornings, this state would not occur, and the savings would obviously be far more considerable than those achieved by turning off the little blue LED on a monitor.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I plug my monitors (three at work) into a switched power strip and disconnect the power when I leave -- so no vampire power usage either.
At home I still use a Kensington power thingy that I think I bought in the 80s. So I power the monitor, speaker, and work light as needed.
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Now that's good. Disconnect the wall wart power vampires
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What if Iron Man was really (Fe) Male?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Then he'd be Margaret Tatcher.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yes, the Iron Lady, world famous for ... Ironing?
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If you cannot say anything nice, then it is sometimes better to not say anything. Which is already saying too much
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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It was a different time back then, you needed tough people in management, as the world was unsafe, jobs were scarce and IRA bombed places in London. Yes, everything was much better back then
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Iron Maiden?
Yeah I know it's CrAs.
"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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I worry more about he/she going to the county fair and being spotted on a ferrous wheel.
/ravi
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That's a bit roundabout!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I agree - it's circular logic.
/ravi
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Can I jump on this merry-go-round?
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Only if you can roll with the punches.
"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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Then she would surely have an oppai missile system...
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Is that the breast that you can do?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I don't know in English, but here in Spain the translated war cry of Aphrodite A was something like: "BREASTS OUT!"
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(S)he'll have to look out for periods.
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And is (s)he's not eating enough fiber, (s)he could end up with a semi colon.
/ravi
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Don't forget your quote on the way 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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Good point. It's cold outside and I don't want to freeze and end up in a comma.
/ravi
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You think we can keep this up tilda end of the day?
"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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Mark words: that would be a grave and acute mistake, methinks.
/ravi
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It just underscores the need for a moderator to end certain threads.
"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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