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I'd say that is very poor mentorship... 
Just kidding of course
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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My very first employer saw such things differently. You had to keep a good eye on the 'juniors' and see to it that they don't do any harm to themselves or others. Not that I was so much older than them.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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He prolly was just downloading huge torrents of you-know-what.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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That I am pretty sure he is not doing. We had a conversation re: torrents he pretty much is disapproving of them as they reflect badly on Linux users...(?)
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glennPattonWork wrote: We had a conversation re: torrents he pretty much is disapproving of them as they reflect badly on Linux users...(?)
Does it make him twitch to learn that many if not all Linux distros are available as torrent downloads?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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megaadam wrote: ...prolly...
Is that short for the Prostitute Molly, or some Merkan style bastardisation of the English language?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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glennPattonWork wrote: please tell me that I should not feel guilty
nos te absolvo
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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glennPattonWork wrote: After all we should not have to baby sit him
Read before...
glennPattonWork wrote: I was told to give a hand
glennPattonWork wrote: to a very junior member of staff who is known for doing his own thing (I am told he downloaded the Wanna Cry to fiddle with...). Who is now on suspension his PC's (Windows & Linux) have disappeared... we were told not speculate on why.
For me... he should not babysitted, he should be fired... Is he maybe family of any boss?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Quote: Is he maybe family of any boss?
Nope!, however I am told his parents are friends of the MD, he was viewed as a 'useful' person (the question is how useful?)
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Probably very useful...
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for the competitors 
Sorry for you being in that situation, but I agree with the rest. Don't feel guilty, he is just a moron.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Too bad really, he appeared to reasonable, then he wasn't I mean if you were on your final written warning for doing X on the servers, he does X again using a safe browser, to make it harder to track.  I though he just got a bad rep. but no he was a muppet!
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Quote: Is he maybe family of any boss?
Nope!, however I am told his parents are friends of the MD, he was viewed as a 'useful' person (the question is how useful?)
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mmmm... that's weird... did you write an exact copy of the previous message 20 hours later?
M.D.V.
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Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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No, I wrote a follow up message today, however the first message the one I am replying to seems to have been on a trip around the matrix 
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Here.
I'm mulling over an idea that requires merging multiple lists. At some point in their history, the lists diverge and I need to make sure that when they combine, lists contain all the items.
The sizes of the lists are in the thousands and are persisted. I just need to work out a way to merge them efficiently.
Ideas? Name for the concept?
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: The sizes of the lists are in the thousands and are persisted. I just need to work out a way to merge them efficiently.
Similar to a JOIN in SQL?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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It's a join except at the end the merged list is shared. Makes sense?
L0 = 0, 1, 2
L1 = 1, 3, 4
L2 = 2, 5, 6
first two merge:
L0 = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
L1 = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
L2 = 2, 5, 6
Then L2 merges with L1:
L0 = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
L1 = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
L2 = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Sort of. At some point L0 will merge again and all will be happy.
I think.
veni bibi saltavi
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I have a similar hell, myself. The company is spinning off a subsidiary and employees are being transferred to the subsidiary. The management hierarchy, during the transition, is such that a manage in one 'company' may be managing employees from the other or both. There's also a third 'company' which, except for a list of employees, is still a mystery to me.
Meanwhile, people get privileges based upon their department and their group. If you picture these as Venn diagrams, they don't necessarily fully overlap - and the can cross over boundaries.
Spread across multiple locations.
Essentially, it's mapping an every changing number of many-to-many lists.
The obvious answer is, of course, a view that lets you find all of each employees relationships. A long list, each employee (by uid, for example) occurring many times, mapping them to an ever changing state.
The key to this is that the view, itself, needs to be modified as the management changes the rules and shuffles people about. Partly, it's manipulating/adding to UNION's - but also, how selections are made, and creating/destroying columns as nuances erupt.
It's a game of whack-a-mole, but, once in place - and one bites the bullet that the solution will break - the logic of the view (views?) does the deed without causing damage.
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I like it when they reorganize the company. The managers are so busy creating chaos and fighting each other that they find no time to harass me.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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OT but sounds a lot like something I did a long time ago in uni using prolog, don't laugh but that is prolog's forte, figuring out complex relationships in "data webs" (i.e. more complicated than trees, think overlapping trees joined at arbitrary points).
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I remember prolog as one of those things like stereograms (those hidden 3-d images) that you can stare at for hours with no clue what/how it does anything - suck at 0%, and then in an instant it just makes sense (really was 0% to 100% with no in-between). I can understand how prolog has a place in AI - but back in those old days it was mostly just a novelty.
I said twas long ago, wouldn't even know where to start.
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That's a great response to a question that should have been asked in another forum !
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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You could use a HashSet and feed it with each of your original list. Redundant items will be discarded if item is already present. You can even provide your own equality comparer.
If you want to check whether you caught all original items, you can call the IsSupersetOf(IEnumerable) method for all of original lists; it should return true for all of them.
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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- No programming questions in the lounge, and that is what is being asked for despite the wording.
- Dump the data into a single list and select back only distinct items - the platform, tools, etc. are your choice.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: No programming questions in the lounge, and that is what is being asked for despite the wording.
That rule does not apply to members above a certain point level. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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HappyFestivus wrote: That rule does not apply to members above a certain point level.
Wrong !
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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