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Forogar 8-Dec-17 10:55

Forogar

8-Dec-17 10:55

Now we will expect one each day CTJOTD.

- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

R. Giskard Reventlov8-Dec-17 11:05

8-Dec-17 11:05

I walked into that one! Smile | :)

dandy728-Dec-17 12:09

dandy72

8-Dec-17 12:09

If that was a sample...I hope he meant he's got one for each month...not each day...

Jeremy Falcon8-Dec-17 11:03

8-Dec-17 11:03

R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
We just had our christmas pot luck lunch. I can't move.

That's how you know it was done right.

R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
Food from a vast number of cultures and supermarkets.

Don't tell anyone, but Marmite > Good Stuff | [The good stuff]

R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
Got a year's worth of those little gems!

Yay -ish!

Jeremy Falcon

R. Giskard Reventlov8-Dec-17 11:05

8-Dec-17 11:05

Sorry you missed it - there is still a sh*t load left! Smile | :)

Jeremy Falcon8-Dec-17 11:08

8-Dec-17 11:08

Yeah me too man. We'll have to make it for it over lunch one day.

Jeremy Falcon

Michael Martin8-Dec-17 19:01

Michael Martin

8-Dec-17 19:01

Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Don't tell anyone, but Marmite > [The good stuff] .

Faarrrkkkk off, just faarrrkkkk right off.

Next to Bundy OP and Coopers Sparkling Ale, Vegemite is the greatest thing on earth. Marmite is collected from my arse the morning after I have had all 3 previously listed items the day before.

Michael Martin
Australia

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Brady Kelly8-Dec-17 20:48

Brady Kelly

8-Dec-17 20:48

Bovril wipes Marmite and the veggie stuff of yours right off the slate. Real beef!

"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley

Mycroft Holmes9-Dec-17 0:11

Mycroft Holmes

9-Dec-17 0:11

Rubbish - Promite is the only one with any real taste and is divine on toast with butter.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH

Brady Kelly9-Dec-17 0:43

Brady Kelly

9-Dec-17 0:43

Never heard of it, and probably not available in South Africa, but I will definitely inquire. It's a Woolies brand, and I don't shop there, so just maybe they have it.

R. Giskard Reventlov9-Dec-17 4:32

9-Dec-17 4:32

Ha! Only an aussie pussy would think that vegemite - that powdery shite - is better than the world's best food - MARMITE. Smile | :)

Jeremy Falcon9-Dec-17 6:41

9-Dec-17 6:41

Has Anyone Seen Mike Hunt wrote:
Faarrrkkkk off, just faarrrkkkk right off.

I can't help it man. It just happened that way. Don't judge. Laugh | :laugh:

Jeremy Falcon

Tim Carmichael8-Dec-17 11:06

Tim Carmichael

8-Dec-17 11:06

We will be have our annual feast tomorrow night; I am telling people new to the experience to "strap on your feed bag".. they look at me funny, but they will understand tomorrow!

Programming in the 60s vs today...

Marc Clifton9-Dec-17 3:29

Marc Clifton

9-Dec-17 3:29

R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
Food from a vast number of cultures and supermarkets.

Lucky you. Our company Xmas lunch is a buffet of Lasagna, Eggplant Parmesan, Meatballs, Salad, Garlic bread and soda and water. Dead | X|

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Jeremy Falcon8-Dec-17 9:08

8-Dec-17 9:08

Not that I was alive in the 60s, but when it came to learning technology in the olden days it was more like this... you learn X, Y, and Z. Master them. You're a programmer. These days it's more like learn A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, and Y. You have to know them all. You're *supposed* to master them all. And you can use all of them for decades, but as soon as you don't know Z... you're a n00b!

How dare you not know something. We want someone who's used Z forget A through Y... Z baby all the way! What... you want to spend time with family these days? Freak! Go home and study until you die... get that Z too. Although as soon as you do we're switching to AA.

Experienced people know that to master everything these days is impossible. But gee golly that Z is so shiny. Who cares if it's a 90% copy of Y... Z is so shiny.

Welcome to the future. Unsure | :~

Jeremy Falcon

R. Giskard Reventlov8-Dec-17 9:16

8-Dec-17 9:16

Yes, that is a malaise that permeates our business and has done for a long time. The best you can do is pick a technology that looks like it has some legs and stick with it.

Jeremy Falcon8-Dec-17 9:22

8-Dec-17 9:22

Totally. I think the pros understand this. They're just out-numbered by those who don't.

Jeremy Falcon

Mycroft Holmes9-Dec-17 0:15

Mycroft Holmes

9-Dec-17 0:15

I waited 2 years to pick Silverlight, waiting to make sure it was mainstream, I was not going to get caught with a deprecated technology again. How did that work out for me - 14 applications need rewriting.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH

abmv9-Dec-17 3:45

abmv

9-Dec-17 3:45

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Caveat Emptor.

"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long

lopatir9-Dec-17 3:56

lopatir

9-Dec-17 3:56

silverlight was mainstream?
perhaps within microsoft public statements, not so much anywhere else.
Sure, like their phone there was an audience, but it remained at low percentage.

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Mycroft Holmes9-Dec-17 12:02

Mycroft Holmes

9-Dec-17 12:02

All right mature then, there were some pretty big companies heavily committed to it and I am completely MS centric Blush | :O

Lopatir wrote:
like their phone

Whew I got lucky there, dodged it completely...

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH

Rick York8-Dec-17 9:51

Rick York

8-Dec-17 9:51

Part of that is because decisions are often made by the buzzword cowboys these days. What ever the fad du jour is is what they want to go with.

Jeremy Falcon8-Dec-17 10:54

8-Dec-17 10:54

True. Just to play devil's advocate though, I've seen programmers be guilty of this too. I mean yeah, also execs. It doesn't help when the programmers give the execs the buzzword jockey stuff either. I think it's just a people thing, the less they know anything about tech the more they have to rely on buzzwords as a crutch, regardless of their role in it.

Jeremy Falcon

milo-xml11-Dec-17 2:00

milo-xml

11-Dec-17 2:00

Sometimes you're caught in a situation where you have to play the political game though. You need a project that's going to help everyone but it's a hard sell to the higher ups who never want to open the purse strings. So to get their buy in sometimes that takes that new shiny object that they've heard about on tv to get it through.