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It's time to saddle up and let the rubber hit the road before we tire of such things.
I know it should be "tyre" not "tire" but there are Mercans looking at this.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I wish people would stop pedaling those ridiculous puns.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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You wheely had to go there, wheely? 
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Well, I Wheelery had to.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Your entire family are Wheeler dealers. So you're exempt.
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We were framed!
Software Zen: delete this;
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The gent on the bicycle is out spoke'd.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Nish Sivakumar wrote: *Unoriginal - found on the interwebs.
Maybe, but definitely worth recycling.
/ravi
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Some days I think we need to switch the quality of the jokes around here up a gear or two,
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The thread below made me think about the times I have had to go back to my old code, but the reaction I have is 'Holy crap, how the hell did your brain ever understand it!"
So I can only assume that it was complex code, and that my brain has deteoriated with time!
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Even not-so-old code (say a couple years or less) - if one is just starting out with a new language.
In this case, two at once.
Fortunately, the stuff, though optimistically classifiable as hideous, is none-the-less rock solid. Maintenance, however, would be an evil turn of events, indeed. Probably I'd opt for a rewrite.
Just too much to do right now before I go back and fix it before it comes to get me someday.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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The goodness of the code is directly proportional to the amount of coffee and pizza consumed when writing.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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If the processors we code for ever become self aware they may call the authorities and report us for the things we have asked them to do.
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"Bad touch! Bad touch!"
Software Zen: delete this;
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My favorite is looking at old code, thinking "this is crap", start rewriting it and then remembering that there's a reason you wrote it that way.
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On one of the project I am working on I was strongly against one of the ideas of my boss. He told me write all 3 queue text in one xml which will validate the data in the database. I told him I could do it in one and lets not put it in outside file which will be in the ENV folder.
I did talk to him about securing and stuff but he wouldn't listen. He said if something goes wrong its users fault o.O
Well after all he is my boss and I did what he asked me to.
The point of this little experience of mine is : Always blame your boss no matter what happened!
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Argonia wrote: Always blame your boss no matter what happened!
Always make sure you have a written record of your boss's stupid decisions, in case he denies them later when your company is being fined / sued for a major security breach. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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It seems pretty accurate to me
I'm still amazed that basic pen testing isn't taught as part of a computer science degree, it's just as important as basic programming skills, pc building skills etc
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HomerTheGreat wrote: basic pen testing isn't taught
I got turned in for abuse for suggesting that a poster do some bench checking on their homework before posting in QA asking someone to do it for them.
modified 6-Aug-14 8:49am.
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I'm reporting you for whining about reports on abuse. 
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MehGerbil wrote: whining about reports
Plz send cheese to go with my whine, it's urgentz.... 
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Quote: I got turned into for abuse for suggesting that a poster do some bench checking on their homework before posting in QA asking someone to do it for them.
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Yep. Apparently it's rude and abusive if you ask people to make a teeny tiny bit of effort to do their own work.
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We have been recruiting for a junior developer.
I set a test, which was reasonably simple.
We saw a number of people who claimed to have .Net skills and only one of them recognised the Substring method.
Two of them had firsts in computer science
In the end we have recruited someone who did not recognise the method, however once I explained it to them in the interview they went on to solve the problem.
They were also one of the only candidates who took an interest in IT in their spare time. We were looking for someone who codes because they enjoy it not because they want a 'career' in IT and it did seem that many of the candidates we saw were those who wanted a 'career' in IT.
There are lots of article on this issue. I have read up on it, as I was shocked at the standard of programming skills among computer science graduates we saw.
It turns out that many universities are not encouraging their students to program outside of their university assignments.
So for all the IT graduates out there - if you want to get a job after you graduate, make sure you train yourselves, don't just rely on being fed course material by your university - become autodidacts.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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