You are right on the dot about Amazon as a publisher. I know a 13-year-old high school kid in Chennai, India who got his book published by Amazon. It is an adventure story set in Central America, God only knows where he got the idea and how he got the details about Central American jungle right but the book was good enough for Amazon to agree to publish it.

We know, but that would mean that someone had made a pun in CP, which we know never happens, so it was obviously a tpyo. I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

He needed a mid level developer but due to your talent you have been promoted to senior development manager :) Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.

I don't like the way you skipped over: case 42; return "The Answer"; The kiddies need to know the answer. I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Over Xmas vacation I'm reading a manual from NXP on a new multi-core embedded controller, Cortex A7 and M4 in one package. Something for the C++ Linux guys on the A7 end, and something for the C "bare iron" guys on the M4 end. Lot of programming challenges to manage power and how to best partition the design to split the requirements between a real-time front end and lots of store and forward data routing on the back end to multiple radios. Then there's the problem of a C# production tester at the assembly line. And on top of all that the security hypervisor to secure against IoT attacks.

No need; pizza is already open-faced. I could do it with a calzone I suppose.

Wonderful stuff!

Aha... Then thank you for your well needed addition on how to actually do it in Firefox. I realized I was a bit hasty because I wanted to exaggerate on how simple it was to do it in Firefox as a comparison to IE.

kdmote wrote: Excellence-first, solemnity-first, get-more-done-and-have-more-fun-first, newest-technology-on-the-block-first, diligence-first, balanced-with-mindless-entertainment-first, mom-first, apple-pie-first, no-make-that-chocolate-chip-cookie-dough-first, people-first, church-first, home-first, work-first, peaceful-evenings-out-on-the-veranda-first, and (last but certainly not least – in fact, first) never-forgetting-to-keep-first-things-first-first. Catchy, it's already stuck in my head! :D Read my (free) ebook Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly. Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles here on CodeProject. Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra Regards, Sander

And backup your keepass file to dropbox/box/google drive so that you can - access it from anywhere - have a copy when your computer crashes beyond all repair

kdmote wrote: Now how do I "accept" your answer Hover to the upper left and you will see a green/red arrows, alright triangles, click the green one. The red one has been disabled due to abuse. This up ticks his reputation which is the only way to reward a good response. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

There is only one correct way to close a business letter, which has served most learned men of letters since the days of the quill pen:- I remain your most obedient servant

kdmote wrote: If I were a painting instructor, I would advise my students to study the masters: ... Bill Watterson I agree!

One of the best developers at my company is the most outgoing, positive, vivacious women I know. In just over a year she has gotten promoted to a manager.

For $10 million, I'll come up with whatever bullshit project you want. The trick is writing good grant requests, not actually making sense with them.

WMI calls. Creating certain program / appdata folders.

Ahh, clever! I usually just type the word 'seven' - it gets the point across. But, for some reason, Excel formulas are finicky with this.

I'm going to chime in with another cloud provider - which makes it dead simple to set up a website, and is cheap, too (free to start with): Heroku Go with Namecheap.com for your domain (another low cost good one is name.com) - or, if you want to be ultra-super-cheap - you can get a .ml domain for free: www.point.ml For free DNS (if you need it): freedns.com Ultimately - if you do things right, you can set up a website for free - completely free. It won't have the best domain, nor the best processing power or space (or bandwidth) - but it will be enough to experiment with, and build your website. Once you get to a point where you are ready to launch, pony up for a bit of extra dough (and really, it will be a very minor amount) to get a real domain, up the hosting, etc. Note that there are many good things about Heroku - for one, it is very easy to set up and maintain your cloud server. The gui is dead simple; I haven't checked Amazon lately, but the last time I did, they didn't make it very simple to get things up and going (and to know how much you would be charged). Also - most cloud server providers offer a very cheap sliding scale of things; you can even sometimes have auto-ramp-up for loads (as well as ways to cap things), and re-size your system up and down as your needs change. Backup can be made automatic, plus many other features - too many to name, and it will vary depending on the provider. Oh - one other service to get (once you have your site launched, mainly): www.cloudflare.com They basically make CDN easy - and if your site become really popular (or you get DDOS'd) - they'll absorb the load before it gets to your hosting provider, so you don't get a huge bill in the mail from them.

"He’s an expert in the field of effective management," Carney said, adding the agency would be "tapping his experience and expertise." Oh, so he knows about web technologies? No? He's just a good manager. I see: a total know-nothing wanker who knows how to shout at people? That'll get the job done! This just gets funnier and funnier. "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures

Chris Meech wrote: You have folders named, "Bug Fix - Defect#84 - Sometimes Crashes". I actually have such folders. They contain project data that we need to reproduce a given problem. Ok, the description is usually more distinctive than "Sometimes Crashes". ;)