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What... a fine transformation?
See, he was right. A lot lost in translation. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
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This is translated from Hindi so may not be funny.
Wife (wakes up husband at 2 AM): Who was lead female actor in Desparado?
Husband: Salma Hayek
Wife: What was Megan Fox's name in Transformers?
Husband: Mikaela Banes
Wife: When did the girl next door moved in?
Husband: 2 months 5 days. But why are you asking all of this?
Wife: Yesterday was my birthday.
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Can I request the Hindi version? 
This was too-awkward! 
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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Many people believe that remembering birthdays is a question of memory - while it's not entirely. I'm perfectly aware of the birthdays of my relatives, but I don't have a strong sense of time. Today is today, not July 15th... unless I have to write it somewhere for me there exist only the "present". I'm a stateless being  as many people are, especially those wha have a similar daily / weekly routine.
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you should use an advanced calendar service. The Google calendar can remind you a day before any "reoccuring date". So it might help 
Press F1 for help or google it.
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I do - but then forget, the day after is a wholly new experience  starting from scratch every day. Also, if Google remembers me now that today is the birthday of someone but I'm busy and can't phone / I'm not at home well... in a couple of minutes I forget again today's date and anything related
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I get that too, that is why I put all birthdays to start at midnight and have the reminder set for 30 minutes before the task.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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And then you phone the person 11:30 at night? 
I have a similar problem with birthdays. Even though I may technically know the birthday if asked for it, I still don't think of it at the exact day.
The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.
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No as I am asleep and I look at my phone in the morning and I then know to call them
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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KarstenK wrote: Google calendar can remind you a day before any "reoccuring date".
Telling me today, that tomorrow is July 16th, is not really much use. 
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d@nish wrote: This is translated from Hindi so may not be funny.
Its too much like my reality for me to find it funny. 
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Display Name Taken wrote: d@nish wrote: This is translated from Hindi so may not be funny.
FTFY!
Sorry d@nish, but it doesn't work in English translation (not for me anyway)...
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they can all bugger off, I thought it was giggle worthy
veni bibi saltavi
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This is instead a possible conversation with my WTB (Wife To Be, planning marriage, I mean really actually planning it).
WTB (wakes up poor fella me at 2 AM): Who was lead female actor in Desparado?
ME: The flock do I know? It's you the one who watch movies.
WTB: What was Megan Fox's name in Transformers?
ME: Who's Megan Fox?
WTB: When did the girl next door moved in?
ME: is there a new girl next door? When did the old neighbours movZZzzzzz...
Yup, I'm a bit careless
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Haha, good one.
Well to be fair, if you wake me up at 2 AM be prepared for some random information. I usually dream vividly so I'm half there and half in the real world. I could probably name almost anything about the person/people/beings in my dream be they real or fiction. But even asking me my name, the company I work for, her name, either birthday(including my own) would result in a bewildered expression on my face and I can only imagine how angry she would look.
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The former Mrs Me had a birthday two days before mine so we generally split the difference and had a single celebration on the day in the middle. I suppose I should have seen the writing on the wall the year she sent out invitations to the bash which entirely failed to mention that it was my birthday too! Somehow the claim that she'd forgotten just didn't ring true!!!
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So you've finished your computer science degree and you've just realised you actually don't know everything in the world. What are the fun ways to teach newbies to the industries?
For me it was development articles and.... recently I think stuff like industry related comics are good for teaching people new to the industry, fun and innovative at least.
Example: http://www.commitstrip.com/en/[^]
This is something developers can related to.
and of course for keeping up to date...
http://www.codeproject.com/script/News/List.aspx[^]
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Just let them look at some legacy code that someone pooped out - and ask them to fix it. Most effective if it's uncommented.
After seeing the horror they will Shun the Dark Side . . . or Embrace It.
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I quite agree, it was 50% of the training I received in the company I'm working for. The other half was solving problems, with a low penalty in case of failure, that made me step into the common problems and patterns we encounter normally.
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Entirely wrong, newbies usually are taught in a wrong way. I learnt programming waking up all night, listening to taunts my brother, friends and other family members had for me, getting sick for working 24x7 in 40+ degree Celsius. I made it! Should I recommend the same way to others?
Wrong, wrong, wrong... Wrong. Programming is fun, agreed. But only when entirely known. You can throw "Bobby Tables[^]" joke at a beginner and laugh alone in the room. Comics, some might dislike them. I don't love comics, I remember that PHP joke, entirely stupid comic. That doesn't happen at all. If someone prefers PHP for development, they don't hate it. If they do (like me) they ignoring chatter about PHP.
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Here is what I say, try to share your experience with him. How you did it, but what was the main idea. Share your idea, motivation, aim with him. Tell him how you felt and how you managed. Not how many times you drank tea (after making it to this stage, I have taken an addiction of 7 mugs of tea a day! Dang).
If you are an instructor, please try to learn the student before student learns programming. Learn where he lacks knowledge and polish him. Learn how soon he quits, and try to provide him with confidence and strength. Learn where he wants to be shared some in-depth knowledge and try to provide him with fun riddles, algorithms and other similar problems that would provide him with in-depth solutions.
Keeping up-to-date is not required while learning programming.
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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We hired an intern about 2 months ago to migrate legacy code. The only programming he had done previously was Java. I started him out with a small 3K LOC module. After a couple of weeks, I felt bad, and provided him with the module mostly done and asked him to finish it. 5 weeks later, and I still haven't gotten anything back. It's a good thing we are paying him by the module!
I was quite shocked a couple of weeks ago when he finally asked for help. While on a remote, I set a breakpoint in VS and started stepping through his code. In amazement, he exclaimed, 'I didn't know you could do that!'. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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That is not at all surprising. Personally, I'd have been observing a junior much more closely and passed on helpful information like this much earlier.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It's an unusual situation as he works from home and is apparently either very independent or embarrassed. I had roughly one hour of one on one with him when we hired him, and he seemed to 'get it'. At that time, I explained what was to be done and let him know that I was available anytime to help. Even in the first week, I took the small project I had given him and spent a few days migrating it myself so that he could see a working example. The only thing left to do was to replace the ADODB components with .NET counterparts. I even sent instructions/samples on how to do this. It's been three weeks since I last heard from him. I'm actually thinking that he's not too serious about it and just needs the internship to fill a credit. At any rate, he has assured me (in our limited conversations) that he has learned a lot, and that it is a lot harder than he thought it would be.
He's young and living at home for the summer. (doesn't really need the money)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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