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N is a point on the compass
AIR is a song
E is a heading (similar to a point on the compass)
I can only figure these out when someone else provides the answer.
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I didn't even get it when the answer was given.
I had to look up what "Air" [^] was in this context.
Quote: An air is a song-like vocal or instrumental composition. The term can also be applied to the interchangeable melodies of folk songs and ballads
It's a good day, I learnt something new.
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Youv'e never heard of Air on a G String ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Nope, turned on safe search filter and looked it up. I've never been into classical music.
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I prefer Hair on a G String ... 
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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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Now now 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I used to be a software architect. I think that's part of why I employ such a jaundiced eye when it comes to layered service architectures and sweeping design patterns just because and drowning in UML because reasons.
It's true that when you're dealing with million dollar implementations, multiple deployment points, and disparate teams a lot of this abstraction can be useful.
But how common is that in most people's development? I know it is for some of you, sure, but I think you're in the minority, or at least projects like these are in the minority. Not everyone is Plum Creek or Alcoa.
It seems like the field of software architecture has taken on a life of its own and coupled with CPU cores to waste and infinite scaling out it has - and i'll just say it - poisoned software development.
Just because you know how to do something doesn't mean you should. Most software application architectures do not survive contact with clients plus the erosion of time. They have a shelf life of significantly less than 10 years without some major portion of them being retooled. There are exceptions to this, but designing every solution to be that exception is a waste of time, money and creative energy.
I'm also going to come out and say it makes things harder to maintain. When you're working with 20 different classes and interfaces where 3 would do it just increases the learning curve. There are definitely diminishing returns when it comes to decoupling software from itself, and you run into the cost/benefit wall pretty fast. It can only take you so far. It's best not to overdo it.
Every fancy little UML entity you drop into your project increases the cognitive load of your project for other developers.
Personally, I wouldn't care about that, because "cognitive load" is fun as far as I'm concerned but most people just want to do their work and go home, not spend odd hours studying someone else's work just so they can use it.
Keep It Simple Stupid.
Whatever happened to that?
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Good point, I'm not unfamiliar with UML, in our shop it was all done years ago and luckily I did not have to redesign any parts I'm working on.
Sometimes when I see articles on CodeProject about architecture I wonder if the person who wrote it was bored and had nothing better to do than writing lengthy theoretical and incomprehensible articles.
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Yes to this. Glad I have some support here. Everyone but you and Sander are all sideeying me now. 
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honey the codewitch wrote: Everyone but you and Sander are all sideeying me now.
Nah we're not. I've thought similarly for a while now.
Sticky-tape solutions are appropriate in all sorts of places.
Slapping a newsletter on the fridge? Sticky-tape.
Putting up a car-port? Bolts.
How much of the world does it
Slapping a newsletter on the fridge? Measure the thickness of the door's steel, weigh the newsletter, calculate load-bearing ability of door skin, add reinforcement to handle larger photos in the future, drill and countersink holes, punch holes in corner of picture, use supplied allen-key to fasten bolts that secure the pic.
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Absolutely sensible.
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honey the codewitch wrote: not spend odd hours studying someone else's work just so they can use it.
Most don't bother with the "understanding" bit at all: Stack Overflow Patchwork | CommitStrip[^]
Go to QA and look at how many people want code converted from C++ to Python (or vice versa) so tehy can hand it in, or want trivial code explained to them.
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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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Most of my code goes directly into (ASP.NET Core) Controllers and PageModels nowadays.
I have a Core project, which has code shared between all my projects and a SqlServer project for my database stuff.
Then a Services project which has some common services, like Smtp, some Azure stuff, etc.
All injected using the default .NET Core DI library.
Sometimes I think, maybe I'll need this piece of code in another page later on, but then I ignore that thought.
When (if) I actually need to re-use that code it's just a minor refactoring to move it to the Core, SqlServer or Services project.
I recently made some NuGet packages for functions I use over and over in different projects.
I'm also not concerned with keeping my copy/pasted functions up-to-date in every project anymore.
It works in older projects in its current state, so no need to "fix" what isn't broken there.
And that's how I roll nowadays, KISS and YAGNI 
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It sounds like you've got a good handle on things. 
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If only
Been hurting my brains over some stupid .NET Framework Azure AD Authentication thing all day and I've got nothing.
I even asked a question in Q&A about it, first one since 2018 
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That's just coding.
Just last night I had to
1. Determine why a driver was randomly dropping characters from strings printed to a screen, but only if they were small text. Turns out the driver wasn't tested very well with my hardware and i had to modify the timing of it.
2. Determine why text wasn't displaying after i put a solid white background on it. I have to draw it twice. I still don't know why. See also, dodgy driver.
3. Implement my own HTTP chunked encoding scheme just so I could bulk upload some JSON from a machine with a total of just over 500k of ram. Worse, I had to timestamp my uploads with a valid date time but my machine has no clock. I was ... creative.
#1 and #2 sent me to some forums to post questions for which I got no answers.
#3 simply took hours.
That's just development, so when I say you've got a good handle on things I still think you do.
Your machine isn't on fire, you're not going bald from stress, and you're not seriously contemplating a career in pizza delivery if you make it out of this project alive. You're fine. 
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I went from pizza delivery to coding! And there were times I wished I'd never left!
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You've downloaded my code before, silly. So of course I am always watching you. Through your computer.
What the hell did you think most of those "parsers" actually were anyway? Why else would I write 20 incomprehensible but nevertheless popular projects for people to download? Spyware, my good man. The money is great.
By the way, reset your passwords.
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I know for a fact that's not true.
The horrors you'd have seen on my computer would've left you blind and unable to type that message
Many a ransomware criminals have paid me to let them unlock my computer 
On the other hand, you use braceless if-statements and I can't think of more unspeakable abominations than that 
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I have spent some time spelunking the depths of coding depravity it's true, but just look at these gems I've found!
my precious!
Your computer is tame. I don't even see a dodgy and outdated copy of GRUB in your bootloader code. Where is your sense of adventure?
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Ok, you've convinced me, changing my passwords now
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