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  • F Forogar

    Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

    - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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    Sander Rossel
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    I have no heroes as far as I'm concerned... We're all just people.

    Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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    • F Forogar

      Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

      - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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      Slacker007
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      James Bond.

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      • F Forogar

        Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

        - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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        Maximilien
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        (party pooper mode) Seriously, I don't think I have one; I am probably become blasé. I always wondered when such or such people die will I go down in the street at the funerals ? There are many people I admire (couple of my friends, one or two politicians), but not enough for a hero status.

        I'd rather be phishing!

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        • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

          I have no heroes as far as I'm concerned... We're all just people.

          Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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          Slacker007
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          FFS, Sander, who do you look up to?! I think once you said you admired your father. Then you answer the post with "My father is my hero". Millenials... :sigh:

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          • F Forogar

            Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

            - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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            raddevus
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            Forogar wrote:

            Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak.

            Of course, Woz had little or nothing to do with iProducts so he can continue to reign as your hero. :-D Have you read his autobiography? I really enjoyed it and he reveals a lot that wasn't previously known (like the fact that Jobs was never fired from Apple. He was forced into a specific useless role but not fired. Jobs actually quit.) iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It: Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith Amazon.com: Books[^] It's a good fast read and you get quite a bit about the Apple originally came about. Quite inspiring because he talks about creating things with less chips and drawing out computer circuit boards on paper.

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              FFS, Sander, who do you look up to?! I think once you said you admired your father. Then you answer the post with "My father is my hero". Millenials... :sigh:

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              Sander Rossel
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              Well, I guess I could make an exception for my parents. They did pretty well for themselves and they've continued to support me for 31 years and counting... If you can live with me for that long you're definitely a hero! :laugh: But no hero in the "traditional" sense, like someone amazing somewhere that I look up to and that I'd love to meet.

              Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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              • F Forogar

                Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

                - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                Daffy Duck[^]

                I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!

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                  (party pooper mode) Seriously, I don't think I have one; I am probably become blasé. I always wondered when such or such people die will I go down in the street at the funerals ? There are many people I admire (couple of my friends, one or two politicians), but not enough for a hero status.

                  I'd rather be phishing!

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                  Sander Rossel
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                  Maximilien wrote:

                  I always wondered when such or such people die will I go down in the street at the funerals ?

                  Exactly, like people crying because someone they never even met died, I can't imagine idolizing someone like that. People know where they were and what they were doing when they heard Freddy Mercury died and they sat together with the family... Like he was just a singer! Well, I guess he wasn't "just" a singer to those people (and he was more of an entertainer I guess, not a fan as you can see). It's cool (and scary) that people like Freddy Mercury, or John Lennon, or Steve Jobs, can change lives by just being alive (or not), just not mine. When it's an entertainer it's usually innocent enough, but the world's greatest mass murderers started out like that too.

                  Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                  • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                    Well, I guess I could make an exception for my parents. They did pretty well for themselves and they've continued to support me for 31 years and counting... If you can live with me for that long you're definitely a hero! :laugh: But no hero in the "traditional" sense, like someone amazing somewhere that I look up to and that I'd love to meet.

                    Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                    :thumbsup:

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                    • F Forogar

                      Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

                      - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                      I'm surprised nobody has said Chris Maunder & co. As tongue in check as that sounds, my life as a software developer has been significantly, and in positive ways, influenced by the existence of Code Project. While that can be said of many people (99% of them are dead), there's something to be said about a hero that is relevant.

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                      • F Forogar

                        Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

                        - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                        Forogar wrote:

                        Excluding politics,

                        Indeed, it shouldn't be too hard to aim higher.

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                        • F Forogar

                          Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

                          - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                          Jesus, Batman and Obi Wan Kenobi

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                          • F Forogar

                            Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

                            - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                            Mark_Wallace
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                            Trump. (Not really. I'm just testing the latest upgrade of Godwin's law)

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

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                            • F Forogar

                              Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

                              - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                              Tom Scholz.

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                                Trump. (Not really. I'm just testing the latest upgrade of Godwin's law)

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                                Slacker007
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                                No, you are just cross-site posting again.

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                                • F Forogar

                                  Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

                                  - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                                  An entire company - the ARIETE company of World War II.

                                  "Enemy tanks broke through south of Ariete Division. Thus, Ariete surrounded, located 5 kilometers north-west of Bir-el-Abd. Ariete tanks are fighting."
                                  — Ariete Division's last radio message
                                  

                                  GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

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                                    An entire company - the ARIETE company of World War II.

                                    "Enemy tanks broke through south of Ariete Division. Thus, Ariete surrounded, located 5 kilometers north-west of Bir-el-Abd. Ariete tanks are fighting."
                                    — Ariete Division's last radio message
                                    

                                    GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

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                                    "They have us surrounded - those poor bastards". Is that from them? Not sure if even a real quote, but it's been around for a long, long time.

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                                    • F Forogar

                                      Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes? One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings. Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak. Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.

                                      - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                                      pkfox
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                                      Don't do heroes but admiration for SH and SW

                                      We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP

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                                        OriginalGriff :-\

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                                        pkfox
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                                        I just knew someone would post that :-D

                                        We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP

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                                          Tom Scholz.

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                                          Indeed. Back in the day, I would have killed for a Rockman.

                                          This space for rent

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