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haha nice 
Real programmers use butterflies
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The only comment found in a 40,000 line IBM 360 assembly language program I once had to modify was at the very top: "Be prepared with bottle in hand before attempting to modified this program."
One bottle wasn't enough.
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OMG no.  
Real programmers use butterflies
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Probably in 1980 (or +- 4 years) had a user complain because the computer would not accept Feb 29 as a valid date. We had been using the software involved for about 3 years at that point. When we looked at the source code we found this comment.
"Thirty days hath September.
All the rest I can't remember.
Except February which never works right anyway."
There was no code to handle leap years! The quick fix was to change days in February to 29 so we could run the advertisement in the Newspaper on that date and have time to implement a correct routine.
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Storm Ciara has just blown the roof off my local cheese shop.
There’s de-Brie everywhere
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I read this as "Storm Cialis...", I suppose that would give it a whole other meaning?
Monday starts Diarrhea awareness week, runs until Friday!
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I heard the swiss was OK, blew right through it.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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This morning the storm reached the Netherlands, my trip by car across the country starting from the south-west was very speedy 
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It's cycling back that'll be the bugger.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You mean re-cycling
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Possibly, but I think it's more this[^] than this[^].
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The same over here (Flanders, 60 km from the coast) - it's also quite intense, whistling winds, the building shakes, it feels like a real storm ... And the bad thing is that it won't stop until monday midday ...  what a mess...
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Blessed are the cheesemakers.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I visited Edam last week!
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Gouda been worse, though. There's stil tons of other cheeses.
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It's done. After hours of reading my own schematic, counting pins and stripping wires. The Zwölf is on the breadboard. Almost. First it's time for a smoke test to check the voltages and the clock. Only after that I'm going to install the processor.
Right now it's just the bare minimum. The processor (the empty socket for now), 32k EEPROM, 32k RAM and two logic ICs to latch the uper half of the address lines and decode the chip select for the memories.
Here it is![^]
Am I glad that the CDP1802 is not a 64 bit processor.
Ok, I take bets. It's still a little light on the I/O side. It can only blink on a single LED or give smoke signs.
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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Very nice work!
I bet on 'no-smoke' with such a well organized breadboard...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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You would have won that bet. Now It's time to get the oscar and check the clock and the reset logic.
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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Looking good, smoke?
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Nothing gets hot, power LED lights up, voltages on all ICs are correct and at the right pins...
Now it's time to check the clock and the reset with the oscar.
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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Wow ! 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Are we going to see a large mushroom cloud over Europe, making Brexit moot? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That could still happen. Send over about 15 kg weapon grade plutonium for the nuclear batteries and I will build a replica of the Galileo probe. But then I will need five more processors and I actually don't want to crash it into Jupiter when it runs low on fuel and the only thing that still works are these little processors.
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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Mine started to stick quite a while ago but I took it apart and cleaned it and it's working much better. I know this one will eventually fail so am keeping a lookout for a good mechanical keyboard on eby and I ran across this baby...
Vintage IBM 5251 Beam Spring Keyboard TESTED | eBay[^]
I can't even afford shipping!
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$2000 for a vintage IBM keyboard? I'd say that's totally insane.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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