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Microwave ovens, how DID we cook popcorn in the past?
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You don't really need a Microwave oven. All you need is a cooker or a vessel which as acts as a container and a electric or gas stove
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MehGerbil wrote: Do you have any technology where you were initially skeptical but now cannot imagine living without it? Not exactly, but it took a while for me to "get" how powerful Linq is, and I think I still have much to understand about it.
Perhaps my lack of background in using some kind of structured query language with a database meant my initial study of Linq was "more of a jump" ?
cheers, Bill
«OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. » Alan Kay's clarification on what he meant by the term "Object" in "Object-Oriented Programming."
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BillWoodruff wrote: lack of background in using some kind of structured query language with a
database
That's Linq's target demographic.
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Same here with Linq.
I feel it is harder for me to write than it should be but it sure is powerful.
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You don't realize how valuable they are until you develop on a system that doesn't have them.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Lambda expressions...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous ----- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944 ----- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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I really enjoyed them once I made the swap from VB.NET into C# just over 3 years ago
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Mobile phone.
Initially, I was made to have one - as I was "on call" 24 hours to a client, and it meant they could contact me at any time. Not-quite-a-brick, it was at least pocketable (but pre-digital)
But...it only ever rang when the bosses son wanted to go for a beer, so I warmed to it.
And now I never leave home without it...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Mobile phone.
Sure beats a pager and having to find a public phone and change.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: having to find a public phone and change
Good grief! I didn't realize you were Superman!
Can I have your autograph?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Flushing toilets
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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You've got those in the States now as well? When will it ever stop? You guys never cease to surprise me...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous ----- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944 ----- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Absolutely,
An internet connection. I was wrong. I needed it.
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I've had the reverse experience;
Windows was my bread and butter.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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MehGerbil wrote: Do you have any technology where you were initially skeptical but now cannot imagine living without it?
Yes. I call it "computers."
My first commercial one was built from a kit, and I had to write the operating system for it to make it do anything. My second was purchased assembled and had an operating system already installed, but I had to write the programs to make it do anything. I had them both for the novelty, and the learning experience to help out at work, but I had no expectation that anyone would actually need or want one at home.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Hi All,
I'm thinking about a contract role at the moment had the interview this morning (it went well) the only thing that bothers me is the fact I was thinking about getting a Mortgage would the fact I am a Contractor be a problem with the lenders in the UK, I will get some proper advise as soon as I am able to, but 'The Lounge' seemed the quickest and easiest way!
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Not in the UK, but... when I moved to the U.S. from Canada in 1999, I was taking a contract position. The banks let me get a mortgage based on my job, regardless of type.
Hope you get the job and the mortgage!
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glennPattonPUB wrote: advise
Nouning verbs lowers your credit rating.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Nouning verbs lowers your credit rating.
You realize you criticized the nouning of a verb by verbing a noun
Now we just need to verb an adjective, adjective an adverb, and adverb a dangling participle...
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Yes, yes I do.
Ian Shlasko wrote: verb an adjective
Never had a blued pistol?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Never had a blued pistol?
Once, but my yellow submarine evaded it.
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I'm an Engineer, don't go for high fluent language!
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did you mean falutin or just languages you are fluent in?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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