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That's why we're expensive 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The whole code I'm working on right now is like that but worse.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Subject: Must....not....kill....
you can always claim self-defense.
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Slacker007 wrote: you can always claim self-defense.
No, this would be obvious murder. Mercy killing, granted, but still killing. 
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I prefer to think of it as giving natural selection a helping hand.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Marc/others - be gentle with me  . This is what, C#? So someone seriously got carried away with cut and paste...
Did I understand your rant correctly?
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: with cut and paste.
Cut & paste would have been OK. This was copy and paste!
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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No no no! Do not change that, you'll break it!
Don't you see that the other fields in that row of the table might change between queries? There's no transaction around these queries after all!
And also the id parameter might change between queries, if a different process has write access to it.
Oh, another thing: are you sure that the id column of the table is unique?
So many things could go wrong with your refactoring. Better don't do that! You cannot find out what the original developer thought when he wrote that code thanks to a lack of proper documentation.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: You cannot find out what the original developer thought
You're making a big assumption there!
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I've come across worse. We had a programmer once that did a
select * from table
and then looped through the results until he found what he was looking for. Funnily enough, performance was OK on his test database, not so good on a production customer database.
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Tomaž Štih wrote: I think this is the guy you're looking for.
Tools don't create bad code, it's the person wielding the tool!
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That's what I always say about guns. 
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Maybe it started as 20 separate tables each with a single column?
DBA came along and joined the tables together, so the devs did the obvious refactor?
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When you refactor, make sure to return the collection as a DataRow so that annoying strong-typing gets eliminated.
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This is were the Warhammer 40K universe gets it right, I think.
They lobotomize and reeducate people like that. Clean, cost effective, ecological.
I've pitched a similar idea, but marketing disagrees every time I propose to stab people.
The numbers check out though; the reduction in technical debt and project costs is significant, even if you reallocate resource to pay for the funerals.
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Only the two options? To kill or not to kill?
Nah! I want a bit of torture first! You know, just to get my mental stability back before they die!
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I don't get it ! ! !
Why must you 'not kill'?
It seems justified.
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You probably know about C# String interpolation and the new(er) (C# 6, via .NET 4.6) string operator $.
Here's the explanation and sample from ($ - string interpolation (C# Reference) | Microsoft Docs[^])
string name = "Mark";
var date = DateTime.Now;
Console.WriteLine("Hello, {0}! Today is {1}, it's {2:HH:mm} now.", name, date.DayOfWeek, date);
Console.WriteLine($"Hello, {name}! Today is {date.DayOfWeek}, it's {date:HH:mm} now.");
The new formatting is very nice, much more straight forward and obvious about which values are included in the string.
JavaScript Analog
But, did you know about the JavaScript equivalent that entered in JavaScript 2015?
I just saw this for the first time -- only three years late. 
JavaScript calls them template literals.
The very odd thing is that you have to use back-ticks to get them to work.
var who = "world";
console.log(`hello, ${who}`);
That produces an output of :
hello, world
If you use double or single quotes instead of back-ticks it doesn't work.
The back-ticks kind of make me shudder. 
It is a bit nicer than concatenating strings and vars with all those + signs though.
Previously you had to do something like:
var who = "world";
console.log("hello, " + who);
You can read more about template literals here[^].
It's interesting to see a concept emerge and then how different language developers implement it.
C# Bonus Weirdness
You can use the verbatim string operator with the interpolated string operator like the following:
string finalAnswer = $@"this is the answer to the question: {40+2}";
Console.WriteLine(finalAnswer);
But if you place the verbatim string operator before the interpolated string operator you will get a syntax error.
string finalAnswer = @$"this is the answer to the question: {40+2}";
Console.WriteLine(finalAnswer);
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Quote: if you place the verbatim string operator before the interpolated string operator you will get a syntax error.
That's because the verbatim operator is tightly couple to the string and suppresses interpolation of the string - therefore the interpolation operator needs to come after the resulting string from the "non-interpolation" operator.
...erm, or maybe the other way around? Whatevs!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yeah, the way I saw it explained was :
$ then @ because you are saying, "interpolate this verbatim string..."
Instead of
@ then $ "Give me verbatim of this interpolated string..."
Kind of makes sense, I guess.
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raddevus wrote: Kind of makes sense, I guess.
I promise to quote you verbatim without interpolation.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I promise to quote you verbatim without interpolation.
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Richard Deeming wrote: Looks like that should be "fixed" in C# 8:
Thanks for the update and links.
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