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At Barness and Noble during lunch yesterday, I stumbled over the updated version of the classic
The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)[^]
Great book and now updated for the modern times.
From section The Cat Ate My Source Code
The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.
~ J.B. Bossuet
One of the cornerstones of the pragmatic philosophy is the idea of taking responsibility for yourself and your actions in terms of your career advancement, your learning and education, your project, and your day-to-day work. Pragmatic Programmers take charge of their own career, and aren’t afraid to admit ignorance or error. It’s not the most pleasant aspect of programming, to be sure, but it will happen—even on the best of projects. Despite thorough testing, good documentation, and solid automation, things go wrong. Deliveries are late. Unforeseen technical problems come up.
These things happen, and we try to deal with them as professionally as we can. This means being honest and direct. We can be proud of our abilities, but we must own up to our shortcomings—our ignorance and our mistakes.
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So that's what they mean when they constantly complain about not kicking only the pragmatic Orcs into Mt. Doom!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Nah. Mordor got Patriots[^]. They call that 'Blazing Skies'.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I.e. "One does not simply fly into Mordor".
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Quote: fly to Mount Doom
Four words: The Nazgul Air Force.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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+ the eye of Sauron
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
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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They all say the same thing: "here's looking at you, chum*"
video: [^]
* chum/chumming: [^]
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Manager's meeting.
Software Zen: delete this;
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«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Are only atoms allowed to make up stuff?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yeah, atoms make up stuff, newspapers make stuff up, project managers stuff up.
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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Where do you get these from? If you make even a reasonable fraction of them up, you've missed your calling.
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Could be an element of truth to that, strange as it may seem.
"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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We need to ion out a few problems with the theory that you've lepton.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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With an ion a good reply for this posting period, and further enhance CP'ian bonding, we still must ask is what you post true orbital tale in nature?
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You should really stop now, or we'll make the bonds very tight if you compound the problem.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Quantum Mechanics - the dreams that stuff is made of.
-- Anon.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Years ago I whitelisted CodeProject in my ad blocker.
However, I just got so fed up of the flashing ads distracting me while I was trying to read an article that I enabled ad blocking again.
I now feel a little bit dirty and guilty ... but I also feel calmer and more able to relax and simply read stuff. That's what I come here for.
@chris-maunder, if you undertake to make sure that ads are not flashy and distracting then let us know and I will chain up the ad blocking rottweiler again.
Phil
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Quote: Flashy adds here on CP?
Are you sure you write to the right page  Ok, maybe my eyes got that bad with the years that I don't realize it... in that case this would be the "natural ad blocker", I think I will copyright that word/phrase 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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We have a policy in place that doesn't allow anything overly annoying. Our tolerance level may be different than yours, so your mileage may vary.
In any case, we appreciate the gesture. These servers don't pay for themselves.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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with apologize to OG
If your wife escaped from the zoo, would she be more, or less, feral ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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