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in the same header file, 5 lines apart.
<h1>define szSTATUS_DONE "D"</h1>
<h1>define cSTATUS_DONE 'D'</h1>
they represent the same status (and values)
(yeah, we use type prefix !!  )
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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I use my prescient powers to see that you are going through someone else's code base. 
Mircea
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yeah! 
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Trust me, it's much worse when you go through your own's and go: "What was I thinking!"
Mircea
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Well, sometimes you are comparing strings and other times you are comparing characters.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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if only ...
both defines are used at max a dozen of times in places where performance is not required.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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szSTATUS_DONE [0]?
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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Job security? Or maybe someone was paid by lines of code?
The ‘why’ is almost always inscrutable, but likely the coder slept between sessions.
Cleaning someone else’s code is both satisfying and nerve wracking.
Good luck. 
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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But can it generate itself?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It had been awhile since I pulled up the code, but sure enough when I did, I found a Deslanged.Export.cs file in the Deslang project. Such files are created by Deslang itself. So I did use it to build itself.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I thought The Who did My Generation
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I did it too, there is a big company that operates like that for their products.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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But can it generate DOOM?
Software Zen: delete this;
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I just used my Rolex lexer generator to generate a 5.7MB C# file and at least 95% of it is a single array of integers.
How's that for testing the limits of C# arrays?
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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And here I were thinking that my Rolex is just for telling time, oh sorry, just noted it is a Lolex, made in ... 
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In my student days, upon finding the book 'A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates[^], simply because I was fascinated by the madness of publishing a whole book of random numbers. In the Numerical Methods course, we had been through the theory of random number generator. The cost of the book was something like USD 150. It would be a great thing to pass around at parties with other Comp.Sci. students.
Well, I didn't spend the USD 150. Every now and then I regret it. As my link shows, it is still available, but my friends are different now; they don't see the absurdity / humor of it.
If I need a million integers, a generator would fit in a lot less space than 5.7 Mbytes.
(Btw: What makes a file of a million or so integers C#)? I'd think it was either binary or ASCII/ISO8859/UTF8, but neither is language dependent!)
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It's a DFA state machine lexer for the C# language, so it's pretty expansive.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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At work they have Windows Explorer set to automatically traverse to a place that I rarely, if ever, need to access. Why?!?
It kind of drove me crazy, because I'd open Windows Explorer then click multiple drives & folders to finally end up in my UserProfile, because 99% of the time I needed to be there to save some data.
Life-Changing Shortcut I don't think I'm overstating this. 
Anyways, one of the best things I've done for myself in a long time was simply
1. Create a shortcut that opens File Explorer directly into my %UserProfile% directory -- that's c:\users\<your-user-name>\
2. Add the following Target: C:\windows\explorer.exe %userprofile%
3. Add a shortcut key Ctrl + Shift + Right (arrow) to immediately run the shortcut.
Here's a snapshot of what the shortcut looks like[^].
Now, any time I want File Explorer I just Ctrl+Shift+Right(arrow) and it opens up.
Shortcut Seems Faster
Also, I've discovered that for some reason this copy of File Explorer seems to open faster than if you click the one on the TaskBar
(Maybe because this one doesn't have to hit the network since it is going directly to a specific path???)
I've been using this for months now it has provided many benefits:
1. Less folder clicking
2. Less screaming, "Why am I automatically navigated to this @#&%@#!!! network folder!!"
3. I used to be bald and all my hair grew back.
4. Previously I was 5'2" and now I'm 6'4" tall
5. A bag of money fell out of the sky and landed next to me.
6. Various other benefits which are too good to mention here.
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Have you tried Win + R, . <enter>? In other words just type "." in the Windows run dialog. It is one key longer than your shortcut but there is no setup involved.
Mircea
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That is very interesting and I just tried it.
However, that takes me to the preset location that the network admins force on us that we rarely use.
Actually, it does take us to %UserProfile% but it is the network one instead of the local drive one.
That's very interesting.
This may be related to the way the the admins set up SpecialFolders.
Thanks for the tip. 
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raddevus wrote: related to the way the the admins set up SpecialFolders
That's why I never let any admin touch my machine. Needless to say, there has never been any love lost between me and admins. Luckily, I was the one writing the good code so they kind of needed me 
Mircea
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I just discovered that the path is named %HomeShare%
That's basically like %MyDocuments% but we don't use MyDocuments for whatever reason.
The point is that %HomeShare% takes me off box to the network share by default and my shortcut helps me to get to the actual local C:\users\<user-name> directory.
very interesting.
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In my Quick Launch I have a shortcut to "This PC", which I prefer, I can get where I want from there. Also a shortcut to open a browser to "about:blank" because I never want to see the corporate website. Ever.
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