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The truth can fail if it can't be handled.
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My company likes to use Sharepoint for data storage. I keep trying to explain to people that storing spreadsheets in Sharepoint is not a relational database, that it's hard for apps to query data when stored this way, it impedes our ability to make intelligent decisions about our business, and it's surely a security risk if any important business-secret-type data are stored there. But all I ever hear in response is "cluck cluck cluck...". I guess they've got me there.
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Time to start replacing hardware . . .
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I guess it's a little less bad here - we use Sharepoint for the company intranet. It's a twisted godawful mess, but it's not like any of it matters for anything. If it fails, it's very public but ultimately inconsequential, since nobody can find anything on it anyway.
Now if anyone can explain to me why the marketing department runs the intranet, I'd be grateful. Do we need to market to the employees?
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Gotta love VB.
The variant variables are so full of promise but ultimately full of fail.
Try the following code :
trueval = true; falseval = false;
if val( trueval ) = val( falseval ) then msgbox("Awsome") end
captcha ludus : combining the best of lewd with the best of ludicrous
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Combat is the ultimately the only way of the soul but also ironically its destroyer in the way of destroying the body that contains it exposing it to the dreary corrosion of this miserable material world.
Indeed as if indubitably there was any difference between our consuming of sustenance and our burning desire for conflict then overlooking the unity of life and death would be forgivable but alas it is not and so it is not.
I love to see the day when we could know all but then there would be no distinction between being and knowing and we would come to an end and much like combat will have severed the tie between our mind and body and there will be little of consequence to understand about this world.
Here we discover our deadly but also vitalizing and awe-inspiring fascination with the thanatos that underlies our entire lives being at once unable to live but also dying to do so leaving us always tip-toeing the precipice always afraid to look down.
Look up! Look down! Love life! Love death! Learn to love both for as long as you live you must live with both!
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Well, actually, if you haven't operated a motor vehicle while intoxicated, you probably have lived.
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Well actually, if you have operated a motor vehicle while intoxicated, you probably could've died .
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Sure. Lot's of people, especially school kids, want to be part of an "in" crowd.
When my daughter was in high school she once commented that what the Goth kids were apparently all about is, "I want to be a non-conformist -- just like all my friends."
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Wow, all the work some people have gone to on here planting troll posts, and I managed to generate quite a thread by making an off-hand analogy to drunk driving. I'll have to remember that next time I want to start a flame war.
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One thing's for sure: if you haven't lived, you certainly haven't operated a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
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boog: I'll program your app to pull these numbers, which database do I use? User: "Oh that's easy, you can get those off my Sharepoint site." facepalm
That's actually part of our problem: since nobody can find anything, it's hard for us to keep track of whether there are any mission critical or private data being stored in Sharepoint. Only if you have problems retaining employees. Which is a sign of bigger issues. Issues probably brought about by flawed business decisions. Flawed because they were based on invalid/outdated data. Invalid/outdated because it was stored in... you see where I'm going with this. It's a self-sustaining system.Admin
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FYI, I've operated a motor vehicle hundreds of times an lived...but that's about as much an accomplishment as rubbing your head and scratching your nose.
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Oh jeezus. You too? (Although I've managed to avoid it today, spending most of my time configuring Liferay to act as a producer for a home-grown app which SharePoint is supposedly going to be able to consume. Except nothing quite works out of the box the way it's advertised to. Shrug, stroll on. More such fun tomorrow.
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Oh, it's your site, is it? Really? Really, truly? In that case ... fuck off!
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"You're all different!" "YES! WE'RE ALL DIFFERENT!" "(I'm not.)"
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I had a son (yawn) who was all different, it wasn't funny, blah blah blah, more sensitive, is this meme exhausted yet? Or are we just creating another meme?
Damn you, Richard Dawkins! Why'd you have to invent memes anyway?
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Yes, from now and on. You're all doomed. I suggest it's better for you to leave just now. Before you're frustrated and will actually commit suicide
This place will become most unpleasant place to visit in near future.
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So, let me guess - frits has finally decided he's sick of unregistered posters and he's trying to force Alex to require registration to post, by making a nuisance of himself under random unregistered names. Do I get a gold star?
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I do Perl on a fairly regular basis. It has been a long time since I've done any C of any substance. But it seems like there are more things that are easy to overlook/not think about and get bitten by in software development than in hardware (the level at which I work in hardware, anyway). It wasn't until I'd finished my latest Perl creation (a new network monitoring plugin) using a simple flat file per switch/router to store interface index values that I realized I'd have a concurrency problem when it came time to make sure the database was current. For a seasoned programmer who has had to do a lot of concurrency, yes, it's readily apparent. For those who don't have to do it very often, it's easy to miss. I'm now aware of it, but I haven't had time to correct it yet. (No, it's not production.)
Troubleshooting this has taken a long time, but what's involved is pretty simple. Fiber path is tested good, so swap each component until the failures stop. Not much to it except time and having to walk across campus multiple times . . .
It's a life. It may not be your preference, and others here may not like it, but it's a life.
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Speaking of memes and school kids, my kids run around with their friends saying "fail" and "Pwned" now. Thank you, internet!
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You weren't allowed to talk moron! You're opinion not worth a shit. Eat dirt.
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Okay, maybe those aren't memes. Whatever.
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Love you too, frits.
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Awesome, now that Nagesh and Hater's comments are replaced with "Nogesh"! Thanks for asking.
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Sir, my son was Richard Dawkins, and I assure you it is no laughing matter...
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I bet this passed unit testing!
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I KNEW you're gay. C'mon I'll fuck you hard
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Hello looser! How's your ass today? Still hurts? 3>
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W. T. F.
Every time I try to parse that phrase, my brain reboots.
I know your punctuation keys work, I can see periods and commas in the rest of the submission.
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Do or Do Not. There is no Try
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In all seriousness, I have a friend who truly believes that the next evolution in computing is a 3rd state.
On.Off.Maybe.
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I will try my probabilistic boolean
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Codelove (formerly tdwtf) http://www.slashnet.org/channels/codelove
NOW YOU KNOW.
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Thanks I'll join them