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Oh, well the Merlin was superior to Windows in several key ways.
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Is a period released when the sentence ends?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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No , actually, it is the end of the sentence most of the time, so it stays there.
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I'm going to pause, and think about that
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Not if it's two spaced out.
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When a period is released it implies the sentence never started (re: paternity, q.v.).
I colon the rest of you to comma long and add to this thread.
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I question your mark.
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One of the things about working in the field professionally I miss is teams.
I learned to code when I was really young, and often a friend of mine and I would work together on things, and learn stuff together, back bit twiddling on 8 and 16 bit machines in the mid 80s.
And it was fun, plus I could bounce ideas off him and vice versa, and I also had that a lot in the field when I worked with other coders.
Now I find myself stuck a lot of times on design decisions I just feel i need a second opinion for (all of the options are equally bad or all of the options are equally good but in different ways)
It's good to be part of a team. I'd say from where I sit, it's not something to take for granted.
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Elephant that. I work alone. I prefer it that way.
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I used to think I did. It's weird that I don't, considering I'm such an introvert.
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1) No cowardice in the face of the enemy, don't try to hide in the crowd. 
2) Asking five developers about anything will get you about 30 different opinions.
3) Covfefe.
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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1. I always stand out in a crowd. it's my way.
2. 30 opinions is fine. it gets the gears moving. it's easier for me to decide on other people's ideas than on my own.
3. Definitely.
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1.1) So do I. And then the crowd starts following me around and hides behind me.
2.2) Thinking out of the own box can be trained.
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1.Hahaha
2. Madness helps. I got better at it after that. My box is pretty big these days, sometimes stretching beyond the veil.
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honey the monster, codewitch wrote: it's easier for me to decide on other people's ideas than on my own.
This is true. Snow-blindness is a real thing.
It's also easier to spot errors in others' ideas, and one of the best things to learn from is errors.
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totally. maybe someone will make a muse AI for us introverts one day.
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CodeWraith wrote: 2) Asking five developers about anything will get you about 30 different opinions.
Out of those 30 opinions, you can easily refute 28. Knowing the right person to throw a question at helps a lot.
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That is because most of them are based on religious beliefs that have been preached by some guru and then they are repeated without knowing why or in wich cases this dogma can be applied. Usually the recitation of a dogma is followed by an appeal to authority. Guru Whatshisface said so, so it must be true.
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1. Always keep the coffee hot!
2. Eschew goto!
That ought to do it.
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raddevus wrote: Eschew goto!
Good luck with that if you ever have to bit bang some signal and have no instruction cycles to spare, especially not for calling subroutines and hopping up and down the stack.
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 refuse even to work with myself, if I'm honest.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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heh. maybe that's my problem. 
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honey the monster, codewitch wrote: Now I find myself stuck a lot of times on design decisions
also a single dev for quite some time now...
I find the best approach to design is to find a user and look at the way/order they get the information, (if they have forms follow those - but if the forms don't match the order information comes don't be afraid to adjust to the latter - they'll love that) - the design fixes itself.
as to 'pretty' I've got the artistic abilities of a blind 1 legged frog - following the info/form also helps: users appreciate familiarity and ligical/actual information flow over flowers and lava lamp effects.
OTOH for procedural/processing problems I personally found the best approach is to walk away and do something else completely different, make a sandwich, fix the bike, ride the bike, sew the hole that appeared in the crotch of my pants, mop/vacuum the floor (joy of working at home while other half works in an office)
... the [best] answer often appears out of nowhere... bit of mental case testing ... that's it
I've solved more of my toughest "problems" away from the computer than at the keyboard (to easy to keep doing quick 'try this...no, try this... no, try this... no, try that again...' round and round.
walk away ...first thing when sit back down: chicken scratch that idea before it evaporates when working in the small details.
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lopatir wrote: I find the best approach to design is to find a user and look at the way/order they get the information
Definitely when that's an option. However, these days I'm making stuff like parser generators and regular expression engines - my target is other developers!
lopatir wrote: OTOH for procedural/processing problems I personally found the best approach is to walk away and do something else completely different, make a sandwich, fix the bike, ride the bike, sew the hole that appeared in the crotch of my pants
Relatable, though I couldn't sew even at gunpoint.
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honey the monster, codewitch wrote: Relatable, though I couldn't sew even at gunpoint.
cant sew either (just fake it, round and round, try not to poke yourself too often).
another benefit of working at home is can wear (or not) your most comfortable clothes - I find my oldest (softest, long-time shaped to me) clothes the best.
But back to THAT hole: wife not happy if she comes home and my 'bits' are hanging out (despite being alone - kids all grown up and mostly gone etc.)
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