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Writing code is much more than an engineering discipline; it is a true art form. Each line of code you write reflects your understanding of the language, your ability to communicate ideas to other engineers, and the lessons lessons from previous projects. "It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work."
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On the other hand I have seen beautiful, gorgeous code that runs like crap, because it is crap. I know engineers, hell, I work with engineers that spend too much time in the powder room making their code look pretty. By the time their done, the project is over deadline and the code doesn't run for beans.
Keep your code simple, and write it, so that it works. works. works.
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Ernst Stavro Blofeld wrote: beautiful, gorgeous code that runs like crap
Isn't that an oxymoron?
Ernst Stavro Blofeld wrote: Keep your code simple, and write it, so that it works.
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Ernst Stavro Blofeld wrote: On the other hand I have seen beautiful, gorgeous code that runs like crap, because it is crap. I know engineers, hell, I work with engineers that spend too much time in the powder room making their code look pretty.
But he does say at the outset...
Quote: When you write code, your first priority is to satisfy functional and performance requirements.
Kevin
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#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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If it's not the most simple code that satisfies the requirements, both functional and performance, then it's not beautiful code. It's ugly.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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IMHO, simple is beautiful.
/ravi
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like a spaghetti dinner 
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And I'd heard that spaghetti code was bad!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Where does Google's snappy language shine, and where does it fall short? Here are the kinds of applications it's best -- and less -- suited for. You can't spell 'good' without 'Go'
After deleting, "Absolutely nothing. Say it again." about 15 times. Thank you so much, Edwin Starr
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I've been wondering that for a while and the article did nothing to motivate me to learn Go.
Go away.
Marc
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Altered Python. Well, we know Python is good for nothing. So they built a language on top of that base to get less than nothing, and that's really saying something. 
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"Absolutely nothing. Say it again."
Good God.
Personally, I prefer the original version by The Temptations.
The Wiki entry for the song sum its up...
"After Motown began receiving repeated requests to release "War" as a single, Whitfield re-recorded the song with Edwin Starr as the vocalist, with the label deciding to withhold the Temptations' version from single release so as not to alienate their more conservative fans."
I guess I don't count as conservative, even musically (especially musically).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I dunno - I've got to go with the DOA version[^] (overacted, but heartfelt  ).
Interesting story about the history of the song. Thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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linky?
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Some people are sooo lazy...
War (song)[^]
First link!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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That's not the "version by The Temptations", or is it?
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Sorry, I misunderstood, her you go (although I'm not sure the encoding does it justice) YouTube[^].
It could also be that I prefer it in the context of the album (Psychedelic Shack), which also introduced the damn fine tune Ball of Confusion[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Makes me want to design a new language and call it "War".
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I believe that was the working title of VB.
(In all fairness, I remember using VB 1.0 when it came out and was blown away, but times move on).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I remember too. I remember dragging that button on the form and displaying that first message. Wow.
I believe VB 1.0 came on 3 3.5" disks.
It was quite powerful.
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Dev candidates: if you’ve done any reading at all, you know that most of your interviews will involve writing some code on a whiteboard. A word of advice: writing code on whiteboards is hard. Practice! It's true! I can never get the Intellisense working
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How about a vision system watching the board combines with a projector and use this for intellisense?
Screw it just put up a huge touchsurface instead of whiteboards. XD
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