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The first law of optimization: Don't do it
The second law of optimization: If you HAVE to do it, don't do it yet!
The only real optimization you can do is to replace your algorithm or data structures (or both). That means you go back to square one (not necessarily for the entire system, but for that part you try to optimize), and the two laws above still applies.
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codejet wrote: I just realised that I am one of those people who can write code that works
pretty well.
Gratz; it's harder than it appears.
codejet wrote: Question is who/what am I?
A pretty good programmer/developer. Must be, based on your second sentence.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Ok, I am going to request that my job title be changed from Applications Developer to Pragmatic Application Developer and will be sure to mention that I am pragmatic in my next interview.
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Depressed? Relax and On Error Resume Next...get it working, then make it work right! In software there's always room for improvement! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Quote: Relax and On Error Resume Next
That needs to be on a t-shirt!!!
- great coders make code look easy
- When humans are doing things computers could be doing instead, the computers get together late at night and laugh at us. - ¿Neal Ford?
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codejet wrote: I'm not always proud of my methods (don't mean methods as in procedures) and design, most of the time I do whatever works. I get my code to work by any means necessary. I guess I am not a programmer/developer
FTFY 
Contrary to how academics define programmer/developer in reality the code needs to work.
Sometimes you will be forced to produce under circumstances that are out of your control.
The results may not be pretty but if it works is all that can be expected, not some textbook solution that you do not have the means to produce in the current situation.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
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Writing a code that works pretty well is not enough for a programmer. Actually, your ability to write a working code is not relevant in this context.
First, learn OOP and take design patterns course. Apply this knowledge in your new programs. If you are working with classes, make them all singletons. If you are working with WPF, don't write code-behind. In C/C++ mark all variables as register (every real programmer knows that register variables are faster), and make all functions inline.
Finally, you can find that your skills match your official position. You code will not work pretty well at this stage, but let's leave these details for code writers.
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codejet wrote: Question is who/what am I?
This is called a Voight-Kampff machine. You’ve got a little boy. He shows you his butterfly collection plus the killing jar...
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You are like most of the successful professionals.
The best programmers solve problems with whatever is given and provide solutions by any means necessary.
So, you solve problems. Be proud!!
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If you want to find out the history of Aladdin’s Lamp, do you need a Genieologist?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And if you want to check inside his lamps spout, do you need a Geniecologist? 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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He'll first need to drop his blue genies.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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I guess I am nit-picking and ignoring the humor, but it should be Geniealogist. Since it is based off of genealogy.
Brent
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Yes, because they don't rub it the wrong way!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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modified 31-May-15 6:09am.
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Sounds like you should take your complaint to http://www.codeproject.com/suggestions.aspx[^]
[Edit] I was looking at some of your messages and you are going to be flagged as abusive pretty quickly. A lot of your messages are quite rude and now you're posting this rant. Consider yourself warned. [/edit].
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Alex Fr wrote: Why? I am quite happy without this.
So your rant is basically pointless and therefore... spam?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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That's fine. My options are:
1. Yes, my rant is spam.
2. No, my rant is not spam.
3. Hey, why do you call this "rant"?
But option 3 is not an answer to the question (we are programmers, you know...)
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RyanDev wrote: A lot of your messages are quite rude
This really looks quite rude, without any reason. But this is only Lounge, just a way to waste a time.
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Your humour sensor appears to have been covered by a monochromatic filter today mate.
The intention is the important part (I believe) that's why it causes no offence when a word in one language sounds like a swear-word in another - it's the intention, not the implementation that's of higher priority.
I admit to finding the humour in some of Alex's posts a little less accessible than that of other writers, but it seems fairly clear to me what the intention was.
There's no need to speak as you chose to in your edit. Go visit a cemetery some time - everyone there thought at some stage that they were important and vital, that the world rested on their shoulders. Yet, still the world operates..
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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enhzflep wrote: but it seems fairly clear to me what the intention was.
Perhaps you can explain then.
enhzflep wrote: There's no need to speak as you chose to in your edit
If you look at his message history, you'll find a lot of places where he is rude to people.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: Perhaps you can explain then.
Sure, I'd be happy to. You pick the list of posts you'd like explained and I'll give you my take on them.
RyanDev wrote: If you look at his message history, you'll find a lot of places where he is rude to people.
I did look, but came to a different conclusion to you. Accordingly, I made the offer just above.
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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enhzflep wrote: You pick the list of posts you'd like explained and I'll give you my take on them.
How about this one? You said the intent was humorous, explain how the OP is humorous.
enhzflep wrote: but came to a different conclusion to you
That's fair. But several other people, if you read their responses, also thought he was rude.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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