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I kinda feel like it's investigating my own murder, but then you should see the situations I get myself into with code.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I hear ya, sometimes I look back at code I've wrote and wonder if I'm part Italian.
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mob code
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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Spaghetti code
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Spaghetti code
I like that. May I use it free of charge and without having to give reference?
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Member 15078716 wrote: I like that. May I use it free of charge and without having to give reference?
Certainly, I was not the first to coin this phrase.
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We used that term when I was a student 40+ years ago. And ever since.
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My family hails from Poland (mostly), so I suppose I write meatloaf code - an undifferentiated mass full of unidentifiable bits and pieces.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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well said
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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It was a complicated murder. Lots of moving parts.
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Mike Hankey wrote: Being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer. In my case, the murderer is dead and I'm the victim .
I have to maintain a large body of code originally written by a guy who deliberately made it excruciating for anyone but himself to maintain. He did this in an effort to make himself indispensable. For over 20 years his supervision was terrified that he would leave.
[long story omitted]
He retired and passed away shortly thereafter. I inherited the great steaming pile left behind.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Not necessarily you. For whatever reason, I was thinking about my career today. Looking back, I was always put into the position to be the guy carrying the pager (back in those days), picking up abandoned/not working applications, etc.
IOW, being responsible for being aware of and fixing bugs/performance problems. While stressful, it made me a much better developer. In such positions, you're exposed to lots of different coding techniques; sometimes, it's "wow, that's a good idea, I should incorporate that more."
Of course, a lot of the time it's, "Wow. This person should be fired."
Some people's purpose in life is to serve as an example. Not necessarily positive.
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Respect for detectives, that assume libraries are quite places where no murder can occur.
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Honey was worried about workload back just before Christmas as documented Here[^]
So is the project done and/or have you made progress?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Something must be cooking in that cauldron. Last I've seen it was too hot and she needed a fan.
Mircea
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I am ahead. I am basically frozen on development waiting for other team members.
So for now I've done my job, and shall remain blameless.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Well done you now have the justification to go out and bust someone's balls for not producing. I always hated having to wait on others, management never seemed to accept that it was the upstream holding things up.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I'd have to go right to the principal who is cutting the checks, because they keep making the changes. I think they've finally been frozen out, because they're also the one setting the deadlines.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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25% in Maths, 25% in English, 25% in Art, and 25% in Music.
That's 100% - so what's the problem?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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2 years ago I couldn't even spell Engineer and now IR1
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Back in the long ago time, DEC created one of the first rule-based expert systems. The system was used by their sales folks when filling orders for PDP and VAX machines to ensure that the requested configuration included all the components, cables, software, etc. required.
The expert system was called R1.
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For years I specialized in DEC equipment, worked on quite a few models, but favorite was the MicroVAX.
Decent machines for the day.
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I did some programming on MicroVax. Pretty cool machine at the time. Amazing OS.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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