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Now it's the turn of Victoria Wood[^]. Like many of my generation, she brought immense pleasure to me with her unique brand of humour.
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Oh sh*t! ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) I shall miss her.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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That is a shock (Bruce looks on his way out to). Yet Jim Davidson is still fit and healthy. 
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Brucie? He predates the dinosaurs! 
I'm fairly sure his passing is mentioned under "end of the world: signs of" in Mayan texts...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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To be fair, he wrote the Mayan texts.
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Nah, Brucie will be with us for a good while yet. He's recovering nicely according to his doctors. He'll be wanting to outdo Nicholas Parsons, who looks like he'll be still working at 100, if nothing else!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Yeah, Doris Roberts[^] died recently too. Not sure if it was mentioned on CP.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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RIP Doris. Didn't see a mention but I don't spend as much time in the lounge as I used to.
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Damn.
That's 3 from the ELR cast now. First Frank a decade ago, then Geoffrey last year and now Marie. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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I particularly liked her funny songs 
Not sure if you listen to BBC Radio4, however there was a good episode of More or less[^] recently where they went over the statistics of recent celebrity deaths.
The conclusion was that it did appear that there were more celebrity deaths reported so far this year than there have been in the past(for a similar period of time).
It's one of those radio shows that occasionally has a few gems in it and I wished I listened to it more regularly.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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So sad, didn't even know she was ill. She was a talented straight actress as well as being a great comedienne.
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Weird, I refreshed to make sure there was no mention and then posted. I thunk my interwebs are clogged.
veni bibi saltavi
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Bloody shame - she was a very clever comedian and damn good actress.
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Even if she's not buried in a flameproof nightie, that's how I'll think of it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Lately in the world of Swift, I have been using several open source UI libraries to help me achieve nice effects like:
I feel however that I should be able to do this myself. I've only been messing with Swift for a few months, and I have the language and that basics of iOS development down, but I can't help like feeling a poor developer because of this. Should I stop using libraries like this and do it myself? What do y'all think.
i cri evry tiem
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Quote: in the world of Swift, I have been using
...so, yes!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It's based on what you are doing at work And how much time you got. If you are a dedicated UI developer, go for it. If not, think twice.
Many of the well built open source libraries are quite usable, you should go for it mainly because it's been used by thousands of people and well tested. The same thing, Unless it's a simple component, we'll end up taking so many hours, sometimes weeks for developing it, based on the complexity. Only to find a bunch of bugs at work at the end. Such a waste of time, I have done these type of things for Network components wasting time. See these libs are well documented and being used by so many, then should simply use it and make use of the time for learning better things that helps your project/product move faster. IMO
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
modified 20-Apr-16 11:00am.
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Wastedtalent wrote: Why re-invent the wheel?
Because I want a triangle one. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: Because I want a triangle one.
Is that a user , business, or functional requirement?
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User requirement of course. They always request the most useless features, and they don't know what they want until they see what they get... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Because if noone ever did so we'd have cars with wooden wheels.
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 you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
If a coffee bean is between the Earth and the Sun, is it a Java Eclipse? -- Sascha Lefèvre
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I used to have a car with wooden wheels - and a wooden engine. Unfortunately, it wooden go!
I think there's a full coatstand of mine over there.
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Are we all bad developers that use MS textboxes, menus, and the other 100 or so bits and pieces available in Visual Studio then?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I think you have done the right thing - a lot of the time it's the case of not knowing if a control exists for what I want so I will write one myself.
So count it as finding a treasure when there is a control that will do exactly what you need.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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