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suppose it beats swimming....
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Congratulations; the birthday girl is going to be very happy !
cheers, Bill
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
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Actor Bob Hoskins, who was best known for roles in The Long Good Friday and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, has died of pneumonia at the age of 71.
I liked him, he had an honesty sorely missing from most thesps.
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Quote: I liked him, he had an honesty sorely missing from most thesps.
Plus he made some bloody good films, especially The Long Good Friday [^] with a young and, if I recall, somewhat unclothed Helen Mirren.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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And don't forget, he was Pink's manager in Pink Floyd's The Wall.
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Nooooooooooo. Super Mario!
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Don't cry, it might cause your 'outfit' to shrink.
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Favourite movie with him - "Prayer for the Dying" [^] with Mickey Rourke (also excellent) and Liam Neeson. worth a watch. RIP Bob.
SGarratt
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I have been working on a little algorithm today. I knew it wasn't actually right, but I couldn't find the problem.
Google was not my friend, I even considered QA. Then I remembered...
Many moons ago. Before White Man come. Kill all buffalo...
[does the wavey hand thing]
... I'm sure it's in Knuth. So I go to Volume three [with examples in machine code] and there it is. Exactly what I wanted and I realised more problem.
Simples.
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Healthcare.Gov fixes will cost 121 million through January 2015[^]
According to the article:
Federal officials said Monday that they intended to hold a new competition before awarding a contract and that they were particularly interested in responses from small businesses owned by women, disabled veterans and “socially and economically disadvantaged individuals,” including black and Hispanic Americans.
The contract award should be based on proven ability to perform combined with the monetary bid amount - NOT "socioeconomic status" of the company's owner or the company's employee roster. The government is so concerned with satisfying its false sense of fairness that it's willing to completely forgo any hope of receiving a quality product delivered in a timely manner. THIS is why so many government software contracts end up like Healthcare.gov.
I am so tired of this industry...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The government has always worked that way this is just more visual than most.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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Ehr.. no.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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If you are a direct supplier to the government, then you must provide, on a yearly basis, a report of the percentage of business you did with minority or women owned businesses.
If you are a supplier to a company that is a direct supplier to the government, you have the same reporting requirements.
I know because I needed to code a system at my previous position to track this field and then be able to report on it.
Tim
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..still not an argumentation that proves Mike's statement. And yes, we have enough anecdotes from (people working for) corporations with other rediculous ideas.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Given your demeaner John, I would consider you to be socially disadvantaged. Perhaps you qualify to put a bid in. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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..it contributes, but it's not the main reason.
The main motivator is money, and (lack of) accountability. It matters little if it is done by the government or a lare corporation that employs a lot of subcontractors - it's always a recipe for non-delivery. No-one gets blamed, everyone gets paid.
And it's merely show - it's there to demonstrate that it's a "bad idea", unfeasible, never to be spoken of again. It's communist, something that those socialist Europeans do.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: they were particularly interested in responses from small businesses owned by women, disabled veterans...
Couldn't you just shoot your little toe off?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Small business with greatest ethinic priority gets the award. The business is two people, husband and wife ... sorry, wife and wife.
They have no business experience, or college degree, but are disadvantaged because of their situation. They take 10% profit off the top and sub-contract it to another firm with literally months of experience.
The firm with months of experience is a Disabled Vet company that specializes in logistics and warehouse management. But they can do I.T., after all, everything is just a subset of warehousing. They bid and when the sub contract. They take 10% off the top. There is now 97 million left for the job. The need a solid, real, tech firm for this.
Outsource firm A has literally 1,000 years of experienced in C# and 500 years experience in Healthcare.gov websites. They charge $10/hr for original in scope dev work and have miraculously specced the project out to just under 96 million. Amazingly they don't charge for management overhead or silly things like Project Managers. Oh, but there change requests are $550/hr. Not to bad, we will get it right the first time.
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I remember back in high school... the councilor gave me an application for a governor's school program. I remember looking at the application which 'encouraged girls and minorities' to apply. Two decades later, it still irritates me. Your post displays blatant racism, but there will never be any repercussions.
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It's a modern day affirmative action.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I am so tired of this industry...
Although I've never worked in the public sector, I've heard similar sentiments from devs who do. I'd just like to chime in and say it's not like this in the private sector. Maybe I've been lucky or maybe I've been choosy, but in thirty years of writing code for a living, I've always enjoyed working for my employers, who (since 2000) have been small early-stage successful companies staffed by intelligent (IMHO) management.
/ravi
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I am so tired of this industry...
Do you believe that any other industry is going to be different?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Synopsis of this (and many other threads):
Everyone Wants a Bigger Slice of the Pie
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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