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  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

    Phone, calulator, tablet, keyboard, mouse, graphics tablet, two monitors, glass full of pens, PC, mobile phone, headphones, stapler, reading glasses, walk-about glasses, tape measure, ear buds, scrap paper for notes, two invoices to put on system, clamp current meter, cat. Cat hair, cat paw prints, more cat hair.

    Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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    megaadam
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    OriginalGriff wrote:

    cat

    I am feline that there should be a claws against such impurrfections.

    ... such stuff as dreams are made on

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    • D dan sh

      I think mine is a mess. Here are the items on it: 1. Laptop 2. Second monitor 3. Spare CPU, keyboard and mouse 4. VOIP phone 5. My mobile phone 6. USB cable and earphones for my phone 7. Water bottle 8. Coffee mug 9. Lunch box 10. Greek yoghurt (yummy) 11. My laptop bag 12. Helmet and jacket Is it similar for you? how do you prefer your desk to be like?

      "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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      Simon_Whale
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      Have to operate on a clean desk, parent company policy sadly :( I as do prefer organised chaos

      Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians. Help end the violence EAT BACON

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      • L Lost User

        First table: - my first computer, working like a charm for the last 38 years - tape recorder and stacks of old tapes with programs - old celery 300 notebook, runs terminal emulation for the old computer - some circuit boards in various stages of reconstruction Desk 1: - oscilloscope, multimeter, assorted tools - lamp - breadboard with my replacement for the unavailable hex keyboard encoder - the still unfinished body for my UH-1E scale model, ready for adding the rivets - (EDIT) forgot the Stormtrooper helmet Desk 2: - PC stuff, monitor, keyboard, mouse - piles of USB sticks, DVDs and even floppies - a small TV for distraction, the entire wall above the desks for entertainment

        The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
        This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
        "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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        dan sh
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        CDP1802 wrote:

        the entire wall above the desks for entertainment

        To watch paint dry?

        "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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        • S Simon_Whale

          Have to operate on a clean desk, parent company policy sadly :( I as do prefer organised chaos

          Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians. Help end the violence EAT BACON

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          dan sh
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          Doesn't clean desk mean that no confidential documents should be lying around unattended? We have it too but I guess it is not intended to be taken literally.

          "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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          • D dan sh

            Doesn't clean desk mean that no confidential documents should be lying around unattended? We have it too but I guess it is not intended to be taken literally.

            "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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            Simon_Whale
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            Not when you have the policy Police working overtime. Business Operation Manager that take policies too literally. Parent company Security Department that also do random security checks on the office location

            Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians. Help end the violence EAT BACON

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            • D dan sh

              CDP1802 wrote:

              the entire wall above the desks for entertainment

              To watch paint dry?

              "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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              Lost User
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              Nope. Usually I sit in the chair at the other side of the room and use the entire wall to watch movies.

              The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
              This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
              "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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              • D Daniel Pfeffer

                A clean, tidy desk is a sign of a sick mind!

                If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill

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                Jorgen Andersson
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                Well, either that or an empty mind.

                Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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                • S Simon_Whale

                  Not when you have the policy Police working overtime. Business Operation Manager that take policies too literally. Parent company Security Department that also do random security checks on the office location

                  Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians. Help end the violence EAT BACON

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                  dan sh
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                  Never knew you work in area 51. :)

                  "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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                  • D dan sh

                    I think mine is a mess. Here are the items on it: 1. Laptop 2. Second monitor 3. Spare CPU, keyboard and mouse 4. VOIP phone 5. My mobile phone 6. USB cable and earphones for my phone 7. Water bottle 8. Coffee mug 9. Lunch box 10. Greek yoghurt (yummy) 11. My laptop bag 12. Helmet and jacket Is it similar for you? how do you prefer your desk to be like?

                    "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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                    Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
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                    At home it is a total mess - very comfortable... However, at work it is ISO dictated 'clean table'...

                    Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

                    "It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      Phone, calulator, tablet, keyboard, mouse, graphics tablet, two monitors, glass full of pens, PC, mobile phone, headphones, stapler, reading glasses, walk-about glasses, tape measure, ear buds, scrap paper for notes, two invoices to put on system, clamp current meter, cat. Cat hair, cat paw prints, more cat hair.

                      Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                      jgakenhe
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                      You'll find a year's worth of printed papers for the look of busyness, but in reality I don't print much because I'm a closet environmentalist. By the end of the day there will be 3 empty cans of diet coke, perfectly spaced and in the same position from the previous day. A computer bag and a not so smart cell phone. And most importantly, two monitors perfectly positioned, so no one can get behind me and see what is on my screen, with the desktop positioned to hide my personnel computer, in case I need it in an emergency. There are no pictures or any other nonsense; everything has a purpose. It is close to meeting the 5S's of Lean Six Sigma.

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                      • D dan sh

                        I think mine is a mess. Here are the items on it: 1. Laptop 2. Second monitor 3. Spare CPU, keyboard and mouse 4. VOIP phone 5. My mobile phone 6. USB cable and earphones for my phone 7. Water bottle 8. Coffee mug 9. Lunch box 10. Greek yoghurt (yummy) 11. My laptop bag 12. Helmet and jacket Is it similar for you? how do you prefer your desk to be like?

                        "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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                        jgakenhe
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                        You'll find a year's worth of printed papers for the look of busyness, but in reality I don't print much because I'm a closet environmentalist. By the end of the day there will be 3 empty cans of diet coke, perfectly spaced and in the same position from the previous day. A computer bag and a not so smart cell phone. And most importantly, two monitors perfectly positioned, so no one can get behind me and see what is on my screen, with the desktop positioned to hide my personnel computer, in case I need it in an emergency. There are no pictures or any other nonsense; everything has a purpose. It is close to meeting the 5S's of Lean Six Sigma.

