I have noticed a disproportionate number of intellectuals are depressed.
Ecclesiastes 1:18 (King James Version)
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
My favourite is still:
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The Bible: Those who believe shall be able to do miracles, such as drink poison and not get hurt, or heal the sick (Mark 15:17). So if you follow Christ and you can't do those things, then......yeah, you've just falsified it.
The most reliable early manuscripts and other ancient witnesses do not have Mark 16:9-20. (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%2016&version=NIV)
Why not:
John 13:35 (New International Version)
By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
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A few years ago I also worked with VB5. I made a custom control created with VB5 (that made an OCX) and a regular application that used that control. Once, I started to get weird errors, and I traced it to one or two functions that would get bogus data as their parameters. Had to revert turn off the compiler and use the byte-code interpreter to "fix" that. The control I created had once a form (I think, it's been a while) that became obsolete. However when I deleted it stuff would stop working, so I just left it there... No to mention that VB5 would leak memory if you were not careful with dynamic stuff and some other annoyances. On the other hand VB is a fairly powerful language and a very productive one.
On bug reporting, I once found myself in dll hell, because we only shipped a full distribution once, and would then automatically update only the
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