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So the crude death rate globally is ~8.23 per 1000 per year[^]. We have 6,482,858 members on CP. Which gives us a total of 53354 deaths of CP members per year. That's ~6 deaths per hour, or 1 every 10 minutes. Do you ever wonder if anyone on CP will actually notice if you die. I'm pretty sure no one I know would think to tell anyone here.
Simon
You haven't noticed that I died 2 years ago have you?
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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:laugh: Ah, don't remind me. A colleague has the modem dialing sound as his ringtone.
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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no 150 baud acoustic coupler, and they have to whistle the handshake with their mouth full of marbles to connect.
The latest nation. Procrastination.
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So the crude death rate globally is ~8.23 per 1000 per year[^]. We have 6,482,858 members on CP. Which gives us a total of 53354 deaths of CP members per year. That's ~6 deaths per hour, or 1 every 10 minutes. Do you ever wonder if anyone on CP will actually notice if you die. I'm pretty sure no one I know would think to tell anyone here.
Simon
My lawyer, a barrister actually, will send an email to everyone on CP offering a portion of my estate. The only requirement being a small processing fee of $500.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
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My lawyer, a barrister actually, will send an email to everyone on CP offering a portion of my estate. The only requirement being a small processing fee of $500.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
You should talk to your lawyer. I think he sent that one already...
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Programmers don't die they just fade away. Mike
"It doesn't matter how big a ranch ya' own, or how many cows ya' brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather." -Harry Truman.
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Mike Hankey wrote:
Programmers don't die they just fade away.
Programmers don't die they just BSOD.
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Think inside the box! ProActive Secure Systems
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Mike Hankey wrote:
Programmers don't die they just fade away.
Programmers don't die they just BSOD.
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
Think inside the box! ProActive Secure Systems
I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopesHope that doesn't happen to me in the end...oh tradgity what a way to go. :) Got a BSOD screen saver recently for work to try and get one over on our tech. guy. He didn't fall for it. I tried! Regards, Mike
"It doesn't matter how big a ranch ya' own, or how many cows ya' brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather." -Harry Truman.
Semper Fi http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^] My Site
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Mike Hankey wrote:
Programmers don't die they just fade away.
Programmers don't die they just BSOD.
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
Think inside the box! ProActive Secure Systems
I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopesOS Programmers don't die, they just assert #SHUTDOWN pin and wait for system to restart them :)
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So the crude death rate globally is ~8.23 per 1000 per year[^]. We have 6,482,858 members on CP. Which gives us a total of 53354 deaths of CP members per year. That's ~6 deaths per hour, or 1 every 10 minutes. Do you ever wonder if anyone on CP will actually notice if you die. I'm pretty sure no one I know would think to tell anyone here.
Simon
(Too busy trying to clap one hand to pay attention)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There's quite a large issue now, as to what happens with the myriad of accounts that someone has, and people are suggesting that wills should contain a section of usernames and passwords to be handed out to trusted parties - presumably you could give a list of all the people/places you'd want to be notified of your death, too
Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
I used to have a program installed called DeadManSwitch which, if I failed to click on it once in a while, would execute a script to carry out my last wishes. It was quite a good program for its day, but I deleted it after a while. I wrote the script to print out my accounts and passwords for various banking accounts to a file for my executor to read, delete things I felt were too private to share, and of course, post a farewell to my friends at CodeProject. It was a very capable program! But I'm glad to be rid of it - just too dangerous! If I'd had it running when I went to the hospital 18 months ago, it would have fired while they unexpectedly kept me there for 5 days. I would have returned to a life in shambles. Now I have a printed list of key usernames and passwords kept in my safe. The combination to the safe is in a file of old warrantees - I don't remember it. There is a letter to my executor in the desk drawer that someone will find and give to her, and it tells her to look in the warranty file. With the passwords in the safe, she can log into the computers here, and her logon will display all my financial info to distract her while the really private stuff is being deleted. Especially the stuff about her... Unfortunately, the above is what I'm creating - the scripts don't work quite right yet. Hopefully I'll last long enough to finish them before they're needed. The rest of the process is in place, though. One day...
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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It would be three days of people saying "where is the CCC?" then slow fade to black.
------------------------------------ "Men may make bad decisions, immoral decisions or just plain wrong decisions, but at least they make decisions. Women on the other hand..." Patrick Kielty 2006
Dalek Dave wrote:
It would be three days of people saying "where is the CCC?" then slow fade to black.
...with suitable musical accompaniment, of course. You choose: Metallica or AC/DC... ;P
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Tech Blog | Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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When I get older, I'll probably make a will, which specifies the logins for most of the sites I visit and frequent. I'll just ask my next of kin to post a short message - something like an RIP. But no, I doubt anybody would notice. I don't feel I've contributed enough for people to notice my absence.
OSDev :)
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Dalek Dave wrote:
It would be three days of people saying "where is the CCC?" then slow fade to black.
