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This is what happens when lawyers become programmers )
P.S. Once a musician saw my C# book and asked me "Why is this thick book called Do-Diese?" 
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As Modus Operandi means, literally, "Method of Operating", I can see that applying as a valid (if unusual) name in many situations.
Unfortunately not this one, I guess that should be Modus Non Operandi.
So I guess that remains a horror.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Unfortunately not this one, I guess that should be Modus Non Operandi.
So I guess that remains a horror.
So, in an interview for a programming job when asked what languages he knows, the correct answer would be..."I've used Latin, but I'm no expert".
-Rd
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Richard A. Dalton wrote: So, in an interview for a programming job when asked what languages he knows, the correct answer would be..."I've used Latin, but I'm no expert".
And if I were the interviewer, I would extend my hand to the prospect and say with a smile: Noli me vocare. Ego te vocabo.
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if (lang == "Japanese")
{
msg.BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
msg.SubjectEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
}
else
{
msg.BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
msg.SubjectEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
}
R A M
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I found this some one posted in ASP.NET questions today, What could be the possible reason to set same encoding with conditional statement?
R A M
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MalikRizwan wrote: What could be the possible reason to set same encoding with conditional statement?
Step 1 - Copy
Step 2 - Paste
Step 3 - .... Oohh Donuts
It could be a simple case of "I'll get back to that"
I was debugging some code a few years back, there was a strange error where the system just bombed out under certain circumstances. Error handling was otherwise very good.
I finally traced the problem to a function that was literally half written. It was like the developer just stopped mid thought and never got back to it.
It was syntactically correct, but it made little sense beyond that.
I couldn't for the life of my figure out what had posessed the developer until I noticed that he had entered a comment at the head of the function.
The date of the comment was 11-Sep-2001.
He, like everyone else had dropped everything and run to the TV, and never got back to what he was doing.
-Rd
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There was this guy who joined our team as a trainee. Who, according to him, had enough knowledge of .NET specially exception handling..later on i found his code full of TRY CATCH literally on each line .. something like this..
int budgetAmount =0;
try
{
budgetAmount = 10;
}catch(Exception ex)
{
}
try
{
if(budgetAmount==10)
budgetAmount += (baselineAmount * actualAmount);
}catch(Exception ex)
{
}
and so on
R A M
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I am now going to cry in a corner.
I wonder what proportion of successful programmers are self-taught? Just a hunch...
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Self-taught?? Isn't taught pushing it a bit....
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I dunno. I wouldn't be surprised if a larger percentage of great programmers were self-taught. Shows initiative/care for the topic.
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If you don't ever learn a little something on your own, you'll never be a great programmer.
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Yeah, still can't get over the copypasta 'programmers'.
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'copypasta'. That probably where the term spaghetti code comes from. 
Ego non sum semper iustus tamen Ego sum nunquam nefas!
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dawmail333 wrote: I wonder what proportion of successful programmers are self-taught? Just a hunch...
Give me a self taught programmer any day.
I've taught programming at both under-grad and post-grad level, and you can tell by the end of the first class who can be good programmers and who will never quite get it.
It's not about brains, although that makes it easier for some.
It's about whether or not you are actually interested.
Learning to be a programmer has much more in common with something like learning to play guitar than with something like being an administrator or a manager.
Anyone can learn the chords, but to go to the next level you have to have the desire/compulsion to pick up the guitar on evening and weekends just because you enjoy it. And the dedication to pick up the guitar to learn something new even when you don't enjoy it.
-Rd
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dawmail333 wrote: I wonder what proportion of successful programmers are self-taught?
Moi.
Marc
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You know him too??? 
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That's basically the same thing as VB code that uses ON ERROR RESUME NEXT... *shudder*
Reminds me of a story I heard. This college student asked the instructor why his code didn't pass. As in, he got a failing grade. "But there aren't any errors! It compiles!", he argued! Well, it turned out that he'd commented out every line that caused a compilation error, and this cascaded into him commenting out EVERY LINE of his "code" which wasn't any good anyway. Since it didn't create a compilation error, he figured it was correct and submitted it without TESTING it.
I've seen similar things happen in production code, though... mostly from managerial types who learned a little VB in the 90's and bought a couple custom controls and wrote a quick little hacky tool that worked for them and suddenly other people wanted a copy... then years later it's the standard tool for the company... and ugliness happened when some poor shmuck like myself had to add functionality, fix a bug or port it to a web interface 
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I hope it was just the TV he ran to.
Cheers,
विक्रम (Got my troika of CCCs!)
After all is said and done, much is said and little is done.
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This is what I would be used to seeing... 
if (lang == "Japanese")
{
msg.BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
msg.SubjectEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
}
else if( lang != "Japanese" )
{
msg.BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
msg.SubjectEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
}
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you forgot the fallback, when all other tests failed:
...
else
{
msg.BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
msg.SubjectEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
}
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