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Chris Maunder wrote: what are your favourite IT related quotes?
"I have only proved the joke funny; I did not try it"
... a misquote of D.E.Knuth who famously said "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.", described here[^].
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Come to think of it, the original quote is somewhat of a knee slapper too.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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linky no worky
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Actual call to support:
"My cup holder won't open"
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns; the one we don't know we don't know.
(IT? Well, in all honesty, I'm sure this nugget was forwarded under truly knowing circumstances. So please forgive me if you deem it not IT)
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Was Rumsfeld talking about quantum computing instead of lying about Iraq? 
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Look, we all have something to bring to this discussion. But I think from now on the thing you should bring is silence.
— Arnold Rimmer, Red Dwarf
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What? No-one posted the classic:
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
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"I thought you called to confess." – said by a sysadmin as we investigated why a production server magically rebooted.
- great coders make code look easy
- When humans are doing things computers could be doing instead, the computers get together late at night and laugh at us. - ¿Neal Ford?
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One of my favourites of all time:
"More people have ascended bodily to heaven than have shipped great software on time." Jim McCarthy
One of my co-workers once said in a meeting in which we were discussing null:
"There are many different kinds of nothing." Trevor Stokes
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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A story I was told by an engineer at One IBM Plaza in Chicago, IL was that there was a model of the S/360 that was so buggy that the engineers threw it into Lake Michigan where it...
Sank intermittently.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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you know that link goes to an essentially empty page?
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When I was in the Army, equipment troubleshooting always began with...
Make sure the O N O F F switch is in the O N position.
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Back in the Windows 95 age i had a program which throwed a random message from it's messagelist each day.
A few nice ones i still remember:
2B or not 2B, that's FF.
On an empty disk u can seek forever.
Press once to quit, twice to save.
Besides this i always loved DeeDee (from Dexter's laboratory),
"Dexter, what does this buttton doooo?" (Asking while trying)
And last but not least comming from a programmers book, don't recall which.
"There's no program on earth without a bug." <- Explaining that environmentissues can always let a program misbehave.
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Awesome! Looks like some screaming space monster... 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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...of you still use C++/MFC on a frequent basis?
EDIT ==========================
I haven't used it since 2007.
".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 18-Jul-16 13:22pm.
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Not me.
Can't even remember the last time I did - well before I learned C# at least!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Not me - Win API and MFC don't mix well together (trouble including several windows headers). Win32 API are required because graphic engine is still VB6.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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den2k88 wrote: because graphic engine is still VB6.
Huh?
I now use Qt, but still have a few MFC utilities I recompile every now. I also had a contract last year that used MFC to host flash and we had no problems updating compilers and MFC versions (there was a consensus to move as much as possible to C++11/14 except for CString, but only because it has become so ubiquitous in the code and there was no need to change it for the sake of changing it.)
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At first there was QBASIC and DOS machines. Then came VB6 and WinNT, and it was a Good Thing. But VB6 is single thread and the demands grew, especially managing hardware (custom hardware, special industrial machines). Then came C++, that was faster and could instantiate threads through the Win32 API, and could export API functions to VB6, and it was a Good Thing.
Possibly in the future, if the hundreds of customers and manglement will give us two developers a breath, there will be C#/WPF graphic interface and C++ elaboration. Then we will be whole and the Judgment will come, at least until Microsoft pushes another technology on the line. Then we will wait our customary 10 years and implement it... maybe.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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I do (for good or bad, at least MFC, love C++).
The thing with MFC is that it is hard to customize to fit the whim of UX designers.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Define frequent - I last used it in 2003!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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At least 10 years, maybe longer.
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I still do and probably will do so in the future. I have good knowledge of MFC and getting to that level with other frameworks would take a lot of time.
At work I am actually using Qt for a headless Raspberry Pi application. But I will still use MFC instead of Qt for Windows applications (unless an application has to run on Linux too).
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