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Trying to work out if I'll ever feel my fingers again after shovelling snow. It's been...chilly.
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You're not stuck in Toronto, are you ? It's very warm, even in Tassie. A trifle windy, though....
Christian Graus
My new article series is all about SQL !!!
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If he was in Oz, wouldn't it be rather odd for him to be shoveling snow?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yep - I'm back here doing time.
I'm innocent I tells ya! They have the wrong man!
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Chris Maunder wrote: They have the wrong man!
That's not what the hamsters say, and the surveillance video seems to have about 18 minutes erased.
Come on down to AZ and "work" remotely; it's about 75°F all weekend. Well, the daylight bits, anyway.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Just finished coding and testing a postfix to RPN formula system for a new software I'm working on, as well as all the API and user documentation. Now I'm working on more of the spec and keeping my notes in sync with the design.
Also watching Archer on my DVR, waiting for the new season to start Jan 13. Wife works in the morning so I'll do some more coding until lunch. Rest of the weekend is chores, Packers vs 49ers on Sunday which I'll mostly listen to, and preparing for the -21 degrees F on Monday (-40 or something with windchill forecasted).
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Omphaloskepsis.
“There are obvious things, and there are many obvious things no one tried, because no one needed to try them.” Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov, January 1, 2014
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BillWoodruff wrote: Omphaloskepsis.
I had to look up that one, sounds like a good way to spend an afternoon!
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It's still Friday evening here. I am rather tired after fighting my way South to our place in Baja. This trek has become significantly more challenging after the main road to town collapsed last week[^] (sorry about the paranoid web site in my link, but it has the best collection of pictures of the road). It's an elephanting mess.
Arrived only to find the wife in a rather foul mood. I swear her eyes looked like Anakin Skywalker's when he is turning to the dark side. 
As far as Saturday afternoon (tomorrow) is concerned, I might look at a side project I have been offered. Everything is in the very early stages. I asked what kind of overall requirements they had, such as web interfaces and was told they wanted it completely proprietary and closed. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Oooo! It did a bit, didn't it? 
That's...um...challenging. Especially for the couple of trucks at the bottom which might be a bit late with the last delivery of the day... Poor buggers! Musta given 'em a bit of a shock - are they OK?
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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It was actually just one truck with a trailer (both filled with cement) that slid down with the roadway without injuring the driver. Essentially that truck triggered the collapse, but it would obviously have happened at some time anyway.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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No you arent. You are posting crap on SB.
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SB ? I'm not posting to the soapbox at all ?
Christian Graus
My new article series is all about SQL !!!
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I'm sat in a garage while they replace the two front tyres on my car. And adjust the 'tracking', whatever that is.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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It's basically how much the two wheels point in the same direction, and making sure they both point forward!
If it's wrong, it causes uneven wear, the car to veer to one side when accelerating or braking and such like - it's pretty simple, if you have the measuring equipment.
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Trying to buy another house.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Are you trying to buy up the whole of Luton in the hope of replacing it with something more sightly?
A waste disposal facility, perhaps, or a sewage farm?
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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I woke up this morning with some ideas on the Semantic Types project my associate is working on - he's doing low level C code and I thought I'd look at implementing some of his ideas in C#, so I've been working on the declarative side of things leveraging a lot of FP concepts and whacky features of C# that I hardly ever use, like the dynamic keyword and runtime code generation and execution.
Had a lovely breakfast with my gf, shoveled the snow off her car (note, "shoveled", not "brushed") and kissed her goodbye as she went off to take care of the sheep and other animals at the farm where she works. The rest of the day will be spent earning $$$ working on my client's upgrades to a couple Ruby on Rails websites, then tonight, off to the Saturday poker game where I will hopefully make more $$$. Ironically, I make about as much money playing poker per hour (on average) as I do doing contract programming! Too bad it's not full-time game playing!
I'm almost 50% done with my SyncFusion e-book on "From Imperative to Functional Programming - How to Think Functionally" (anyone interested in giving me feedback, I'd be happy to send them what I have so far), but I'm putting that aside today - the next big thing is to really understand monads (computational expressions) so I can write about it intelligently. None of the online descriptions, though excellent in one way, really explain monads in a way that can be applied practically, and FP (and specifically F#), being what it is (immutable if we stay pure to the idea of FP) needs monads to manage state, so I'm trying to wrap my head around that with some practical examples.
Oh, and weirdly, the hot water pipes downstairs seem to have frozen, but we still get hot water upstairs. Debugging that is a lot harder than most programming problems!
Marc
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Heading out of town to have a new mirror put on my new truck. The car wash ripped the original one to pieces. While I'm there, I'll stop by a few stores to see if, unlike my town, Lake Havasu has ammo available on the store shelves. If so, I may have to buy some; I went through rather a lot of it at the range last week. 
I'm also gathering up addresses of people who, months ago, expressed an interest in sharing the bounty when an old fellow in a local gun shop gave me about 200 lbs of fired brass. I've finally got it all sorted, and I'm giving away the stuff I don't shoot. Happily, I have a bunch of cases I can reload in a couple of my favorite calibers - ~9000 in 9mm Luger, ~1000 in .380 Auto. I've got the extras bagged and tagged and ready to ship, just waiting on addresses.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Just came back from nice little motorcycle ride. Watching big bang theory now.
OT: There is a really old article[^] of Pete about query performance. Those articles do not really cover how execution plan can be really used to improve queries. Now since you have picked up on SQL and are busy writing, how about an addendum? Or may be a brand new series on, probably, this much ignored area.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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I am a AWS newbe. I am mucking about with an AWS playtime account, tied to my personal credit card, my costs last month did not exceed $20. My network topologies though seem to quickly get out of hand and am having a hard time visualizing them. Again this is just so I can become familiar with this stuff, playtime as I have said.
Several tools are available to allow me to do visualization, one that I'm interested in is in beta and is based overseas, well actually most of the free ones are (not in friendly countries either). There is one that costs, it is a release version but their visualizations don't look like the Amazon network diagrams you see in AWS help, in addition I have to contact a sales rep to get pricing (no prices on the menu if you will).
The problem is you have to give the visualization people your AWS account info so the diagrams can be generated/ or toplogy generated from the diagram you draw. I hesitate to do that even with a play time account, lest in an hour my AWS account gets abused by the visualization vendor in ways I'm just beginning to imagine.
I have noticed that AWS has a cloud monitor that sends an email if you exceed <edit> a costing </edit> threshold. Hmmm... that's next to worthless.
Anyone run into this and have thoughts on this?
modified 3-Jan-14 16:51pm.
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 Simple! Change AWS to WindowAzure. You'll have more control on your servers
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Master.Man1980 wrote: Azure
Thanks, it's certainly worth a look.
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Sorry, you lost me at AWS. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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