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My pleasure; if I said something wrong I'm sure that Chris will post another message.
Sascha Lefèvre wrote: I'll copy it right now into my "this and that"-library and apply the attribute to itself 
Thanks 
It is a satisfaction that Picasso can not feel; one does not only sign their work, one also shares and sees their name on the result of anything that builds on it. It costs nothing, yet many companies omit it, as it may damage their "brand".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: I'm not guaranteeing that they don't send the hamsters after you, but I think it may not be their main focus.
They do much worse; they send Sean (in his mankini)!  
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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Just spotted this in the logs:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Cray Linux Environment;) Gecko/20100101 SUSE/3.12.43-52.6.1 Firefox/53.0
In my old job I used to love using our pet Cray as my plaything.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I can imagine. Doesn't a current gaming console have about the same amount of computing power as the earlier generations of Crays?
I used to be really into fractals and I would have calculations run overnight that take about one second on a good machine now. That was before this site was started. 
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Please remove any Dutch entries in your log that make no sense 
..and no, wasn't me. Not that.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Which one is it, Ronnie or Reggie?
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Which is another spelling but funny anyway. Where I am crays are lobsters.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Here too, but there is a difference between a cray fish and a Cray with a knife at your throat! 
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I had assumed Robert Cray.
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Suddenly I'm feeling the urge to play around with my user agent string...
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<OldWarStory>
A long time ago, on an Air Force base not too far away... I was the system manager on a several VAXen. Outside the classified vault in the computer center, they were installing a Cray Y-MP.
I made the observation that they needed to find a virgin operator(*) to sacrifice on it before powering it up for the first time.
</OldWarStory>
(*) It was a well-known fact that the night-time operator staff had regularly-scheduled orgies while waiting for processing runs.
Software Zen: delete this;
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So I work for company A (they pay my salary), but they put me to work at company B (they pay company A).
So while I'm officially employed by company A I don't really know the people there and I spent most of my time at B building their product.
Until company B decides they don't need me anymore and I'm out (company A can't easily do that because we have laws that protect employees and such).
Once company B decides I have to go (or when I decide I don't want to work for company B anymore), company A will find a new company for me to work at.
This is actually pretty common practice in the Netherlands.
In Dutch we say that company A does "detachering" and I'm "gedetacheerd" at company B.
But what is this called in English?
Google is of little help, apparently I'm "detached" (maybe from reality, but not from my job!)
For "detachering" I find something like "secondment", but that doesn't sound well.
Am I "seconded" at company B? Does company A do "secondment"?
Is "detachering" not something other countries do (often)?
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The correct term is "confused".
We also refer to the practice as "outsourcing", and one doing it across borders is an expat. You're doing contract-work, if I'm not mistaken?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Outsourcing is the term I was looking for! 
I'm not doing contract work, I'm employed and outsourced.
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So your employer is pimping you out, basically? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Don't hate da playa... hate the game.
Jeremy Falcon
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Outsourcing?
In order to understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.
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Yep, like Eddy says
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I'm landlorded to company B?
That sounds very weird... 
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Maybe it Sound weird, but Looks like it is the fact 
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Except I don't have land or a building I'm renting out.
Does "landlord" have some other obscure meaning I'm not aware of?
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In Business yes. And it (landlord) is not generally bad.
I'm exactly employed in that way, let me try to explain:
I was originally employed by B, became part of a bigger Organisation where A is also a member.
Do to some restructions and optimizations (financial, organisation and much more locations) the Team "B" was moved (organizational whise) to A... but our main Job is to work for B.
So I'm employed finally from "landlord" A, which in my case was a very big Advantage, because A is financially very strong (at present B became also strong, so that is not longer a point) but working for B.
Sorry for my bad English. I hope you get an idea what I try to say. If not it is also not a big Thing in history
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