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With the (forced) retirement of one of my comrades in arms, I am having to remember my MS-DOS programming skills. We have an MS-DOS app that is still in use, written in C, and running on a credit card-sized "PC-in-a-box". There's plenty of inline assembly language to add to the fun. Naming conventions are in short supply, and I've seen several globals with two character names.
The scary part is how much of this crap comes back to me, after looking at it for an hour or two  .
(*) Apologies to Joe Haldeman[^]
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: The scary part is how much of this crap comes back to me, after looking at it for an hour or two
That's the weird thing - I look at C++ code I wrote 25 years ago (still in use) and I discover I still retain the mental map of how the code was laid out. Crazy.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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At least it is your own code... that reduces the probability of WTF is that a little bit
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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Nelek wrote: At least it is your own code... that reduces the probability of WTF is that a little bit
Actually, it increases it. I tend to look at my code from a few years ago and almost always have a WTF experience.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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On the bad side, this isn't my code plus as I mentioned the naming conventions aren't. The good side is that the code isn't huge, and is only under maintenance for internal uses. I therefore have a reasonable chance of keeping changes to a minimum.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Admit it. You enjoy running around in girlie shorts. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Depends whose they are.
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It's nice
Not certain if I would wear a men's version of it, but I can see women at my gym wearing that.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: I can want to see women at my gym wearing that
Honesty is the best policy*
* Ask my grannie; she knows.
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I'd rather not.
Have you ever heard of 'thong[^]' ?
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That's like a can of ham -- you don't want the container; just what's inside it.
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We wear short shorts, Nair for short shorts
Bryian Tan
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Bryian Tan wrote: Nair
This would require a huge difference to my lifestyle.
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Bryian Tan
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Er, what were you doing on the VS site???
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I'm a blue-blooded Englishman with red blood.
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Don't you mean pink-blooded? 
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<Kenneth Williams mode>
Ooh, Matron!</Kenneth Williams mode>
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I do love those old carry on films, especially the early ones. Wonderfully silly stuff.
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Especially the ones where they got to dress up in silly costumes (Cleo, Screaming, etc).
Irresistible humour.
Hollywood couldn't make movies like that in a million years.
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So a plasma TV I inherited burned out this weekend. It was our primary viewing station (i.e., idiot box) so I replaced it with an 49" LG 4k Smart TV.
You turn it on and it goes through a setup. Aside from local date and time, I aborted the rest. In addition, I didn't give it any sort of connection to the internet.
So - when those attempting to reach out to watch what I do in front of the TV - they'll have no connection. Should keep the listening-in down to more traditional levels.
Kind of an easy solution. Just because you buy a 'smart' device is no need for you restore symmetry to the universe and allow yourself to become stupid.
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Makes sense - but it also cuts you off from internet video sources (Netfix, Amazon Prime) as well as from local NAS based video content.
It would probably be simpler just to unplug the router - then nobody can watch what you do online!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Actually not - I have Roku on my sets.
Both TV's are plugged into enegy saving power strips. The TV is main - when I shut it off a bunch of other things are shut off (including the Roku). Power it up and they get their power back. Roku's more channels than the TV, anyway - not just those who paid to have their sight put on my screen.
Of course - if the roku can be persuaded to send a signal to my TV to enable the spy-stuff I'm doomed.
NAS based: I have a media box on one set (Patriot thingee) and a USB port in the LG that plays my movies if I wish. Not via broadcast - but quite good enough.
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