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If you like steamtrains you should take a trip to Wernigerode and take a trip with the [^] to the top of Brocken. It's running on a schedule several times a day.
25 steam engines, 140 km tracks and more than a million passenger per year.
Brocken is the highest mountain of north Germany and is often covered in fog, so choose your day properly.
Wernigerode is worth a few hours on it's own, so don't despair if you fail on the weather.
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Thanks I'll keep that in mind, but this years vacation is pointing to Jutland in Denmark, so the only trains I will see will be some Lego trains I'm afraid 
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In that case i should mention Skagen, Råbjerg Mile and Legoland.
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The ZLSM has those "days" also, for years now. It looks more like a hobby of the crew than a tourist attraction 
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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We visited Simpelveld, but we were too early in the season apparently and the station was deserted sadly 
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That's relatively close to the Brands' beer brewery. Give a yell in advance next time, I'll give you a tour of the simple fields 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Deal !
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The contract manager I work for has been trying to fill an empty contractor seat for six months. One of the requirements is a CSSLP cert (as well as a Secret clearance and Security+ cert).
He searched Linked-In for "CSSLP", and of the 10's of thousands of IT people in Linked in, only 48 had the CSSLP cert, and NONE of them are developers. The reason I have to get the cert is because my job title is "senior developer". They're going to try to ammend the contract so that my position is titled "developer", but requiring the same skill set.
All of this means taht I won't have to get a CSSLP cert (if they can ammend the contract).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: title is "senior developer". They're going to try to ammend the contract so that my position is titled "developer"
so you become younger too! bonus!
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Hmmm. In my experience, "Developer" gets paid well below "Senior Developer" ...
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There wioll be no pay cut for me.
With the skill set they require for the position, the title doesn't really mean squat. I gave the contract manager a list of required skills, and he asked me to rate them on a scale of 1 to 10.
I said, "10."
He asked, "Which one?"
I responded, "All of them".
He followed that up with, "Can you give these skills to me in order of importance?"
I said, "Put them in alphabetical order, backawards, or in numeric order regarding how many smaller words you can get out of them."
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: I won't have to get a CSSLP cert
Given how fast the usually Govt works, you may get the cert and be retired by the time any contract amending takes place. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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The process is moving amazingly fast. The need to fill the seat is apparently overriding the sluggish pace of government contract changes.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I love it when reality buts heads with bureaucracy, reality almost always wins. I used to have to do the anti money laundering tests every year until I resigned rather than waste my time on them, that was 5 years before I quit.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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#realJSOP wrote: The process is moving amazingly fast.
Oboy. I have a horrible feeling that you really shouldn't have said that.
I hope you touched wood or crossed yourself when you did.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Congrats, now we know the secret of your success !
The secret[^]
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Why in holy hell would non-developers have CSSLP? SCRUM masters or some other such fluff?
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Why would developers have to get CSSLP? It's a management cert.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Eh, insofar as a Senior Dev is management I suppose. A management structure that not only sets the schedule for the SDLC, but also defines how you operate at each stage (as a non-Developer) sounds like the very definition of hell.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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#realJSOP wrote: CSSLP cert
Crushingly Shockingly Staggeringly Ludicrously Pointless cert?
AKA every cert in existence. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional
(it's a management cert, not a dev cert)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I always thought that Secure Software Life Cycle had to do with how long the software can provide a secure cash flow good enough that you don't have to fix it. Did I get that wrong?
Seriously, John... Having tried for decades (that I know about) to teach the DoD and their youngsters how to make software that is functional, robust and maintainable, mostly without much success, isn't it about time to leave the fate of the Free World to the next generation? I quit a few years ago, and tonight I'm sitting in a delightful hotel in So. Dakota - having already enjoyed a delicious rib eye dinner - preparing to visit the local shooting club in the morning with a bunch of online friends who enjoy a day of shooting with others who have read and understand a certain document that defines the country in which we live. It doesn't get much better than that! 
I truly hope that you get all the changes to come together, and that what you're doing continues to be fun. But when it's no longer fun, run. You've earned that, and they need you far more than you need them. Good luck with the contract changes - truly! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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The DoD's handles software projects pretty badly. I don't even know where to start with describing the problems.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I remember - 1978, General Dynamics, GDBASIC, HP RTE III, MX21xx minicomputers. It never got any better, though it got a lot more expensive over the years. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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