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So I've gotten rather good at sprouting seeds and growing them into plants. In particular, I've taken a fantasy toward cacti and succulents. I've even bought a Sabra (prickly pear) and Pitaya (Dragon Fruit), processed the seeds and watched them grow (much faster than regular cacti).
So, then I moved on - with rug-rats coming and going I keep my spiny (horny?) friends at work so no one makes a fist around them: succulents. Harder to get the seeds. In all cases, being eminently childlike, I get 'mixed' seeds because I like the surprise as they grow and differentiate.
But, of course, there's always Amazon - or more correctly, the scillion vendors in their marketplace. I ordered succulent seeds from two sources, both in China. Several weeks later little envelopes arrive. So far, so good.
Eagerly, I plant the seeds from the two sources (separately). One, consisting of many seeds much smaller than poppy seeds, send up an army of thing plants whose progress has halted. The jury's still out on these.
The others, from a company called Sinark, looked like the topping for an "everything bagel", although a tad smaller. These sprouted. After the first two sets of real leaves appeared, they were remarkably distinct and anything but 'succulents' in progress. A little online search (due to the distinct third leaf set) and I found out that the seeds they sent (that grew) were unambiguously Red Clover.
Amazon's returning my money - no one's paying for the lost time.
Lesson to be learned: There are hoards of these seed sources in China, with names like YAYXXA and others made-up-for-the-moment. Until they settle down and have some real business standards - totally avoid them as a direct source. Have a local intermediate who, in order to avoid the expense of refunds, will cull the herd for you. Seeds are commonly imported from throughout the world - but being the test field for QC is an expensive mistake.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I've taken a fantasy
Maybe we all have fantasies about succulents, and maybe some of us even cacti, but in your case, I think the phrase is "I've taken a fancy..." 
W∴ Balboos wrote: sources in China
Not just seeds.
Marc
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You can find local seed exchanges if you look around. I know MotherEarthNews.com[^] will often have links for seed exchanges, at least for the US.
I do enjoy gardening but it can be a lot of work so I typically only plant things that I can eat. 
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: I typically only plant things that I can eat.
Outdoors, you and I agree totally on something! Basically, in my garden, I'm growing eggplant parmigiana (cheese takes too long to sprout). The cacti make particularly good house plants in that they'll be happy in a two ounce paper cup for years.
As for lawns? I won't fertilize or water the thing. All I'd get back is faster growth and the need to mow it more often. Who needs that? Survival of the fittest.
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I have eaten cactus many times before, but do not care for it. It has a very strange taste.
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: It has a very strange taste
So does McDonalds but that doesn't seem to stop people.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I've never noticed macdonalds' food products having a strange any taste.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's what is so strange about it! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That cactus you have eaten wouldn't be peyote by any chance?
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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hello!
Please, i am the total beginner and I wonder if someone can send me code and/or hints how to draw animated circle and elypse around a button (wpf, visual studio, visual c#, xaml). Many thanks for any links, tutorial, guidelines, etc
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Hint 1: Read top of page where you posted this message - the RED text.
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Have you tried here[^]?
They've got forums for just about every programming language, and you can ask experts in those forums for help.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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How can my program be so buggy, even though I have used a debugger on it?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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How Can Bugs Be Real If Our Code Isn't Real?
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I can't handle the existential crisis this brings.
What...is...real?
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Because you have used debugger you should have avoid it.
rahul
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And the well known "My program is right - it compiled"... 
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Along similar lines:
How can my bank balance be zero, I still have checks!
Marc
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If you write less code, you will get less bugs. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
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KarstenK wrote: If you write less code, you will get less bugs
There is a limit to this -- if you write no code, the compiler will generally squawk. 
Used to see some clueless student try to do this every year when I was in college.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: why has no one told me about this before?
Because most of the people you know are intelligent, and have good taste ?
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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