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Mycroft Holmes wrote: rewrite
And that's exactly what we are tasked with 
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Carl von Clausewitz
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There are some jobs/contracts that you would only take for the money 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I had to maintain a project in a previous job that was C# ASP.Net based, but was a rewrite of a VB6 project.
It had basically been rewritten line for line, and was a freaking disaster!
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I've had to work on a Java product that was largely a transliteration of Perl. That was pretty bad.
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I was getting the train in to work, and had been dropped off at the station a few minutes early.
So, I grabbed a coffee, a small packet of biscuits and a newspaper from the platform shop, and sat at one of those small, uncomfortable, metal tables, to drink and do the crossword.
So, my newspaper is on the table, coffee cup steaming by its side, and I'm perusing the clues when the well-dressed businessman sitting opposite me reaches over, picks up my packet of biscuits, and rips them open! He then proceeds to remove one, and munch away at it, without a care in the world.
I was nonplussed - I had no idea how to react (I am British, which may explain that). So, I did nothing. I stared intently at the newspaper, and desparately tried to find a clue in the crossword that I could answer.
What seemed like ages passed, and I still hadn't got a clue about either the crossword or the biscuit thief. So, I simply reached over to the packet of biscuits and took one myself.
A few seconds later, the businessman took another.
And so we went on, not speaking or even making eye contact, until the packet was empty.
The train finally arrived at the station, and the gentleman grabbed his briefcase, and stood and walked away from the table.
I, also, stood, picked up my coffee and my newspaper. And there, on the table, under my newspaper, was my packet of biscuits!
** This is a Douglas Adams true story (so he said) that I read about in Salmon of Doubt - and am still laughing about it now. Thought I would share (though he told it better than what I did)
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For those of you who cannot be bothered to read heres a clip[^] from Letterman.
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_Maxxx_ wrote: I am British, which may explain that
Good thing he was too!
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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If I recall correctly, Arthur Dent tells the story to Fenchurch as well. 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Congratulations! (just don't put it in a loop)
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: What about recursion?
See Here[^]
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I expected that one.
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Typically it's what it happens...
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Congrats dude. Well more in the way of congrats to Mrs Dude.
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Congrats, hope all are doing well.
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<joke>
CSC Says: Compilation error on line X
Did you mean:
var numberOfSons = ...
numberOfSons += 1;
?
</joke>
<seriousness>
Congratulations!
</seriousness>
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Congrats but don't you mean self replicating code? 
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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Exceptional!
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Unfortunately
HoursOfSleepPerNight /=4;
NightsOut =0;
but also
PureUnadultaratedJoy *= lots;
So
Congrats +=1;
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_Maxxx_ wrote: PureUnadultaratedJoy *= lots;
That's not true. I have seen young parents with murder in their eyes, who then got the big biochemical pacifier from mother nature. That was when I decided that seven billions of us were enough on one planet.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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CDP1802 wrote: young parents
Maybe because they aren't ready to be parents yet?
For me, what Maxx wrote is true, it's just that some didn't see that way because they weren't ready to embrace parenthood. Yet.
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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CDP1802 wrote: the big biochemical pacifier from mother nature.
? what am I missing?
CDP1802 wrote: I have seen young parents with murder in their eyes,
I've had that same murder in my eyes, too. Being a parent is HARD - no two ways about it. Some go in entirely unprepared, others think they are prepared. Nobody is, actually, prepared.
With a big, close family, it's much MUCH easier.
In my case, just the two of us, grandparents all kicking up daisy's all relatives overseas. Elephanting hard. Still it.
But, somehow, the moments of pure, unadulterated joy just make up for it all.
It's one of those things you have to experience - because however much you try to explain both the joy, and the tiredness, non-parents just don't understand.
don't get me wrong, I don't think 'everyone should have a kid' - far from it - there should be an exam - but once you've been there, some of the crap parents have said in your past suddenly makes sense.
And, when your boy is a toddler, in the public toilet, and shouts out loud enough for everyone to hear "Hey Dad, your willy's really big!" it somehow makes it all worthwhile 
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Couldn't have expressed it better even if I tried.
We're in the same situation here, except in our case also the grandparents are very far away.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: the grandparents are very far away.
Not father than my boy's though
He gets very jealous of his friends' having grandparents sometimes - especially those whose grandparents spoil them rotten.
I just point out to him that we spoil him anyway
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