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Every time someone comes to me with one of these, I give out my tried-and-true quote (not sure where I read it first): "There is nothing more permanent than a temporary fix"
I don't make the decision. That's up to business. I tell them if they want me to do quick and dirty, I'll do it, but in the long run they will pay through the nose if they ever want to fix it. Give them the information, then let them hang themselves make the decision.
A couple years later when they come back and want something more from it, I give them a new estimate which is usually far larger than they were expecting and when they ask why I remind them of their previous decision.
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Be more positive.
I've made 'one shot' web pages for users. If the model gets reused another couple of times I'll usually make a generic solution to it. This lets the DBA do the dirty work from then on and my hands have been cleaned (don't blame me if I'm an enabler).
Not always, but surprisingly often. If there's a lesson, it might be artificially constructed to imply: enough bad could can lead to good code.
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...and it gotta be a best seller![^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I think those are definite sellers 
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Googling the Error Message[^]
But there is no other available course of action!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Oh My God, now you make me feel a bit guilty!
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Now I know what I missed by being a self-taught programmer instead of University spawn.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "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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ΓΡΕΕΨΕ (6)
A really easy one today as I won't be around to add hints - Good luck!
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GREECE would be just too obvious. So is CHEESE.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Greece it is I said it was easy. You are up tomorrow.☜☆☞
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...but not from us...
(one of the floating sentences during the W10 update process)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Dilbert OTD[^]
At last we found out... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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they forget to make sure all cover is ugly
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Forgot the marketing campaign to make sure everybody was convinced that it was the cool gadget to own.
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Reminds me of Elmer Fudd.
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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Maybe why it has;
invoke FUDD-THUNK
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The real question is "What was Maunder looking for when he stumbled across THAT?"
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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After his phone became self-aware, it has been taking Chris to the darkest corners of the web
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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No, that weally is no where near the dark corners.
Lucky weally, otherwise he may be absent fwom work for some time.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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He was hunting wabbits, obviously.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Those boys are obviously getting poor quality drugs.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I wonder if the author was listening to this[^] at the time?
"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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