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  • H Henry Minute

    Happiness is the greatest gift that I posses. It is an ocean tide or a sunset fading on a mountain side. It is a field of grain turning its face to the falling rain. A wise old man told me one time "when you go to measuring my success don't count my money, count my happiness."

    Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.

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    Mike Hankey
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    Henry Minute wrote:

    Happiness is the greatest gift that I posses. It is an ocean tide or a sunset fading on a mountain side. It is a field of grain turning its face to the falling rain.

    Amen! Happines can come in the simplest of things.

    VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.0 ToDo Manager Extension
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    • A Alberto Bar Noy

      So true about sleep. A white night with a kid screaming means a cranky dev with no safety fuses or pins in the morning. A good 6 hours makes a happy dev :)

      Alberto Bar-Noy --------------- “The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!” (C3PO)

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      S Houghtelin
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      Alberto Bar-Noy wrote:

      a cranky dev with no safety fuses or pins in the morning

      I think that describes most developers regardless of their situation... :sigh:

      It was broke, so I fixed it.

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      • H Henry Minute

        Happiness is the greatest gift that I posses. It is an ocean tide or a sunset fading on a mountain side. It is a field of grain turning its face to the falling rain. A wise old man told me one time "when you go to measuring my success don't count my money, count my happiness."

        Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.

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        Lost User
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        Doddering, Henry?

        All that is necessary for Evil to succeed is for Good Folks to keep voting for their Party. - Cornelius Thirp

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        • U Umer Aziz Malik

          Hey there guys, I sometimes think about happiness, being a software engineer. So what is happiness for you? What makes you happy?

          Thanks & Best Regards, Umer Aziz Malik Senior Strategy Developer Aurora Solutions (Pvt) Ltd.

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          S Houghtelin
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          Happiness is having others appreciate the work you do, like when the owner of the company smiles when you demonstrate your application. Having someone hear one of my songs and say that’s really cool and inspiring. When my daughter hugs me and says I love you Daddy, and when my Wife reaches over and takes my hand and gives it that gentle squeeze for no reason. Happiness is knowing when things go wrong I’ll get through it a better person as I always have.

          It was broke, so I fixed it.

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          • Mike HankeyM Mike Hankey

            Henry Minute wrote:

            Happiness is the greatest gift that I posses. It is an ocean tide or a sunset fading on a mountain side. It is a field of grain turning its face to the falling rain.

            Amen! Happines can come in the simplest of things.

            VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.0 ToDo Manager Extension
            Version 3.0 now available. There is no place like 127.0.0.1

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            Henry Minute
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            All right! I confess[^]! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

            Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.

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              Doddering, Henry?

              All that is necessary for Evil to succeed is for Good Folks to keep voting for their Party. - Cornelius Thirp

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              Henry Minute
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              See my reply to Mike (above, or below if you're one of those weirdos that browse in reverse). :-D

              Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.

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              • H Henry Minute

                All right! I confess[^]! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

                Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.

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                Mike Hankey
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                Henry Minute wrote:

                I confess[^]!

                I don't think I would of. :)

                VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.0 ToDo Manager Extension
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                • U Umer Aziz Malik

                  Hey there guys, I sometimes think about happiness, being a software engineer. So what is happiness for you? What makes you happy?

                  Thanks & Best Regards, Umer Aziz Malik Senior Strategy Developer Aurora Solutions (Pvt) Ltd.

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                  BobJanova
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                  Happiness doesn't really have anything to do with being a software engineer, I think ... like any job, this one is a means to an end (i.e. it pays for a house, food, services and then elective entertainment which is what you do to be happier). Happiness is seeing your team win something important, or, better, being a part of a team that wins something. Happiness is coming home after a hard day and your SO is there with sympathy and a cup of tea. It's a rainbow over the mountains after you just got rained on for half an hour getting to the viewpoint. I think it's always transient, it's the little moments that life gives us that are better than the usual. It's not possible to be happy all the time, because it can't be better than usual all the time, and we get accustomed to what's usual – i.e. our everyday life, even for a poor person, is beyond the wildest dreams of medieval lords, but we aren't all ecstatic the whole time. But life throws something at you almost every day that will provide some happiness. That's a bit deep for a coding forum :~

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                  • U Umer Aziz Malik

                    Hey there guys, I sometimes think about happiness, being a software engineer. So what is happiness for you? What makes you happy?

