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The most obvious answer is to stop using Windows 10.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Ditch windows explorer, and use Directory Opus from GPSoftware instead. You won’t regret it, especially if you remember if from the days of the Amiga
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Land (surrounded by water) where silver went after gold (8)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I cache it for an other day (or until I find a clue for go with)...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Shouldn't this clue have been saved until 19th September?
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I'm not sure what Sept 19th has to do with it: Nov 14th, maybe ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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He most likely thought your clue has something to do with pirates (John Silver). Which somewhat makes sense if you read the sentence and try to interpret it literally. He doesn't see the other gold that goes after silver.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Um ... it did! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Interesting,
There is a competitive game where the winner could win silver or gold medal that would fit your clue. See if you can find it.
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Nov 14th:
National seatbelt day, Family PJ day, Pickle Day and Spicy Guacamole day...
Maybe my answer is very wrong. I shall walk the plank.
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Arrr! Matey, ye had 'er roight!
But Bosun Derek beat ye to 'er! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Published Nov 14th, 1851.
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Go on then, I'll bite... TREASURE
(As in Treasure Island, where Long John Silver goes after gold...)
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You are up tomorrow! 
Thought I'd do a different style of CCC today.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I just took an online assessment for a potential new job. It consisted of an IQ test, a motivation assessment and a personality inventory.
The motivation assessment consisted of asking me about 75 times, in 75 different ways, whether I would enjoy doing some interesting intellectual work, or some menial work like filing papers in an office. Each question gave three possible work activities and I was asked to rank them according to the order in which I would prefer to be doing them.
So the HR lady tells me that I got the highest score she's ever seen on the IQ portion of the test, but that I'm not a good fit for their programmer position according to the other parts of the assessment. She said I would be bored with the job. 
I have had success at every programming job I have ever had, and here they are telling me that I wouldn't do well at their programming position because of some stupid multiple choice test where every question is devoid of any necessary context. What do they want, robots?
Has anyone else taken such an online assessment? How did you do?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Take a long breath out... relax....
It is an unfortunate facts of life that the HR step to work is a roulette spiced with stupid erroneous personality assessment... Get over it! 
(I don't mean it nastily, I mean job hunting is like fishing... sometimes there are no fish, sometimes you have to throw the line many times!)
Fact is, they probably had lots of applicants and found someone else first, or cheaper...
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Well it just happened, so I think I still have time to get over it. But I get your point. Thanks.
(She even mentioned that the hiring manager was very interested in my experience. I guess their computer knows better than the hiring manager.  )
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Last time I was looking for job, all was done in personal meetings - first with the professional team, and then with HR...
However it seems, that like in all learning-related fields (like schools), they try to define a quantitative formula, that enables passing on the decision to some AI-like software... For me it seems like passing on responsibility (which in my experience is the way no-fitting persons deal)...
But! Look at the bright side - she maybe right, and saved you from boredom for the rest of your life
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: she maybe right, and saved you from boredom for the rest of your life
Thanks.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Looks like you dodged a bullet -> if they have such a poor opinion about about SW engineering and see it as a boring and repetitive activity, they have not understood what it is all about and it was certainly not a place for you (just imagine sitting together in a team with people who answered 75 times "My happiest workplace would be one where I would like to do exactly the same thing everyday").
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Yes, that is a good way to put it. Thanks.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Sounds like HR motivating their existence
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: What do they want, robots?
Somerhing far worse. A creature that has been conditioned not to do or say anything before consulting its brain pacemaker and some online community for approval. The sort that may not be good for anything, but is capable of everything when so instructed. Scoring high on the IQ test used to be a good thing, but now it only means that your conditioning is faulty.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Has anyone else taken such an online assessment? How did you do?
No. I usually get up, wave my hand and tell them that I'm not the droid they are looking for.
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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CodeWraith wrote: Scoring high on the IQ test used to be a good thing, but now it only means that your conditioning is faulty.
CodeWraith wrote: I usually get up, wave my hand and tell them that I'm not the droid they are looking for.
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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Thanks for the perspective.
The difficult we do right away...
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