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OriginalGriff wrote: German Sausage with a Jacket[^]
That looks like a boiled potato to me.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Foreign Heathen! 
That's a Jacket, or Baked Potato[^]: it's cooked a lot longer and slower than a boiled potato and it retains it's skin - which goes all crispy and tasty. The inside is light and fluffy, and with a little butter, maybe some cheese, it's a Comfort Food meal all on it's own...
For best results, cook in the ashes of a bonfire, or an oven if you must, but never, ever eat one that has been in a microwave. 
"Boiled potato" indeed! :tch:
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(Page 1788, if it helps)
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When I read German Sausage with a Jacket and clicked on a provided link i was expecting to see a sausage. But what did I get ? A potato. 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Let's recap: you are disappointed because you didn't get the pic of a German sausage you were expecting?
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Totally !
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I didn't realize that "German Sausage" was welsh for "Potato".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It isn't: "Potato" is Welsh for "Uncooked Chip" (or "Uncooked Fries" for our Colonial friends)
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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If he eats a sausage after bathing has a German gone from bad to wurst?
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Silly you - Germans don't bathe - they just order the filth to disappear... 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I thought it was about Eurovision.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Somewhere I read this in a signature:
The worst source code, that you can come across, is the code you wrote on your own one year ago.
I just remember this, because I'm sitting in front of some part of my own code that is three or four years old.
Ok, to see it positive: I learned a lot in the past years.
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I disagree. I love my code I wrote 15 years ago, despite the fact that it was VB6.
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Shameel wrote: despite the fact that it was VB6.
Burn the heretic!
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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<<shudder>>May it not darken your IDE again <> 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Burn the heretic!
That was 15 years ago and people do reform, don't they?
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Shameel wrote: people do reform, don't they?
To reform, they have to show contrition; remorse:
Shameel wrote: I love my code I wrote 15 years ago
Oops!
Burn him! Burn him now!
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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I still occasionally dig into C++ code I wrote 10 to 15 years ago - while parts of it have me scratching my head the majority is perfectly ok
The Lisp code I wrote 10 years ago has me completely baffled
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May be that your style was already "adult". I changed my style fundamentally... and that was a good thing 
Just to give you an idea about what I'm talking here:
- WinForms instead of WPF
- No Commands
- No Bindings
- A lot of click handlers
- Not a bit of separation between view and model
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I still go to the pub with some of the guys from my first coding job, who are still there, and know for a fact that most of the code I wrote back then is still in use
Gives me nightmares! 
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Oh man... now I think back to my first coding job.
It feels like beeing on the couch by a psychiatrist that forces me to think back to something that I successfully drunk away
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Some of the samples of code that I wrote years ago were things of beauty - they were lean, efficient, mindful of every last clock cycle and optimizer trick that I could employ. It's sad to see how flabby my code ended up becoming with the advent of frameworks - it became too easy to rely on a potentially inefficient API implementation, rather than coding up a tighter implementation of my own.
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I can relate.
On the other hand, I feel like optimizing code has now become less relevant than transparency.
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So now you use a framework, throw a crap load of more cycles at it and produce 5 times as much out the door! I call that a win, if not an elegant win!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Oh, I know - that's the whole reason I use the frameworks in the first place. Sadly, though, the ability to optimise is being squeezed out and it seems as though younger generations of coders don't want to learn how to do this. There are exceptions, obviously, but as these are the coders that go into places like Microsoft, inefficiencies will continue to be propagated,
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