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People have been asked to dumb down their answers around here on occassion ... so "everyone" will understand. As if "more questions" are to be discouraged on a particular topic.
My first supervisor said I asked "too many questions".
I stopped asking.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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I don't recall being specifically asked to do this; however, that has always been my goal: to take the complex and make it simpler. As a senior developer, my primary job is to create code that can be maintained by others; not code that is the most efficient, nor the flashiest, nor bleeding edge. While those may occasionally be side effects, the PRIMARY goal is to generate maintainable code. Maintainable by people paid less than me, junior programmers who keep the simple systems running and modify as needed. If every system must be maintained by senior developers, the business will go bankrupt pretty quickly.
To your last point about "keeping developer skills up to par with the technologies the company uses", it appears the company has simply chosen to use technologies requiring less skills. I don't see a problem with that though usage of such technologies may make you prefer to find a different employer.
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KISS
Sure you know what that means, and it applies to everything.
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I thought I'd got the job in the fish farm, but they hired salmon else.
Early today: the garage just called to say they fixed the car without having to drop the engine out first, so I'm getting it back much, much earlier than expected. Gotta go down, get it, and pay - about a tenth of the original guestimate! YAY!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Oh carp! My usual luck!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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perhaps you should cast your net a bit wider
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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Faster, or wider, the ever recurring question.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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OriginalGriff wrote: without having to drop the engine out first
There was engine there?
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Yeah - the V belt tensioner has three bearings, and one of them was shot. And of course, that's at the back of the block, above the aircon and the alternator, and tight in there. Mercedes ... who'd have 'em?
Well, me actually ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I've haddock enough of these! Fin!
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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This requires a full scale investigation, chum! Perhaps search the net?
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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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Try the snake farm. They posted a 'help wanted' sign just the adder day.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Is Python experience a plus?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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You speak with forked tongue.[^]
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They obviously have no sole, but perhaps it was your mullet that was off-putting, or they were hard of herring and needed you to speak up?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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If you catfish with the big boys stay on the perch!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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That's a pretty crappie thing to say.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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My favorite album title: "You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish" REO Speedwagon
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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A good drum sound on that record.
Actually I saw them last year, still sound pretty good.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yet another one that got away. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Better the farm hired Salmon Else than Salmon Ella.
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Sounds fishy to me....
It's a random chance Universe and we are all out there surfing waves of probability...
Schrödinger's Cat
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Black is the new blue...
I've read a lot about people experiencing the Black Screen of Death on their windows machines after the Fall update. To me it's like reading about car accidents or house fires: terrible things that happen to others.
Except last night, literally seconds away from deploying a fairly major update, the screen goes black. The screen's still on - I can see the backlight - but it's blank.
No problem, I think. It's just stuck on the sleep screen, or maybe the infantile USB-C drives that Intel, Microsoft and Apple keep hot-potatoing (so it seems) have just lost the plot. So I reboot.
Still black.
I reboot again. Still black.
I reboot into safe more. I reboot into Mac mode and disk check. I reboot about 20 times. I do a system restore back to last good known. I reset the entire effing Windows install.
Black Screen of Death.
So I'm in the middle of a bare-metal install, and I wish I had a magnifying glass because Microsoft has decided, in 2018, that it can't do a simple thing like detect screen resolution during the install process.
The font is about the same size as that used on Canadian medicine containers, which, if you've ever seen a manufacturer try and fit 5 fitted pages on a 3cm tall bottle - in both languages - is pushing the limits of printing technology.
I'm having a bad tech day today.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It's the new Disaster Area[^] theme that extends the "Dark" theme:
The Late, Great DNA: "'It's the wild colour scheme that freaks me out,' said Zaphod, whose love affair with the ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight. 'Every time you try and operate these weird black controls that are labeled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up in black to let you know you've done it.'"
The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You should move to the Black Screen of Life: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0AyjacazS8E/V2rFGh9s56I/AAAAAAAAGjc/MCp2QrVPzqUlmUtHfhJVYm9e_cDTPDvpgCLcB/s1600/03%2BLogin%2Bscreen.jpg
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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