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Remember you heard it here second.
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Really? We've pretty much all known that for the last 5 years.
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On 2nd April 1972 Actor Charlie Chaplin returned to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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And did Leslie Nielsen die?
[Flags]
public enum Bool {
True, False, ForSure, Maybe, ProbablyNot, Depends, NotDecidedYet, Undefined
}
private interface IShy { }
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I dear me, what will we do. What will we do....
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I hope that helps to get some people to at least win7.
So far I heard it looks to different... lol.. Imagine if they migrate to win8..
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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I've put a fresh copy into a VM just for history sake. I use 7 now, of course, but WinXP was a real gem especially after it had a couple of SP's under its belt.
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You're kidding me, right?
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No, just for history sake.
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You can find a copy on eBay for about $50.
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Has anybody ever worked in a development position and the people you work with actually made you hate your job or is it just me?
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Yes I hate my jobsometimes. Its when they make me do some boring and uninteresting stuff like making a documentation. I blame my boss.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Yes, but you can't have fun the whole time. Some things that need doing are boring.
As long as no one gets singled out to do all the bad stuff, or all the good stuff.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: Yes, but you can't have fun the whole time.
I agree with you, but lately it seems there are developers around who don't. When I was a teenager I got a 9:00 to 9:30 job 6 days a week. Got pretty good at eating lunch in 5 minutes, napping 20, and not having to be nudged awake. That was around 4AM. Documentation? I'll be happy to do it.
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I thought development starts with writing documentation...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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In my case we started with no documentation at all only few bad written specifications. Then we wrote some of the code(around 80 %) and start changing things because the specification writers didn't think of everything carefully enough.
After we "finished" my boss told me to make documentation on how things work o.O with no requirements, no examples it was said: Make documentation with graphics.
The task was for me alone and instead of only doing documentation i also did code review and found few bugs, guess who gonna fix them.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Argonia wrote: didn't think of everything carefully enough
They never do think, carefully or not!
Argonia wrote: documentation with graphics
Some 15 years ago I went with my boss to sell our new (then first time Windows based) version of our application. The problem was that we had no such application, so I spend two week with Photoshop to create some nice images to sell... 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I made my graphics with MSPaint 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Argonia wrote: the specification writers didn't think of everything carefully enough
I was told that once by a manager when I complained that writing specifications two months before writing the program was an exercise in Fantasyland.
I told her if I was thinking it through to that much, then I was programming it, not writing specifications.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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Yes, it does. And ends with a documentation, too.. 
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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Someone once told me "first make it work and THEN do the maths". Maybe that works for documentation too.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Yep, last place I worked. I turned me into a right miserable, whiny bleeder, but I was reluctant to move because I was well paid and worked 5 minutes from home.
It took a job to come looking for me before I left and realised I should have done it much, much earlier.
You spend a lot of your life at work, you shouldn't spend that time being miserable if you can do anything about it.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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