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Very cool, Ravi! I don't think I've ever experienced that combination (excepting the coffee part) in my entire career. The closest I've managed is my current, post-retirement, job working part time in a gun shop. The owner really knows guns of all kinds, the full time gun smith really knows how to fix a bunch of guns, but both have gaps in their knowledge and need the help of an engineer to get the job done. It's also fun to come home to my machine shop, play with various heat treating processes, and parkerizing or color case hardening my home made parts for obsolete weapons. Metal work is far more interesting than coding apps for Millennial snowflakes, even though it's not nearly as lucrative! 
You're a lucky man, my friend, though you've earned every bit of it. Have a ham sandwich... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Thank you, sir. I will indeed have a ham (and salami) sandwich for supper tonight. 
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: smarter (a lot smarter) than me
Judging from what you wrote here over the years, I sincerely doubt this is possible.
Cool, my job situation is complicated, 1h/commute, but the direct management OK. All in all, I cannot complain.
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Are you working from home with your SO beside you today? How come it takes you 10 minutes to get from the bedroom to the basement?
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Ha ha! No, I prefer to go into the office and interact with my coworkers.
But I'm not a morning person and I'm thankful for a job that allows me to come in later than most of the other employees. The focus is on getting your work done on time and doing it well, allowing artificial constraints like dress code and official working hours to be set aside.
/ravi
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Pick up a Nespresso Pixie machine if you like espresso (~$100 - $150). Some of the coffees are truly amazing.
If you prefer coffee, get yourself a Kureg and find pods you like (even cheaper).
I had my own Nespresso machine at the office for years.
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Try this interview with the creator of JavaScript.
Brendan Eich[^]
A few pull quotes:
Quote: What Netscape really wanted was a language to complement Java that would appeal to beginning programmers, just like Microsoft’s Visual Basic.
Quote: I was under marketing orders to make it look like Java but not make it too big for its britches. It’s just this sort of silly little brother language, right? The sidekick to Java
Clearly, and contrary to a lot of the statements I have read from other developers, at least at the beginning, JavaScript is to Java as VBScript is to Visual Basic.
modified 29-Aug-18 13:53pm.
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VBScript to VB is far more accurate than VBA to VB which isn't accurate at all as VBA is essentially VB just embedded in an app.
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Thank you. My post is corrected.
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Having worked a little bit in Java and more so in JavaScript, I see absolutely no resemblance between Java and JavaScript. However, both resemble a pile of turds. 
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: both resemble a pile of turds.
When you go to the dog park, do you try to compile doggie leftovers?
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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No. Interpret them.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Marc Clifton wrote: However, both resemble a pile of turds.
What have piles of turds done to you to deserve such an insult? 
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Marc Clifton wrote: However, both resemble a pile of turds.
As do all interpreters.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I thought I was the only one who feels that way about both! But then, I also happen to think that programming languages reached an apex when Borland released Object Turbo Pascal, the only human-readable OOP language ever developed. C and C++ eventually reversed that positive trend and set maintainability back by a few decades... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: an apex when Borland released Object Turbo Pascal
That was definitely a game changer. $99 made a real language compiler affordable to the masses, even though Pascal was intended to be a teaching language.
Roger Wright wrote: C and C++ eventually reversed that positive trend and set maintainability back by a few decades...
Yes and no, IMO. C++ brought some good ideas, but it also started what I consider a bad trend -- creating a morass of objects and derived objects to model the world of the application at a given snapshot in time, which meant we had to change the program every time the concept of that model changed. We entered into the world of basically unmaintainable applications. But that's a longer discussion.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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its a PR article Brendan Eich is on a roll promoting his crappy coin initial coin offering stuff
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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MSBassSinger wrote: JavaScript is to Java as VBScript is to Visual Basic
Which one of those 4 can't run in a browser?...which begs another question...does anyone ever use anything besides javascript for client-side browser code? After all theses years, I just noticed that C# is available as a script type, but I've never seen it used.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Are bats just goth birds?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Just winging it this AM?
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Are they from Gotham? Or Birdingham?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Probably originated in Battle, East Sussex[^]
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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My mother was born there 
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Maybe, but when they dance, they're a big hit at the balls.
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