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Many Deep Purple recommendations and all seem valid. Space Trucking fits the bill too. Appears that Deep Purple has a thing for Astronomy --that's cool. I was unaware of that...

You are welcome! :)

I went for an interview at a certain New York location. The developers all sat in long lines with 3-4 feet of elbow room on shallow desks with enough room for two screens, a keyboard and mouse and a telephone. There were about 8 developers in each "strip" of desk with another 8 face to face with them on another strip. This was in a room with about 10 double strips plus large monitors around the walls set near the ceiling showing stock tickers. The room had glass walls, the meeting rooms had glass walls and you could see through to other identical rooms with either developers or stock brokers in them. :wtf: There was a cacophony of sound from all the telephone conversations and the clacky "special" keyboards with coloured keys for "sell" and "buy", etc. (despite being for developers) echoing off the hard surfaces of the room. :confused: They offered me a lot of money to work there :-\ and I responded with a request for double that amount :omg: which, luckily, they declined - although I got the impression they had thought about it for a while first! That was a close call! :sigh: - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

Hey! Some of us are actually part of that entire population and would prefer to continue to live without major Earthquake dances. Put your pants back on, there's women and children present, and we who have to sleep at night.

RAS on not-a-mainframe servers is about being able to disable faulty components and being able to swap them out without turning off the power. eg your data center gets hit by lightning and your UPS doesn't fully protect the hardware, with the result that 3 of your 8 CPUs, 41 of your 256 dimms, and 3 of your 8 ethernet cards fail. A mainframe level RAS server will detect the errors and disable the faulty components automatically and keep running at reduced performance until the needed replacements are shipped in and installed in the running system. IBM's been doing that for something like 50 years. Intel initially acquired the same capabilities for the Itanic, but once it became clear that cluster-elephant had no future started migrating them all over to its most expensive Xeons. Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

My mistake then; glassdoor is so ubiquitous I felt no explanation was necessary.

Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Accenture You're missing an "id"[^] I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

I lost touch while waiting on the docks for the next mail boat to arrive with news from the old country.

How many years has Linux been around? Still trying to figure out why it exists at all, let alone why some people think it's the cat's meow. We won't sit down. We won't shut up. We won't go quietly away. YouTube and My Mu[sic], Films and Windows Programs, etc.

"Quality is more important than time." (True quote. No evidence the person means it.)

Answer QA questions here on CodeProject: if I wasn't distracted before I started answering, I am guaranteed to be in that state very quickly as the illusion that the OP actually asks a meaningful question ... or has the slightest intent to really learn anything ... dissolves. To speed-up the onset of distraction I can read the other "solutions" posted by the usual rep-bloating, post-anything, "first responders," first. Actually, it's not that bad, and I learn a lot :) «I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.

;P (At least you sent it. You could have rebooted and then forgotten all about your pedanticness. Months from now you would have woken in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, remembering your post, but by then it would be too late. You'd then spend the rest of your life fretting about the lost opportunity.)

Just try to program in Delphi XE8 for a few hours. You'll go running and screaming back to VS2015 before you're even able to get your project to compile. :laugh: The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin

Tried that, but the result doesn't do anything. The VC++ Native Unit Tests have a test runner and that's the secret sauce, so to speak. (It enumerates all the exports from the test dll and runs them. I could figure this out, but was hoping someone else already has.)

A lot depends on what sub-windows you have open, because if each one is updating itself every time you move the mouse, it'll eat a lot of processing time/threads. I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Oh yeah. Oops! I fixed that a while back but clearly haven't rolled in the changes. Give me a few minutes and I'll get it sorted. cheers Chris Maunder

Hi Joe, its great you're here online I've been wanting to have a yarn with you. Look I know this bloke and hes looking for a contract coder - a bit of C++ and some QT, maybe a bit of linux but i'm told it doesn't really matter... Could you have a yarn with him, maybe a bit of an interview and all that? Perfect role for you dude Bryce p.s. oh Hes got a bit of an subcontinent type accent MCAD ---