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Sounds like a pyramid scheme.
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didn't your mummy tell you to be careful?
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How much pharaoh can we take this?
"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 sphinx that's your lot, unless you're in denile.
"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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Just my Luxor is it something else?
"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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Yeah, we're talking about selling pi.
Jeremy Falcon
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Darn, I must be getting too old for this, just today my kid called me an old Giza.
"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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Be brave - send him an IM in heroglyphics.
/ravi
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It's more fun if I just yell at him til I'm Horus.
"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 like how you Ramses ideas home.
"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 cannot sand it when the TooD make sense. It gives me the feeling that my senses have deserted me.
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You're in de-Nile. It's actually when your new keyboard's 'e' key is missing.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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This is african awesome thread.
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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If this happens, you should Nefertari. Just submit a complaint and you're all Set.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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So it turns out if i reference an older version of NHibernate in my project with NuGet, it downloads the dll alright, but it puts an assembly binding directive in my web.config which makes the app try to load a later version, with the result that the app breaks when I try to run it. Took me an hour to spot the damn directives, I looked everywhere else for the problem, checked every project in the solution for the correct NHibernate version. Eventually found the problem by chance.
Why in the name of GOD would they do this? It makes no sense at all ever to do that! Why must Microsoft suck so hard at most things they do? Why must they release so much crap and features I don't want without testing their goddam code?
(throws keyboard out window, sets fire to passing pensioner)
OK rant over. Just... grrr...
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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If you use source control you can spot these things much easier, just compare the working version with the last-known-good.
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Mel Padden wrote: Why must they [microsoft] release so much crap and features I don't want without testing their goddam code?
microsoft was founded in 1975, and now you're asking that question?
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Mel Padden wrote: Why must Microsoft suck so hard at most things they do? Why must they release so much crap and features I don't want without testing their goddam code?
Until someone can do it better.
I also wonder how often our customers curse out the products we create. Yet we expect near perfection from Microsoft.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Fair comment. It's just very frustrating. When have to implement a kludge I at least have the good grace to let the users know what to expect.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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Gimme MS's resources, and I think I'd be able to have near perfect software.
Of course said software would be a lot less ambitious.
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Mel Padden wrote: in my project with NuGet
NuGet. The spawn of the devil.
Mel Padden wrote: Took me an hour to spot the damn directives,
Been there, took me more than an hour. 
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Are you bitching at VS, nHibernate or Nuget, 2 of which are rather nasty. Does MS own nHibernate now?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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With the millennial generation (arguably) not really learning any new life skills outside of Facebook and "I has kittens" pictures and with the Internet helping us as people expect things now and for free as we grow up on Nintendo and not leaving the house. One can't help but wonder what the products and offerings and services of the future will be like. In particular the products or services of the future that people will pay for since now we expect so much for free in an ever-changing world of more, more, more. I'm sure robots will be doing the menial work (I mean before we have robot rights and free them from robot slavery but I digress) so what we consider blue collar products or services today will go out the window for most people.
Every industry on the planet, the longer it exists without real novelty, the cheaper the offerings of said industry become. Things get easier to make. Supply increases. Familiarity increases. Demand goes down. This will never change. For instance, now with web development... 20 years ago a CMS was a big deal. Nowadays, it's not only free but its expected. Same goes with entertainment. Used to be you have to pay for online streaming video content, nowadays you don't (e.g., go90.com*) or its dirt cheap. I mean even porn is easily accessible for free, so much that now Playboy had to change its lineup due to tatas in a magazine no longer able to easily make millions.
Personally, I think over the next few decades, people will pay for VR type entertainment as it becomes more widespread and the tech gets better. Mainly because it's new, and as we spend more and more time at home as a whole we need an escape that much more. But what about web development I wonder. What's going to make us valuable in like 20 years? With Web 3.0 and 4.0 concepts, the idea of social sharing and "intelligent Internet" will only increase more and more... so I do know AI study will pretty much become a requirement in the future. But, as we try and get more and more people "able to code" at a younger age we in essence dilute ourselves in the marketplace - tech wise.
Most things online people expect to get for free nowadays and as such our skill set seems less and less special to the layman with every passing day. So, I'd wager it would help to also learn some non tech things, as developers, as we evolve alongside the changing industry. The question is, to what? In my early 30s I decided to read a ton of self-help books and ebooks on dating to try and help with A: girls duh and B: people skills in general as a way to set me apart from every other developer out there. As development becomes more mainstream and understood by the populous, we have to interact with more people now. However, while I think everyone should do that, I don't believe that in and of itself is enough to help developers shine in the next few decades as we come out of the closet so to speak resulting from tech being in the spotlight more and more.
I hope this post doesn't sound doom and gloom. Every industry changes. This is life. Change or fall behind. What I'm curious to know is what are some of the changes some of the folks here are doing to help stay relevant in the future that don't involve technology directly? What are some of the crafty ideas going on here to help augment our coding skill set? I know there was a news story on CP the other day about resumes dying so learning to market ourselves differently seems to be a valuable skill to help us stand out, but outside of that are there any other changes coders are doing to stay valuable? Inquiring minds wanna know.
* May not be SFW depending on what you watch.
Jeremy Falcon
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