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At some point this is thought to be too easy, too simple. So a developer comes up with a bright idea, perhaps to encode the emails because it is 'more secure', or to put it in XML because 'thats the way things are done these days' and he wants to put it on his CV, or to use some new technology, because its like playing with a new toy to him.
And it f***s up.
This is why oldversion.com exists. Because so many software engineers are twats, and I have worked with quite a few.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: This is why oldversion.com exists. Because so many software engineers are twats, and I have worked with quite a few.
Thanks need something like this.
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In Transact-SQL anyway...
Mostly they're optional.
Sometimes they're required.
But never put one between END TRY and BEGIN CATCH .
(SQL Server 2014)
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What about full colons? People sometimes put that in their stored procedures.
throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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If your colon's full, you've probably eaten too much.
"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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Richard Deeming wrote: you've probably eaten too much
and thus, need a procedure, for sure.
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A mention of STORED PROCEDURE might lead this thread to the Soapbox, so I'll refrain.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Or it's just full of sh*t.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I had a full colon, then I had a massive dump.
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Harmful? HARMFUL?
Semi-colons are the spawn of the Devil!
VB RULEZ OK!
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VB!? VB!?
What's with the V?
Real men code in BASIC (without the V)!
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Damned straight VB in a bottle[^]
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Victual BASIC? Surely not.
https://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/Uploads/2587207/BASICbooks.jpg
Hmm, linkifier no worky today.
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Th federal government is full of colons, and it doesn't work either. Maybe you're on to something.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Has anyone else noticed that more and more of them seem to talk about "the customer".
So I wonder which of the two likely cases this is:
- It's homework and that's how it's described to them . . .
- They're a contractor . . .
". . . and they want us to do their work for them " is appendable to both.
It's almost refreshing to see someone who just seems honestly clueless.
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Most of 'em, it's homework.
And I'm not sure it's "honestly clueless" so much as "too lazy to bother" in many cases. I suspect that various government attempts to get everybody coding by making it a compulsory course is getting us a lot of visitors who have no interest in development, or indeed learning anything at all.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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To be fair I have recently come across one or two who are "honestly clueless". Either the teaching really is rubbish (probably) or they are just unable to understand the basics of programming (but think it's quick route to a well paid job).
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3. the instructor is bidding for jobs, class does the work (via Q&A), instructor pockets the money.
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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That's evil, immoral, and unethical. I wish I'd thought of it first.
Ad astra - both ways!
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Yeah - most of the instructors that worked his class for extra income simply required that you buy his "books" - which may just be Xerox pages.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: more and more of them seem to talk about "the customer"
I'm noticing an increasing tendency to talk about the costumer.
It's a real word, but I don't think it's what they meant.
"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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Perhaps it's a clue!
They either all have the same instructor, or at least, study in the same school's English department (or all use the same book?).
Alternatively, they're all from the UK and really meant coustomer.
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Puts on his robe and wizard hat.
You called?
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Jon McKee wrote: Puts on his robe and wizard hat
I just had a flashback to 1998 and Personal Web Server!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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