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I picture someone composing this on napkins over a long time.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Opinions are like arseholes: everyone has one, and everyone else's stinks. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Everyone has one and I don’t want to hear yours!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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C is on 99% of the device we use. Without it, she couldn't drive to get to work nor use public transportation nor connect from home. She wouldn't have a smartphone, her computer wouldn't boot, her television wouldn't turn on.
Therefore I'm happy when people move away from C and try to use the new shiny Bappyscripts: it gives me job safety and a strong bargaining position. I refused more job offers in the last 2 years than many people receive in their lifetimes (on average I reject 1 offer / week, counting the weeks I receive 4 offers and weeks I don't get bothered). And I'm in a very, very, very small pond.
Also, Amazon is stalking me with 4 e-mails per week in which they also ask me how is it going with my current employer, with whom I work only since January. Apparently they have nobody fit to develop firmware for their autonomous drones and would love me to move 8800 km to work in Austin, TX.
GCS d--(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--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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IF they're really that desperate to hire you they need to update their spam/stalker bots to include the phrase "Full Time Remote" to reduce the number of roadblocks in the way. 
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
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It is written but I know they lie - and I'd gladly move to Texas if I can get citizenship.
GCS d--(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--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Texas has no state income tax and affordable housing compared to other tech areas. Sales tax is 8.5% and property tax is about 2% of market valuation. There is simply no way I could have more or less retired 15 years ago had I not moved there from Canada.
Your employer will get you a work visa. You can then apply for permanent residency (a green card), which allows you to apply for citizenship after 5 years. As a perk, try to get your employer to agree to pay all the costs of this.
The only drawback to US citizenship is that you have to file a US tax return for the rest of your life, even if you move away. You won't be double taxed, because of tax treaties, but doing a US tax return as a non-resident is a true buttpain.
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I'm aware of that - I follow a lot of American vTubers, mostly centered around Texas, so I knew about it. Also a lot of high tech companies are investing there.
Add to that the sensible gun laws, I'm tempted - though there is a bit too much Bible thumping in legislation. Fact is, I wouldn't move for Amazon because they are horrible employers.
GCS d--(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--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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There's lots of tech in Austin, and also in Dallas, so I've no doubt that you could find a good employer.
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and in addition, I think this woman was on her, ahem, well her friend was visiting. 
apologies to all you ladies, but boy was that a rant.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Well, color me surprised, that a loosely defined systems language has some weird quirks after 50 years in the wild after being deployed to virtually every possible platform, and you have to learn how to live with it if you want your product to interact with host operating system or libraries written in it.
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If she'd refactor the hyperbole away and reduce the exclamation points by 95%, it might be worth reading in detail.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: Sometimes I wonder if it's been launched by the same species that dwells on this planet.
You got that right.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Credit the largest cryogenic vacuum chamber, chamber A, at NASA JSC, Houston. It was upgraded to test at -440K, 11 Kelvin in full vacuum. The sunny side was exposed to sun level temperatures using sun simulated lights. Webb spend 90 days in that environment. In summary, comprehensive testing makes for success.
Yes, built, tested and launched by some very good human engineers.
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Sorry typo -440F Thanx
11K
I'll try to fix via a reply to my own words
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Yeah, I was confused because of that. NP.
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Correction on Webb temps
-440F (-439.9F) not -440K
11 degrees kelvin
thanx to oofalladeez343
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With some help from our lizard people overlords 
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That's a documentary I would love to see. I really hope there are some behind the scenes for this feat.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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There's intelligent life in this planet?
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My application(C#/WinForm) generated a report in datagridview. now I want to output this report into a printable file.
what is the best format to output my report?
of course PDF is one option, but it is not free.
try to get some inputs from gurus here.
diligent hands rule....
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There's always HTML, you just have to handle the page breaks. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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