Dr Wingnut

Month: August 2008

  • Your best

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    Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.Pythagoras

  • In Praise of Scripting: Real Programming Pragmatism

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    I weep when I think about the text processing written in C under my managerial watch because the programmer didn’t know Perl.  Considering that there are much better scripting tools for much of what gets programmed in Java and C++, perhaps the question should be whether Java and C++ scale to enterprise projects.Ronald P. Loui,…

  • China is ready

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    China is ready for the Olympics and the resulting influx of English speaking tourists…Which is one step up from just lovely…But taste like cat.Here, crippie, take my seat.Great with flied liceA seperate entrance for Hos….why didn’t I think of that?Sounds better than canned water doesn’t it?Go over there to die, please.  Thank you.Good to know.Not…

  • Keep rowing

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    As one goes through life one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.Katharine Hepburn

  • Delegation

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    There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.Will Rogers

  • Failure

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    Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying.  Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn’t.  Failure is part of what makes us human.Amber Deckers

  • Longing

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    Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.”John Greenleaf Whittier