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Got assigned a task to add some functionality to the front-end.
Javascript (if it were well written Javascript, no problem, but this stuff...)
Copy & Paste (refactoring into re-use is pretty much impossible)
ExtJS -- my nightmares don't compare to the horror of this framework
Much gnashing of teeth
I try to have a positive attitude. Really, I do. I know that my distaste (like the way stomach contents tastes as it comes back up) is a self-fulfilling prophecy of loathing, it's just so hard to think positive thoughts.
Oh well...here I go...
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Be positive: "And this too, shall pass away."
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: And this too, shall pass away
until it comes back to life again the next day, thus triggering the infinite loop time continuum for the Nightmare Generator 3000.
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Maybe if he flushes after passing it'll be better?
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OriginalGriff wrote: And this too, shall pass
Like the BM that it is.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: ExtJS -- my nightmares don't compare to the horror of this framework
I've evaluated that library a number of times over the years.
At one point read a book on it and finally determined it is the middle ground of nothingness.
It takes way too much esoteric knowledge to use the API and it still doesn't greatly speed up your development.
Awfully pretty little widgets they give you though. 
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raddevus wrote: and it still doesn't greatly speed up your development.
Actually, as the new guy just pointed out, it's about 10 times slower than Angular or React.
raddevus wrote: Awfully pretty little widgets they give you though.
Really? They suck. Their layout capabilities suck. You want good looking widgets? jQWidgets UI for Angular, Vue, React, HTML5, jQuery and Javascript[^]
From personal experience, they are amazing.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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If you decide to delay the procratination until tomorrow, maybe you will succeed.
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Member 7989122 wrote: delay the procratination
What was the urgency for posting that?
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Exactly. I have a very witty reply to the whole thing for instance, but I don't think I'll be bothered posting it before tomorrow at the earliest... I'll wait and see... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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Kinda like our current code - no fewer than two dozen javascript functions that create a kendo-ui grid (using the kendo-ui stuff from 2013), and that all do something a little different. Instead of creating one function to rule them all that accepts a single options parameter, we have a crapload of grid.js files. If you need to add a grid somewhere else in the app, youhave no real recourse other than to create yet another grid.js file and perpetuate the bad practice because you might break something if you try to "fix" it.
I have javascript.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I see the same thing in C# and C++ production apps. People copy/paste code all over the place instead of creating a single method. The logic for having done this is "someone might change the function and break us".
I hate it. It's not the language, it's stupid-ass scardey-pants "programmers" that should go dig ditches instead.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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#realJSOP wrote: I have javascript
Since I know this isn't a true confession like "I have herpes", I'll assume that 'v' was supposed to be a 't'.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I have javascript, and I hate it. And it's a lot like herpes. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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This sounds remarkably similar to my job over the last couple of years. Since my team has been reduced to 5 from 17, all of us have assumed the responsibility for other people's wretched crap code. I've become remarkably better than I used to be at doing this. There is even a certain level of satisfaction with fixing a problem without succumbing to the urge to rewrite the great steaming pile whole thing.
When I return to working on my own towering edifice of magnificence stuff, I have to be careful that I don't use the godawful approaches practices from the other folks' code.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: When I return to working on my own towering edifice of magnificence stuff, I have to be careful that I don't use the godawful approaches practices from the other folks' code.
There is much, much truth to that.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I love that their website has a button for Japanese, but once you're on the Japanese site there's no button for English.
I guess that's a great metaphor for using their libraries 
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… tomorrow!
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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On the other.. did you know you could watch movie on youtube now?!  
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Take penny from policeman with networking device and we find revolutionary mathematician (10)
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Tim Deveaux wrote: Take penny from policeman
but but but
copper minus copper = null 
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Copernicus = mathematician
Coper = Copper (policeman) - p (penny)
nic = Network Interface Card
us = we
Is the theme just historical figures, or something more specific?
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Well done - I took the word policeman from OG's Monday post - but historical figures would be cool - you're up, your call.
[edit] 'your call' includes freeing yourself from any form of onerous thematic shackles - I was just trying to do a 'word link' and see if it caught on [/edit]
modified 18-Jun-19 4:16am.
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So if I was going to stick with your theme, would that mean using a word from last Tuesday's post?
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Um, no, you would use the word 'policeman' in your clue - but I don't think we need to stick to a theme this week.
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