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Kamen Nik wrote: ...Alfa centauri...
I think you mean Alpha Centauri?
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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English language heavy language
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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True, its not very SOLID.
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Well Nik Kamen was a bit of a Romeo.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kamen Nik wrote: All of you VB6 ninjas can put your creations in the Windows 10 store.
The fact that the IDE works on Win10 does not make it a supported scenario all of a sudden. And yes, I know I'm making a lot of VB4-developers unhappy, but the language is dead.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Kamen Nik wrote: Not according to the latest Microsoft project quite aptly named Centennial
It still is dead.
The IDE is no longer for sale, you cannot get a new license, and the Operating System is not tested to guarantee that it reamins compatible. VB6 is no longer updated nor maintained, and there is no support from MS is anything fails.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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One irresponsible programmer can keep any five top-notch programmers busy. - Eric Evans
From our time registration system 
I have no idea who Eric Evans is by the way.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I have no idea who Eric Evans is by the way.
He's the guy who said, "One irresponsible programmer can keep any five top-notch programmers busy." 
On a serious note, he's way off. It should be 1 to 1, not 1 to 5. If one 1 irresponsible programmer is keeping 5 other programmers busy then they are no way top-notch.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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That's only true if you intercept the damage before it reaches production. Disaster recovery can be far harder than preventing a disaster in the first place.
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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You obviously haven't met some of the top-notch irresponsible people I've had the displeasure of working with.
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Just hit the "revert this commit" button on your source control system? 
The more often you forget to revert the more people you'll need to clean the mess 
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Sander Rossel wrote: have no idea who Eric Evans is by the way
FYI[^]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I guess as programmers we're often tempted by the life of crime... 
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That can't be him, our Eric is black and in jail 
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First, apologies for lateness.
Learned greek (m) makes for heavy water. (9)
Good luck!
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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DEUTERIUM?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Answered. Got the solution for completeness?
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Nope - hence the question mark.
I got Deuterium from the heavy water, but it's from the Greek for second "deuteros", and I can't think of any famous Greeks that fit at all!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: DEUTERIUM?
Was thinking the same, myself, but absolutely no idea on the wordplay.
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Likewise! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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ERUDITE.. Learned
.......MU Greek (m)
Minor shuffling to finish.
Heavy water was a huge clue.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Heavy water was, indeed, a huge clue - on a really pedantic note, though, heavy water is deuterium oxide, simple deuterium is known as heavy hydrogen - but it's probably too big a clue all the same.
The wordplay doesn't play by the rules, though, as there's nothing to suggest to the solver that any "minor shuffling" (the complete anagramisation of one derived word and the reversal of another) is going on, so there's no way to know that the extra layer of indirection is there.
I'd have gone with something more like "Isotope produced by erudite confusion on return of Greek letter": The literal part of the clue leaves a great many possible answers and is therefore much harder but the word-play can now lead us to the specific answer. "Confusion" indicates that we're looking to kick off with an anagram of erudite, and "return of Greek letter" gives us a handful of possible endings to work with. I don't particularly like the surface reading of my version so I'd probably tweak it, but hopefully it shows a better balance of difficulty between the two parts of the clue.
Sorry, I really hate to be critical and I did very much enjoy trying to solve it but it was answerable rather than solvable.
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PeejayAdams wrote: The wordplay doesn't play by the rules, though
One of my favourite crossword composers uses "makes" or "makes for" as an anagram hint. His clues tend not to follow a set pattern, so there is considerable effort in just figuring how to parse the clue.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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