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Nope, Fukushima is not on the scrum-board.
If it needs be then we'd have to move with some other items though, as my time is limited by biological needs and reality 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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OriginalGriff wrote: Showing signs of stress yet?
I made a list 4 years ago with the signs of stress on me, and put it on my board just in front of me. If I realize one of them I go out to the garden (park?) and walk around 2-4 times...That way stress never pile up...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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With web sites like the NHS one I can easily become stressed, who was the bright spark who thought grey text was a good idea. I looked at it and tried to work out why the entire page was disabled, F*** I wasn't stressed!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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"stress awareness"
What bollox. Everybody knows what Stress is, as if anyones going to go "Stress? What's that then?"
And if they didn't already know what stress is, then they don't have enough brain capacity to be stressed in the first place.
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Knowing "what stress is" and that you yourself are badly stressed are two different things: I worked for twenty odd years under a heck of a lot of stress (mostly self imposed) without realising until I was forced out of the situation (and work) by an accident.
It was only a few years later that I realized what I had been doing, and putting up with, and how likely it was to have killed me if I hadn't had the accident.
It's far too easy to get into a stressful pattern and assume it's perfectly normal...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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By the sounds of it you don't know if your stressed until you leave?
I'm just going to ask my Boss for 6 months off to see if I'm stressed or not.
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Working for a small IT firm I was not making much progress on a project using VB.NET so my boss who was once a programmer (VB6) decided to do some pair programming with me. We googled some code that had a try..catch block, the dude had no idea that the "Try" part was part of the code. He thought the author was saying i should try the code below. I stopped straight away and told him to go back to his office. Guess I should have asked what he thought the catch part was for. My advice to all owners of all small software development firms ; have some idea of what technologies and programming languages your employees are using to make all those products that bring in all that money for you.Dont emabarass yourself!
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"Well, you can try this code, but the catch is that it swallows Exceptions."
modified 5-Nov-14 10:39am.
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I doubt his guess was going to be that intelligent. Remember to him Try...Catch...End Try were not part of the code.May be to him :
Try : Try the code below
Catch : ???
End Try : Give up
Can anyone suggest what he thought catch was for?
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I have had to do that on a project where the test rig was dodgy. Try { blah, blah, balh!}
catch { Messagebox.Show(" Error State") ugly ugly code that gave a reasonable result!
the Try Catch everything is a way to get yourself out the firing line and some body else into it! so been there, done that, got the T-Shirt! 
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finally a good answer.
/ravi
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Programmer humour. Precious !! Nothing like it.
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Boss: What's Exceptions? Answer: messages about errors. Boss: Well, just don't write errors in code and you don't need Exceptions, problem solved.
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You're being a bit harsh, at least he was trying 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
My blog[ ^]
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Well he tried, I caught him. Boss :Try , Coder : Catch
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Rosser: throw
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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The first rule of VB6 programmer is to start every function from ON ERROR RESUME NEXT. Program is always working, no bugs! Explain to your boss that try...catch does the same in VB .NET.
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The guy is self taught VB 6.0 programmer. Says he was using C++ at varsity, is he not supposed to understand Try...Catch
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Per this[^], exceptions came to C++ sometime around the early nineties. However, C++ was in existence at least ten years before that. Your boss may have worked on the early versions of C++, which did not have exceptions.
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Thanks for posting this. I didn't think try-catch was originally part of C++, but was going crazy trying to remember clearly that far back since I couldn't find anything about it. As I recall it wasn't even part of MS's C++ compiler at first, although they did have macro (?) extensions that implemented it.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Maybe he was trying to learn (from you). It's easy to poke fun when people don't know something that is everyday to us, but it pays to remember that they may know things you have no clue about.
We tend to read sequentially and the first term he didn't understand was "Try". It's even possible that he might have understood "Catch", especially since it has an exception object declared, but didn't realize it had a block scope and thought that the scope was for the whole routine.
A little light hearted fun is OK, but if he feels humiliated he will probably not try again and will almost certainly resent you. This wouldn't do either of you any good!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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PhilLenoir wrote: Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
Nice.
Jeremy Falcon
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ta muchly
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I did not humilate him. By the way are you a boss? Don't be offended.
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Not offended, nor a boss. Just another minion making an observation on life!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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