I was getting a background check a while back, and watching the clerk enter my info, I noticed that the "gender" selection had at least a dozen options ... including "Other", "Unknown", and "Indeterminate"
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RE: Other Gender
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RE: An SQL WTF from the Department of Redundancy Dept.
Hate to break the trend and actually reply to the OP, but what's wrong with the SQL?
Looks like it's just using the subselect to compile a list of "set_id"s which have at least one record matching the subselect where clause, then returning all records matching that list (whether they match the subselect where or not).
Something like "show me all student grade records of students who have at least one "F"".
The subselect would be superfluous if bm_attribute_set_id is a unique value (primary key), but that's not stated ...
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RE: HugMeData
@Welbog said:
Looks like three people don't want hugs, and five people want empty hugs...
Or maybe I'm looking at it wrong. Maybe three people want false hugs while five people want empty hugs. This begs the question what is the difference between a false hug and an empty hug...
A false hug is when you hug someone because you're supposed to ...
An empty hug is when you try to hug someone but miss ...
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RE: I just graduated, now what?
As much as I hate to do this:
<dad>
Your degree won't get you a job. Your resume won't get you a job. Your CCNA won't get you a job.
People will get you a job.
Yes, you have to have skills and/or an education. Yes, you have to have a resume. It helps immensely to be clean, well-mannered, and reasonably well-spoken.
But what you need most is to be connected with people. Get some business cards printed up with your name and contact info, get some "businessy" clothes, work up an "elevator speech" about what you want to do and what you're looking for. Go to technical job fairs, look in your local paper for professional gatherings, call everyone you know who might know someone who might know someone. Don't be pushy and obnoxious, and don't act entitled. Just be straightforward. And be creative - I went to a networking meeting of a local VC organization once because I was interested in the speaker and ended up with a dozen excellent contacts. Talk to people, listen to people, if there's any connection, give them a card and ask for one of theirs. And if you hear of something that can help someone else, pass it along.
As for navigating the plethora of languages, frameworks, tools, and technologies - just pick something and try it out. Reading blogs and collecting bookmarks won't give you the experience you're looking for; you need to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty.
</dad>
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RE: Oh Wow, Man...
[quote user="Balthazaar"][quote user="rbriem"]
Remember - "Code you don't write is code you don't have to maintain"!
[/quote]
I wish.
Where do you work and how do I apply?[/quote]
That was the actual marketing slogan for a product I supported once ... looooong ago ...
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RE: Oh Wow, Man...
[quote user="RShilling"]But, but... Wouldn't it be a lot of fun for your customers to be able to write their own queries?[/quote]
We call this "empowering the users"
Remember - "Code you don't write is code you don't have to maintain"!
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RE: Dutch Railroad Screw up
[quote user="Grauenwolf"]How is it Bill Gate's fault that someone's hardrive is failing and needs to be replaced ?[/quote]
It's Bill's fault because he helped to shove all this gol'darn "technology" down our throats ... him an' that Jobs feller ... computers trackin' trains ... I never. Why, back in my day, we had *people* trackin' trains with *watches* ... schedules were *written down* on *paper* with *pencils* by gum, and we were better for it!
Why, I'll bet that they ... now waitaminnit there, nurse, what's that you're stickin' innnn mmmmmmyyyyyyy iiiiiiiiiivivkvkvvlmvm.m,x.,mxc. ....
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RE: I made a WTF
Wait. I know I've seen this before. Oh yeah.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Spicoli just totalled the star quarterback's brand new car. "No problem. I can fix this. My old man's a refrigerator repairman - he's got a whole garage full of tools ..."
monkey + tools = monkey
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RE: When designing a website for a religious cult...
[quote user="Dragnslcr"]
The House of Yahweh Prophecy
of 9-12-2006 Has Been Fulfilled
Stay tuned for upcoming detailsWow, they managed to scoop every major media outlet in the world.
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<font color="#a80404" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Thursday, September 14, 2006
-2 days remaining before the start of nuclear war
</font><font color="#a80404" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"> </font><font color="#a80404" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><font color="#000000" size="2">Anybody glowing yet?</font></font>
<font color="#a80404" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><font color="#000000" size="2">Oh, wait, I forgot ... good prophecies always have a way to weasel out. The prophesy was for the "start of nuclear war", not the actual dropping of the bombs. So the war that will eventually be nuclear started on 9/12/2006 (or thereabouts).</font></font>
<font color="#a80404" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><font color="#000000" size="2">Whew! Good. Time enough for one more beer.</font></font>
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RE: C# marshal-by-reference
@danguy said:
// In this example, frmEntry has a public decimal named amount.
frmEntry entry_form = new frmEntry();
if (entry_form.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.Yes)
{
// Actual intent. Causes CS0197.
lblValue.Text = discount_form.amount.ToString("f");// This works. decimal a = entry_form.amount; lblValue.Text = a.ToString("f"); // Microsoft's "fix" // See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cscomp/html/vcerrCompilerErrorCS0197.asp lblValue.Text = ((decimal)((object)(entry_form.amount))).ToString("f");
}
Don't know much about C#, but in your failing code you're referencing "discount_form", but in both the workaround and MS's "fix" you're referencing "entry_form" ...