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I'm 69 now so little or no chance for me landing a contract
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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probably a poll form error
I taught someone from US C#. At the time I wasn`t very skilled (that was about 16 years ago, and I am not very skilled today either) I taught just as much as I knew.
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You're very honest though 
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Quote: You're very honest though
don`t take that as a sign of weakness
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Why would I do that ?
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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your unusually warm appreciation of my honesty could be sincere or could be acting. I have no way to tell which one it is so my follow up statement is just being extra cautious. Sorry if I`m too suspicious.
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It was sincere - an example of one of the many pitfalls of electronic communication
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Quote: an example of one of the many pitfalls of electronic communication
I think electronic communication has nothing to do with it. You can fake kind and sincere feeling in real life just as well, there no difference from this point of view between virtual and real life interaction. You need to hook someone to a lie detector to tell if he`s lying.
modified 5-Aug-22 3:32am.
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Not for me (lie detector ) I rely on eye contact - I'm rarely wrong
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I know what you`re talking about and I believe the same thing to a certain degree. If it`s about stories that are not true (the lie is more than just a simple one sentence statement) it`s almost impossible for someone to coin an emerging flawless lie as he is being questioned. In a situation like this the lie is prepared in advance. But I see no problem in someone telling a simple lie while looking you in the face.
modified 6-Aug-22 1:39am.
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My unsuccessful trial to help some student with her homework. Three students with one assignment, including input data handling, calculation and output. One student for every task. She was in the middle.
Me: Let's produce some data and write a program that makes required calculations.
She: I am not supposed to do this. I need only calculations.
Me: How can we make calculations without data?
She: Just show how to do this.
Me: I don't know how to write a program without running it.
She didn't answer. Probably I need to change my approach...
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Back when I started to learn to code, I was the only one in my immediate family who owned a computer, so I had nobody to go to, the web was still at least a decade away, and I could barely read the English user manual that came with it.
The way I see it, if someone wants to learn, I'm not here to provide shortcuts. They already have a lot of advantages I never got.
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Miss half a dozen balls, you see? (8)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Miss half a dozen balls, you see? (8)
Miss = definition
half a dozen balls, = over
you see? = look Overlook
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And you are up tomorrow! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That's what I got too. Nicely done!
Fortunately back in my college days a group of us formed a "club" called The BYCC (The Bemidji Yacht and Cricket Club). We learned the rules for cricket - a not very well known game in the US - with the intention of actually playing a game as an excuse to have a drinking party. We never did play that game. As it turns out the BYCC was really just a pretensious sounding name - and in college who needed an excuse to drink? But, without having studied the game some 40 years ago I never would have related 6 balls to an "over". Funny how silly trivia detritus becomes useful, eh?
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Here in the UK, cricket was the summer sport played at my school. I didn't know the rules. Every Tuesday afternoon I'd ask the PE teacher to explain the rules. Every week he laughed and said "everyone knows how to play cricket".
I still haven't the faintest idea what the rules are, or even what the objective is. I was sitting on a village green last week just enjoying life, with a match going on. All the players were wearing the same kit so no idea who was on what side. Suddenly, out of the blue, they all just suddenly applauded, went off the pitch and that was the end. No idea who won, even though there were loads of numbers on the scoreboard.
What's this got to do with today's clue? I'm assuming it's cricket related...?
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In cricket, an "over" is 6 deliveries of the ball by the bowler to the batsman. They're actually trying to throw the ball past the batsman to knock the stumps (bails) off the wicket to get him out (ineligible to score).
So the "over" in today's CCC answer is indeed cricket related. At least as far as this person - who has never played (or even watched) a game - understands it. 
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All I know of cricket is that wickets are sticky. (Whatever that means...)
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The wicket is the area around the stumps (3 small posts set in a line). The batsman protects them from being hit by the ball thrown by the bowler. When the wicket gets wet, say from rain, it is called sticky. The ball bounces differently and it become more difficult for the batsman. Thus, a sticky wicket is a difficult situation.
I hope you realize you're getting your information from someone who looked into the game over 40 years ago and has never played, or even watched, a game of cricket. So take these nuggets of cricket knowledge for what they're worth.
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Thank you for the explanation.
So it looks like you went to Bemidji State in MN? Beautiful area!
My youngest sister attended there in the mid 80's. I attended St. Cloud State in the late 70's.
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I did indeed go to Bemidji State, from 76-80. I was born and raised in Bemidji and in fact my mother, sister and brother still live there. It was Bemidji State College when I started but it joined the university system around 1978. So officially I have a BS degree from BSU. 
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Univac 1106 for assembler (and COBOL perhaps) with the actual hardware in Mankato and your data center having IBM 80 column card punch machines, a card reader, and a noisy green bar 132 column "high speed" printer?
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Ding! Ding! On the nose!
We had IBM 026 and 029 card punch machines. We turned our card decks into the operations center where students read/ran them, returning the card deck wrapped in greenbar about an hour or two later. A few of us befriended a couple of the operators (bribing them with 🍺 actually) to get our decks jumped to the front of the line.
We would also log (dial) into the MECC or MERITS systems (also in Mankato) for Basic and Pascal programming. I believe that was a CDC Cyber-70 series mainframe. I think we actually did our assembly programming on these as well. Oh man, those 330 BAUD deckwriters were screaming fast machines I tell you what! 
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