Ahh, you do have a grand way with words Mr Factor. I always find myself resembling the 'agree with everyone' guy from The Fast Show (I think - sorry for...

I was a bit disappointed to be docked for choosing what I thought the most official answer of 8. Some ambiguity there at least.

I think GOTO is great and like to employ it at every opportunity. How else do you sensibly structure conditional exit points?

Just kidding. I don't think I've ever felt the...

Nothing too deep, a good question for my last day at the coal face this year. Though it's not the kind of thing I ever need to do being more...

djackson

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Getting something done is important, but I do not believe Steve was looking for "just get it done". That attitude is partially responsible for the bad reputation our industry...

This puts me in mind of the classic Spolsky hiring diatribe on the theme of 'smart and gets things done'. To be honest in my experience the smart bit is...

Even I, a confirmed pedant, understood 'run at the same time' and that it was implied on the same database. I mean you could definitely do it on separate servers,...

I've always taken the view that 'bosses' don't actually need to know what I'm up to and generally might want to trust me. Thus, I don't ask to take time...

So you'd like...

Evil Kraig F

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As to a right to complain, I would disagree with that. Heck, I disagree with the removal of capital punishment, instead of a $0.15 bullet we...

iposner (12/7/2011)

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Murder by definition is an illegal killing. You could say that capital punishment is state-sanctioned killing, but murder it is not.

Infact the bible...

Tony Palmeri (12/6/2011)

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I dispute the notion that *all* laws (and all decisions) are arbitrary. Many perfectly good and just laws are made objectively by reference to a moral principle,...

A good question - I tried to deduce it without running the code. Mmm. I knew there was a reason I never use that nested syntax. Perhaps becuase a) I...

Count me in on that one Jeffrey!...

I think my current position is the exception for me (UK based) in that I do get decent overtime at least when it is offered for projects. If it is...