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B.C. is a bit of a strange cartoon I am not really aware of it crossing the Atlantic, might be bit like Andy Capp... which gets odd looks your side O the pond.
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I enjoy both BC and Andy Capp. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Oh, has he travelled then? I always thought he stalled at Austrila, BC I am not aware of being syndicated this side O the pond...
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I was introduced to Mr. Capp when I grew up in South Africa. He was firmly entrenched there.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Grew up in Canada; Andy Capp was a regular in the newspaper.
One of the places I worked had a yearly golf tournament; one of the developers wrote a system to track scores, handicaps, etc.
The GIF for the application was a picture of Andy Capp.. if you understood the joke, it was hilarious.
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Actually Reg Smythe once admitted that Andy Capp's name was derived from "handicap". However I think that had to do with horse racing, not golf.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Sorry.. my colleague use the Andy Cap image for his golf scoring system because of the similarity to 'handicap', so.. if you knew who Andy Cap is, the image made perfect sense.
It was a 'tilt of the hat' to the cartoon.
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And he was I thinking that he was isolated to the UK 
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Andy Capp was a regular strip in our local paper, may still be but I don't get that paper anymore.
Then there are these convenience store and vending machine staples, bad for you but tatse good[^].
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Wow!, I was under the impression he was a local to the UK & Oz, being that he is slighly Northern English I was not aware that he travelled well, but there is the evidence! 
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We Need designers  not web ...
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Latest version... terrarium... now with extra bugs 
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Project Terrarium
and your code language is Bug++
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I prefer more likable names for my projects, like Hans, Franz or Alfons.
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we had our yearly milestone named "C-12" which was called "Chaos" from the developers. The truth was: "Nomen est omen." Once again...
And we are still fizzeling around with that mess. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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We're using vodka names[^]. In my humble opinion, the only way to go.
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Odd, I once had lizards in a terrarium and I fed them bugs.
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The last place that I worked for $$$, we had some competition we wanted to hide from. The paranoid product managers decided to name two of the products "MP3" and "DVD" so that anything from Google would give an endless supply of irrelevant info.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I just looked at and article that compared functional programming with OOP. Seriously I just don't care. Right now I am working on recreating a program, with updates where the source code was lost. The last guy who got the job took three months and got no where so starting from scratch I have two weeks and two days to get this done and I had to finish my last project at the same time. The tester just passed the last project on to UAT. This is a full stack project from creating the DB to the UI so what the foreign object is functional programming? Don't tell me because I don't care. When do working programmers with short dead lines have time for fads? I really don't have time to write this but it needs to be said.
Leadership equals wrecked ship.
If you think you are leading my look behind you. You are alone.
If you think I am leading you, You are lost.
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Ygnaiih wrote: When do working programmers with short dead lines have time for fads?
It's not a fad. It's been around for a very long time, it's just that it's become more mainstream lately. Plus, other working programmers with short deadlines have time to learn; a lot of them do it in their own time because they want to be exposed to other ways of thinking, other ways of doing things. If you're not one of those developers, fine, but don't moan about how hard the world is being on you with your short deadlines. Lots of people have to work to short deadlines.
This space for rent
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Yes everyone has short dates, but we can complain. It makes me feel better.
Leadership equals wrecked ship.
If you think you are leading my look behind you. You are alone.
If you think I am leading you, You are lost.
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Interesting, I've been doing OO coding since back in the 80s on my Amstrad CPC464, I'm going to have to look into this new "functional programming" thing to see what it's all about.
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And the result is probably going to be worse than the original, because you have no time to properly design, test, or even - probably - specify the project. So a three month project that needs to be replaced gets chucked together in two weeks.
So in six months time, you'll have a hacked hack of an abortion to support: been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Time to change jobs and dump this on the poor sod who follows you.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: because you have no time to properly design, test, or even - probably - specify the project
Careful you are talking about my life there. A year into the project where one of the data sources is Excel and they are still deciding on the other data sources. They were wanted delivery last month and yet they can't decide what they want delivered.
It's a good thing they pay well...
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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