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I question your reasoning. 
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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Seems a reasonable question
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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something like this would work to 
#region(start signature)
Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it!
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I can succinctly state why I hate working on projects inherited from others, where a huge code base is inherited from bad programmers (and I have yet to work on a project where I have not inherited code from bad programmers, because quite frankly, those projects stay where they are because the client is happy!!!)
It's because I'm spending my time debugging sh*t that isn't my sh*t, it's someone else's. And very few things piss me off more than having to spend even a miniscule fraction of my time on this planet fixing other people's sh*t.
[edit]And I tend to find the most stinkiest sh*t written by Ruby on Rails code monkeys.[/edit]
Marc
modified 11-Jun-15 12:42pm.
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Marc Clifton wrote: And very few things piss me off more than having to spend even a miniscule fraction of my time on this planet fixing other people's sh*t.
Wholeheartedly agree. 
/ravi
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But tell us how you really feel, Marc. 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I have recently been advertising myself as a plumber. Plumbers fix systems, clogged with other people's shiit and that is what we do. If it wasn't clogged, they wouldn't be calling us.
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Ernst Stavro Blofeld wrote: If it wasn't clogged, they wouldn't be calling us.
Pretty sure I saw a video once where something like this happened. There may have been some funky guitar in the background... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I do believe I saw the same video!
The young lady housewife wasn't wearing much was she - the plumber must have been very embarrassed... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ya but did the plumber lay some pipe?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Roto. Rooter.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Colin Mullikin wrote: There may have been some funky guitar in the background.
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Ernst Stavro Blofeld wrote: Plumbers fix systems, clogged with other people's shiit and that is what we do.
Except usually a clog is just in one pipe. Sure, it may take a 50 foot snake to clear it, but then it's done, unless the pipe is infested with the roots of some tree downstream, then you usually call someone else. 
Point being, it's one pipe, one tool, and a lot of muck. Code sh*t is a maze of pipes, numerous tools, and the muck never seems to go away, it just gets pushed around to other pipes.
Marc
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Have you ever inherited code from good programmers?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I have recently, actually. One of our senior devs left the company for greener pastures and I moved into his team to pick up his work. His code is actually quite nice, and a lot of it is way beyond stuff I have ever done before, so his intuitive naming conventions and copious comments are quite helpful.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Nice, I must say it's not too often I hear that.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Pity the bad programmer who inherits code from a good programmer. He probably wouldn't understand any of it.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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You are dead, and you've gone to heaven.
Lucky you.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Quote: intuitive naming conventions and copious comments
...is that the sound of the wings flapping on that flock of pigs flying by?
Actually, I do that myself - but usually I am the only one that sees them. I still appreciate them six months, or more, later when coming back to the code.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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jeron1 wrote: Have you ever inherited code from good programmers?
No, because good code from good programmers usually doesn't result in the client getting pissed off at the development team and switching to another code house.
Marc
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I knew there was a reason I liked you.
Where I work no one writes garbage code. We just have different "programming styles", or so I've been told.
Personally, I prefer not to cover buffalo chips with ketchup and call them fries. And it doesn't matter to me who wrote the garbage code: me (more than my fair share), you, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Whatshisname, or the Pope. Garbage code is still garbage code whether or not the application works as the user wants.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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Z.C.M. wrote: buffalo chips with ketchup and call them fries.
BWWs Buffalo Chips[^]
They're actually quite a bit better than fries... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Marc Clifton wrote: bad programmers
Also known as anyone other than one's self.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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