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There many ways to get round this change of law.
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Spend 2 hours to automate a task that would take 1 hour doing manually.
But I think it's justified because I avoid the risk that someone will mess up because the task was boring and repetitive.
If you are lucky you get to spend 1 hour to automate a task that would otherwise take 2 hours.
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If it's a recurring task, and you automate it in double the time it would take to do it once.. that's an achievement.
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"Why Program by Hand in Five Days what You Can Spend Five Years of Your Life Automating?"
--Terence Parr
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In defence of this approach, I once spent a week writing a program to match up entries from the audit trails of three separate systems. To do this 'by hand' took maybe half an hours for a set of data.
We had over 5,000 unique datasets to be checked. And all the anomalies were logged to a file for some poor git* to check.
* Me
veni bibi saltavi
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Member 11683251 wrote: I avoid the risk that someone will mess up because the task was boring and repetitive.
But not the risk that the program introduces an error which everyone fails to notice until it's cost the company half its revenue and started three wars?
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Obligatory XKCD[^]. 
"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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Got bored of trying to draw things with weird characters, tried to do something a little more interesting, didn't really pull it off, but have this anyway.
Swindon Ilford Glasgow Leicester Sheffield (8 characters)
OR
Swindon Ilford Gloucester East London Sheffield (8 characters)
OR
Swindon Ilford Glasgow Liverpool East London Sheffield (8 characters)
Clue 1. What does a Hungarian use to light his hovercraft?
Clue 2. I'll admit the clue is UK-centric, but I'm sure someone should be able to deliver the answer.
Clue 3. You want that long, wriggling thing, then your gonna have to thrust something tasty into it's concealed places
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
modified 11-Nov-15 6:34am.
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If the answer should be HELLHOLE then you forgot Luton! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Your facetious response earns you 2W (meeting obviously shorter than intended)
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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GASOLINE
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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The clue is a clue to a clue to the solution, not a clue to the solution.
Although 6W.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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*I* use a paraffin lamp
veni bibi saltavi
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That's because you can speak English - 2W for paraffin
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: What does a Hungarian use to light his hovercraft?
EELTRAPS?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Aha, a Monty Python fan I see, very good - 1B,2W
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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LEGOLAND
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Gordonsy
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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With the mastermind clues we can brute-force this one by going:
AAAAAAAA
BBBBBBBB
CCCCCCCC
and when we add up 8B we use some anagram solver.
Life is too shor
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Griff got it more or less right earlier, just the answer and solution were wrong.
And there were 6 white pegs handed out earlier too.
Everything is there, you just need to work out a different way of representing the cities, particularly as it relates to the second clue.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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angolnát
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I regret choosing this word, I regret wasting my third clue, I regret my choice of underwear today.
Anyway; 1B, 2W
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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It is all right...You can fix it tomorrow
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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