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I never ceased to be amazed by the seemingly endless supply of people who are willing to spend large numbers of their finite hours on doing things that are totally and completely worthless.
Let's not bring "contributing to message boards" into this discussion, eh?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Is that an attack on Kent?
(Edit: Don't worry, Kent, all your work brings enjoyment to tens of other cynics.)
modified 10-Jul-19 17:18pm.
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It's pretty much an attack on my life.
I feel happy for anyone who can't say that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've got A much simpler option that gets to the heart of the matter:
I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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My point is that the quality of the code (and of the software) is closely related to how much the people that write and design it understand what they’re doing. Well, that's my career down the tubes
modified 11-Jul-19 12:02pm.
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Not a problem.
Just ask any dev what it is that he doesn't understand, and the answer you'll get is "Why some people aren't totally and religiously devoted to Star Wars and/or Trek".
So they can code anything.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That, and do the people asking for the software understand what they are asking for.
(We also always cretaed what the customer needed, rather than what they asked for. It saved time.)
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If programmers did that, we wouldn't be able to out-source...
".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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Kent Sharkey wrote: what you con’t understand
Shirley that should be either "can't" or "don't"? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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or both?
#SupportHeForShe
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
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Richard Deeming wrote: Shirley that should be either "can't" or "don't"?
It's both... and please don't call me Shirley. 
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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I refuse to understand what I am doing!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Not understanding at the beginning isn't a problem. If you don't understand it by the program's completion, be very scared! 
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See the second sentence in my signature
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The programmer's first duty is to ensure his continuing employment by making sure nobody else can understand their code, and how it does what it does.
It doesn't matter if you understand the other programmer's code, or not: what is important is your absolute certainty that it must be re-written by you to be usable.Quote: If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
Salvador Dali
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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That is certainly a very sensible thing.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, perhaps?) many developers, including your truly, are under the belief that writing code should be as easy to understand as possible is the way to go.
But since it defies an initial logic assessment, I am still waiting for a deeper truth to be uncovered! 
Note: I think I found it, it's competition!
While it is your interest, it is the opposite interest of your boss, hence you should do it well enough that your boss doesn't detect it or a competitor doesn't make it any more clear.
Also, when working on your own project, it's your interest to make it as simple and straightforward as possible...
Hence it is not always the case you should make it as obscure as possible... and as obscure as possible has various degrees of obscureness depending on circumstances
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You touch upon a great mystery: the necessity to make your code appear understandable, while still containing the secret ingredients which will make it maintainable/extendable only by you.
See "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" (1922) by Aircraftsman T. E Shaw (aka: Lawrence of Arabia) for discussion of taqiyya in Ismaili Shiism.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Researchers have developed a technique for embedding data in music and transmitting it to a smartphone. "Music speaks louder than words; when you sing, people understand."
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Maybe, one day, someone will find a way of embedding music as data. That, unlike this, would be useful.
Oh, wait...
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Yet, no matter what they tried, the data kept being "Paul is dead."
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Handy for a hotel to give the WLAN password in the Lounge music, so the customers don't need to enter it manually. What the hell are they thinking?
As it wasn't enough to possibly have your conversations being spied, now you can't even get data / code transferred to the phone without being able to avoid it? 
I wonder how long will it take before someone missuses this to try to install malware in the phones 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Roslyn, the .NET compiler platform, helps you catch bugs even before you run your code. Assuming you want to write better code, of course
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Wow!
This is great!
And it's also a first, because no company has ever made such claims before!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The problem I've run across with Microsoft's code analyzers is the number of false positives. This is compounded by a lack of clear guidance on what things are important; a lot of items in Microsoft's tool are inconsequential. (And sometimes their suggestions are bonkers, especially the ones that want you to use something extremely verbose to replace something completely legal and succinct.)
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