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It would have to be, 120lb is not offensive which is what the joke demands.
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Gives us a heads up when you give them to her so we'all can duck. 
Good luck hope you have good insurance.
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On my Mac I have three desktops.
The desktop background on each is a random picture from my iPhoto collection.
Just now, the pictures refreshed, and the same picture was on all three desktops...
There are about 9,000 photos in that library
So according to my maths, the chances of all three being the same are about 1 in 790,000,000,000
Maybe I should go buy a lotto ticket!
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_Maxxx_ wrote: Maybe I should go buy a lotto ticket!
Only if the lottery company uses the same randomizer as your Mac
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_Maxxx_ wrote: Just now, the pictures refreshed, and the same picture was on all three
desktops...
No, that's no coincidence. It is a conspiracy or a bug. 
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Your math is poor...
The odds you gave are for all three to be a specific picture!
The odd off all three being the same are the odd of two agreeing with the other...
So, 1/9000 x 1/9000 ! = 1 in 27 81,000,000...
Then, work out how many changes you've had since running this software - after all, you only notice the coincidence.
/pedant
Iain.
[Edited for dumb math mistake. As Carlo said, "Oh, the irony" !]
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
modified 6-Dec-11 9:11am.
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Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer wrote: Your math is poor...
Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer wrote: So, 1/9000 x 1/9000 ! = 1 in 27,000,000...
The irony... 
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
[My articles]
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It's another deliberate error in my short running series of spot the dumb mistake!
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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Tanks - I felt the maths was wrong, but wasn't enough of a pedant to bother doing it again!
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Classic.
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute
"...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave
"Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon
It's plain that they do not yet know what true fear really is. - JSOP 2011
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_Maxxx_ wrote: So according to my maths, the chances of all three being the same are about 1 in
790,000,000,000
Maybe I should go buy a lotto ticket!
Aha, the classic gambler's fallacy - thinking that luck goes in "runs" on such things. As any statistician knows, once the first result has been obtained, the probabilities of the second are unaffected. Most gamblers believe in fictions like "lucky runs" - unfortunately such things can only be observed after the event, not predicted up front.
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I remember reading something a while back about how the RNG used in the iPods is a bit screwy (used for shuffling playlists). Maybe Apple is bad at (P)RNGs?
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I have been tasked to re-write an app in VB.Net
I have never used VB.Net in my life. I created my first solution this morning and all I have to say is...   did I just get myself into.
Just along for the ride.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
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Breath and relax.
Now turn to bossman and tell him vb.net and c# are the same hippy-sh*t and you'd prefer to use c#.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Now turn to bossman and tell him vb.net and c# are the same hippy-sh*t and you'd prefer to use c#.
I did.
No go. I had/have no say in the matter this time. It is a high priority rewrite and I was not asked my opinion. I'm sure we have all been there a few thousand times. 
Just along for the ride.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
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What was it written in originally?
".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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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Borland C++ Builder (Builder version 5). Very old app.
Just along for the ride.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
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What is everything else in your shop written in (as far as .Net is concerned), and did your boss say WHY he wanted it in VB?
".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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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: What is everything else in your shop written in (as far as .Net is concerned), and did your boss say WHY he wanted it in VB?
Borland C++, C#, and the guy who wrote the app I am going to help rewrite, only codes now in VB.Net. He is a senior programmer/manager and my boss deferred preference to him.
Just along for the ride.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
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From C++ to VB.NET ... He is getting ready for retirement?
Alberto Bar-Noy
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“The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!”
(C3PO)
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Alberto Bar-Noy wrote: He is getting ready for retirement?
Funny you mention that. He has been with the company for 27 years. 
Just along for the ride.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
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Unless the senior dev is sleeping with MD, justifying a choice like that by "I only know VB.net" is tountermount to admitting he's not up to the job. If he's really "senior" then he should be able to adapt.
Go for the flame-thrower - he moves or it's time for crispy fries. 
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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It's very hard to make older people learn something new, that's probably why the senior guy will resist moving to C#.
On the other hand, you can throw real arguments against going to VB.Net. To mention a few:
1 - Going from C++ to C# is a much more fluent approach.
2 - If the company has more stuff based on C#, it means it has more C# skilled people and that means there are more resources if they are needed. Reduced dependency on the VB.Net guy.
3 - There are a lot more resources on the web for C# language than for VB.Net. This minimizes the need of reinventing the wheel or having to translate everything. As proof you can just perform a search of C# vs VB.Net articles on codeproject, you'll see that there are a lot more articles on C#.
There are a lot more arguments to favor C#, but I don't want to get religious about it.
"To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems" - Homer Simpson
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Re: point 2
The truth is, if you're advertising for his replacement (or any hire), having VB.NET in the job description will attract (in my experience) a less-skilled pool of developers.
This is not to say that, on an individual basis, there aren't some highly skilled developers who happen to work in VB. Nor is it to say that all C# developers are better than any VB developers. There's a definite overlap.
But, as a class, my experience has shown that C# developers are generally more skilled than VB developers.
The point above about doing things in a language which isn't your everyday language just because one guy wants to is germane. What's next, someone decides they're really into Ruby, so an app is written in that just because?
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