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I don't see that definition in the spec, so you should probably have clarified it with the BA/PM/Client (delete as applicable). If you coded it before understanding the spec you'd be an idiot.
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c2423 wrote: If you coded it before understanding the spec you'd be an idiot.
If were to expect a decent spec before you are expected to start coding, you'd be an idiot.
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed”
“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”
Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535)
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True, but if the spec is incomplete you really shouldn't be making stuff up and hoping for the best. The case above was clearly wrong because he decided to make stuff up when he didn't understand the aim of the spec. However you look at it, formally written spec or not, he needed to clarify first before coding up something useless. Extrapolating to a longer piece of code, you couldn't employ someone like that because they'd go off and code something useless and you'd only find out weeks later.
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c2423 wrote:
True, but if the spec is incomplete you really shouldn't be making stuff up and hoping for the best. |
False dichotomy: Just "making stuff up" isn't the only other option.
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed”
“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”
Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535)
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0) Exactly - the above comments implied that he made stuff up to fill the gaps, which wasn't the only option.
1) I am using the term spec loosely, it could just as easily be user story or conversation or vision statement. The conversation would have been better as:
"Go to the shop and buy some jam, if they have eggs, buy six."
"What are you trying to make?"
"I'm baking a jam layered sponge cake"
"A jam layered sponge cake would need jam, eggs and flour. Do you also need me to bring some flour?"
"Why yes, that would be good, I'd not thought of that."
A 1 minute conversation saved the misunderstanding about the eggs, and anticipated a future requirement which would have meant twice as much work in future if I'd not thought things through now. We still don't have a formal spec, but an understanding of the business case, "I'm making a cake" helped to get the best outcome for all parties.
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It was a joke.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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It probably was, when the dinosaurs told it to each other.
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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You do know that it doesn't matter, simply because it was an elephanting joke right?
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right - Henry Ford
Emmanuel Medina Lopez
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Dear ALL
I'm beginner in C# so i need some help support until near future please if someone can support me just e-mail me at:------ kenan.dedoviq@gmail.com
Thank you,
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0) Your message won't get seen here in particular (and if it does people will insult you as a rule)
1) Nobody here is going to give you general help like you're asking for, you're much better off trying stuff until you have a specific problem, at which point people are normally happy to help
2) When that does happen, make sure you use the correct forum
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I'm pretty sure this was posted in the last couple of weeks.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: I'm pretty sure this was posted in the last every couple of weeks.
FTFY
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Chris C-B wrote: Pete O'Hanlon wrote: I'm pretty sure this was posted in the last every couple of weeks.
Now we are close to the truth.
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Yes, it appears to be in a recursive post.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I'm pretty sure this made its rounds in the 80s. 
/ravi
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Jam comes in Jars.
Plus it is older than Methuselah.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
CCC Link[ ^]
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Oh! Maybe it is sold in bottles here! Beside bottles, jars 
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The problem of being a programmer.......is that they tend to flood codeproject with old jokes they have found on the web.
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And that's what makes it go round 
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Syphilis goes round too, doesn't necessarily make it a good thing.
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Grandpa: When i was your age my momma would send me down to the store with $1 and I would come back with 5 bags of potatoes 2 loaves of bread, 3 bottles of milk a box of tea and 6 eggs.
But you cant do that these days. Too many elephanting security cameras. 
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet!
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