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Executed early, they loved to feed on sympathetic feelings (13)
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Compassionate (sympathetic feelings)
COM = executed early
PASSION = loved
ATE = feed
I don't really get the COM bit though... is it COMPUTED shortened to COM?
EDIT: Actually, is it to do with executable files used to have COM file extension[^] in the early days?
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Yep, I found that after I posted (and edited). Before my time I think, but another bit of interesting yet useless information to add to my brain.
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Perhaps an easier clue for the COM bit would have been HResult 0x8007000f: "E_NOTACLUE" 
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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The clue doesn't work on 64 bit machines without vDos... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Good point!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I used to enjoy writing .COM files in assembler. It felt like proper programming. <cue music="">Those ... were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end. 
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Tomorrow morning I will have a discussion with a whiz kid. He will show me why his code works, and why I as an old fart missed the obvious design.
And why it is intuitively obvious;
And oh yeah, I was never allowed to finish that....
I'm thinking of the joker and his disappearing pencil trick. If that doesn't work I know this guy named John with a blind paypal account...
Just kidding John... sort of
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Wow. Good luck with all that. 
<sig notetoself="think of a better signature">
<first>Jim</first> <last>Meadors</last>
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What is more important is the code being obvious, legible and maintainable.
Because that is where the cost to the company is, where its profit is wasted.
It is NOT wasted by having code that is, possibly, a bit slower, or hasnt got such an elegant design.
Tell your manager this.
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Lower any expectations you have, you may get surprised.
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I doubt it...
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There is a measure of truth in your statement.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>I'm too old for this crap...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Let's see where to start. Hmmm...
- Mgt has decreed this code obsolete, so there is no traction to fix it;
- the tool is rooted to it's launch location, careful how you branch;
- Some of the processing is spreadsheet driven. There appears to be limited error checking;
The last one is on me. I missed the double entry. I missed my Sunday too.
Going back to my mushroom cave sleep deprived.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I use bitcoin now - paypal can be traced.
".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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: So can bitcoin 
Why criminals can't hide behind Bitcoin | Science | AAAS
Read somewhere today that some people have recently completed a BitCoin transaction using Ham Radio. No idea if this can circumvent the trcing, but thought it worth noting.
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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cleaning coffee off keyboard... 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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58. Extra lean... (5)
59. ...flag? (4)
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58 - Spare
59 - tire
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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...but if that's the case, some things are definitely falling through the cracks.
On many distributions, if I try to shutdown the system at a command prompt (typically with "shutdown -P 0"), I'm told I have to run sudo and I'm prompted for a password. Great feature, you wouldn't want any dumbass you share your computer with to be able to bring it down without showing he's got at least some amount of authority.
Yet that same user can select Shutdown from the UI, and it'll happily comply without prompting for anything else (or at most, a confirmation prompt).
If this was some sort of oversight, it would've been addressed years ago, no?
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Does the UI shutdown do a graceful one?
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Not sure if this is a trick question or not. Why wouldn't it?
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