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This really is a puzzle, when one in the habit is found between a company and a timpani? (9)
modified 22-Jan-16 4:11am.
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Oh! Tick! VG! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I agree v good clue Conundrum
Company - Co
In a habit = Nun
Timpani = drum
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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That was quick...you are up Monday.
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I say again v nice clue
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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pkfox wrote: In a habit = Nun
Please explain this?
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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A "habit"[^] (10th entry) is also the name of a nun's uniform.
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Should be ...
one in a habit = nun
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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It would have made more sense but a good clue nonetheless
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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It's BACON Day today: now, where's my pressies?
BACON Day[^]
Did you get anything nice?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If i had known that i would have eaten some bacon this morning!
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I was entirely unaware of that and yet I have two smoked bacon and scamorza sandwiches. Considering that I rarely eat bacon this is a sign!
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There's no such thing as happy bacon. Not even if you arrange it into a smiley face. So a day honoring 'happy bacon' is cruelly cynical.
Just ask the original owner.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Just ask the original owner.
Quote: Have you been talking to one of your mothers again? You're not getting to be one of these cranks that thinks that eating people is cruel, are you, you see a man sitting in a pot and think he's suffering? Oh, it's not like that at all. Why, he's just had an invigorating chase through the forest. He's sitting there in the nice warm water, with all the carrots and dumplings and things, he's thinking “Oh, the pleasure and happiness I'm going to give to a whole heap of people”, that man in the pot there, he enjoys it.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Heart breaking. Never more to play for us. I am bereft. 
Only 66, and that's no age today. More details here.[^]
I must stop reading the Times obituaries. 
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So, Animal has finally plugged out. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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A very good news source, their local news is of the top standard and mandatory reading.
veni bibi saltavi
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Chris C-B wrote: I must stop reading the Times obituaries
I still have the cover of the Sunday Times magazine when Jim Henson died (1990) featuring Kermit sitting mourning in Henson's named chair. It breaks my heart every time I see it.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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By continuously delaying the Windows Mobile 10 release (on existing handsets) I think MS are seriously hurting their image.
It appears to be sooo buggy that they are not able to fix it.
They are also loosing the trust of their last bunch of loyal supporters (at least for the Windows Phone).
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Abhinav S wrote: seriously hurting their image
They can't hurt their image any more than they have done. You KNOW they are going to admit defeat sometime in the near future and buy into Android.
They have such a long track record of screwing the developers, releasing buggy software and trying to force the market into their concept of what should be that no one in their right mind will trust them anymore.
I say this as a dedicated WPF developer who does not expect to move from the MS development stack. I just wish the stack would stay the same for a reasonable length of time.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: to move from the MS development stack. I just wish the stack would stay the same for a reasonable length of time.
I enjoy Windows Phone development. But things have been changing too rapidly on the tech side and too slowly on the market / business side.
It was Silverlight first and then Xaml / JavaScript (WinJS) and now UWP.
All in a span of just a couple of years.
Even if I decide to move to UWP (which can still be Xaml but with different api), there is still no clarity when Windows Mobile 10 will be released.
There is the business side to it too (the delay in releasing Windows Mobile 10).
If there are fewer Windows Phone users there will be fewer people downloading apps and hence making apps will just not be fun anymore.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I say this as a dedicated WPF developer who does not expect to move from the MS development stack. I just wish the stack would stay the same for a reasonable length of time.
This is really interesting to me because as a 45-year-old developer I sometimes wonder if it is just me getting old or whether new 'technology' is coming out increasingly quickly. It appears that more and more changes happen to solve issues which any good developer should be ably to solve without the latest flavour-of-the month huge library or frameworks. Libraries/frameworks which frequently involve ugly code workarounds because there are some things the libraries or frameworks cannot do.
I know I am sounding like a grumpy old developer - there are some great advances out there, it just appears that we have to keep using 'new technology' to rewrite what were perfectly well working systems because some clever marketing convinces people that if you are not using the latest libraries or frameworks you are doing it wrong.
Basically my question is - what happened to software engineering?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: as a 45-year-old developer
Whipper snapper!
Thankfully I work in the corporate software area where data and processing are the requirements, TSQL hasn't changed dramatically in decades, object databases, nosql, hadoop and most of the other new, shiny stuff has not impacted on my area at all.
The UI on the other hand has been a rather fractious, we went from winforms to silverlight because at last we could give the user a responsive UI similar to or better than winforms. We have now done to WPF because the knowledge transfer is excellent.
The current web stack is garbage, skill base must be 3-4 times larger, UI response is average at best and delivery times are at least double that of WPF.
The only thing I regret is that we may be forced into mobile UIs before there is a decent, stable platform to work with.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: The current web stack is garbage, skill base must be 3-4 times larger, UI response is average at best and delivery times are at least double that of WPF.
I generally regard that most site response times are so bad not so much because of the frameworks used, but because people are programming really bloaty sites beyond the framework - i.e. all the ad holders, trackers etc. For example, I know Bootstrap can be used to develop a reasonable speed UI, until you suddenly start adding a few megs of bloated adverts.
(47 year old dev....  )
Edit: BTW I have to agree that some of the engineering appear to have disappeared from software development.
modified 22-Jan-16 9:19am.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: They have such a long track record of screwing the developers, releasing buggy software and trying to force the market into their concept of what should be that no one in their right mind will trust them anymore.
Indeed, and that's exactly why all twelve million of us huddle here, taking comfort in the fact that under-the-covers we are sharing our mutual traumas which cannot be named, and, thus, diluting our suffering.
A lot of warmth in that ... huddle
cheers, Bill
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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