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Just used that picture in one of may answers in the Android forum... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Nah, just copy it it in and hope for the best. Don't even change the variable names and placeholder constants. Then in a new question say that the code is broken because instead of printing "Hello, world!" it prints "Hello world" and ask for someone to fix it.
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I had one today "what language is this in?" - tagged with the language. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: you've got to understand code before you use it, haven't you?
I think the open source community would disagree. 
Marc
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Using the app is one thing - but using the source code without knowing how it works? 
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Just go with the flow and trust the net. 
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I would say if you are copying raw code, then yes, you need to understand it.
Libraries on the other hand are something I do not fully study in depth before I use. Learn the interface and I'm away. Purist could argue that you should fully understand the inner working of all code in your system, but who has the time to do this in a commercial environment?
BTW - big fan of commit strip, hit's the nail on the head with surprising consistency.
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It was a rude shock to me, about 2005, when I first encountered a developer who quite openly defended downloading raw code and pasting it into his app without understanding it.
And it was sort code he copied - to sort a list to go into a .Net combo box!
He claimed it "saved time" - why should he have to write his own sort code all the time?
Of course, it also saved him the time of doing even the most cursory research into one of the most basic .Net controls (you know, the combo box with the .Sorted property on it and stuff).
Unfortunately, through sheer bad luck, it kept crashing, and made him with waste time explaining himself to the boring old fart running the project.
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...to me and the other Aussie Dad's here.
Got my presents a while ago from the kids, think they have done pretty good.
I got this T-Shirt[^], a bottle of Bundy 33 OP[^] (the Bundaberg Rum site doesn't have this, faarrrkkkkers), this[^] and this[^] on Blu-Ray.
Into the beers, Bundy OP to come and currently have the vegetables baking in the oven, steaks on the stove and the lamb leg steaks, bacon and sausages to come.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Tried most of the bundy but not that one.
These days now it's mostly the ginger beer one 
I managed to get a new car for fathers day. A VF SV6. Shame I had to pay for it and not the kids 
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I didn't know that there is such thing 'Fathers Day'... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Every day is Fathers Day!
No, wait, that's Childrens day, isn't it...
Fathers Day[^] is an invention of the card companies to sell tat to mothers for their offspring to "give" to Dear Daddie to show they love him and care enough to have someone else spend £1.50 on a dull lump of cardboard...
[edit]Link fixed[/edit]
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modified 6-Sep-15 3:32am.
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The good link: Father's Day[^]...
I just checked Israel and found that it is on the 1st of May - same as Labour Day...How precise...Every day is day of labour - a Father's Day...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Stooopid link paste truncation bug again...
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How fitting.
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In Italy it is the 19th of March, on St Joseph. The way Catholic Church is able to appropriate of pagan and lay festivities is amazing!
In Italy we had Ferragosto, which dated to the Roman Empire[^], then renamed The Assumption of Mary[^], which is a dogma created in 1950!
Any other consideration would be appropriate to the Soapbox...
Geek code v 3.12 {
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--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
}
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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do you use this resource refactoring tool?
or could you share some tools you like as this?
diligent hands rule....
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I don't refactor. I write perfect code. 
Marc
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I can not survive in a support role, my default response is to rewrite. If it ain't mine it is not perfect...
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: If it ain't mine it is not perfect...
The better is the enemy of the good. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: If it ain't mine it is not perfect...
Better said. I guess that's the problem -- my code may be perfect, but somebody else can always make it better.
Marc
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My code does not need refactoring.
My code refactors the reader.
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OriginalGriff wrote: My code refactors the reader.
I was once told by someone, "after working with you, I can't imagine going back to writing 'traditional' code."
Marc
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Welcome to the "Coder Refactoring Association"!
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Marc Clifton wrote: I was once told by someone, "after working with you, I can't imagine going back to writing 'traditional' code."
You don't really understand sarcasm, do you? 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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