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I think the noun "definition," appears to mean, in, and of, itself, that "definition" is not self-referential.
But, that meaning may disappear when I do not think about the meaning of "definition," or vary when I use, or hear, or see, the word with other words.
The most satisfying conversation I ever had consisted (entirely) of the other person saying the word, "definition," to which I replied, "definition," after which, we both committed suicide because we both knew it would never be as good as this, again.
Well, "empirical:" that's a religion, and we can't go there in the Lounge.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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It is possible for an imperial definition to be based on empirical evidence, but it's not likely.
Similarly, it is possible for empirical evidence to be backed by imperial authority, but again it's not likely.
This is also know as the Psalm 146, verse 3, addendum to the description of the scientific method. Also see the Internal Revenue Service tax code, volume 34, page 692, section 3, paragraph 17.a.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Karel Čapek wrote: Fallacious, perhaps?
I love it when my wife is fallacious.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: I love it when my wife is fallacious.
It sucks!
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Now you're being specious. 
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I'm aiming for facetious.
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Bad joke of the day.
I've always wondered how this trend got started.
Did you ever wonder why earrings became so popular with men?
A man is at work one day when he notices that his co-worker is
wearing an earring.
The man knows his co-worker to be a normally conservative fellow, and
is curious about his sudden change in fashion sense.
The man walks up to him and says, "I didn't know you were into earrings."
"Don't make such a big deal, it's only an earring," he replies sheepishly.
His friend falls silent for a few minutes, but then his curiosity prods him to
ask, "So, how long have you been wearing one?"
"Ever since my wife found it in my truck."
I'll get my coat. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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Fair 'nuff. That's a perfectly reasonable answer, on a par with the one about "how long have you been wearing women's panties?" and the glovebox, which I first heard about 1972. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: how long have you been wearing women's panties?" and the glovebox,
That was going to be my next BJOTD.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
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I was going to add; good thing they weren't panties, but you're a step ahead of me.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Roger Wright wrote: Fair 'nuff. That's a perfectly reasonable answer, on a par with the one about "how long have you been wearing women's panties?" and the glovebox, which I first heard about 1972.
Faarrrkkkk you're old. That was the year before I started preschool.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Hush, young pup! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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(The mail client is on hold until I figure out what is wrong with GeckoFX's editing ability [it doesn't work])
The library is a bunch of things I have collected/created/modified/etc. Settings system (sorta like GLibs's GSettings, but allows you to choose the backend), IO-related stuff (including getting the Mime Type of a file [Requires the Shared-Mime-Info database]), Various extensions, and so on.
There are four extension methods that work like the Min/Max IEnumerable<T> extensions, but allow you to specify a comparer. I have no idea why those don't exist in the framework, but they don't.
Also, there is a Python-esque struct.[un]pack implementation (taken from somewhere else), and a Python-like partition method for the string type.
Any other utility code you like to use?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I think almost every developer has their own 'bag-o-tricks' that they keep handy.
Two items that always went into my MFC/C++ apps stdafx.h file were the following:
#define countof(array) (sizeof(array)/sizeof((array)[0]))
#include <afxtempl.h>
template<class T> class List : public CTypedPtrList<CPtrList,T *> { };I didn't stop using the countof() macro until VS2008 came out and included the _countof() macro out of the box. Amazing it only took them 20+ years of making C and C++ compilers to figure that one out.
It's tough for me to come up with C# examples. The closest I can come is a set of TCP/IP socket communication classes I've reused in multiple applications, but they're more an implementation of a common protocol than generally useful.
Hmm. On second thought, I do have an example. We have in in-house tracing tool that we use for debugging distributed applications. We embed a piece of server code in each app, which communicates with a client application. We've written versions of the server code in several flavors of C++ and C#. It's almost always our first stop when developing a new application.
Software Zen: delete this;
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If you build apps using MongoDB, Microsoft would love to talk to you.
We'll keep it brief and promise not to try sell you anything. We just want to understand what you love and what you hate, if anything, about MongoDB.
Start here
Thanks from Ryan @ Microsoft
modified 22-May-15 23:51pm.
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Will work better if posted on a week day!
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it is still a work day over on this side of the planet 
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OMG! You are so far behind!  
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I know, I get that a lot. if only we could catch-up 
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...and in that one phrase, you have modern MS in a nutshell...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Your survey (come on, is it really from Microsoft? I seriously doubt that) is FUBAR.
This question: Which of these NoSQL technologies do you actively use for production workloads, or are actively experimenting with?
Requires an answer. I have not worked with any NoSQL technology, and neither is "other" an option.
Anyways, I'm one button click away from marking your post as spam just to get email addresses, because this has nothing to do with a real survey of a developer's likes and dislikes of NoSQL database.
So please, cut the BS and remove your post. If you don't, I will.
Marc
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Actually this really is from Microsoft. Look me up on Bing / Google / LinkedIn - Ryan CrawCour.
It's not just to get email addresses.
We really want to talk to people that have experience with MongoDB specifically, but other NoSQL document data stores will do too.
We're trying to understand, from a developer / architect / it pro / tech decision maker etc. the things people like about MongoDB and the things they don't.
The post is in the Lounge, where people hang out discussing different topics relevant to developers. I would've thought this was relevant.
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Ryan @ Microsoft wrote: Actually this really is from Microsoft. Look me up on Bing / Google / LinkedIn - Ryan CrawCour.
Huh. Well, my apologies then, but anybodoy can put whatever BS they want on a LinkedIn, so I still don't believe you. Reading your LinkedIn page, I find it really hard to believe that you are a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft
Not that this will continue to win any brownie points, but honestly, your survey seems lacking. How, from two question, will you understand, from a developer / architect / it pro / tech decision maker etc. the things people like about MongoDB and the things they don't. is utterly beyond my ken.
And what does the Azure question have to do with NoSQL?
And posting this on a Friday night before a three day weekend is, well, not very effective.
Marc
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Thanks for your feedback Marc,
How about this - does that help convince you? 
With regards the actual survey;
It's intent is to be short and brief and to qualify who we'd like to have follow-up conversations with. This is why we ask for contact details at the end, so we can schedule a 30 min conversation with you. So we're not trying to understand everything about you from these two questions.
How is Azure relevant to NoSQL? Well, good question. We build & run Azure. We also build & run a number of NoSQL services on Azure (like DocumentDB, Table & Blob, Hadoop, Redis, Datastax Cassandra etc.)
Perhaps the intent of the survey is not clear, I can address that.
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