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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:

"Drunken ugly-donkey style".

jeron1 wrote:

Is that the style that uses the 'five-point-palm exploding heart technique'?

R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:

"The Revealing Module Pattern"

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people assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non subjective point of view it is more like a big ball of wibbily wobbly timey wimey...stuff

The Backblock Shearer lyrics on G'Day from Down Under by Unknown Composer 


I'm only a backblocks shearer boys, as easily can be seen,
I've shore in most of the famous shed in the plains of the Riverine.
I've shore in most of the famous sheds, I've seen big tallies done,
But somehow or other, I don't know why, I never became a gun.

Hurrah, my boys, my shears are set, I feel both fit and well;
Tomorrow will find me at my pen, when the gaffer rings the bell,
With Haydon's patent thumb-guards fixed and both my blades pulled back,
Tomorrow I go with my siding blow, for a century or the sack.

I've opened up the windpipe straight, I've opened behind the ear;
I've practised every possible style, in which a man can shear;
I've studied all the cuts and drives, of the famous men I've met.
But I've never succeeded in plastering up, those three little figures yet.

Hurrah, my boys, my shears are set, I feel both fit and well;
Tomorrow will find me at my pen, when the gaffer rings the bell,
With Haydon's patent thumb-guards fixed and both my blades pulled back,
Tomorrow I go with my siding blow, for a century or the sack.

The boss walked down the board this morning, I saw him stare at me,
I'd mastered Moran's great shoulder-cut, as he could plainly see,
But I've another surprise for him, that'll give his nerves a shock-
Tomorrow he'll find that I have mastered, Pierce's rang-tang block.

Hurrah, my boys, my shears are set, I feel both fit and well;
Tomorrow will find me at my pen, when the gaffer rings the bell,
With Haydon's patent thumb-guards fixed and both my blades pulled back,
Tomorrow I go with my siding blow, for a century or the sack.

And when I succeed, as I hope to do, then I intend to shear
At the Wagga demonstration, which is held there every year
And there I'll lower the colours, my boys, the colours of Mitchell & Co.
Instead of Deeming, you will hear of Widgeegoara Joe!

Hurrah, my boys, my shears are set, I feel both fit and well;
Tomorrow will find me at my pen, when the gaffer rings the bell,
With Haydon's patent thumb-guards fixed and both my blades pulled back,
Tomorrow I go with my siding blow, for a century or the sack.

1. Design patterns are a response to solving the entanglement nightmare that OOD, while not creating, made more complex.
2. While the formalization of the patterns was in some ways useful, the implementation often results in over-complexity and misapplication, especially by inexperienced programmers.
3. Experienced programmers were already implementing decent ways to disentangle non-OO and OO code, so really, I think very little was gained by formalizing patterns. If anything, it made things worse for experienced developers who had to go in and fix the insanity of bad pattern application by less experienced developers.

R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:

I find it hard to take design patterns seriously

Kirk 10389821 wrote:

Which also explains why the term "Singleton"...

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A slavish adherence to the fool's gold that can be design patterns may lead you down the path of over-engineered solutions that are hard to maintain and build upon. Whilst patterns, in a generalized way, are good for thinking about how to address a known or recurring problem they are not a one-size-fits-all solution to whatever you are trying to model or solve. They have a place and a part to play, just don't let them become the raison d'être of your solution. I say that because I've seen it. Experience trumps exuberance.