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Yeah, that's why people climb Everest.
No-one is stupid enough to try to make a career out of climbing Everest, though.
There must be thirty easier to implement and far, far easier to maintain ways of doing anything that can be done with a regex.
The only reason people use it is snooty bragging rights, and that's not a good reason for doing anything as part of your profession.
And yes, I have used regex extensively, but I still rank it as only slightly less ridiculous than brainfuck.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: There must be thirty easier to implement and far, far easier to maintain ways of doing anything that can be done with a regex
Indeed! For most of the cases, a few if-else blocks and it's done. But regexes* are fun, although I don't use them too often. And it's fun to watch (and then help) people (with no or little clue about regexes*) when they are asked to write one. 
* Again, not sure if that's the correct plural form.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Agent__007 wrote: * Again, not sure if that's the correct plural form.
For a quick fix, I'd go for regex[n]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I was always amazed how at this job I'm still around a few hundred euros per line of code after 3 years; I'm pretty sure I've written more lines in Word and Excel. I miss writing code, somewhat, but I've learned so much more by debugging. The most important is that I really miss debugging in Visual Studio  ; loading 20 meg binaries over JTAG and sometimes not having a working debugger is a pain, a fun pain.
Not my fault they use me to put out fires.
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I'm thinking about starting a new Microchip PIC32 project, noticed that Microchip has a new(er) software framework for MPLAB called Harmony, mmmm I think to myself, could be interesting. Download and install the framework, and as I usually do, open the help pdf, all 5523 pages of it. I have never seen a technical document that large.  I just pray that they have put everything in this doc...
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Print it... Go on, I dare you...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I think a minor factor in one of my past layoffs was my use of the company printer for large documents (that weren't strictly job-related).
E.g. DEC C, DEC LINK, DEC CMS, ... 
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Those colour pictures did it.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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It's not the printing so much, but the carrying it afterwards. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Hah!
Man up, and buy a sack truck!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Too expensive, but you got me thinking, where's that boy of mine!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Just how big is a 5523 page PDF (Portable Document Format)?
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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156MB.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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What's the problem? That's portable - my 32GB USB is the size of my thumb nail!
(And I've got cookbooks bigger than that  )
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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jeron1 wrote: I just pray that they have put everything in this doc...
It's just the Quick Reference Guide 
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You wanna see me cry or something?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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It's just the preface to the foreword of the introduction to the quick reference guide? 
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You're just evil.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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I'm willing to bet that at least four-fifths of it is either:
- Whitespace.
- Poorly sized or positioned graphics.
- About things related to the item, but not about the item itself.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Same here.
But my "MPLAB Harmony Help" is only about 4339 pages weighing 18MB.
What are they hiding from me?
Ciao,
luker
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I just got a follower on Twitter who is promoting some free ebook about entrepreneurship/marketing/whatever I'm not sure.
So I decided to go and have a look. What I found was just... Well, see for yourself[^] 
When I wanted to click on a course the site got blocked by uBlock.
I see quite some "Good job" comments though.
And some guy named Thaipat really wants you to join Yofoto, whatever that is.
But seriously, having a book on marketing and market it on that website!?
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Sander Rossel wrote: But seriously, having a book on marketing and market it on that website!?
It is hideous. And clearly lots of people are talking about it so the first half of marketing (getting noticed) has succeeded. Now, for the second half of marketing (sales), it's not likely to be too successful there.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: It is hideous. And clearly lots of people are talking about it so the first half of marketing (getting noticed) has succeeded
I remember seeing some "worst commercial awards" on television a few years ago. The guy who won for most annoying commercial was really very happy and excited about it, because at least he got noticed and people knew it so well he got an award
I guess that's one way to look at it.
At least his commercial wasn't in Comic Sans though 
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