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I should have been here to volunteer  . I love LOTR, and a friend of mine is writing something similar for which I am a volunteer proof reader.
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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Congratulations! 
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Congrats. I do a bit of sci-fi writing (and other writing) myself so I know how tough it can be to get your stuff in front of an audience.
Can we read your story somewhere? Are any of your other stories available elsewhere?
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Thanks.
You won't be able to read this one until publication next year - and as it is the first, there's no others available to read.
I do have one reject that I may post somewhere online in which case I will obviously let everyone here know!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Maxxx wrote: So I wrote a short story
Awesome! So when is the CP article coming out discussing the architecture decisions, workflows and third party integration? 
Marc
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I was thinking more of an article discussing punctuation (with special consideration of alignment of braces), layout and the use of the word 'this'!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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_Maxxx_ wrote: So I wrote a short story, sent it off and it's been accepted for publication in a SF mag - and will be broadcast on radio and podcast.
I'm not actually getting paid - but I'm still pretty excited, and was passing by so thought I'd share!
Congrats! Where have you been hiding?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Hi MM - well, you know how it is! Got kicked out of one job, moved out of the .Net space into Angular 2, NodeJs and all that sort of stuff - so CP became less relevant & I had less time.
Now I"m back into using .Net back end a little, & popped by to look up some facts ..maybe I'll stay a while!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Congrats! I'm working on a novel and have a pile of short stories as well so I know how difficult and nerve wracking it can be. I do it in my downtime so I stay creative and help relax. My older brother just published his first book as well.
What sort of short story was it?
Maxxx wrote: Subject: I Sold my first story...
Maxxx wrote: not actually getting paid
This is a new definition of selling that I'm not familiar with.
Finally OT: I've never seen the Praise reply type before. But I like it! Have a five!
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It's a very short Sci-Fi story. (< 1000 words)
I don't want to say anything about it until it's published as I don't want to give any spoilers!
I just write when the fancy takes me - in this case I thought of the opening line to a novel about 12 years ago (maybe even longer) - one evening I thought about just writing that first page - which is what I did!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Maxxx wrote: one evening I thought about just writing that first page - which is what I did!
Whatever works is best. I know that I have days where I don't want to write but I sit down and just do it. Sometimes that produces crap and I toss it on the shelf but other times after 10 or 15 minutes I really start clicking.
Regardless, congrats on soon being published!
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Awesomeness!
/ravi
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So you didn't actually sell the story - you gave it away! Congratulations!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Yeah, well, if you want to be pedantic!
It's for my fans
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Sounds like West coast pugilist sect, discordant to Americans. (13)
edit: CALLITHUMPIAN. I think the solution is pretty straightforward. Intriguing to find a word with three distinct meanings in different cultures (UK, US, Aus). See here[^]
Back tomorrow, I guess.
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
modified 29-Aug-17 7:26am.
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Rule #1: We never talk about it?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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ummm. Not sure how to respond to that. Could be construed as being in the right direction. Or not.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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And that's always a great motivation to make the impossible possible.
In the news we have this today: Consumers more demanding, less forgiving when it comes to performance[^]
Excellent. I always hoped for that, because expectations never had anything to do with reality. This way a lot of suboptimal stuff had to go the way of the dinosaurs and make way for something more practical.
We still have not recovered yet fom falling back to the days of the old mainframes about 25 years ago. Suddently all the junk that had proven itself to be ineffective, like interpreters or said mainframes, was back again.
Demanding users with higher expectations sent all this to the museum once, they may do it again. Why did that take so long?
The user can't update the up: we update it for them (Choice in the CP poll)
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I wonder what the average access speeds were between the surveys? Site speed and bandwidth didn't matter all that much when people were on dial up. As access speed increases, response times become the bottleneck. I also think competition drives stuff more than user expectations.
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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theoldfool wrote: I also think competition drives stuff more than user expectations.
I see that as two sides of the same coin. Expectations and how well they are met fuel the competition.
The user can't update the up: we update it for them (Choice in the CP poll)
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from Apica, a performance monitoring and testing company.
Forest, trees...
Whereas in the past organizations would spend months or even years perfecting a release full of new features, continuous delivery allows teams to make incremental changes to software and send them live as each improvement is made.
Underlying this is a shift in "consumer." Back in the mainframe days, the consumer was other businesses, and everything moved at a slow pedantic rate, where data was often sent by courier carrying mag tapes from one company to another (I think it was the famous Feynman with the story of the mysterious case of the mag tape losing its data, he realized it was the 3rd rail on the subway that was demagnetizing the tapes, I could be wrong about the story being associated to Feynman.)
Now, the consumer is a different animal, and the expectations of the consumer has been largely created by marketing, so of course when reality sets in, the consumer is not very forgiving.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Now, the consumer is a different animal, and the expectations of the consumer has been largely created by marketing
And to be honest... shame on them (companies / marketing people). I feel no mercy in this.
They invest a huge amount to get people buying their product. Some of them should invest at least a part in making their product capable of what they advertise too.
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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I find that a lot of companies seem to take the sell it first, build it later approach to systems development 
Then, two years later, the executives are scratching their collective heads on why their people cannot deliver on the promises they made.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Foothill wrote: Then, two years later,
hehehe I like your optimism
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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