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That was my very first program in the 1960s. It was a FORTRAN loop to calculate Chess moves. My Dad punched it into cards and had it evaluated, and said it would take more years to compute than there are stars in the Universe.
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In my career, I actually had to review a piece of code similar to this. My approach was to turn the code review into a teaching moment. I had the developer explain the problem they were trying to solve, what solutions they considered and why they chose this one.
The developer ended up reworking the code and produced a much-improved solution. More importantly, though the developer never sent code like this in for code review again.
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Not sure what I find worse, the amount of nested for's or the use of goto.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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Just the nesting of loops makes me cringe. Ouch. I have written software for biotech companies creating chemistry applications, libraries, and drivers and see this often. Comparing, subtracting, etc. x,y,z points in one group of data to another group of data, we get this awful type of code. But, that’s what the customer wants us to do. And he wants it better, faster, and cheaper.
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CROSSWORD CLUE 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yes... I thought that one wouldn't take long!
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I quite like that one actually 
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Is it Pandemic or other reasons that CP members traffic seems reduced? (feels like less active members now then it used to be 5-10 years back.)
No data - my personal observation which could be wrong
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Detergent carton was a place to argue (7)
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Neh - Don't think people were active just for soap-box.
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Sandeep Mewara wrote: Don't think people were active just for soap-box.
Some were. But not enough to make that much of a difference.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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'Other reasons', I believe.
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Sandeep Mewara wrote: feels like less active members
Fewer not less. 
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Quote: Fewer not less.
Poems, no less!
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Ironically the politics of CP have caused some to go away.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: politics of CP
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I'm not allowed to expand on that.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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The pandemic would have a lesser effect here than many other workforces - so many work from home to begin with. I'd think the effects were minimal. One could, in fact, argue that those newly working from home would have more ability to participate - or contrariwise, be working extra hard to make a good impressions so they could stay working home (or not get laid off <=> i.e., redundant) they shy away for a while.
I've seen in my few years here some active parties come and go and come back and leave again. With and without intervening name changes.
But participation ebbs and flows - as a visible personality (which is the lounge, no?). Occasionally, if it's comparatively random, there will be cluster to enhance and decrease participation. Reflect upon one's own behavior and see how that fits into apparent participation.
And remember . . . as I learned during my Chicago sojourn, Vote Post Early, Vote Post Often
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Sandeep Mewara wrote: feels like less active members now then it used to be 5-10 years back
We're all getting older, so we are all getting less active. And with the pandemic, getting outside is harder meaning even less opportunity to be active even if we had wanted to.
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jsc42 wrote: with the pandemic, getting outside is harder
Veering off-topic, am I alone in having lost weight as a result of lockdown? I've had to give up a daily latte at the cafe / pub and a weekly cooked brunch out. Early on I was making the most of my "one hour" allowed exercise, walking more briskly (from home) than previously. Fewer shopping trips or click+collect meant less opportunity for impulse buying snacks. [Other unrelated events more recently mean I'm not getting out much at all now, unfortunately  ]
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Everything went viral faster than anyone thought it would!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It's a long story ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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