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I already worked helldesk. Now I am a minor demon. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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OK - so they want lots of police, a big army, subsidies and price supports for farming and wide roads for their pickup trucks.
They want someone else to pay for it.
I don't see the problem.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: OK - so they want
Who is they?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Omitted lest this become a job for SoapBox. No controversy if no names given. Don't take any hints from the OP's title - that would be cheating.
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Just like the real world!  
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Last time I checked, it would have taken me 72 years to catch up to OG. It's now up to 400 years. 
Do points above a certain level start earning interest?
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: it would have taken me 72 years to catch up to OG. It's now up to 400 years.
In the amount of time it takes you to calculate that, you just lost another 2 weeks. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I'm beginning to think that OG is a bot, or at the very least - a group of people.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Resistance is futile.
"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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I have a suspicion that @OriginalGriff has assistance from his pal Dij, working through the night.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: has assistance from his pal Dij, working through the night.
That's @Dij-The-Cat as it happens.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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It's just like real life, the rich are getting richer while the poor get further behind.
Some of those top dogs haven't been active in years and they're still on top, laughing at us from their ivory keyboards.
I say it's time for a revolution.
Those aren't Griff's points, they're OUR points!
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Quote: Those aren't Griff's points, they're OUR points
Yes! Slap him with a millionaire rep point tax. Let's redistribute his wealth! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Unfortunately, they do not appear to have a cash equivelant ... 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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If you think of it in dog years it ain't so bad!
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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At least you know what you will do for the next 400 years...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Really - all you need to do to catch up is build a couple of boiler-plate Q&A responses for things like "we don't do your homework for you" and the points will gush in. You can also upvote everything you see: at a point per upvote you'll shave years off that gap.*
* I don't know what you might be thinking, but 'shaving' and 'gap' in the same sentence isn't necessarily a violation of KSS rule.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: I don't know what you might be thinking, but 'shaving' and 'gap' in the same sentence isn't necessarily a violation of KSS rule
Until you mentioned it, I never thought of the connection. :innocent look:
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: :innocent look:
Haredi connection ?
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The scenario:
I found the problem and wrote a try-catch around it. If you want me to dig deeper into the actual issue, let me know.
Sigh. YES I WANT YOU TO DIG DEEPER!!! It's not that the person in question is stupid - far from that. Not even lazy. Just a "trigger-solution" mentality - oh, I found the problem, here's the first idea that pops into my head on how to fix it, done.
How do you train a person like that, to be more thorough, more detail oriented, more meticulous, and not just reach for the "try-catch" nuclear radiation shielding when a simple "if statement" pot holder works much better, explains the issue to the next developer, and doesn't hide true nuclear meltdown issues?
The above is a specific example of a frequent general problem.
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If said person can (and will) read, there is a very good book, Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition, by Steve McConnell. It teaches by example, showing many such coding horrors and why they should be avoided.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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To me, an exception is a bug that needs to be found and fixed. Catching it and surviving is just papering over the problem, because it's very unlikely that the code did what it was actually supposed to do.
The only time this kind of thing is acceptable is when a customer is having a serious problem, in which case any kludgy solution will do. Even after that, the goal is always to find and fix the root cause of a problem. A function received a bad argument? OK, who supplied it and why? Fix that. And so on.
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I would like to add my voice to this question.
It is possible that the smart newbie is simply being conscious of the fact that digging deeper would cost the company more money. He/she may think that the company wants the fastest solution.
When you speak with him/her, make clear that this is a case where he won't be scolded for taking extra time.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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And ... the quickest solution isn't the fastest or cheapest in the long run: it costs a load more to fix the "fallout damage" from a kludge that it does to fix it properly in the long run. A simple example is to think how much human effort is required to fix a DB containing dates are stored in text exactly as the user entered them once you get round to using the column for an urgent management report ...
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