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In my naiveté I thought that's how it was supposed to work - I hadn't realized that dreams could now be patented.
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Dreams of getting rich off other people's work are very strong in some.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It used to be that to file a patent, you had to have at least a working prototype. Seems like I could patent warp drive technology now, if I wanted to.
Marc
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Some of the suggestions offered, to help the inflicted, seem like they wouldn't work because it would still require some level of effort from the inflicted person.
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Oh, bite me.
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I'll ignore that simply because you're a key stakeholder.
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These puns are getting a bit wooden
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Can you please help me understand what this thread is all about?
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It's the diagnosis of the CodeProject Q&A Forum..
[People asking questions without having switched on their brain before = Help Vampires]
Recursion: see Recursion.
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I got that - Did you get that I was being facetious?
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No, you caught me off guard - outside the Q&A forum some filters are suspended in order to recover
Recursion: see Recursion.
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It's about those rissoles in Q&A, who think they're so smart because they answer questions.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You only need to be smarter than the inquirer, give it a try
Recursion: see Recursion.
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Ah, but you can never really tell how smart someone is.
I can run faster than he; that's what really counts.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Wow. That is one of the best uses of words that I've seen in a long time.
Extreme kudos to the inventor.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Haha. In fact, I've felt I have been afflicted like these poor souls, a few times in the last ten days.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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We all have our idiot days -- I've been known to be an uncomprehending idiot on certain topics for weeks, even, until the right penny dropped into the right slot.
It's when it's permanent that you have to worry.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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All it takes is a moment or three of - alcohol free - calm, and things start rushing back into my stress-addled brain. Yesterday morning, under heavy pressure to deliver a working test version to my client as he returned from a long weekend. I had everything wrapped up nicely, including my hard-won GUI for the damned WCF/Windows Service. I told him, at 7am I would have it ready at 9am, and then I made a seemingly innocuous code change, clicked the "Update service reference" menu item, only to fall straight into the flaming pits of hell. I had been using the existing reference for several days without updating, and everything was working fine, but suddenly the generation of the WCF proxy was failing, outputting an empty .cs file. If I try adding the same service reference to a new project, it works fine.
So I set to work just "manually" getting the other side of the app working, filled with stress and fear of doom (getting fired), and drew complete blanks on nearly everything else until around 5pm, when I had demonstrated that side to be working. Sitting down to relax and watch TV, I was suddenly filled with inspiration for diagnosing the problem, and I think today has some calm still left for me to do that.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Is this an attempt to revamp QA's image?
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I was going to post a new thread asking for suggestions on how to build a forum, but I don't think I'll bother now
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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