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From the same add:
Quote: Must be an Internet saavy
If that is the way they spell "savvy", they must be desperate for savvy employees! 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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A seventh-order hypertetrasexual?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Well I for one have been told that I probably have donkey dna in my genome.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Is that a roundabout way of saying you're a "jackass"?
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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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They probably mean someone who identifies as either.
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Wow, so much wrong with that job offer... 
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Quote: .. as apposed to...what...??
Maybe a person's gender is a nullable type?
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
modified 27-Jan-16 13:38pm.
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Quote: must be oriented and detail person to do the following jobs:
Just what orientation are they looking for? 
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They are just saving words: it's either a male who strokes women at work, or a woman who strokes men.
Clearly, they are an equal opportunity sexual assault employer.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: must be oriented and detail person to do the following jobs:
[...]
do NOT contact me with unsolicited services or offers
Would that include grammatical advice?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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A hermaphrodite?
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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I have to do some research on this one.
it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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I've lived a fair old time on this oblate spheroid and over the years I've read many books that have contributed to me becoming the person I am today. I thought it might be interesting to have a semi-regular update to give a shout out to the books (both good and bad) that have made me the person I am today. Hopefully this will give people a glimpse of some books they might not have considered, or a reminder of books they've read in the past. It won't all be technical books that I link to, but there will be a fair few of those.
To that end, I'd like to start off with Writing High-Performance .NET Code eBook: Ben Watson: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store[^]. As someone who likes to obsess about what goes on under the hood of things, this book was one of those I decided would be a must-read. It's possibly a bit too technical if you just want to learn the framework, but if you really want to know what makes it tick and what you can do to avoid common performance pitfalls, this book is superb. It's written from the perspective of someone who has gone through the pain of performance tuning a large scale application but it doesn't dwell on platform specific features (I'm talking about things like WPF or ASP.NET). Instead, it offers a fascinating insight into how the framework is written and how that affects the code you write for it.
Would I recommend this book? Definitely. If you're serious about developing performant applications in .NET, this is one of those books you really should read.
This space for rent
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Thanks. Maybe you could make a list of these on your profile???
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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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Good idea - 'tis done.
This space for rent
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I like your idea! This book I already own (and partially read it) but I'm curious which others you'll recommend.
Seconding Oz' suggestion of putting the list on your profile.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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PROLOGUE: During my lunchtime I was searching the various appliances vendors, as I'm looking for a coffee machine taht uses capsules. Most of those pesky capsules are proprietary and while their machines are affordable, the capsules themselves cost an arm and an eye. I found a economic kind of capsule which is compatible with a decent number of machines.
The capsule model is named Espresso Point... but in each and every search I did I typed Espresso pint. Several searches spanning half an hour! I guess it was what I was really searching after all, a pint of espresso 
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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You have to ask yourself what the economic capsule coffee tastes like... 
Me? I have a cafetiere and use real beans...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They cloned the business model of the inkjet printer manufacturers.
A friend of mine is a sales man for Illy (an Italian coffee company for those who did not know them). He always has to ensure that he has the matching capsules and machines in his car when on tour because even that single company has multiple types of capsules.
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Who copied their business from Gilette.
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Really - these capsule/pouch/etc. machines are not only overpriced sources of coffee but absolute environmental disasters.
Take, for example, Keurig: every little cup of coffee leaves behind that little plastic container filled with coffee grounds and a foil lid. They did everything they could to make it non-recycleable.
Sure - you could get the little reusable loader - but it's not only a hassle but begs the question: why not just get a single-cup ground-bean using device? Cheaper, environmentally sound, and makes coffee to your spec and not theirs.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Go on bring logic and common sense to a rant!
We have a Jira but their consumables, filter and cleaner, are not reusable!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I still use a plain old italian coffee machine, and I'm quite happy with it.
With all these modern machines and their capsules, big firms managed to multiply coffee prices by three or four; given the amount of coffee I like to have a day, I'm not OK with that.
I never finish anyth
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