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Normally ignore these, I mean movie stars are a dime a dozen.
But Stephen Hawking really did make a massive difference.
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R.I.P. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Just read the news a minute ago.
Having spent a number of years trying to follow his footsteps along that mind bending road in cosmology I always felt I knew just enough to know how little I actually knew and in that the immensity of his intellect and his achievements. Doing all that while living with ALS makes the entire feat that is his life incredible.
We all knew he’s been on borrowed time for the last 50 years, and even though I thought it would never come as a shock when he eventually shuffled off to the great singularity in the sky it..., well, it still is.
I feel like a torch that was helping shine a small light on the deepest darkest places of our understanding of the universe has just gone dark.
RIP Professor Hawking.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Just saw the movie The Theory of Everything[^] a few weeks ago.
If there's anything I admire more than his IQ and his (proven) theories it's his positive mindset.
If more people had that mindset the world would be a better place.
Unfortunately, we now have one less 
R.I.P.
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RIP
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A sad day indeed
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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 Sad indeed. I wonder if studying his physiology will help in the treatment of ALS, as he may have been the person who survived the longest with that disease.
"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
modified 14-Mar-18 13:37pm.
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Channel surfing tonight and I stopped on this episode of the Twilight Zone:
"The Twilight Zone" The Brain Center at Whipple's (TV Episode 1964) - IMDb
Where the owner of a factory replaces human employees with computers.
He himself is replaced by a robot.
It really is something that we have been seeing a lot, automation replacing human in factories, AI replacing humans in some decision making processes.
On a side note, most of the original Twilight Zone shows really stand up time.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Given the not advanced breed of monkeys I have to write software for I think the worst PIC is better than them. The machine shows an alarm with a text detailing how to fix the problem and the mandatory training taught the only way to reset the condition? Abruptly shut down the power! It happens again (because the condition is still valid)? Abruptly shut down the power! Rinse and repeat until the poor PC inside the machine gives up then call our company threatening law action because "ze safwar dasz no wooking".
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I don't remember the particular episode but yes, it was a wonderful series.
As to automation, I find it odd that we see this as a new thing. When I started work in a big utilities office, we had a typing pool, a room full of comptometer operators (remember those?), a whole stack of people making punch cards and numerous other people doing jobs that simply don't exist nowadays.
Ned Ludd and his mates were predicting the end of employment due to automation way back in the 18th century but we've seen time and time again that when one activity becomes obsolete a new one is created.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Very much agree. I think it has to do with the AI buzzword.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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See: Allan Sherman - Automation - YouTube[^]
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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I will be moving to new role next month with different organization. I have been with current employer for 6.5 years and built around 30 solutions in that time span. Now that I am leaving I need to handover all those solutions to external company. They are not filling the role for now but outsourcing the work. I have already setup all the documentations I have in a nice folder structure by application. Made sure all the source code is there in version control server. I will be having one on one meeting with company this Friday.
Any tips for smooth handover ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Run away as fast as you can.
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You need to have several KT sessions to help the team transition information.
Meet the outsourcing team and have at least 2 hour sessions per day (maybe for a week) to do a complete transition.
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Leave your contact details.....or not.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Don't give them any contact details. Don't say they can contact you if they need something. And don't tell them that they not delete that one line of code which reverse the direction of Earth's rotation, unleashes lizard people and confirms illuminati. 
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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virang_21 wrote: Any tips for smooth handover ?
Drink an entire bottle of gin and forget to show up! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Would an elephant skin doctor be a pachydermatologist?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I believe one would have to be pretty thick-skinned to become one of those.
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No! An elephant skin-doctor is Dr Big!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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