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Boy I feel so good I might actually spruce up my work area!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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You did register, you recorded your details with them.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Complain.
No, really. Complaining has an undeserved bad reputation. Nothing is going to change unless people complain. Of course, even if people complain, most likely nothing will happen anyway. But at least they'd know there is a problem, and that customers are angry.
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"Politely"
Always start off polite - it's not the fault of the poor support person on the other end - they are probably as fed up with the situation as you are, given that they get it in the neck from angry customers all day long.
You can get rude any time from then on, but starting polite does two useful things:
1) It shocks the support people which can "break" them from the pre-ordained script and into doing something nice for you.
2) It confuses them since nobody is ever nice to them 
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 should have a special mail address to be used only in those cases...
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Even better is bricks and mortar retailers that say they now only email receipts. You pay for a $20 item in cash and they claim you can't have a receipt without providing an email address.
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What, you order something from them, and they're not allowed to store your address?
Fine. You pay for it, and I'll phone them up and give them my address.
"Thank you for registering" is probably just the wording that came in the software package they bought to handle their shopping cart. Read it as "Thank you for letting us add your delivery details to our database, so that the delivery company can access it when they put your stuff in the van".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I arrived out here yesterday. UPS has just delivered my BeagleBone Black Rev C this morning at home. Last week my Logi Boards (one for RasPi, one for BB, a Logi camera and a Logi EDU card) arrived as well.
I had previously ordered one months ago, but due to the shortages and the timeframes involved, Farnell cancelled the order (this was back in the Rev A stage)
There is a massive worldwide shortage of BeagleBone Blacks, and I happened to notice Adafruit had stock, limiting shipping only 1 per customer. So rather than wait weeks/months for them to be available in the UK, I ordered on from the States thinking it would take a couple of weeks. Ordered it at the weekend. It was good to watch it bounce in and out of the the UPS depots as it progressed across the pond.
The only think now is, don't know where it has been delivered to, as don't recognise the proof of delivery name. Must be one of my neighbours, either that someone has just gained a BB (or the wife has been popping the milkman!) 
Dundee, United Kingdom
26/06/2014 11:33 Delivered
26/06/2014 8:18 Destination Scan
26/06/2014 8:10 Arrival Scan
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
26/06/2014 6:50 Departure Scan
26/06/2014 6:30 Arrival Scan
Castle Donnington, United Kingdom
26/06/2014 5:33 Departure Scan
24/06/2014 23:30 Arrival Scan
24/06/2014 22:24 Your package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release. / Your package was released by the clearing agency.
Stansted, United Kingdom
24/06/2014 21:50 Departure Scan
24/06/2014 20:55 Arrival Scan
Newark, NJ, United States
24/06/2014 8:51 Departure Scan
24/06/2014 6:55 Arrival Scan
24/06/2014 5:41 Departure Scan
Philadelphia, PA, United States
24/06/2014 4:30 Departure Scan
24/06/2014 5:49 Your package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
24/06/2014 5:49 Your package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release. / Your package was released by the clearing agency.
Philadelphia, PA, United States
24/06/2014 0:45 Arrival Scan
New York, NY, United States
23/06/2014 22:42 Departure Scan
24/06/2014 2:13 Your package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
24/06/2014 2:13 Your package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release. / Your package was released by the clearing agency.
24/06/2014 2:13 Your package was released by the clearing agency.
New York, NY, United States
23/06/2014 21:09 Origin Scan
24/06/2014 0:40 Your package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release. / Your package was released by the clearing agency.
24/06/2014 0:40 Your package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
New York, NY, United States
23/06/2014 15:34 Collection Scan
United States
22/06/2014 19:12 Order Processed: Ready for UPS
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DaveAuld wrote: don't know where it has been delivered to, as don't recognise the proof of delivery name.
That's annoying. I actually have two of them (one running Ubuntu, the other Debian), got one a couple months ago, and then my client sent my the Rev C version that has more memory and Debian installed, but I had to flash a clean version of Debian onto it anyways because the one that it came with wouldn't actually boot.
My current challenge is to figure out how to get the devices for this[^] (and it's peripheries, it looks a bit like the ISS sitting on my desk with all the gizmos attached) to work with Debian. The device driver examples are for Angstrom, and it the path names are all different and most don't exist in Debian. And there's a dearth of dev bloggers out there for this particular cape.
