Yes boss. What should I do with the bodies this time?
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Unless of course someone comes up with a ā80 hour rule,ā and then his book sales are in trouble.
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You have a volcano. Why is there more than one answer to this question?
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If you can play A, D, G, and E you can be in my band.
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Volcano is currently full of dumbasses. Need a plan B.
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Install a higher-capacity volcano?
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Per the yooosch, natch. Those mecha-hammerheads sont feed themselves (well, sometimes they do)
Boss, did you order a new one? I left the page open in your browser.
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You donāt have a volcano? Iāve got a volcano guy, Iāll get you hooked up.
Dormant? Cindercone? Underwater? What am I thinking, he will go over all the options with you.
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No need, just look at the reviews on Amazon.
I understand the Yellowstone Caldera currently has a mix of 5-star and 1-star reviews (āDisappointing, has completely failed to erupt since purchaseā versus āAwesome, canāt wait to try it outā), but there are doubtless other options with a more consistent rating.
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I have no idea at all how to do anything in VB. As for Lisp, itās the thing that separates the multi-degreed computer scientists from the people who make stuff that actually does something useful (the Unix-Haters Handbook, which is probably still available on line somewhere, does actually make clear why Lisp machines never became very widely used, like no security at all and every single machine ended up running its own private dialect of Lisp. Lisp may be at the bottom of an awful lot of programming concepts, but then cuneiform tablets introduced a lot of the concepts used in writing.)
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In that order?
If you are talking notes, we can jam. Chords? 
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No thanks. My lair is equipped with a mass-energy converter.
Iāve had a few unwelcome visitors, but they donāt matter anymore.
To wrench this back on-topic: work is now asking me to learn COBOL. I am not looking forward to those 100 hours.
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Ha! Same.
Seriously, COBOL?
Did the last guy who knew how to maintain some critical system just retire or what?
VB isnāt terrible, and VB script is excellent for convincing business people that youāre secretly a wizard. You just have to get over needing to understand how things actually work under the hood.
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Hereās how to write VB code in a nutshell:
if " " āā āā'āā
thing & another thing & & &&& āā ā "
āā" " āāāāāā " āāāāāā"
end if
āā" " ā āāāā
Just get all the quotes in the right place, and youāre good.
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Both? Either? Neither? Thatās the beauty of music. You donāt have to be Eddie van halen to make really good music, and good music doesnāt have to be hard. Dylan is an excellent example 
Fuck scales and arpeggios. Screw āleadā (which is a misnomer anyway). And if an artist is better than you, listen to them an enjoy it :D. Iāll never be Coltrane, even though I put in (rough back of the envelope calculationā¦) 27k hours (at least. The first ten k were compressed into about three or four years, it was hell on steroids)
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Yeah, eight hours a day, 300 days a year, for four years. How did I do it? Get up at 5am, get to school at 6am and practice for two hours. Lessons were 2.5 hours five days a week. Get in another hour or two after school, go to my job at the instrument t repair place till six. Then four nights a week sneak into open mics, Jams, and play gigs till midnight. Rinse and repeat.
I freaked out once when I went to the dentist and couldnāt blow a horn for three days :). Kids, this is a great way to flame out hardcore.
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So, to write a lisp to vb source generator in Perl, it would be:
$lisp=~s/^"/\(/g;
$lisp=~s/"$/\)/g;
?
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If you can get that working, I will write a Haskell API for it so that we can really get some shit done today.
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Yes another perfectly good thread hijacked by the āAikido and COBOLā crowd.
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