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For me so far tis a good week
Took delivery of 2 new monitors. Now just need time to get use to them.
waiting for the parent company to get off their behind and give the go ahead on a new project which they are funding.
all in all an easy week.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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My week isn't necessarily going better.
Caught a damn cold yesterday and it is getting worse. Not much sleep last night, at least not for someone having a cold. Now typing away in agony, with a presentation of one of my final projects due tomorrow. Gonna be nice to present this one, buggered by the cold.
Oh, and I am supposed to make the Nassi–Shneiderman diagrams for a STK600 Assembly-Language Real Time Clock, due by tomorrow and handed to the respective teacher (And I know that guy pretty well, a cold is not accepted as excuse).
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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Not met them before: I can see what they are trying to do, but it does look - um - rather messy and forced?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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They have their use, but they were initially invented in 1973, so they are not usable for anything else than structured programming. Every teacher at my school thinks that these diagrams are the ultimate way to plan a structured program (which Assembler is, unfortunately).
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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I got into Dimensional Flowcharting from the late 70's / early 80's when I was on my first Industrial Training placement from Uni: it was structured as well, and did help with designing a logic flow that didn't resemble spaghetti! It didn't catch on, but I still use it to an extent for "paper" designs.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I'd stick with normal flow diagrams, If I had the choice. Whatever, the teacher sticks with "Flow diagrams end up in spaghetti code, use Nassi-Shneiderman diagrams!".
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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I can see what they are saying - "normal" ones do encourage unstructured code. But those aren't particularly well designed either to my mind. But...if you gotta use 'em, you gotta use 'em! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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The tool we use is already on Version 98, IIRC, and at least stable. Written in good, old Delphi, directly accessing the Windows API. Oh, and there is no 64 bit version of it. Only a 16 and a 32 bit version.
Have a glance[^]
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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Mmmmm! The localization is good as well...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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DEUTSCH is the future world. Hmm, I guess I am not the first one who comes up with this...
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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As long as you don't start demanding Lebensraum and start eyeing up my hard drive...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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You talk to a Developer. I am perfectly happy with the little desk I have here.
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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Ah! The famous Swiss neutrality!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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We heard what happens to the sheep and decided to stay where we are.
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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Can't you get a sick week or something and leave the beloved team deal with this situation ?
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Tricky thing is that I need to present that Project tomorrow, and had to collect some signatures for the project documentation. I'd be up anyways, if I can collect the signatures I can work as well.
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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That's what I can call a day full of satisfaction...
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Your fire alarm system looks as annoying as an antivirus. And you 'fixed' it like I 'fix' the antivirus.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Our elderly neighbour (until she passed away) was forever saying she wasn't deaf - just the TV volume would make your ears bleed - and I walked out of our house about 100m away to hear a faint beeping...tried to follow it home, which isn't easy because that frequency I find difficult to get any direction from and ended up at her house, with the kitchen full of smoke, and her asleep in her chair.
She'd stuffed her heat-in-the-microwave-comfort-pad in the microwave, set it for thirty minutes instead of seconds, and gone off for a nap...Smoke alarm? Didn't even register with her... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: It's the Carbon Monoxide detector. Locate. Can't find battery.
Hhmmm... And did you check whether it really was a false alarm ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Well, I'm not dead... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Well, carbon monoxide is much more insidious, it may not want to kill right away...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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OriginalGriff wrote: It's the Carbon Monoxide detector.
You are of course going to replace the detector? We'd hate to see you suddenly disappear from CP because you went to sleep and never woke up again because of an inconvenient CO problem.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Probably - but it's low priority. We got it when we were using the solid fuel burner, but we stopped a few years ago because it was too much hassle (and getting very expensive). At the moment we are on electric storage heaters, which don't produce CO anyway, so it isn't urgent.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Are your oven, water heater, and clothes drier electric too? The gas versions of them can produce CO if broken.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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