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By the time you have researched it, bought and paid for it, set it up, fiddled around to get it working right you could have typed them all in! 
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+50 
Jeremy Falcon
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Karel Čapek wrote: By the time you have researched it, bought and paid for it, set it up, fiddled around to get it working right you could have typed them all in!
That is not the software way... a software engineer will spend 5 hours writing a program to automate something that would take him (her) an hour to do manually.
Clearly you are new here.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Aah, but he'll win in the long run. If he decided to automate, the thing that takes him an hour would surely be a thing that he'll have to do on a regular bases, or at least once in a while. What the script will ensure is that he does it the same way every time, producing the same output . The script will also ensure that he doesn't forget how to do it... and, that if he leaves the company the next person will know how to do it. He's scripting skills will improve which will reduce the time he spends writing his next script. He will build a source code base, which will also reduce the time he spends writing his next script.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
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Verification and validation expert !!!!
I like it !
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Actually, I am estimating a 50 to 60 hour job.
That would be pure time.
With easily predicted interruptions, this task (which I have prioritized as the #1 item) will never get done by human effort.
Big factor: my eyes are so farsighted that I can't even focus on the stars in the sky.
The probability of human error is like the calculus definition of "the limit" which in this case equals 1.
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Absolutely !
When I get rich, that's high on the list of things to have.
I told the guy at the front door of Best Buy what I'm trying to do, and that's exactly how he responded; and hooked me up with a guy on the floor who took me right to those things.
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Take photos of the cards with your phone and upload them somewhere. Then set up a job on Amazon Mechanical Turk or one of many other piecemeal work websites and offer 3 cents per card.
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I only insert my private member into well known, healthy and safe places 
while (true) {
continue;
}
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I'm sure this is what you say to all those not very well known places  .
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Well, those places are not so many and should not be over-estimated
while (true) {
continue;
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That adds new meaning to the term "clean compile".
The difficult may take time, the impossible a little longer.
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Are plateaus the highest form of flattery?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Now you're making mountains out of mole hills.
/ravi
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I think he's on the level today.
"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
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I'd have thought the answer was plain to see
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Yes.
And is an ocean the lowest form of wet?
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Just when I thought we were on good track towards a trekkie future (holograms, universal translator, teleportation) they go and build the prototype of a Dalek.
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The Highways Agency found over 200 dead crows on the M4 near Bridgend recently, and there was concern that they may have died from Avian Flu. A Pathologist examined the remains of all the crows, and, to everyone's relief, confirmed the problem was NOT Avian Flu.
The cause of death appeared to be from vehicular impacts. However, during analysis it was noted that varying colours of paints appeared on the ...bird's beaks and claws. By analysing these paint residues it was found that 98% of the crows had been killed by impact with lorrys, while only 2% were killed by cars.
The Agency then hired an Ornithological Behaviourist to determine if there was a cause for the disproportionate percentages of truck kills versus car kills. The Ornithological Behaviourist quickly concluded that when crows eat road kill, they always have a look-out crow to warn of danger. They discovered that while all the lookout crows could shout "Cah", not a single one could shout "Lorry"
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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