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One quick guess. Was the project manager had a condition of payment on number of lines code?
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If you scroll that up and down real fast it looks kind of trippy.
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That's called VP (Vertical Programming).
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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-- Iain Clarke
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Wow! That literally hurt my eyes. 
Unfortunately I have seen similar code for text processing. You have to keep scrolling back up a hundred lines or so to find out where the value stored in that variable came from and just what the heck it is supposed to be; of course it was probably modified on the way down – loads of fun. 
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."Edsger Dijkstra
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Well...I wont share you the source code because its an enormous snippet. But i will narrate you the concept like a bedtime story. The technical director of our company - who is in parallel our head programmer (somebody save us)- decided to add a new feature to our super-dooper, high-end, wannabe-ERP product (riiiiiiiiiight!!!!). That was ... the very "advanced" requirement : "Our application will have only one instance.Listen how is going to be implemented..." .And then the problems just begun. "In order to implement it we'll take the ProcessId of our .exe and a timestamp of DateTime. Now to ensure its a today's instance of a process and save it to the database. So every new instance of the program will check the database to ensure if it will execute or not". I asked him very politely "What about using a mutex ?" . I almost got fired because : "You don't pay attention to the requirements and your only concern is to show off to me and to the rest of the development team with theoretical buzz-words. This is real-life programming buddy. Can you do this or not ?".
No comments from me. I leave them to you. I'll keep the dissappointment.
P.S. (1) The same day he forbid me to use again datasets, or LinQ to SQL because they are too complicated, too time consuming to construct, they don't ensure data integrity (???), and they oblige us to stick with a certain schema and "... I don't understand the reason for a disconnected architecture". So from now and on he commanded me to use only text queries through custom dbcommands and keep a database connection alive in a static object. (Hell yeah!!!)
P.S. (2) All the above are real. 
modified on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 3:54 AM
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Wow, just wow...
And I thought that I had a bad nightmare tonight... (-
Trust is a weakness.
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God, that must hurt.
On the other hand, why not write a small sample application, demonstrate to your "head programmer" how it can be a single-instance application with the help of a named kernel object!
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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Do you think he's a guy that can take from words ? or examples ? He is the most dogmatic and half-educated (i dont know if this term exists in english.In my country exists and its worse than uneducated) piece of crap i've ever met.
For example , once i told him that i prefer to use enterprise library from microsoft than to write my own libs because its rather profound that i trust more microsoft's code than mine. The answer was : "I don't find the reason not to write our libs. Even microsoft's code is written by people...so why to trust it more than ours ?"
Incredible ???
Do you get it now ?
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Sounds like this guy loves to reinvent the wheel instead of using the F1 racing wheels that have been developed over years and matured into stable, proven code.
Have you tried quantifying the development time in terms of labour cost to the company? and compare that to using the off the shelf tools? maybe its time to drop marketing lingo on him with "time to market" etc etc.
PS: Does your forehead have a calis on it from banging your head against hte wall?
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killabyte wrote: Sounds like this guy loves to reinvent the wheel instead of using the F1 racing wheels that have been developed over years and matured into stable, proven code.
I admit the guy sounds like a tool, but comparing Microsoft libraries to F1 racing wheels and calling it mature and stable is a bit over the top. Submersible school bus with non functional wings, chrome plates, and 25 hood ornaments (one with a frickin lazer beam) would be a better comparison.
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Robert Surtees wrote: one with a frickin lazer beam
That does sound cool though!!
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That's what I thought too
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great idea in principal but in case you hadn't noticed not many jobs around right now so wait 6 months, then quit!
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I have to go through this s***hole. I just opened my own company and i desperately need this paycheck to cover my expenses and my company's expenses.
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Please can you control you language. I don't mind commenting but I don't want to see some words!
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No worries.. just please don't do it again.
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Pour some concrete on your cereal and harden up!
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There is no way you are going to change this guy. The only reasonable option is to get out of there as soon as you can. I'm glad to hear that you are starting your own company, hopfully you will be able to make that your full time job soon. 
Bill W
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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sounds like a great company to work with that encourages innovation and use of bleeding edge tech. It's not called Microsoft is it?
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If my boss would have talked to me that way I'd show him exactly how much that title means to me...
Close your laptop.
Take your things.
Leave (the company).
good luck.
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I'm quite embarrased. Is it so humiliating ? I tried to close my eyes to truth but it seems a third person point of view shows the harsh reality.
Thanx guys.
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Each person's reaction is different for each situation.
It's up to you to define what you want:
- blindly chew whatever is thrown on your plate.
- Choose the ingredients and the preparation method yourself.
You would be surprised how many people will choose option #1 and are perfectly happy. There is NOTHING wrong with option 1. I just prefer option 2. It is more difficult, but I somehow have more satisfaction out of it.
PS: I'm not talking about starting for yourself. I'm talking about the way your job should be for you. I prefer a job where creativity and innovation are encouraged  .
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