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So my coffee machine is passing through their systems as "Mr E Coffee". 
That's actually a nice touch, and it would be nice if everyone did it: you can tell exactly what is being delivered when, instead of trying to track back to the supplier via the courier tracking number.
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Coffee McCoffeeface?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Damn! Shoulda thought of that!
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Something McSomethingFace seems to be the new default naming convention in the UK now.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Boaty McBoatface, we will not forget you!
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OriginalGriff wrote: you can tell exactly what is being delivered when
.. but is also more risks since most users would name it after what it is, thus making it identifiable for selected package theft.
Obfuscation has some advantages.
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It's only visible on the tracking site, so there's no significant risk. Most product is shipped in manufacturers packaging anyway - even some Amazon stuff arrives emblazoned with what the content is, like the two monitors they delivered on Monday.
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Amazon should have a range of boxes marked, "Not worth stealing... Really".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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� Forogar � wrote: Amazon should have a range of boxes marked, "Not worth stealing... Really".
Now there's a use for old Microsoft Zune boxes...
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Like the "do not look through this hole..." mark?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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If a clown holds a door for you, is that a nice jester?
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How times have changed! It was the other way round in 2015[^]. But by September[^] it had switched. Then in 2017[^], it switched back. 
Looks like you picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue!
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I'm obviously re-running "the best of OriginalGriff" for the new year ... 
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Oddly enough, you, too, have Leslied yourself: The Lounge[^]
I'm afraid it would be foolhardy to dig any deeper int this.
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Hodor.
(Game of Thrones spoilers...but if you care at all about the show, then I'm not sure how you don't already know)
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There's jest nothing I could makeup to answer that
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My version of a survey - I'm interested in actual experience. I'd post this in SO, but there are so many anal retentive ivory tower type there... I digress. FWIW, this is a little bit of soul searching, so take it as an honest question/statement/search and hell, suggest a book for me to read?
I live mostly in the embedded world where things are tightly bound to hardware. It might be the problem. It might be that I'm trying to apply OOD to something that just doesn't warrant it. That said, i've been developing software (of all types) for 40 years, and at the application level, I have *yet* to see any significant code re-use other than copy/paste.
I'm a (was?) big believer in OO design. I believe in Abstraction, Encapsulation, Inheritance, and (not)Polymorphism has (had) hope. But I believe that it suffers badly from being too general for what we do as developers. In no particular order:
Abstraction - I like it. Hide the details. So far so good. The problem is that most make analogies to objects that don't have an elephanting to do with reality software development. It sounds good, it just doesn't work.
Encapsulation - I love it. Hide the details, avoid spaghetti code, methods work with a blob of data.
Inheritance - a plague, a virus, useless. Most examples are trivial. Give me one complex application example, and it all falls down.
Polymorphism - meh. It's cute. Sure, I can create multiple methods to work with different parameters, but at the application level it is not that groundbreaking.
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So, in my project I've just spent 3 days (and some nights) trying to make some code generic and OOD and what not, and it's not going to happen. The more I try to make the class behave in a couple of different situations, it's just a boondoggle - which triggered me at 4 am - just copy the code to another function and hard code everything. Hence the question.
fwiw, the code I am modifying has not changed in 10 years. So, why bother making it general? I spend a lot of time trying to make code flexible (thinking long term support, etc), and I think I'm wasting my time.
Sort of rambling here, I'd like some practical, pragmatic feedback.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
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Polymorphism isn't its own thing.
Polymorphism == Abstraction + Encapsulation + Inheritance
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well yes, I understand. Are you from Stack Overflow 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: Are you from Stack Overflow
Since he did not ask you if you to first go get a CS degree before posting questions, he is probably not.
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lol, true. I'm an EE, written lots of code but I've always wanted to take an algorithms class. Don't know why, well, at least my analyst asks me.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I'm an EEE myself, and written a whole bunch of algorithms, but I've never seen an algorithms class. What would that teach? Some of my engineering textbooks included digital implementations of the math they taught. That sort of thing? Some of the ones I came up with in my youth actually got published as company standards - like my classic algorithm for generating code to filter out ambient noise in a factory environment at run time. It drove the QA types nuts, because every time the test application ran, it was different code executing; they hate that stuff. Today, I don't know of any language that gives an application to modify itself while it's running, so I could never duplicate that one. But it was fun!
Will Rogers never met me.
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My initial reaction is to agree, but the term is nonetheless useful.
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The embedded world lives mostly in C, and the most versatile environment I know of has deep reusability achieved through an insane amount of defines, to the point that finding references to specific symbols require often 4-5 indirections. I'm talking about AutoSAR specifically.
It really depends on where you sit: are you developing a platform or a product? If you work on the final product, keeping things flexible may actually hinder the developement, as either you spend a lot of time trying to perfectly model the product you're developing in order to have flexibility where needed or you end up applying a flexible model which is not adequate to the specific product and end up breaking the model to make it work.
If you're working on a platform, that's different. The final product will be, hopefully, shared between hundreds of completely different systems so the expense in finding the perfect model and maintaining it pays off.
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Product, and you just hammered my nail.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
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