My favoritest thing about Linq is that no one around here writes it natively. It always ends up in the code base via Resharper translating a block foreach and if/else statements. It looks awesome and is totally terse. Unfortunately, whenever you need to refactor that Linq statement the first thing you end up doing is…
One would think requirements like this: Would be in the documentation:
This is not at all surprising. And yet I chafe at the idea that my suspicions have been confirmed. The ‘Door Close’ button on most elevators isn’t even wired up. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/595/do-close-door-buttons-on-elevators-ever-actually-work.
I just wrote some damned elegant XSL today. Feeling moderately chuffed about that.
Ready for a Hamms tallboy or three and the opportunity to direct some verbiage at my least favorite USHL team–Waterloo. Here’s to hoping they got into town too late to hold their traditional referee potluck dinner so we get the calls this time around.
This could have been sent as a followup to a theoretical conversation one could imagine overhearing in CubeLand on a day like today:
Funny ha ha or funny sad? I first read this at least 25 years ago. I think it influenced my developmental arc more than I would like…
The Bush/Cheney administrations’ days of international travel are over. [1] On the one hand, “surely this…” On the other: THOUGH the mills of God grind slowly, Yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, With exactness grinds he all. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [2] [1] http://www.ecchr.de/us_accountability.html [2] http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/2000/l/long52.html
Fish and chips always makes a return call. It may take most of a day–at most, but extracts its vengeance in due time.
Caffeine intake so far: one of those Monster coffee-like energy drinks and two cups of coffee. Still dragging ass. It’s going to take a skilled pilot to bring this one home safely.