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I'm thankful for not living in the part of the world where they celebrate Thanksgiving
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That's news from 2010. I've never heard anyone about Thanksgiving and I live in the Netherlands.
Don't believe everything you read on the internet
Although I wouldn't be surprised if it became a celebration here too.
People have been celebrating Halloween for the last couple of years too.
And even St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in the cities...
People like parties and Halloween, St. Patrick's Day and Thanksgiving are just (really very lame) excuses to partAAAY!!!
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Sander Rossel wrote: I've never heard anyone about Thanksgiving
Sander Rossel wrote: Don't believe everything you read on the internet
Check.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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You must be a city boy then if you've never heard of an 'Oogstdankfeest'. Granted they've become less and less. But when I was a kid we had a 3 day celebration in our city town village. Oh heck, it was just a couple of streets in the middle of nowhere.
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LilyWasHere wrote: You must be a city boy Nope, countryside, Goeree-Overflakkee
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Where did that Mayflower sail to? The Netherlands?
The party is modelled to a party in Leiden, making it special for that specific city.
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Assumed that the topic would be about dinner. Kinda dissapointing.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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If David Gilmour released a range of footwear, would they be Floydian Slippers?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I had a pair of those but they were too tight. Made my feet comfortably numb.
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One of these days, I too will buy a pair.
"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 lost mine in Southampton Dock
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...and Time.
"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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And I wish I had both. One of these days...
/ravi
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I agree, sometimes it seems as though there's no time to breathe.
"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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That would be A Nice Pair
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Your a crazy diamond, but you ain't shining
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Hey You
Stop
Take It Back
I had High Hopes
But now I will unleash the Dogs Of War
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Yes, and he could wear them very well, but we all know the quality ones are made of a Waters based solution.
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Yourr pun is grreat, Barrett could be betterr.
Life is too shor
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Whenever I find a great technical book I really like to discuss it.
It is so rare when a technical book really does a great job of what Jeff Prosise called "Telling the story of technology".
I read a bit of the old version of this new WCF book, years ago, but WCF went through a lot of changes and this new version has just been released (digitally the hardcopy isn't even available yet).
Programming WCF Services: Design and Build Maintainable Service-Oriented Systems - Amazon link[^]
Well, I just completed the first chapter and it is fantastic introduction to WCF.
WCF technology is very broad and amazing and it is also overwhelming but this author has done a great job in this book to explain the over-all architecture and solutions that WCF helps you build while still providing very specific details of how to implement the actual code of WCF.
Has anyone else started reading the book? It's fantastic.
Architectural Thinking
The reason I like the book so much is because it provides such a great overview of all these technologies that are a bigger view of how Enterprise Applications should really be created. And thet reading is so smooth. Really great stuff. It takes a great author to be able to do that.
Even the stuff directly from Microsoft doesn't pull it all together the way this book does.
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I hope it's better than his book "Programming WCF Services". I bought that when it first came out because I wanted to really master the WCF internals. It was dreadful. One of the worst programming books I've ever read, and I've read Wrox press books so that shows how bad it is.
This space for rent
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: and I've read Wrox press books so that shows how bad it is
You got an actual LOL from me on that one.
This new WCF book is really great though. Check out the excerpt at amazon. I think you'll like it.
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