DaWei

I drink my scotch with a fork and suck my steak through a swizzle stick. I write my code on a papyrus scroll, from the back, using Gutenberg-era type. (Ink is so yesterday, but embossing is in, again.)

It gets compiled to machine code and put into the machine by an out-of-work bookkeeper with a green eyeshade. I found him clearing a Brazilian jungle with a butter knife and armed him with a mirror, a bank of toggle switches, a telephone cable, and a bagful of two-headed alligator clips. He works for peanuts and picked up on the swizzle stick gig really quickly.

Now, you tell one. :beard:

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Contributor's Corner: Grumpy on C++ Exceptions DaWei on Pointers

Bill

Let me see if I can top that!
I can spit farther, belch louder and smell worse than any man west of the Rockies. I eat 16 penny nails and roofing tacks come out. I drink fermented wolverine sweat for breakfast.
I write binary code on scrap iron with a piece of soapstone and scan it into my computer using OCR. I make my wife and kids use a pedal powered generator to allow me to surf the web for hours on end.
And last but not least I am politically uncorrect.:eek:

crawforddavid2006

ROFLMFAO

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pegasus001

Very good guys. Both in pole position.

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PhilBon

Is there a reason why I really don't understand this?

titaniumdecoy

You're not a real man.

pegasus001

In a way i don`t agree with you, men aren`t judged by knowledge or age but... :p

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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It`s one of the never ending cycles of life.

DaWei

I often see it implied (not just on this forum) that unless one does something in the absolutely most difficult way, one is not truly skilled. I call "bullshit."

I also find that one can sometimes gain a better perception of circumstances if one considers the extremes. The other extreme here is Mild Mannered Merlin, who merely waves his magic metal wand and produces a complex, glitch-free, and totally secure application. He then steps into his phone booth, rips off his geekly duds, and emerges in an Armani suit with lebenty-jillion ducats in pocket change.

In observing these extremes, one immediately realizes that there is a gradient. One may then form some sensible idea of where to place oneself, even if one not going to get anywhere near the booth, the billions, and the bevy of beauties.

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Contributor's Corner: Grumpy on C++ Exceptions DaWei on Pointers

Bill

Ahh! A so called happy medium then.

I wish I could find this middle ground somewhere. I guess because I am hard headed, I seem to be stuck doing everything the hard way, and not just coding. If something doesn't work I tend to have the find a bigger hammer mentality rather than figuring another, possibly easier way to do it.

PS: I do eat quiche occasionally, but just don't let it get out.