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I imagine he'd feel no gilt when doing that.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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True. He can also be a real boar sometimes.
/ravi
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Yeah, but most of the time he's a ham.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I remember that! The place looked like a sty after all the folks scrambled out of there.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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They had to go into hock to get the money to fix the place.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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You ain't ribbin' me, are ya?
/ravi
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Me? No, it's snout in my nature.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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True, I didn't figure you were loin.
/ravi
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When I lied as a kid, ma would give me a swift kick in the butt.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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If it's an appropriate time to paws for refreshment.
Ravings en masse^ |
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I can't bear these jokes
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Ask Chris and one of the hamsters, and maybe you can all go for a beer -- you an' Chris an' 'im all together.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's the kind of story that seems to pop up again and again - government outsources a moderately challenging but very solvable problem to a consulting firm, and the firm fails to deliver a working solution despite being paid handsomely.
It reminds me a bit of Healthcare.gov in the US; hundreds of consultants couldn't deliver a performant solution even with a budget in the billions of dollars. A much smaller team came in and replaced the slow bits using Node.js running on AWS.
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You could also reference the Queensland health debacle, also created by IBM. They were the only ones paid hansomly, the medical staff had to make do while they failed to fix it.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Twice today 'Ur (the name of my latest beast desktop) has gone into a strange state I have not experienced before where if I try and launch other apps, like Chrome, the launch fails with no message; I open the Control Panel folder but Win never finishes enumerating the items and never shows any icons; I hit cntrl-del, but Task Manager doesn't launch.
The pop-up that has this message about "maintenance" has a button that supposedly should take me to the Action Center, but, hey, that doesn't work either.
First thoughts that go through me head: malware; or, Win10 install sneakaroo somehow infiltrated my defenses.
I am the only person that can use this machine.
So, I reboot, run a complete virus/malware scan: all clean. I open the Action Center and the only information I can see is that it says that Windows was not shut down properly ... well, yeah, I did that because ... I had to. Last Windows update was last week, and I have been religious about not installing the nag-install-10 KB's.
D#mn ... where'd I put my defibrillator ?
Thoughts ?
thanks, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Does this only happen when you are trying to launch Chrome? Are there any services/apps running that shouldn't (if you are able to see them anyway)?
My first thought was a dead-lock or (because of the neverending enumeration) a continuous/multiple launch of new instances of an app which slows down the system.
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Thanks for your thoughts, I was, indeed, locked-out of launching all apps; I couldn't even shut the computer down, or re-start.
Since I couldn't access the Task Manager, or the Action Manager, I had no way to look at what was happening internally.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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You're welcome!
Did you solve the issue? I'm just a bit curious
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Don't Hit Save - It Works On My Computer[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Good one! I appreciate the sarcasm!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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