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xkcd: Moving Boxes[^]
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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Having moved [does a quick count] at least a dozen times in my adult life, I've found labelling doesn't work. It really doesn't.
I number every box, actually with a letter and number as we've moved so often and reuse boxes and boxes go missing and and and ...
Then there is THE LIST. THE LIST is in capitals because THE LIST is important. For each box, I write on THE LIST what's in the box, something like #T17 - laser cannon, inflatable cheese grater, spare lemons, and then primary room for unpacking, e.g. Bedroom 4, spare dressing room. It is rare that one box contains only things for one room, but mostly they will have a room for most of the stuff.
On arrival the boxes are unloaded into the biggest unfurnished room, this time we have a walk-in garage which is ideal. Then, with reference to THE LIST a box is moved to each room and minions start unpacking. For the ~50 boxes we brought here, that took a day to sort it all out.
veni bibi saltavi
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And the most important box is box 1: last to be loaded, first to come off.
Contents: one mug, one glass, one plate, one knife, one fork, one teaspoon, one toothbrush per person. Coffee, tea, kettle. Bottle of wine. Cork screw. List of local takeaways that do delivery. Soap and toothpaste. Teatowels and towels for packing. £50 in cash.
Get it to the kitchen asap and get the kettle on.
Nowadays, I'd suggest adding the WiFi router and a mains extension lead ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Nowadays, I'd suggest adding the WiFi router and a mains extension lead ...
Did you really assume that the provider has activated the connection on the date of move?
I would suggest adding the chargers for the mobiles instead
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For my ISP, they switched my service the morning of my last move just about a month ago but the damn jackarses charged me $20 for a self-installation kit which is me unscrewing the modem from the cable connection and then screwing it back in at the new house 
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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THAT must be in the car with you. When we arrived here, the ferry was 10 hours late, it was 6 in the morning and Mrs Wife was due at work. We were met by some colleagues and shown the way to the flat where a full fridge plus tea, coffee, sugar and biscuits awaited us.
I had a nap, she went to work and the young'uns hit the web.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I number every box, actually with a letter and number as we've moved so often and reuse boxes and boxes go missing and and and ...
Then there is THE LIST. THE LIST is in capitals because THE LIST is important. For each box, I write on THE LIST what's in the box, something like #T17 - laser cannon, inflatable cheese grater, spare lemons
Is that the long winded way of saying "I use multimaps"? 
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I do the exact same thing.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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I have it organised even better, I stay in the country earning money, living in a shoebox and send the wife to meet the movers and do the unpacking.
I expect to arrive home in December with furniture positioned, clothes hung up, knick knacks distributed and not a single wire plugged in. I will need to organise the rats nest living behind the TV and computers.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Sounds like my Dad. Back in :cough:, his battalion was stationed in Singapore when they had to be redeployed urgently back to West Germany. Their CO gave the officers a choice of travelling with the gunners or staying back and returning with their families a few weeks later. To a man, every commissioned officer left the next day leaving all the wives to pack up homes and get everything shipped back to Dortmund. Mum was travelling with the three of us, all pre-school, on a 36 hour five stop flight!
veni bibi saltavi
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If you were really honest, the boxes should all be labelled "Mostly dark matter"
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: the boxes should all be labelled "Mostly dark matter (probably)"
It's still only a theory... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes - and maybe a few of the boxes should be labelled "Live cats (do not open to verify)"
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The entire office should be labeled "Black Hole" 
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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And by that, I mean OO principles? Encapsulation, etc. I'm not worried at all about inheritance, and polymorphism is helpful at times. But abstraction and encapsulation seem so powerful to me. OO programming (language does not apply) lends itself to interfaces, discipline, self preservation.
For those of you who sit down in front of VS2xxx or any other OO oriented compiler, do you ask yourself, "Can I put this in a class?" After writing thousands of lines of code, does a bell ever ring, "If you keep digging, the hole is only going to get deeper?"
I live in the embedded world where our code has to adapt to the reality of real life. A machine has inertia and a large number of other physical properties. Sometimes the interactions BEG to be encapsulated in a class where the domain knowledge and behavior can be kept in one location.
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: For those of you who sit down in front of VS2xxx or any other OO oriented compiler, do you ask yourself, "Can I put this in a class?"
If the design what I put was clear, I don't get into this. But sometimes I rush to complete things and then I get some idea in the middle to break the function into classes. This happens when I realize a large chunk of the code that is sitting inside a function could actually be re-used if we split that into discreet classes with right APIs exposed.
charlieg wrote: A machine has inertia and a large number of other physical properties
This naturally takes you towards C++/(any OO language).
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Once you go class - you never go back.
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A good OO design can give you maintainability and expandability. If your project requires this, you can (and should) do it.
So close to the hardware there is also another aspect: Performance. We are not always in the land of the plenty and sometimes you have to take whatever the processor has to offer. You have to cut some corners and write some 'clever' code to get this performance. This code will be less maintainable and harder to understand. Again, you can do it, but better encapsulate the 'ugly' code in some object and place lots of comments why this had to be done that way.
P.S.: I usually can't wait until the CodeNazis (TM) descend on such code to 'review' it, turn purple and fall off their chairs. They will never unerstand that there is more than one sort of code and that they certainly are not its prophet.
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"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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My highly optimized SIMD functions are in facts encapsulated in a class hierarchy that can provide both autodetection of CPU capabilties to choose the appropriate functions (we still have some old Pentium 4 to support) and to set up a fast access higly optimized class to perform those functions on data with set and unchangeable parameters. That was one of my proudest moments 
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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+1 for the CodeNazis (I love Grand Theoretical Programmers [who often change their job title to 'architect' without asking and without understanding what that actually means], usually fresh out of uni, in their first job with no experience delivering projects to customers) 
"Martin Fowler wouldn't write it like this!" they say. "He ain't *!&"ing here!" says I 
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: "Martin Fowler wouldn't write it like this!" they say. "He ain't *!&"ing here!" says I
Awesome. He and Grady Booch are going to be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Oh wait.
I forgot about the Lotus Notes development team.
And the entire staff from InstallShield.
And the device driver group at Microsoft...
Software Zen: delete this;
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To be fair, I'll bet most of what I'm told Martin Fowler would or wouldn't do is made up 2 seconds before I'm spoken to. He'd probably be pretty surprised by some of the code I've had to work on.
I worked on a solution containing 159 projects a few years ago. All it did was show a login screen which didn't work properly. Domain driven design to the nth-level of abstraction and plenty of unit tests though, which is all your end customers really care about (although they might not know it themselves)
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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When the code of a project is getting bigger and bigger you need classes to find some order. And also you have reoccuring tasks for what classes are best.
Tip: a function should NEVER be greater than what you can read on your screen. Everything else is "Spaghetti code"
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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YES!
The first thing I do when writing new code is design an appropriate class interface. For a class designed to be non-inheritable (e.g. a complex number class), the interface might be merged into the implementation. If the class is inheritable or polymorphic (e.g. the canonical Shape class), then the interface will be virtual, and separate from the implementation(s).
Working this way forces you to concentrate on the design, rather than rushing to a (possibly) flawed implementation.
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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