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If a software development firm were to name itself "App-o-Matics", would Ulysses S. Grant turn over in his grave, or would he gravely grant access to all the database tables?
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The court is still out on that one.
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My son asked my how much my employer payed me for each character, wow.
Got my regex expression to work with a negative lookahead and now it works! And my validator works!
WooHoo.
I tried to tell my 11th grade son about regex and 4 characters in an hour to make it all work is really quite a deal. But he shook his head, quoted the price per character and walked off.
children, pfft.
It's regex for goodness sake.
Rage against the narrative.
"To Build a Fire" - A dystopian novel about project management, and I am the dog.
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... knowing the right four characters: priceless. 
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He doesn't pay you "per character" - he pays you four knowing which for characters to use...
it's an old joke...[^] but that doesn't mean it's not true. 
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So you're not just one type A character; you're four of them?
If psychiatry weren't utter bollocks, I'd suggest that you get therapy.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Reminds me of the old joke:
A well known rich businessman's wife broke her hip. The businessman got the best bone surgeon in town to do the operation. The operation consisted of lining up the broken hip and putting in a screw to secure it. The operation went fine, and the doctor sent the business man a fee for his services of $50,000. The businessman was outraged at the cost, and sent the doctor a letter demanding an itemized list of the costs. The doctor sent back a list with two things:
1 screw $ 1
Knowing how to put it in $49,999
TOTAL $50,000
The businessman never argued.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Eggbert Bartholomew Bligh wrote: It's regex for goodness sake.
I have spent a good deal of time working with regexes (is that the correct plural form?). It's always a great fun. And I just love the "invincible" feeling when I manage to get the expression to work.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Yeah, that's why people climb Everest.
No-one is stupid enough to try to make a career out of climbing Everest, though.
There must be thirty easier to implement and far, far easier to maintain ways of doing anything that can be done with a regex.
The only reason people use it is snooty bragging rights, and that's not a good reason for doing anything as part of your profession.
And yes, I have used regex extensively, but I still rank it as only slightly less ridiculous than brainfuck.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: There must be thirty easier to implement and far, far easier to maintain ways of doing anything that can be done with a regex
Indeed! For most of the cases, a few if-else blocks and it's done. But regexes* are fun, although I don't use them too often. And it's fun to watch (and then help) people (with no or little clue about regexes*) when they are asked to write one. 
* Again, not sure if that's the correct plural form.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Agent__007 wrote: * Again, not sure if that's the correct plural form.
For a quick fix, I'd go for regex[n]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I was always amazed how at this job I'm still around a few hundred euros per line of code after 3 years; I'm pretty sure I've written more lines in Word and Excel. I miss writing code, somewhat, but I've learned so much more by debugging. The most important is that I really miss debugging in Visual Studio  ; loading 20 meg binaries over JTAG and sometimes not having a working debugger is a pain, a fun pain.
Not my fault they use me to put out fires.
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I'm thinking about starting a new Microchip PIC32 project, noticed that Microchip has a new(er) software framework for MPLAB called Harmony, mmmm I think to myself, could be interesting. Download and install the framework, and as I usually do, open the help pdf, all 5523 pages of it. I have never seen a technical document that large.  I just pray that they have put everything in this doc...
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Print it... Go on, I dare you...
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I think a minor factor in one of my past layoffs was my use of the company printer for large documents (that weren't strictly job-related).
E.g. DEC C, DEC LINK, DEC CMS, ... 
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Those colour pictures did it.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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It's not the printing so much, but the carrying it afterwards. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Hah!
Man up, and buy a sack truck!
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Too expensive, but you got me thinking, where's that boy of mine!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Just how big is a 5523 page PDF (Portable Document Format)?
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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156MB.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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What's the problem? That's portable - my 32GB USB is the size of my thumb nail!
(And I've got cookbooks bigger than that )
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jeron1 wrote: I just pray that they have put everything in this doc...
It's just the Quick Reference Guide 
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You wanna see me cry or something?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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