...with suitable musical accompaniment, of course. You choose: Metallica or AC/DC... ;P
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Tech Blog | Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
AC/DC Highway to Hell :)
------------------------------------ "Men may make bad decisions, immoral decisions or just plain wrong decisions, but at least they make decisions. Women on the other hand..." Patrick Kielty 2006
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Surely they just get recompiled?
------------------------------------ "Men may make bad decisions, immoral decisions or just plain wrong decisions, but at least they make decisions. Women on the other hand..." Patrick Kielty 2006
Dalek Dave wrote:
Surely they just get recompiled?
that's a good one :laugh: :laugh:
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I have a service on my development machine that pings my brain once a minute. If five minutes goes by without a response, it e-mails the cafeteria with a coffee order. If my brain fails to reply within an hour, I'm automatically declared dead and the GC thread runs.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary Wheeler wrote:
I have a service on my development machine that pings my brain once a minute. If five minutes goes by without a response, it e-mails the cafeteria with a coffee order. If my brain fails to reply within an hour, I'm automatically declared dead and the GC thread runs.
very good and useful invention :)
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I used to have a program installed called DeadManSwitch which, if I failed to click on it once in a while, would execute a script to carry out my last wishes. It was quite a good program for its day, but I deleted it after a while. I wrote the script to print out my accounts and passwords for various banking accounts to a file for my executor to read, delete things I felt were too private to share, and of course, post a farewell to my friends at CodeProject. It was a very capable program! But I'm glad to be rid of it - just too dangerous! If I'd had it running when I went to the hospital 18 months ago, it would have fired while they unexpectedly kept me there for 5 days. I would have returned to a life in shambles. Now I have a printed list of key usernames and passwords kept in my safe. The combination to the safe is in a file of old warrantees - I don't remember it. There is a letter to my executor in the desk drawer that someone will find and give to her, and it tells her to look in the warranty file. With the passwords in the safe, she can log into the computers here, and her logon will display all my financial info to distract her while the really private stuff is being deleted. Especially the stuff about her... Unfortunately, the above is what I'm creating - the scripts don't work quite right yet. Hopefully I'll last long enough to finish them before they're needed. The rest of the process is in place, though. One day...
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
I look forward to the testing procedure. "Hurrah, I'm a programming god! All my useful but incriminating files are irretrievably deleted!" . . . . "Oh, wait..." Iain.
I have now moved to Sweden for love (awwww). If you're in Scandinavia and want an MVP on the payroll (or happy with a remote worker), or need cotract work done, give me a job! http://cv.imcsoft.co.uk/[^]
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So the crude death rate globally is ~8.23 per 1000 per year[^]. We have 6,482,858 members on CP. Which gives us a total of 53354 deaths of CP members per year. That's ~6 deaths per hour, or 1 every 10 minutes. Do you ever wonder if anyone on CP will actually notice if you die. I'm pretty sure no one I know would think to tell anyone here.
Simon
What an utterly meaningless statistic. No surprise it came from the US CIA. Fits in nicely with the stereotype image of Americans having no notion of anything outside their own borders. So just to clarify, the 'world' (that bit on the globe to either side of the USA) consists of seperate places called 'countries' They each have different climates, cultures and birth/death rates. To simply lump the rates for different countries together into one statistic is totally stupid.
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I used to have a program installed called DeadManSwitch which, if I failed to click on it once in a while, would execute a script to carry out my last wishes. It was quite a good program for its day, but I deleted it after a while. I wrote the script to print out my accounts and passwords for various banking accounts to a file for my executor to read, delete things I felt were too private to share, and of course, post a farewell to my friends at CodeProject. It was a very capable program! But I'm glad to be rid of it - just too dangerous! If I'd had it running when I went to the hospital 18 months ago, it would have fired while they unexpectedly kept me there for 5 days. I would have returned to a life in shambles. Now I have a printed list of key usernames and passwords kept in my safe. The combination to the safe is in a file of old warrantees - I don't remember it. There is a letter to my executor in the desk drawer that someone will find and give to her, and it tells her to look in the warranty file. With the passwords in the safe, she can log into the computers here, and her logon will display all my financial info to distract her while the really private stuff is being deleted. Especially the stuff about her... Unfortunately, the above is what I'm creating - the scripts don't work quite right yet. Hopefully I'll last long enough to finish them before they're needed. The rest of the process is in place, though. One day...
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Don't forget to post it back in CP for other CP iet's Reference as a 'Must Have'. :)
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I died and no one noticed here. :((
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
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So the crude death rate globally is ~8.23 per 1000 per year[^]. We have 6,482,858 members on CP. Which gives us a total of 53354 deaths of CP members per year. That's ~6 deaths per hour, or 1 every 10 minutes. Do you ever wonder if anyone on CP will actually notice if you die. I'm pretty sure no one I know would think to tell anyone here.
Simon