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Quote: forced to post by wife
Oh dear, after all these years posting, is that really you Peter.
How can we be sure now...
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter posted: I forced to post it by wife...
How the mighty have fallen... 
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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We're not one bit sorry for you Peter. You have seen the stuff that Griff's cat is forcing him to post!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Better plant that tree now
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When will you guys learn, Her Indoors is always in charge. That's how the marriage lasts.
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That's what I mean! My bachelor life has been over for 54 coming up 55 years. I've got that hang-dog, downtrodden look. But then so does everyone else that's lasted that long.
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There has to be some solution ...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Alcohol?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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on error resume next...just deal with whatever bad happens and move on.
warning...does not work with fatal errors!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I think a non-zero intersection begins to show itself with age.
/ravi
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absolutely,
life is requirement and event driven,
and trying to produce acceptable output with the limited input and tools on hand.
OP claiming life skills and development skills have no overlap means he's doing one or the other very wrong, either should find a job he can do, or get a life.
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Lopatir wrote: OP claiming life skills and development skills have no overlap means he's doing one or the other very wrong, either should find a job he can do, or get a life.
Actually, the OP has excellent developer and life skills. He posted a joke.
/ravi
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There are switch cases but the default conditions never work.
modified 15-Jul-17 22:58pm.
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The best overlap is a cat.
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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Both Life skills and developer skills are themselves disjoint sets.
Ex 1: My cooking skills have nothing in common with my driving skills, unless you consider pressing the recirculate air button on my car when behind a stinky truck in the same life skill as turning on the overhead blower when I burn something on the stove. 
Ex 2: My Javascript skills (or lack thereof!) have nothing in common with figuring out which arcane set of options I need for this particular WCF interface to authenticate with that web service, unless you consider my swearing to be a common developer skill between the two
Marc
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Swearing is sublime! It transcends (and improves!) all skills!
It Is The Absolute Verifiable Truth & Proven Fact
That Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.
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The impermanence is reflected in society in many subtle ways.A single dramatic example is the impact of the knowledge explosion on that classic knowledge container,the book.
As knowledge has become more plentiful add less permanent,we have witnessed the virtual disappearance of the solid durable leather binding,replaced at first by cloth and later by paper covers.The book itself,like much of the information it holds,has become more transient
A decade ago,communications systems designer Sol Cornberg,a radial prophet in the field of library technology,declared that reading would soon cease to be a primary form of information intake,”Reading and writing” he suggested “will become obsolete skills”(Ironically,Mr. Cornberg’s wife is a novelist)
Whether or not he is correct,one fact is plain:the incredible expansion of knowledge implies that each book(alas,this one included) contains a progressively smaller fraction of all that is known.And the paper back revolution,by making inexpensive editions available everywhere,lessens the scarcity value of the book at precisely the very moment that the increasingly rapid obsolescence of knowledge lessens its long term information value.Thus,in the united states a paperback appears,simultaneously on more than 100,000 newsstands,only to be swept away by another wave of publication delivered a mere thirty days later.The book thus approaches the transience of the monthly magazine,indeed,many books are no more than “one-shot” magazines.
At the same time,the public’s span of interest in a book -even a popular book-is shrinking-thus for example,the life span of best sellers on The New York times list is rapidity declining.There are marked irregularities from year to year for which full data on the subject is available,1953-1956,and compare this with a similar period one decade later,1963-1966,we find the average best seller in the earlier period remained on the list a full 18.8 weeks.A decade later this had shrunk to 15.7 within a ten – year – period,the life expectancy of the average best seller had shrunk by nearly on sixth.
We can understand such trends only if we grasp the elemental underlying truth.We are witnessing a historic process that will inevitably change mans psyche.For across the board,from cosmetics to cosmology,from twiggy-type trivia to the triumphant facts of technology,our inner images of reality,responding to the acceleration of change outside ourselves,are becoming shorter lived,more temporary.We are creating and using up ideas and images at a faster and faster pace.Knowledge,like people,places,things and organizations forms,is become disposable.
– Alvin Toffler – Future Shock(1970)
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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abmv wrote: A decade ago,communications systems designer Sol Cornberg,a radial prophet in the field of library technology,declared that reading would soon cease to be a primary form of information intake,”Reading and writing” he suggested “will become obsolete skills”(Ironically,Mr. Cornberg’s wife is novelist)
Such ideas one gets once thinking is obsolete; there is no alternative to "reading and writing", even if the youtube-bloggers would imply so. Without an alternative (and no, emoticons aren't) it will not be replaced or obsoleted.
abmv wrote: The book thus approaches the transience of the monthly magazine,indeed,many books are no more than “one-shot” magazines.
Not just due to the reader; there is also a supply-side that saturates the market with "new" titles. Take a look at the books in IT, explaining the difference between .NET4.5 and .NET4.51.
abmv wrote: We can understand such trends only if we grasp the elemental underlying truth
No, that way lie leaky abstractions. There is no truth, merely observation.
People still like stories - but the paperback is no match in storytelling compared to a cinema. People still like books, but I can't CTRL-F in a paperback. Though I prefer paper over PDF, I must admit that it is nice to copy/paste the examples.
..outside "us" having a cheaper medium than paper, not much has changed.
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Could you please reduce that to a 140 character tweet with words that the President can understand?
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
modified 16-Jul-17 17:10pm.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Could you please reduce that to a 140 word
That's going to be a looooonnnnggg tweet 
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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Nelek wrote: That's going to be a looooonnnnggg tweet
Oops. Fixed.
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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tldr
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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