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  • J Jordy Kaiwa Ruiter

    I gave a girl my website address because I forgot my Phonenumber the moment she asked for it?

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    Xiangyang Liu
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    Forgot yoru own phone number, Geek Level = 1 Remembered your web address, Geek Level = 2 Gave web address to a girl, Geek Level = 3 :)

    My .NET Business Application Framework     My Younger Son & His "PET"

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      Forgot yoru own phone number, Geek Level = 1 Remembered your web address, Geek Level = 2 Gave web address to a girl, Geek Level = 3 :)

      My .NET Business Application Framework     My Younger Son & His "PET"

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      Lost User
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      Talking with a girl, Geek Level = -Infinity [reply with the post about geek vs dork vs w/e]

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      • C Chris Maunder

        You do your dusting with a can of compressed air duster. :doh:

        cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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        Chris Losinger
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        dusting?

        image processing toolkits | batch image processing

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          Talking with a girl, Geek Level = -Infinity [reply with the post about geek vs dork vs w/e]

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          dybs
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          And if the girl happens to be a fellow geek (my wife happens to be quite a geek herself)?

          The shout of progress is not "Eureka!" it's "Strange... that's not what i expected". - peterchen

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            And if the girl happens to be a fellow geek (my wife happens to be quite a geek herself)?

            The shout of progress is not "Eureka!" it's "Strange... that's not what i expected". - peterchen

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            Rajesh R Subramanian
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            It would be absurd if your wife (a fellow geek) needed to be reminded of your website URL. :)

            “Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell

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            • R Rajesh R Subramanian

              It would be absurd if your wife (a fellow geek) needed to be reminded of your website URL. :)

              “Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell

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              True, but I was referring to geek level scale :)

              The shout of progress is not "Eureka!" it's "Strange... that's not what i expected". - peterchen

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              • C Chris Losinger

                dusting?

                image processing toolkits | batch image processing

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                Gary R Wheeler
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                Cleaning the dust out of a desktop machine, of course.

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                • C Chris Maunder

                  You do your dusting with a can of compressed air duster. :doh:

                  cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                  Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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                  ...or... ...you find yourself iscussing template metaprogramming in the bar. :doh: (just coming back up from ACCU 2010, culminating in a session on "Abusive C++" which demonstrated way too many fiendishly bad but entertaining ideas. Long blog post to follow once I've caught up on the editing)

                  Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"

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                  • A Anna Jayne Metcalfe

                    ...or... ...you find yourself iscussing template metaprogramming in the bar. :doh: (just coming back up from ACCU 2010, culminating in a session on "Abusive C++" which demonstrated way too many fiendishly bad but entertaining ideas. Long blog post to follow once I've caught up on the editing)

                    Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"

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                    Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:

                    you find yourself iscussing template metaprogramming in the bar

                    A touch of the DDs there? :laugh:

                    Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^]

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                    • A Anna Jayne Metcalfe

                      ...or... ...you find yourself iscussing template metaprogramming in the bar. :doh: (just coming back up from ACCU 2010, culminating in a session on "Abusive C++" which demonstrated way too many fiendishly bad but entertaining ideas. Long blog post to follow once I've caught up on the editing)

                      Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"

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                      Rama Krishna Vavilala
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                      Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:

                      Abusive C++

                      Is the material or presentation online? It will be fun to watch it.

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                        You do your dusting with a can of compressed air duster. :doh:

                        cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                        Good, I'm still a nerd.

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                          Talking with a girl, Geek Level = -Infinity [reply with the post about geek vs dork vs w/e]

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                          Xiangyang Liu
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                          harold aptroot wrote:

                          Talking with a girl,

                          He could be having a brain-storming session with the girl ... about web design, of course. :-D

                          My .NET Business Application Framework     My Younger Son & His "PET"

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                          • C Chris Maunder

                            You do your dusting with a can of compressed air duster. :doh:

                            cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                            Steve Wellens
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                            You know you're a geek when... You buy a new TV and open it up to look inside before you turn it on.

                            Steve Wellens

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                            • C Chris Maunder

                              You do your dusting with a can of compressed air duster. :doh:

                              cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                              You decide to watch the newest episode of Smallville rather than go to a strip club on your company's dime.

                              [Forum Guidelines]

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                                You do your dusting with a can of compressed air duster. :doh:

                                cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                                Marc Clifton
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                                Chris Maunder wrote:

                                You do your dusting with a can of compressed air duster.

                                You need a woman in your life! (ok folks, don't take that as "to do the dusting" but "to tell him how HOW to do the dusting"!) Marc

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                                  Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:

                                  you find yourself iscussing template metaprogramming in the bar

                                  A touch of the DDs there? :laugh:

                                  Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^]

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                                  Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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                                  Just information overload. :-O

                                  Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"

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                                    Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:

                                    Abusive C++

                                    Is the material or presentation online? It will be fun to watch it.

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                                    Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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                                    I don't think they're up yet (though slides from some sessions are[^]) In the meantime however there are summaries of all of the sessions here[^] to give you a flavour of what the conference is all about.

                                    Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"

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                                      ...or... ...you find yourself iscussing template metaprogramming in the bar. :doh: (just coming back up from ACCU 2010, culminating in a session on "Abusive C++" which demonstrated way too many fiendishly bad but entertaining ideas. Long blog post to follow once I've caught up on the editing)

                                      Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"

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                                      The only way I think I would do template metaprogramming :rolleyes: is after a few stiff drinks.

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                                        The only way I think I would do template metaprogramming :rolleyes: is after a few stiff drinks.

                                        Software Zen: delete this;
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                                        Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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                                        Me too. I'll stick to algorithms and concurrency, thank you. :)

                                        Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"

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                                          You do your dusting with a can of compressed air duster. :doh:

                                          cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                                          ...you're supposed to use those for quick-chilling your beer... then you use the dusty surfaces for sketching while drinking.

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