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Why is it that so many IT websites want to know for what company you work?
I decided to take a look at NoSQL and found a whitepaper I can download, but first they need to know my company.
Except I'm not downloading this for my company, but for myself. My company really has no interest in any NoSQL database.
This isn't the first IT website where I had to specify my company. In a required field.
Stop asking me where I work. I am signing on to your service and my company has nothing (and wants nothing) to do with it...
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
My blog[ ^]
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Sure, but why don't they just make it an optional field?
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
My blog[ ^]
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Because it's easier to make everything required?
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Because not checking for nulls can cause a crash, remembering to check everywhere is prone to oversite errors, so it's much safer just to make the field mandatory.
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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It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
My blog[ ^]
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I work for Nunya LLC!
Nunya damn business!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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I put Student.
It also hopefully stops them thinking about me as a potential sales lead, so they don't waste their time, and more importantly, they don't waste my time.
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Well know there is some fun to be had.
Try these next time:
(some obscure name to make them realize you are: ) Pimp, Drug Dealer, Assassin, Drug Addict
Queen, Mayor, President, Secret Agent, Escort, Stripper, Hooker or even a Porn Star
Might even put straight their company name
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I have downloaded various tools/articles from sites such as this and in many cases I have had salesmen phoning up within the hour trying to sell me stuff. I now pick a company name out of the air - or something I've seen in the paper.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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I once had to download some software to try, and the form required company name and phone number. As I didn't know our phone number (I've never phoned it) I scrolled through a few emails until I found an internal once with a phone number at the bottom and used that.
What I hadn't understood was that the email I used was from one of the managers who had her own direct number, I was expecting the switchboard to field any calls that came in.
For the rest of the week she effectively became my secretary until I was able to persuade them to leave us alone.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Just put your own name in the Company field then. Or something crap. Granted, it is stupid requirement, but it's similar to nearly every personal details form I see asking for bloody "Title". "Duke of Geekdom", "Barron of BDD", etc. are some I might enter if I wasn't limited to Mr. Mrs. etc. What use is that to anyone except, say, a doctor, and even then only in work and academia?
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That's MISTER Sander Rossel to you! 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
My blog[ ^]
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I am going to MVP Summit in Redmond and Bellevue, US.
More about Summit - here[^].
Is there any Code Projectian, who is attending?
We can meet there.
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Well let's send him back!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Event he is with mindfire - you can't be that cruel!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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OriginalGriff wrote: There is a forum for such, where it won't get scrolled off the screen so quickly
... Because nobody goes there.
I wish meetings at work would be handled that way: don't send me meeting invitations; just list them somewhere that I don't look.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That forum is not active. So, I posted here.
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Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) wrote: That forum is not active.
How you can say such a think?! There were 9 posts this year alone!!!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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I'll be there. You can meet me for instance at the MVP Showcase today!
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Awesome. I will catch you there. Thanks for replying. 
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MVPs are attending it, :/
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Oh, yes. Even guys with Apple gadgets are also attending. 
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