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Yesterday, out of the blue, and for no particular reason, I started thinking about my old high school principle. Now it has been 39 years since I finished high school, and to suddenly start thinking of this man, remarkable as he was, is a bit odd. Anyway, I decided to do a search for him, and see what he had been up to since. I came across this article, written only that morning:
RAY COLLINS: Dr Stephen Aitken | Maitland-Newcastle Catholic News[^]
My principle was (at that time) Br Stephen Aitken. Strange how I only started thinking about him on the same day as this eulogy was published.
Anyway, as I mentioned, he was a truly remarkable man. In a school of over 1700 students, he could approach any one of us, or our parents, and talk about our interests, how we were currently performing, and if we were having any issues. 10 years after I had finished, he had been given a block of land and told to turn it into a school, which he had done, I decided to pay him a visit. He saw me coming from across the yard, rushed to greet me, and started talking as if it had been only yesterday.
RIP Brother - I owe you much of who I am today.
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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I would settle for a few minutes outside the Twilight Zone. 
RIP Mr. Aitken ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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A remarkable man indeed, it' a great loss for the collectivity!
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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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Kudos to your principal; let his example of caring both about the profession and the people he interacted with be an example of how professional should behave.
Engage the people around you; learn about them; care about them; invest in their lives.
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Damn. What a loss. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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#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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It's always sad when we lose good people. Rest in peace
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Thank the great Ghu there are teachers like your headmaster, I had this creature [^] to remember my schooling by.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I had both kinds, I suspect there is some kind of balance somewhere...
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Galaxy Note 7 fires likely caused by 'super-aggressive manufacturing process' | ZDNet[^]
At the end of the, actually very good, article there is this brilliant analysis:
Quote: "In this case, Samsung took a deliberate step towards danger," wrote Shedletsky, "and their existing test infrastructure and design validation process failed them. They shipped a dangerous product. That this is possible at one of the top consumer electronic companies in the world is humbling -- and demonstrates the need for better tools."
Nope. Nope nope nopey-no. Unless by "tools" the writer was referring to the designers, in that case I endorse his/her diagnosis. This wasn't a problem of lacking tools, as it is explicitly said, Quote: Samsung took a deliberate step towards danger
so this is a design issue not a tooling one.
Some people will never uderstand tha no feraking tool can substitute good design and proper implementation of safety rules and good practices.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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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By "better tools" the author means mind altering devices that make it impossible to decide to step towards danger and ignore (or loosen) safety rules and good practices.
Duh.
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And here is me thinking the problem is some fat ass bending/squeezing the phone, or an idiot charging it while it is under their pillow/duvet etc. or buying some cheap imitation knock off charger with no/or limited protection built in...... 
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A phone WILL bend or squeeze if put in a portable container - even if Note 7 is phreaking humongous - and its design should be tailored to that, otherwise it's simply poor design. Probably they thought that every phone would be in the same condition of the testing device, which was on a perfectly flat surface at all times.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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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My car will bend if I wrap it round a tree...however it won't if I take care of it and watch what I'm doing.
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Your car won't bend if you brake at a stoplight, because it is designed to be used. A soldier's gun won't bend if fired or kept in the holster because it is designed to be used. My mouse doesn't bend when I click the buttons because that's the common use. A phone shouldn't bend when carried on one's person because that's the use it should be designed for.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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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My my my, you do have a bee in your bonnet today.......having a bad day?
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Actually yes  a bit feverish, everything's hectic at work and my SO is stuck in bed with a very strong flu. Not the best of days, at all!
ADDENDUM:
DaveAuld wrote: you do have a bee in your bonnet
I didn't know this expression. It's absolutely great!
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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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Well have a hot toddy, and back into bed.....but don't leave your phone charging or your laptop sitting on the duvet 
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Heh, it's also very old. From an internet search, the first time in print appears to be 1790. Pretty cool that it's still being used.
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There is a HUGE difference between understanding and caring.
There are certain countries who just don't care.
I don't mean one example, or even a few. But systemic, complete, across the board utter disregard for any life, human or otherwise, trashing the environment with lead and cadmium, tainting food products with deadly chemicals in order to get a slightly higher test result on certain factors...
You know who you are. And so do we.
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You shouldn't say such cruel things about the USA, this close to Christmas.
Season of goodwill, and all that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I think it was some marketing managers who pressed for that big battery and overruled the engineers.
The result is a hefty bill 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Is that not the most normal thing in the world? Simply make up some new 'requirements', it's not your fault when those nerds can't get it right.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Almost sure it went that way, I experienced the very same... and still experiencing it!
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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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