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Eddy Vluggen wrote: so don't ask me what he just ordered.
Mr. Zuckerberg said that while he knows more words in Mandarin, Dr. Chan, whom he married in 2012, also speaks Cantonese and has much better listening comprehension than he does. “One time I asked her, why is my listening comprehension so bad?” Mr. Zuckerberg said. “She said, ‘Your listening comprehension in English is also bad.’ ”
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Marc
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New tarantula discovered, named after John Lennon: on.natgeo.com/1FIOJJn
Seriously?> I would not want a spider named after me. A few dance moves have been but that is another story.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Glad it wasn't named after Chuck Norris, that would be one bad mofo.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Eight legged roundhouse kicks? No thanks!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm thinking spinning death kick; Jump up in the air and spin, eight legs no waiting!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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How do they know it's named after John Lennon? 
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If a bloody great spider told you so, would you argue with it?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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He introduced himself saying "I know, I know - he was a Beatle and the Coleoptera are not even closely related to arachnids, but I'm told we're all creepy crawlies to you humans."
He then put his front legs in his ears as his mate started "singing".
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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What did its child say? "I am the egg, man!"
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Silly! - eggs don't talk!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Just Imagine letting the spider spend Some Time in New York City, crawling over all the Walls and Bridges. He'd think he'd found the land of Milk and Honey.
For helping to reduce the mosquito population, spiders deserve all the good things they get -- but I'm agaInst ant Karma; ants are icky.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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spiders sre fine animals: they eat flies and mosquitoes. 
"Imagine" all uneaten of these beasts will attack you 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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All you are sying is "give spiders a chance"?
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I think you all should quit this Cold Turkey.
"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
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A spider named Commie Pinko?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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knowing that their code smells worse then dinosaur farts?!
Honestly, I could not advertise myself as a competent software engineer, if I knowingly produced such excrement.
and yet these "senior" engineers are still employed.
 
modified 24-Oct-14 11:04am.
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They may say the same of yours.
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Yeah, what I've learned is, even though I consider myself one of the non-retarded devs, there are times I write retarded code. Like when under time constraints, etc.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: there are times I write retarded code. Like when under time constraints,
You can disagree with me here, but there is no excuse to write retarded code. Where I work, you can get into A LOT of trouble you submit bad/not working code into production.
My grievance goes beyond aesthetics or "code style", but rather with code that is so poorly written, it doesn't work properly.
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Slacker007 wrote: You can disagree with me here, but there is no excuse to write retarded code. Where I work, you can get into A LOT of trouble you submit bad/not working code into production.
When I say retarded, I don't mean completely asinine. I mean not "perfect". There are times it happens. Is it great? No. I do like it? No. Is that just the world works? Yup.
If you're thinking something along the lines of, let's just say, not having a single point of reference, not using constants, not being consistent with formatting, etc. then I totally agree with you. There's never an excuse for that.
Jeremy Falcon
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Slacker007 wrote: submit bad/not working code into production.
I would think the various testing phases should get 99% of "not working" code!
We do most our specification in UAT, get an idea what the user wants to achieve, build a POC, send it to UAT and actually get something from the users that makes sense.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: would think the various testing phases should get 99% of "not working" code!
You are correct, and it should. It is a combination of careless coding and careless testing by certain teams in our company. I am sure these guys know how to code well enough.
Burnt out and lost motivation, maybe, who knows.
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Slacker007 wrote: with code that is so poorly written, it doesn't work properly
There are times that code is really poorly written but it works, as long as you don't touch it again. These are the ones that are mostly caused by time constraints IMO.
Although some people do write retarded code no matter what, because they are, let's say, not born for coding. I get aggravated a lot because of that.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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Client: We need this and we need it now.
Dev: That will take 3 or 4 days to do
Client: We need it today or you don't get paid!
Dev: No way - only way I could do that would be to do a real quick and dirty - bypass the ORM , directly access the Db via ...
Client: <fingers in="" ears=""> lala lalalla lalala
Dev's Boss: The Dev said he could do it! nSo Doit Do it DO IT!
Dev: BUt it's just a quick fix, right, we'll re-engineer it straight away, right? In the next sprint?
Dev's Boss: Sure. <maniacal laugh=""> :rubs hands together:
Dev: I hate my life!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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I wrote an article along the very same lines on the subject of technical debt, which is what your point refers to.
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with taking a conscious shortcut if there is a justifiable reason to do so e.g. there may be a bonus for hitting a deadline or compensation if you don't. But as long as you repay that shortcut then there's not a problem. The problem is that you never get the time to go back and address the shortcut, as you are already onto the next shortcut etc etc.
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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