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Was the spade a ground breaking invention?
"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
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Your heart was in that one. It was more important than the club, and you could use it to look for a diamond!
"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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Your argument is not solid enough, it's a veritable house of cards.
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I thought someone would trump that - it was on the cards.
"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
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You guys are two of a kind.
"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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OriginalGriff wrote: I thought someone would trump that
I was just biden my time.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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You said that just to harris him, didn't you.
"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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Kamala guys, back to the card metaphor...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yes but it was a downhill spiral. When they hit rock bottom they invented the pickaxe.
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My experience was the opposite. Once we spade the dog he stopped breaking ground altogether.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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That soil very well for digging up some dirt on the tool, but that pitch is forked up. The hole thing might be hosed.
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It was invented by Doug Upton.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Yes. But the jackhammer was earthshaking.
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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It could sieve some earthshaking time.
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Yes, the spade told the ground to shovel off.
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We need a "frustration index" when we log time. On a scale from, say, 1 to 3, which automatically multiplies the logged time by the frustration index. So if we put in 3 hours on a frustrating project and give it a frustration index of 2, the actual time logged is 6 hours, so we can take 3 hours to psychologically recover.
If time cards actually did that, I bet managers would pay a lot more attention to making life less frustrating for developers!
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My current project rates a straight 5. It's a hand-me-down from a competitor who works with our customer, neither one of them knows what they are doing and how they got to the current point nor what has to be done. Documentation is unavailable and what little there is in written form is either outdated or plain wrong.
My role? Developer, system architect, system administrator, documentation writer (for safety certification), system integrator, validator, Terminator (sadly not).
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Yup, you get to use the "multiply the multiplier" button. 
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den2k88 wrote: It's a hand-me-down from a competitor who works with our customer, neither one of them knows what they are doing and how they got to the current point nor what has to be done. Documentation is unavailable and what little there is in written form is either outdated or plain wrong.
 Wow! That perfectly describes last year's project (affectionately referred to as my Covid project) where a customer basically gave us a competitor's crappy output (no code of course) and asked us to reverse engineer it. The customer was fed up with poor support for a poorly designed system. Bad for them, good for me...now it's my recurring revenue for a product that only took 7 months to build and doesn't require much attention.
I have the same roles as you with the addition of direct customer support for everything I write/create. I prefer it this way, but it's a lot of responsibility knowing that the company would fold if I got hit by a truck. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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kmoorevs wrote: got hit by a truck
Damn I always used to worry about a bus!
Being a one man show/consultant sure can be interesting but spending 50% of my time chasing invoices quickly became boring. Changing to contracting made life so much easier and less painful on the budget.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I don't mind those kind of projects, as long as I am free to do whatever I want with it.
I hate it when they say, no you can't refactor that! Can't you add a few if statement in that method instead?! 
I.e. I enjoy turning pieces of crap into shining jewels, but I despise making the pile of crap higher... 
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Super Lloyd wrote: I.e. I enjoy turning pieces of crap into shining jewels, but I despise making the pile of crap higher...
Why is it that other people's code is always crap, but never mine?
I never hear me complaining about my code.
Nothing succeeds like a budgie without teeth.
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It's common...
However... look at your own code (a large pile of it), 5 years later... you might think that some part of it could be... improvable, to say the least!
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I only have to look back 5 months ago. 
Nothing succeeds like a budgie without teeth.
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