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Happy Birthday !
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Yeah, that wasn't much of a challenge.
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I've had to use an older phone, for a couple of weeks, because some stupid frugging idiot (who will remain nameless) dropped my newer phone out of the pocket of the shirt I was wearing, resulting in the kind of error that can only be defined as %#$*^$ %&@($^$ *#(@&$%^&* ()#*^$!!!
Because the older phone has less internal storage than I'm now used to, I had to look for stuff to cut, and one thing that stuck out a mile was the "google play services", which was blocking an Immense amount (120meg+) of data, on top of its program files.
"Well, insert that with a tool for applying fixings that have centrally mounted integral helical blades!" thunk I, and I rolled it back to its earliest (on that device) version -- total 3meg, app and data.
Since then, it has popped up a message for every app that I've opened, saying that the app won't work at all unless I update google play services.
... But every single app works precisely as designed! There are no problems at all! Everything works!
It's like spam: "Unless you do what we say, TERRIBLE THINGS will happen!"
But all that happens is that the phone works.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yeah but without Play Services you are not taking advantage of the tracking and monitoring services generously foisted on you by Google. MS is not the only slurper out there!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: MS is not the only slurper out there!
Sadly true.
The "big three" seem more concerned with running our lives than providing good service.
What makes google more annoying is that android is basically just a linux distro. At least apple and ms have their own products -- which may be becoming more and more worthless (the latter far more hastily than the former), but they're still built in-house.
Oh, for a flavour of linux that's had a few hundred windows developers work on it*...
* Good ones, mind. There are plenty of cr@ppy windows devs, too.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If you buy potatoes because you have too many leeks, and leeks because you have too many potatoes, is it a Vichyssoise cycle?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Are far fetched French puns Bourgognesome?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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You must have cabbage for brains.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Now I know what your puns are merde of.
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That was pretty ouitty!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Hmmm...
Anglesey eggs.
Good idea. Pass me my chef hat.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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OriginalGriff wrote: If you buy potatoes because you have too many leeks, and leeks because you have too many potatoes
... you are a f***ing idiot? 
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What, so if you have too much of something, you buy more of it, rather than buy something else?
Fair enough. I'll grant that you've given a fair definition of what a f***ing idiot is.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Still smarting about the cafe frappe eh? 
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Still smarting about the cafe frappe eh?
You must be, because you keep bringing it up, Mr. "I've googled, so I'm an expert!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's calling a spud a spud!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I'm debugging some legacy VB  code to figure out why a report is crashing, and encountered this fragment of SQL code:
e.TerminalType *= f.TerminalType
 The last time I encountered a left outer join specified in that way was probably 20 years ago.
Marc
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The thing I hate most about syntax like that is that if you're not familiar with it it's near impossible to google.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: if you're not familiar with it it's near impossible to google.
It's because at that time we didn't have google... Nor internet... I think we did have colour TV though 
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Mika Wendelius wrote: I think we did have colour TV though
With a remote control that was attached by a long wire 
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That's why you have kids. Back then, they were the remote control.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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