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                        • D dan sh

                          I think mine is a mess. Here are the items on it: 1. Laptop 2. Second monitor 3. Spare CPU, keyboard and mouse 4. VOIP phone 5. My mobile phone 6. USB cable and earphones for my phone 7. Water bottle 8. Coffee mug 9. Lunch box 10. Greek yoghurt (yummy) 11. My laptop bag 12. Helmet and jacket Is it similar for you? how do you prefer your desk to be like?

                          "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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                          glennPattonWork3
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                          Stuff on my desk: 1) Cool angle poise light, 2) Laser Printer/Scanner Combo 3) Top off a signal conditioning box prototype, 4) USB Hub with 3 USB to 9 Way ports 5) Kemo potted Audio Amp for test 6) Platten out of Hard Drive I was told to destroy used as coaster. 7) Multimeter, Gaffer Tape 8) Complete guts of a PAM system connected to 250 meters of 15 core shield cable (on a drum on floor but connected to PAM system) 9) Digital Vernier (wonder where that was!) :cool: found Vern....

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                          • D dan sh

                            I think mine is a mess. Here are the items on it: 1. Laptop 2. Second monitor 3. Spare CPU, keyboard and mouse 4. VOIP phone 5. My mobile phone 6. USB cable and earphones for my phone 7. Water bottle 8. Coffee mug 9. Lunch box 10. Greek yoghurt (yummy) 11. My laptop bag 12. Helmet and jacket Is it similar for you? how do you prefer your desk to be like?

                            "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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                            Mark_Wallace
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                            I'm a firm believer in the clean-desk policy! Which is why I keep my desk covered with papers and junk -- no dirt can even get close to it.

                            I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                            • D dan sh

                              I think mine is a mess. Here are the items on it: 1. Laptop 2. Second monitor 3. Spare CPU, keyboard and mouse 4. VOIP phone 5. My mobile phone 6. USB cable and earphones for my phone 7. Water bottle 8. Coffee mug 9. Lunch box 10. Greek yoghurt (yummy) 11. My laptop bag 12. Helmet and jacket Is it similar for you? how do you prefer your desk to be like?

                              "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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                              Maximilien
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                              More or less a mess. 1. used, but clean glass yogurt pot; plastic plant. 2. clean lunch box (tupperware-ish) that I forgot to bring home. 3. dust bunnies. 4. empty coffee cup (from this morning) 5. screen. 6. dust bunnies. 7. screen. 8. dust bunnies. 9. star wars Lego. 10. dust bunnies. 11. flashing office phone with a couple of voice mail (forgot the password, and don't care). 12. radio (just in case the internet is down) 13. dust bunnies. ...

                              I'd rather be phishing!

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                              • M megaadam

                                OriginalGriff wrote:

                                cat

                                I am feline that there should be a claws against such impurrfections.

                                ... such stuff as dreams are made on

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                                Rajesh R Subramanian
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                                Excuse meow for this.

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                                • M megaadam

                                  OriginalGriff wrote:

                                  cat

                                  I am feline that there should be a claws against such impurrfections.

                                  ... such stuff as dreams are made on

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                                  Rajesh R Subramanian
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                                  Excuse meow for this.

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                                  • R Rajesh R Subramanian

                                    Excuse meow for this.

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                                    Rajesh R Subramanian
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                                    Hey @chris-maunder this is strange. I replied to only one post (the other one), but it's appeared as responses to two different posts! The second one is not meow post, and I smell some catspiracy. :)

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                                    • G glennPattonWork3

                                      Stuff on my desk: 1) Cool angle poise light, 2) Laser Printer/Scanner Combo 3) Top off a signal conditioning box prototype, 4) USB Hub with 3 USB to 9 Way ports 5) Kemo potted Audio Amp for test 6) Platten out of Hard Drive I was told to destroy used as coaster. 7) Multimeter, Gaffer Tape 8) Complete guts of a PAM system connected to 250 meters of 15 core shield cable (on a drum on floor but connected to PAM system) 9) Digital Vernier (wonder where that was!) :cool: found Vern....

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                                      Mark_Wallace
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                                      glennPattonWorking wrote:

                                      1. Laser Printer/Scanner Combo

                                      It's not that good an idea to sit too close to a printer, all day[^]

                                      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                                      • D dan sh

                                        I think mine is a mess. Here are the items on it: 1. Laptop 2. Second monitor 3. Spare CPU, keyboard and mouse 4. VOIP phone 5. My mobile phone 6. USB cable and earphones for my phone 7. Water bottle 8. Coffee mug 9. Lunch box 10. Greek yoghurt (yummy) 11. My laptop bag 12. Helmet and jacket Is it similar for you? how do you prefer your desk to be like?

                                        "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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                                        Nemanja Trifunovic
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                                        More messy than I would have preferred, but not too bad: 1) Laptop 2) Docking Station 3) A mug 4) A "Bing Bang Theory" calendar 5) Cell phone 6) Keyboard 7) Mouse 8) Two monitors

                                        utf8-cpp

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                                        • M Mark_Wallace

                                          I'm a firm believer in the clean-desk policy! Which is why I keep my desk covered with papers and junk -- no dirt can even get close to it.

                                          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                                          W Balboos GHB
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                                          Mark_Wallace wrote:

                                          Which is why I keep my desk covered with papers and junk -- no dirt can even get close to it.

                                          I've used a similar explanation to those uninitiated to being busy doing things (vs. undoing things by neatening up). My desktop layers, however, are organized something more akin to:* Tirassic

                                          • Jurrasic
                                          • Cretacious
                                          • etc.
                                            What's most interesting - they're not even chronologically stratified.

                                          Ravings en masse^

                                          "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                                          "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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