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"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yeah, a kind of odd limbo state, not really knowing anything.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: kind of odd limbo state,
Doctor: The patient isn't breathing.
Nurse: Yeah, a bit of a limbo state, it seems.
Doctor: Limbo-state? Uh, we in the business call that dead. 
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First Dilbert, Now ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif)
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Maybe go back to the pub for a spell.
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After today I am thinking of moving in!
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despartion ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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pkfox wrote: despartion ?
It's that feeling of desperation you get when you realize you've just deleted the wrong partition and you know you have no backup.
(sorry, it's the best I could do on short notice...)
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dandy72 wrote: desperation you get when you realize you've just deleted the wrong partition
Part of my role as the DSJB(*) is to create the Windows system images we install on our industrial PC's. Been there, done that, currently wearing the blood, sweat, and tears-stained T-shirt.
(*) Departmental Sh*t-Job Boy
Software Zen: delete this;
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After eliminating valueless textbooks after graduating college, I made it a point to NOT buy technical books.
Other folks may go to an extreme -- one guy I worked with had a bookcase 8' tall and 12' wide, literally overflowing with technical books. Each time he touched a new technology, he purchased at least 3 new books. When he moved offices, it took him 2 days to move all the books.
Having spent 25+ years as a consultant/contractor, when I needed technical books, I talked the client into buying them. The same conversation was conducted repeatedly with each client: "You know you can't keep the books when your contract ends?"
Yeah, that was actually the idea. I had no idea what the future would bring in terms of technology I would work with, so I'd talk the next client into buying what I need for that contract. Saved me money AND I didn't have to move the books. When I went into a client site for the first time, I carried my briefcase and one bag of "stuff", and when I left, I did the same.
That said, this morning I looked at the bookcase in my home office and wondered what I'd do with the few books I purchased that are LONG outdated. Keeping with my "don't buy" mantra, there's only 5:
Microsoft C Programming for the PC
XML for Dummies
Learn ASP.NET in 21 Days (probably v1)
Professional C# 2008
Professional WordPress (probably v2)
Is there any value in books this old? WordPress is probably 12 yo and it's the youngest. ASP and XML are circa 2000, and C is circa 1990.
I hate to toss them in the landfill but can't figure out a use for them.
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Bequeath them in your will, let your ancestors deal with what to do with them.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: Bequeath them in your will, let your ancestors descendants deal with what to do with them.
FTFY.
I think your ancestors have even less use for your old books than you do. 
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I always get that wrong. Thank you. Thinking like Merlin, aging backwards.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Ok, Benjamin Button. 
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Thanks for the recommendation. While I cannot see any value in these books, someone might.
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I have zero nostalgia with paper books, especially technical books. (with some exceptions)
I moved houses too many times with too many cases of books.
I've recycled most of them and gave a few.
I still have a small bookshelf with 2 dozen dusty books.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Maximilien wrote: I moved houses too many times with too many cases of books.
Yep, moving is what did me in too.
I had some books when I started out, then gradually each time I moved I was like, "Why am I carrying these bricks made of paper all over the world?"
I sold all of them (except a few nostalgia pieces) to Half Price Books and stopped breaking my back. Now I haven't moved for over 6 years & don't intend too.
But I'm much tidier. 
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I've lived in the same house for 30 years ... the thought of moving my paperback books is daunting!
While I don't buy technical books, up until about 10 years ago, I purchased a lot of sci-fi and fantasy books.
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Looking around at the shelf behind me I see a dozen or two such books. I may still have some boxed up after my latest move (five years ago). Some date back to the 80s.
I don't think I've bought a new technical book since around 2010, but I have bought/acquired used ones. For instance, I have a COBOL book someone was giving away a few years back.
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I used to use my C++ Manuals as a doorstop
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Compared to my bookshelf, those are practically brand new. I still have books on (MS-)DOS internals and an old 8086/8088 programmers guide that details the entire instruction set.
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Last year I threw away books from that era covering similar topics. One I remember buying and then reading, and it went way over my head (I was in my early teens and had a hard time already understanding books written in English, let alone the subject matter). I went back to it years later, and (re-)discovered interrupt programming. Then it turned out for years to be one of my favorite books.
I also had about half a dozen OS/2 books - one with a foreword from Bill Gates.
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I remember running OS/2 2.x quite some time before Win95 released.
It was quite amazing to see true pre-emptive multitasking when all we really had was cooperative multitasking in the Windows 3 world.
Then Win95 released and OS/2 continued the issues of no driver development (your CD-ROM didn't work in OS/2 bec their weren't any drivers for it) and win95 killed OS/2 and OS/2 killed itself. 
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