• methods and functions should return undef if they fail in Perl! Returing an error code is only good for C.
• learn C before you learn ML. It would be painfull to go back those 30 years of programming language development!
• Sure people are stupid, spend more time with them anyway.
• Exercise. Two years will not always be that a big age difference, you might give your brother the well deserved kick sooner. Besides we all know looks is what the chicks care about despite what they say.
• When someone is talking she might just talk to talk (99.9% likelihood), stop looking up problems to solve in the babble. A nod at the right places is all that's needed.
• Never, ever start working for McCann!!! !!! !!! !!! !!!
• They are paying you for 8 hours a day, not 15! If they don't see they need another IT guy it's their problem.
• Don't be shy to ask for more money.
• You can get her (whoever she is). Just believe it and it'll be true.
• Never say no to an invitation. You might not like the film, but ... you might not see much of it anyway.
• It's OK to have a shrink!

Jenda
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
   -- Rick Osborne

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