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Either one of those suits me fine. The ones I can't stand are these:
if (condition)
{
DoThis();
}
else
DoThat();
if (condition)
DoThis();
else
{
DoThat();
}
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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And then there is the choice between:
if (condition) vs if (condition == true)
if (!condition) vs if (condition == false)
I sometimes put in the == false part because the ! is easy to miss when reading.
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Karel Čapek wrote: Why are people so lazy?
Did it occur to you that it may be about style and not laziness?
Some people can have even another style:
if (condition) DoThis();
else DoThat();
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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Fabio Franco wrote: Did it occur to you that it may be about style and not laziness?
No: people who do this tend to shortcut other things (sweeping generalization and/or observation over many years of being a coder) or crush the code into as small a space as possible making it hard to read.
The point is really to have consistency of style and format in the code: braces make it easier to read. Consider this:
int a = 0;
string bean = "green";
float golden= 1.618;
if (condition)
{
x = 42;
bean = "eatme";
golden = a * pi;
}
else
a = 1;
bean = 'foo';
golden = a - x;
I find that style difficult to read and adding the braces would make it much easier to see the flow.
Oh, and then there are tabs v spaces... 
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I only remove braces on single-line method preconditions at the beginning of a method:
if (arg==null) throw new ArgumentNullException("arg", arg);
Everywhere else I put braces.
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Vark111 wrote: if (arg==null) throw new ArgumentNullException("arg", arg);
Let me guess - You're used to dealing with Pirated software??? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I personally prefer the former of the two, for readability. I tend to "speed read" classes and utilize the curly brackets as logical breaks in the code.
Basically, for me, it differentiates between code indentations and logic (if, foreach, for, etc.)
ICP-Fan
(The Keyboard Wielding Maniac)
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Karel Čapek wrote: For example, how hard is it to
Both are probably less hard than complaining about it.
But other than that since it is legitimate syntax then it is legitimate syntax and nothing but a preference after that.
Naturally if that is the most important problem facing you day to day or even one that even rises above the noise level in terms of problems you must work at an exceeding stellar place.
I once worked a a place where the VP (most senior person in the entire site) would regularly take down the database through incorrect usage which would shut down the call center (several hundred employees) completely. Now that is a problem.
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I have more
(condition)?DoThis():DoThat();
DoThese[(condition)]();
#define CALL_FUNC(__F) Do##__F
CALL_FUNC(condition);
do
{
if(condition)
{
DoThis();
break;
}
} while(DoThat()&&condition);
<pre lang="cs">
switch(condition)
{
case 1:
DoThis();
break;
default:
DoThat();
}
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On a news site I heard a recording of a man as he was beaten to death.
It would have been offensive but they took care to *bleep* out the swearing.
The insanity of that is difficult to process.
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What??? Why??? What???
People are every disturbing. 
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Remember what the MPAA says; Horrific, Deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Who are we and what have we become? We have made progress with technology, but we seem to still be in the dark ages when it comes to civility and morality.
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My gripe is that NOBODY would want a recording of a relative/friend/co-worker being beaten to death out on a news site. We don't need to hear that and it is cruel to those that loved the victim. It is hoggish.
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I remember the first beheading I saw on national TV (and in South Africa it is still quite conservative) of a man called Nic Good (I think). It happened in the Middle East many years ago and was quite a stir all over the world. I was so shocked and sickened that I wanted to go there and kill everyone remotely affiliated with the religion involved. I did calm down by the end of the week, but what has been seen can never be unseen.
I know it still happens a lot to this day, but I was also hoping that we would have evolved past this barbarism by now.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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Absolutely, positively agree. It's disgusting that the media broadcasts things like that just to make a buck, never mind how it affects people.
I feel the same way about 911 calls. Do we really have to broadcast some poor person's worst, most tragic moment just to bump ratings? It's exploitation of victims for money, ought to be a crime.
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Dan Neely wrote: spend a few hours over xmas break playing around with some of the new features in VS2015
 You're doing it wrong.
Jeremy Falcon
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I'm not touching a computer over my Christmas break...all of one day off.
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Amen brother, and at least you're rocking it right.
Jeremy Falcon
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I fully agree the situation is elephanted; but I need a lever to overcome "but VS 2010 still supports the version of .net our customer uses and we'd have to buy new re#er licenses if we upgrade to a new version". Assuming it does half of what it promises, the new feature added to the latest 2015 preview that will generate a complete set of working unit tests for an existing project combined with the number of minor regressions the customer demanded IA tail chasing created that we didn't discover until the pound on the keyboard test, will probably give me that lever. The ongoing maintenance budget is far too small to retroactively write a test suite for the entire legacy codebase manually; and I have every reason to suspect another round of IA tail chasing to produce a fresh stream of petty changes that will cause random edge case problems in strongly coupled code (again no money to redesign) that won't be found out until the acceptance test. (We do have a very exhaustive, and resultantly time-consuming and expensive one of them.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Oh, we'll if it's to prove somebody wrong, then rock on man!
Jeremy Falcon
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Basically I need to sell it to my PM well enough to get his support in battling the bean counters.
If I can get a win8.X VM there're a few things I'd also like to try; just to see what happens. The odds of my being asked to port a WinForm app to either Metro or WP8 are very slim this side of changing employers; but I'm still curious to see how much I'd need to hack at backend code to make legacy non-UI libraries compatible. Hello WinForms would be useless for this; and InsertRandomFossWinFormAppHere would suffer from my not understanding what the backend code does or how it does what it does. Spending an hour or two chasing compiler errors in a codebase I know well would be much more informative; but again that requires a level of co-operation with my current employer.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Sounds like you need a few tips from Simon Travaglia!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I noticed that some of the features in VS2015 are from Resharper, i.e. remove unused variables or using statements.
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