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You're already a fanboi, given your consistent misspelling of 'Windows'. Go figure it out yourself, and leave the grownups here alone.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Some times I'm not coding. (Really it does happen!) I just want to watch a couple of cat videos and check my email. I've done that in Linux and Windows, sort of so what there. There was not a huge difference in the experience. At work I have to code C# on a Windows machine; at home I use Linux to program my Arduino with my Raspberry Pi. It's just about tool for the job. Not being a religious person it doesn't make sense to worship Gates or Torvalds.
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published under the CPOPL, the CodeProject Open Poetic License. Copyleft, Bill Woodruff, 2015
"Okay: just like that Armani in the magazine — your suit's gonna be double-breasted with narrow lapels, real-tortoise-shell buttons, satin liner, no front pocket, sewn-through button-holes, vents at the sides, pleated pants with no back pockets."
"Yes, that's what I want; my new job starts the first of the month."
"Okay, let's talk about the suiting; we have some very light-weight wool-worsteds that you can wear summer through fall — Here, take a look at these samples — "
"How much would two suits with — this one — and this one — be ?"
"That would be about a thousand-dollars for your two suits — of course, keep in mind that includes two-fittings with our master-tailors."
"That's pretty expensive."
"Well, what do you want to pay ?"
"Could I get two suits for five-hundred dollars ?"
"Well, yeah, you could go with a poly-cotton blend in a twill, but that's not going to give you summer-fall wear, that's not going look like Armani."
"Well, do you have something that would give me summer-fall wear, but less than a thousand dollars for two ?"
"You could go with a wool-poly blend — get it down around seven-fifty, but — I gotta tell ya — you're gonna have a suit that rumples easy — you're gonna have a suit that needs pressing every time you wear it — "
"I see."
"Now, if you can go nine-hundred, and we make both suits from the same suiting fabric — see — we can save a little on the cutting there — that's the cheapest way I can see to go with the wool worsted —
Of course, if you're willing to skip the sewn-through button-holes — that's another fifty you save — forget about the pleats, go with a cheaper liner, plastic buttons — another fifty off — now — you're down eight-hundred."
"Wow, eight-hundred's still a long way from five-hundred, and I get only one color !"
"Well, you get what you pay for — you want summer-fall — you want bespoke — it's gonna cost you."
"Aren't there some open-source fabrics that — would be a lot cheaper ?"
"There may be, but we wouldn't use those if they were free — hah !
Open-source wool-worsted ! [laughing] — you gonna get stuff there from some kind of flock of sheep used for genetic experiments turned into wool by a bunch of amateurs !"
"I see."
"Look, you seem like a nice young man, and I'd like to help you out: what if I knocked a hundred-dollars off the thousand, and you get your two suits in the wool-worsted."
"You mean — with the sewn-through — "
"Yeah, yeah — two colors, sewn-through, satin liner, the works."
"That's really kind of you."
"Well, kind-schmind, a young man with a future like you — our customer today — we know you're going to come back to us — this year it's wool-worsted, next year: cashmere."
"I see."
"You gotta credit-card ?"
"Yes, I have a Visa."
"Let's get a deposit right now on the card, and get you measured."
"Could I come back in two days — just need a little time to think this over."
"Sure, you can come back any time, but I gotta be straight with you here: I offered you the two for nine-hundred partly because our cutting-room schedule's pretty open the next few days — now, we gotta pay our master-cutters whether they cut or not — I'm sure you understand that.
Now, if there are a lot of orders come in today, tomorrow, and that schedule fills-up — oh sure — you still get the two for nine-hundred like I said — but, I can't guarantee you get the suits before the first-of-the-month — could be as late as the tenth before they're ready — remember: you gotta have two fittings."
"Could you do it with one fitting ?"
"No, we never only do one fitting, and that's why we have the reputation we do."
"Okay, let's do this — here's the card."
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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The open-source equivalent of clothing would be an off the rack suit. A tailored suit, however cheaply made, is the tailoring equivalent of custom software.
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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Hi Gary, interesting ... when I think of the worst of American music, ZZ Top often comes to mind, but you gotta love their style-thang
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Call it a Monday-morning-free-association thang .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Oh yass, of curse, a montagmorgenfreivereinthang.
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Just enough of my high-school-German-from-35-years-ago brain cells fired to understand that one .
Software Zen: delete this;
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There's a reason I don't like to swim in the ocean.
Marc
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I have heard of divers being attached by them, dangerous buggers they are.
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Hey, the question is never whether thing X can survive in place Y; it's how long thing X can survive in place Y!
If I remember correctly, deep-sea creatures can't survive (long!) at the surface because the lower pressure causes their swim bladder to burst. However, squid do not possess a swim bladder (giant squid, at least) so perhaps it's other organs that start to go pop.
Depending on the age and relative health of the animal, it seems reasonable to me that a giant squid could survive at the surface for a respectable amount of time. Common sense tells me that its survival instincts would tell it to dive again if the lower pressure became too much for it to handle (unless it was sick or disoriented or otherwise disabled, which may well have led it to the surface to begin with!)
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Graduated to a riding mower eh?, I'll assume that the last one was of the "push" type?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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... really is a dog compared to eclipse.
Just had to get that off my chest before the evening's alcohol takes effect.
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So is it worse or better?
Pardon, I never heard such an expression (I suppose it means Android Studio is worse than Eclipse, but not sure).
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Dog means worse.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I thought dogs were friends.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Starts downloading Eclipse. Last night I decided it was time at last for mobile development. I'm starting to feel left out. Any books you could recommend?
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Oh, wow, thanks. Now I only have this and AngularJS to master. Oh, and plain vanilla JavaScript for a potential new job. Haha, the interviewer asked, "How much non-jQuery JavaScript have you done?"
Luckily I don't have to master Angular for the job, I can fairly get by there, having started only two months ago. Despite the quirks, a truly fantastic framework.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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For JavaScript, this[^] is the book to get ahead with.
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Indeed. I have been taught proper JavaScript (not the hacked together stuff we see so often), I have borrowed and read about half of it, and in fact, I have just this minute purchased it.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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