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I ![Heart | [heart]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/love.gif) my job. Lucky to work with people smarter (a lot smarter) than me and management that intuitively gets it. And the 10 minute commute (with WFH capability) doesn't hurt. And yes, we are agile (not just dev, but including PM, release management and implementation). 
Caveat: The coffee in the office is nothing to write home about.
/ravi
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I agree that not much sucks today too.
I'm still floating on becoming a grandfather for the first time this past Thursday.
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Congratulations, Mark! That's WAY better news than my post! 
/ravi
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MarkTJohnson wrote: becoming a grandfather for the first time this past Thursday
Congratulations!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Congratulations!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Congrats! I got my prerelease notice last week. A grandchild is due in April next year...our first. Funny, I don't feel old enough! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I felt exactly the same 29 years ago when my first was born. Last week my third great-granddaughter was born, and I still don't feel old enough.
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That's a good thing, keep it that way.
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Durn, I'm still poopin' yella then.
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Dunno about that, but I guess you're young.
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Caveat: The coffee in the office is nothing to write home about.
If that's the only bad thing you can say about it, that's saying something.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Very cool, Ravi! I don't think I've ever experienced that combination (excepting the coffee part) in my entire career. The closest I've managed is my current, post-retirement, job working part time in a gun shop. The owner really knows guns of all kinds, the full time gun smith really knows how to fix a bunch of guns, but both have gaps in their knowledge and need the help of an engineer to get the job done. It's also fun to come home to my machine shop, play with various heat treating processes, and parkerizing or color case hardening my home made parts for obsolete weapons. Metal work is far more interesting than coding apps for Millennial snowflakes, even though it's not nearly as lucrative! 
You're a lucky man, my friend, though you've earned every bit of it. Have a ham sandwich... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Thank you, sir. I will indeed have a ham (and salami) sandwich for supper tonight.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: smarter (a lot smarter) than me
Judging from what you wrote here over the years, I sincerely doubt this is possible.
Cool, my job situation is complicated, 1h/commute, but the direct management OK. All in all, I cannot complain.
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Are you working from home with your SO beside you today? How come it takes you 10 minutes to get from the bedroom to the basement?
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Ha ha! No, I prefer to go into the office and interact with my coworkers.
But I'm not a morning person and I'm thankful for a job that allows me to come in later than most of the other employees. The focus is on getting your work done on time and doing it well, allowing artificial constraints like dress code and official working hours to be set aside.
/ravi
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Pick up a Nespresso Pixie machine if you like espresso (~$100 - $150). Some of the coffees are truly amazing.
If you prefer coffee, get yourself a Kureg and find pods you like (even cheaper).
I had my own Nespresso machine at the office for years.
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Try this interview with the creator of JavaScript.
Brendan Eich[^]
A few pull quotes:
Quote: What Netscape really wanted was a language to complement Java that would appeal to beginning programmers, just like Microsoft’s Visual Basic.
Quote: I was under marketing orders to make it look like Java but not make it too big for its britches. It’s just this sort of silly little brother language, right? The sidekick to Java
Clearly, and contrary to a lot of the statements I have read from other developers, at least at the beginning, JavaScript is to Java as VBScript is to Visual Basic.
modified 29-Aug-18 13:53pm.
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VBScript to VB is far more accurate than VBA to VB which isn't accurate at all as VBA is essentially VB just embedded in an app.
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Thank you. My post is corrected.
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Having worked a little bit in Java and more so in JavaScript, I see absolutely no resemblance between Java and JavaScript. However, both resemble a pile of turds. 
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: both resemble a pile of turds.
When you go to the dog park, do you try to compile doggie leftovers?
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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No. Interpret them.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Marc Clifton wrote: However, both resemble a pile of turds.
What have piles of turds done to you to deserve such an insult? 
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