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CSS: A Biography.
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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I think most of us need this[^] 
speramus in juniperus
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Problem solved 
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The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I installed the XKCD keyboard... 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I installed the XKCD keyboard...
I guess they have a bug in this XKCD keyboard You should report it
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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He did, and they said -
XKCD.com help wrote:
speramus in juniperus
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We use Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server... and in your place?
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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We use TFS too - & I hate it - not sure if that is because of TFS or the way we use it!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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We've been using TFS for a few months now. I don't like tools that tell you how to work rather than let you work the way you want.
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We used OnTime at a previous joint, and that seemed to work quite well - it was pretty easy to set up and also gave our customers a portal so they could log support issues, which could then be turned into tasks and their progress followed - it worked really well for us.
TFS seems to just be harder to manage all round - though as I said, we may well be using it wrong, as we seem to do everything else wrong here !
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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_Maxxx_ wrote: we seem to do everything else wrong here !
Your choice of tool should support that.
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Unfortunately I didn't get to choose the tools that work here 
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: _Maxxx_ wrote: we seem to do everything else wrong here !
Your choice of tool should support that.
Managers always choose tools that make you do everything wrong, so no problem.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: tell you how to work
It's not the tool, it's the team.
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I had the dubious pleasure to do a project with a whole team of tools. Most were of the Java cargo cult flavor, but they also were great thinkers. For example, they thought themselves to be very agile, but actually met everything outside their cargo cult with the agility of an anvil.
I really miss them. 
Sent from my BatComputer via HAL 9000 and M5
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Sounds like they managed to bend you
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No. They got me fired for the first time ever. The best thing that could have happened to me.
Sent from my BatComputer via HAL 9000 and M5
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Just made a very minor update to a tip and some changes were made by the approver (editor), with which I have no issue at all (in fact am grateful for the time and effort), however I was amused to see quite a few stylistic changes and one spelling change in particular (pluralisation, so you could call it grammar) that is highly dependent on which version of English is native to you (or which version you have studied as a second language).
Current English (I refuse to write British English, it's tautological ) would suggest strongly the singular - I can't however speak for true nerds masters of the English language, I'd have go dig into some of my English dictionaries and usage guides for that and I don't have the inclination right now. Whereas, I think, North American usage (a language I have taken to calling American) would suggest the plural:
...a couple of folk at...
...a couple of folks at...
It doesn't really matter too much to me but it does suggest a real stickler is hiding behind the scenes somewhere
A google search of is 'folk' plural or singular[^] would seem to agree that folk without the s can certainly be plural.
(Yes I do get I slight peak of annoyance everytime I have to select a language in any MS product - grrrr).
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The quickest way to get your head around this is as follows.
Whatever the Yanks want to do is wrong. Do the opposite and she'll be right mate.
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: Whatever the Yanks want to do is wrong
No, no, it's just 'American', that which has been corrected was 'English' or at least my native version of it, I dare say you have another
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And tell the yanks to folk off !
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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