                    Thanks & Best Regards, Umer Aziz Malik Senior Strategy Developer Aurora Solutions (Pvt) Ltd.

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                    Happiness is like wetting your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel it's warmth.

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                    • K Kschuler

                      Happiness is like wetting your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel it's warmth.

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                      Kschuler wrote:

                      Happiness is like wetting your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel it's warmth.

                      And its lasts only moments as soon after ridicule and embarassment set in crushing your happiness into but a faded memory that you can no longer even comprehend ;P

                      Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.

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                      • K Kschuler

                        Happiness is like wetting your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel it's warmth.

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                        PIEBALDconsult
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                        Ah, a balanced opinion. :thumbsup:

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                        • U Umer Aziz Malik

                          Hey there guys, I sometimes think about happiness, being a software engineer. So what is happiness for you? What makes you happy?

                          Thanks & Best Regards, Umer Aziz Malik Senior Strategy Developer Aurora Solutions (Pvt) Ltd.

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                          PIEBALDconsult
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                          Spicoli: "All I need are some tasty waves a cool buzz and I'm fine."

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                            Kschuler wrote:

                            Happiness is like wetting your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel it's warmth.

                            And its lasts only moments as soon after ridicule and embarassment set in crushing your happiness into but a faded memory that you can no longer even comprehend ;P

                            Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.

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                            Kschuler
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                            Ok, Debbie Downer. :-D

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                            • U Umer Aziz Malik

                              Hey there guys, I sometimes think about happiness, being a software engineer. So what is happiness for you? What makes you happy?

                              Thanks & Best Regards, Umer Aziz Malik Senior Strategy Developer Aurora Solutions (Pvt) Ltd.

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                              jeron1
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                              A good sandwich.

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                              • U Umer Aziz Malik

                                Hey there guys, I sometimes think about happiness, being a software engineer. So what is happiness for you? What makes you happy?

                                Thanks & Best Regards, Umer Aziz Malik Senior Strategy Developer Aurora Solutions (Pvt) Ltd.

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                                BupeChombaDerrick
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                                Being a member of Code project and learning from the experts here surely makes me happy. That is part of what makes me happy to belong and to welcome. :) Thanks Code project Team.:thumbsup:

                                “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man or woman.”

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                                • U Umer Aziz Malik

                                  Hey there guys, I sometimes think about happiness, being a software engineer. So what is happiness for you? What makes you happy?

                                  Thanks & Best Regards, Umer Aziz Malik Senior Strategy Developer Aurora Solutions (Pvt) Ltd.

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                                  wizardzz
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                                  JSOP might actually quote The Beatles on this one. Me, I just like to do what I find fun. If other people like or appreciate it, that's great. My hobbies satisfy this for me, and most of them I get to do with my fiancee or friends or even my pets. I think there is more than a coincidence there.

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                                    To crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet -- to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best.

                                    At least artificial intelligence already is superior to natural stupidity

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                                    BupeChombaDerrick
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                                    And from a woman's perspective To crush her enemies, to see them fall at her feet -- to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their men. That is best.:cool:

                                    “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man or woman.”

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                                    • U Umer Aziz Malik

                                      Hey there guys, I sometimes think about happiness, being a software engineer. So what is happiness for you? What makes you happy?

                                      Thanks & Best Regards, Umer Aziz Malik Senior Strategy Developer Aurora Solutions (Pvt) Ltd.

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                                      Dr Walt Fair PE
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                                      True happiness is not having to worry about whether you're happy.

                                      CQ de W5ALT

                                      Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software

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                                      • Mike HankeyM Mike Hankey

                                        Henry Minute wrote:

                                        I confess[^]!

                                        I don't think I would of. :)

                                        VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.0 ToDo Manager Extension
                                        Version 3.0 now available. There is no place like 127.0.0.1

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                                        Henry Minute
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                                        Mike Hankey wrote:

                                        I don't think I would of

                                        Some nefarious UKian (such as ict558 below) was bound to spot my rip-off and the guilt was building. :)

                                        Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.

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                                        • H Henry Minute

                                          Mike Hankey wrote:

                                          I don't think I would of

                                          Some nefarious UKian (such as ict558 below) was bound to spot my rip-off and the guilt was building. :)

                                          Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.

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                                          Mike Hankey
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                                          Them young whipper-snappers!

                                          VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.0 ToDo Manager Extension
                                          Version 3.0 now available. There is no place like 127.0.0.1

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