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Kent Sharkey wrote: Apple Insider: ... Google...
Oh, irony
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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A new report from the Deutsche Bank argues that WFH should mean paying a bit of extra tax. "If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat"
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Yes, need to raise taxes because TBTF DoucheBank is a zombie that will eventually need a big bailout.
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Greg Utas wrote: DoucheBank
 My first thought as well.
"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
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Nelek wrote: Bankers... sometimes they are worse than lawyers...
There's a reason the collective noun for bankers is "a wunch of". 
"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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They would be happy to 'privilege' us all to death. They should just stick to what they know about - laundering money. Wankers.
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I have already stopped surprising when I read about these things, It seems, they are going to get rid of a billion (at least) people. They have chosen the policy, which will make people depressed and some of them will not bear this stress.
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Yeah, no. I find working from home actually requires more resources. You have to have your own office supplies, have a space to work, usually a spare room you're basically paying rent or mortgage for, and then there's the added work of staying focused and motivated in a space I'm used to relaxing in.
It's not a privilege. The only bonus IMO is the lack of a commute.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Well said!
Software Zen: delete this;
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Tax the little people. They'll thank you for it.
What scum.
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When working from home I'm already paying for extra electricity, water... I'm also less pollute the air - no commute...
So already payed for the 'pleasure' of working from home...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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A handful of commands was all it took for untrusted users to become all-powerful. "sudo make me a sandwich"
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I realised there's a clear rationale behind my aversion to else statements though. I believe that they shouldn't be used, and should be treated as a code smell instead. Or what?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Or what?
goto Hell.
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OK, I'm going to have to create a bunch of burner accounts just to upvote this more 
TTFN - Kent
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I'm glad somebody appreciates my sardonic humor.
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 You also made me laugh!
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It's actually a decent article, though I wouldn't get overly religious about its prescription.
Why not take it a step further and say that if is a code smell? A senior developer held that opinion 40 years ago, saying that if means you don't know what you're doing. Some of today's terminology didn't exist then, but in modern parlance I think he meant that many if statements--more so those with an else clause, and especially switch statements--should be replaced by calling a virtual function. This is certainly true when polymorphic behavior applies, which we implemented manually by putting function pointers into a struct selected by a type index:
polymorphs[type_id].function(arguments);
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So his primary method of removing "else" is to have multiple return points.
Talk about code smell.
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I don't object to multiple return points, certainly not from outer-level statements.
I once refactored code written by a zealot who must have grown up with Pascal and so believed that you could/should only return at the end of a function. Various functions would set a skip bool that was checked by every ensuing control statement or code block, just to see whether it should be skipped to eventually get to the end of the function. Utter dross.
modified 11-Nov-20 15:01pm.
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You should have put a governor on his car and set it for 15mph.
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Beyond my technical ability. But I've heard told that a potato in the exhaust works just as effectively.
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