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I think of Perl like I think of C++. It gives you all the tools you need to shoot yourself in the foot but those same tools can accomplish things many other languages simply can not.
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Yesterday I volleyed a customer problem back into their court, which earned me an attaboy from my boss. That has been the highlight of my week.
Today is my last working day of the year. As can be expected, my motivation is almost nil. None of my to-do list items are small enough to be worth starting. I'm reduced to clean-up at this point.
I've put away all the lab stuff that had migrated to my cube. My cube stays pretty tidy, but it does collect stuff occasionally. Some of it is depressing - I'm the official librarian-of-departed-employee-stuff(*), and a couple piles are things from long-time friends that have been laid off or forced to retire.
(*) one of my many roles as the DSJB, or Departmental Sh!t Job Boy
My old PC, which has been sitting on the side of my desk for the last six weeks powered off, is busily deleting files and uninstalling apps preparatory to it joining its brethren on the Island of Misfit Computers in my other lab. I would have yanked the hard drive and wiped it, but it would be nice to leave the thing bootable. Unfortunately the corporate IT yabbos don't have the recovery image set up properly, plus the drive is encrypted  , so I have to do this the hard way. I do believe VS2015 takes longer to uninstall than it did to install.
I'm also lurking on CP a bit, and posting pointless nonsense like this message.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Hehe, did you move to Australia? 
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No, but I think I would enjoy the warm weather. I live in Ohio, in the U.S.
Mother Nature says you can't have all four seasons in one day. Ohio replies "Here; hold my beer."
Software Zen: delete this;
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_Four_ seasons?! Must be nice.
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u have a boss ha ha ... happy new year ...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Hope you enjoy your time off! As for me, I'm putting in extra hours at my second job through the end of the year. I'm 'officially' off from my programming job at the end of business today...officially just means that the phones won't ring. (my clients are in education support and will be off also until next year)
The good thing is that my secondary job is unsupervised and not that demanding so that I can do work for the main job on my laptop! A bonus is that it gets me out of the house where the missus would certainly be putting me onto some unsavory task like cleaning the garage! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Is a faux pas leaving the price tag on your dad's present?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yes, your only save is rapping properly!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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It depends. Is it a faux toe album?
Beware of Germans offering a Gift[^].
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Timeo pueri et dona ferentes
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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Romanes eunt domus
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Romani ite domum
Now write that one hundred times!
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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Sir, I refer you to The Lounge[^]
Apparently this is a ra-al problem throughout Europe.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: ra-al
BTW, my version translates as "I fear children, even bearing gifts" (if I'm not mistaken...)
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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I just noticed a little green spot next to my FireFox search bar.
Opening my drop-down I was amazed to see it offered to add CodeProject to my search bar's list of parties. Wow-wee Zow-wee. Even my own website doesn't get that kind of prestige.
(Does this mean the cost of my annual CP subscription goes up?)
[update]
I tried it for a search 'hot bodypaint' - very disappointing results.
[/update]
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Does this mean the cost of my annual CP subscription goes up?
Didn't you get the email? The price went up this year: 17.3 times what it was this time last year!
Fortunately, members with over 100,000 rep points are excempt again this year, provided they are over that total by midnight on Dec 31st.
I get a rebate! 
Check your "Junk email" folder - it was sometime last week.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Just the magic of OpenSearch
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I noticed that a while ago, but forgot about it.
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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Sadly, I suspect that we won't see a corresponding change when BC values hit zero.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Someone stole the California voter database for bitcoin ransom...pretty stupid. Most of the names will be illegals and dead people.  [^]
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So you cannot trust the government to keep your data safe.  What else is new?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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d_c_allison wrote: Most of the names will be illegals and dead people.
I was under the impression that in California, the Democratic machine votes the illegals, and in Chicago, it votes the graveyard. Was I wrong? 
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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I think they are both using the same playbook.
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