It was amusing putting Ruby on Rails and Postgres on a BBB and actually using it as a local web server. Worked, but a bit slow. 
Marc
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I got mine a while back, it was tough there were shortages but managed to sneak one through. Then when I got it and had problems with it but turned out to be operator error.
Since then I've been traveling and haven't had much time to play with it. Had 3K photos to process and I'm still not done, I just about get caught up then go out and take a bunch more. But got some good looking photos some I've enlarged and framed.
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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Is there a VS template out there that can create a new (appropriate) MEF extension project within a solution and allow the programmer to select the desired export interface to support?
BTW, MEF is pretty handy when you have a bunch of disparate functionality to add to a WPF app in the form of UserControls when you don't want to have to redeploy the whole application.
".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
modified 26-Jun-14 9:54am.
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I had problems with VS and the xaml file of the WPF user control. I just used normal notepad++ for the editing of the control and finally to check if everything is fine - the designer of VS.
It is interesting to see that in this case notepad++ is faster than the VS with the modification of the xaml file.
Microsoft don't cease to amaze me.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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When did you start your clothing line? I saw a guy wearing a t-shirt with JSOP written on it.
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I have a world-wide fan base and demand is so high for officially licensed JSOP gear that I had no hope of keeping up with the resulting merchandise orders, so I released the "JSOP" logo into the public domain.
For the record, I wish people would stop emailing me asking for JSOP Fan Club membership cards. I appreciate the interest, but seriously, anybody interested in being in the fan club would be well advised to avoid advertising their membership. It could get you into serious trouble in most 3rd-world countries (by "3rd-world" I mean any country except the USA).
".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
modified 27-Jun-14 11:55am.
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I made a sample web application where originally there was only one page of 'under construction' - all the real content came from MEF extensions...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Got an email today from someone with that title below their name. Why not just sign it "Gabriel, Archangel to God" 
[ramble]
The email is legit, but I would have to say, you Brits[^] do seem to love your pompous titles. Or maybe it's just this particular outfit.
Ironically, it's a response to an email I sent two months ago, I had written them off as "oh well", so it seems like even more pompous arrogance that I get a response "She apologises for not having been in touch sooner," (she apparently being the Chief Executive???) especially after having met the person in question in person two months ago and had been specifically asked to email her. The "I've been really busy" excuse just doesn't cut it. We'll see.
[/ramble]
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: you Brits[^] do seem to love your pompous titles
Which country is it where every man and his dog is a Vice President at some point in their life? it's on the tip of my tongue...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: Which country is it where every man and his dog is a Vice President at some point in their life?
Uganda?
Marc
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Please do not discuss Uganda [^] in the Lounge, not KSS 
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Nah, none of the 20 million Ugandan princes would take the demotion.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Marc Clifton wrote: Why not just sign it "Gabriel, Archangel to God"
"Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive" not "Assistant Executive Cheif Executive" goddammit!
Marc Clifton wrote: you Brits[^] do seem to love your pompous titles
Curiously, we see that as a 'merkin thing (bog cleaner c.f. sanitary hygiene engineer)
Yours sincerecly
Keith P Barrow
imperator mundi, pontifex maximus, duco potens, ruler of the seven kingoms, President of the People's Republic of Toon, chief bullshitter to the treasury, First Sea Lord, illustrissimus, FD &c. &c. &c.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Interesting.
Most of the companies I have worked for ended up with "Account Managers" instead of "Salesmen", and my local Binmen are "Recycling Technicians"
I would never do that kind of thing myself, you understand.
Paul Griffin,
Commander of the Armies of the IDE, General of the framework, loyal servant to the true bracketing style, Whitesmiths. Father to a murdered project, husband to slaughtered code. And I will have my job title, in this life or the next.
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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Keith Barrow wrote: (bog cleaner c.f. sanitary hygiene engineer)
Well, or garbage men are called sanitation engineers. Makes you wonder what a "software engineer" actually is.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Makes you wonder what a "software engineer" actually is.
By the same logic as sanitation engineer, people who post funny cat videos online.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Well, or garbage men are called sanitation engineers. Makes you wonder what a "software engineer" actually is.
I dunno but I think you can call one with System.GC();
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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