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Examples of using your tech skills in real life?

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    #31
    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    Because you'd fail a CRB or because you'rea lazy git?
    Hey, my paw prints are all over the disclosure system, they let me work on that so...

    Becasue I am lazy and I have about 100 things I should be doing. Hardly get time to do anything I want to these days.

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      #32
      "In real life" I suppose it depends on how "real", e.g. I've never "saved the day" by using my skills.

      But, I had fun with this brain teasing puzzle a couple of years ago:
      http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...as-puzzle.html

      I've fixed various things with a soldering iron, electrical and jewellery (the latter impresses the ladies!)

      A couple of weeks ago I updated my list of DVDs by extracting DVD titles from all my Amazon "order confirmation" emails. Whether maintaining a list of one's DVDs counts as "real life" is debatable!

      Yonks ago I had fun pinning a spoof Wikipedia article to the pub notice board, to confirm some local hearsay/folklore. There were several gasps of "wow it really must be true then" !

      I create pub quizzes in seconds using Excel.

      Photoshopped some amusing images recently to create personalised coffee mug gifts.


      If only I didn't have this day job, it really gets in the way of the fun stuff

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        #33
        I built a neural network to predict the stock market but it was f****g useless.

        It was actually fun at the time.
        I'm alright Jack

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          #34
          I wrote hello world in C++ that prints to the screen 1000 times in a loop. Was a bit buggy tho.

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            #35
            Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
            I built a neural network to predict the stock market but it was f****g useless.

            It was actually fun at the time.
            But did it predict the timing of your farts though?

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              #36
              Originally posted by CodeCobbler View Post
              I wrote hello world in C++ that prints to the screen 1000 times in a loop. Was a bit buggy tho.
              and if you step them out a few spaces on each line and scroll then they do a diagonal run up the screen.


              I did it in BASIC at Dixons many many years ago when they first put home PC's on display. looked brilliant!
              Confusion is a natural state of being

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