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 Thanks for making me feel stupid.
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That wasn't the intent.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Often attributed to Albert Einstein
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
This is really the truth of measuring your value. You can't really tell, because things that are infinitely important may not be counted at all. Other things that the market deems important may be measured and you have none of it.
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Well, maybe seeing ca. 20K hits/day on the web pages (all web applications that are used to do company business) and hundreds of users spending their time staring at my screens puts the work at some definite value. That it's totally adaptable to new company "brain storms"*
With so many people dependent upon it, it must be worth something.
* Programmers Prayer:
"Oh Great Deity, spare me from managerial brain-storms this day.
Pour out thy wrath upon these misbegotten throwbacks
That the creation (of code) are not debased by their whims."
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W∴ Balboos wrote: * Programmers Prayer:
Pour out Thy wrath upon the managers that know our value not,
and upon the departments that call not upon our expertise.
For they have devoured the hardware budget, and wasted it on new shinys.
Remember not against us the technical debt of our predecessors;
let Thy compassions speedily come to meet us; for we are brought very low.
(With apologies to King David)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I was wondering - would these prayers work better if a department has ten or more programmers?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: would these prayers work better if a department has ten or more programmers?
Only if they are all professional members of the ACM!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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AS SOON AS YOU TOLD ME IT WAS FLAKY IT STOPPED RUNNING MY CUSTOM TOOLS!
You know who you are.
You owe me all of this virgin blood i have to spill to get the thing working again.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some dark arts to perform.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Perhaps you are just doing it wrong.
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I'm always doing it wrong. So wrong it's right.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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that's what *he* said.
i *will* hex you, if you mess with me!
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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yeah, I was the smartest kid in my friendship group. And the dumbest
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relatable content
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: You owe me all of this virgin blood i have to spill to get the thing working again.
To say nothing of the citations for grevious bodily harm (or worse...  )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I do it to goldfish. The gods hate it but a deal is a deal.
They should have read the fine print.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Personally, I find that sacrificing an MSCE works better. It has the advantage that while someone may actually miss the virgins, no one will miss the MSCE. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That venn almost entirely overlaps in any case
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I've almost wanted to after the hell i got from VS2017 tonight. I've practically given up writing syntax highlighting into my newt VS integration. The VSIX projects are just godawful. I'd deal with that, but they don't even work!
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Oh.. from a quick look once in the past.. I 100% believe you on that! It looks... very challenging...
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Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I'm dabbling with the idea of contracting my sales projects offshore since I'm getting real busy now. My new marketing tools and ads are producing lots of phone calls and RFP's locally in my area.
I have one contractor from India I'm thinking of using, he came to America last week to visit and introduce himself. But He pitched one thing and his technical partner in India is saying another. Now all of a sudden they are in sync.
I know some of you hear on CP reside in India, and other countries. I need to figure if these guys are legit, or if their outsourcing to another company and they just do the sales. And I need to find some more sources in case this first deal falls apart.
These guys are in Kochi India. I won't mention the name of the company yet, but would like some recon intelligence before I submit my RFP quotes.
Any help would be appreciated!
If it ain't broke don't fix it
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There are good professionals in India, I don't discuss that. But in my experience, they are the minority.
If you are not 100% sure... don't do it.
If you do it because they are cheaper, don't forget that if you pay peanuts, you will only get monkeys.
Just some additional aspects...
different horary: Difficult to get live meetings.
different philosophy: Just look here in CP, 90% of the plagiarism come from a group of countries (including india)
different quality: (as I said, there are a lot of really good professionals, but relationally, they are a low %)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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