Lounge is quiet today
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I have no objection to an attractive woman in a swimsuit rising from anything!
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
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Anyone doing anything exciting at the weekend? I saw Bond again last night - 3/5. Whats the worst bit of coding you have ever seen? Trying to get conversation started :zzz:
eyeseetee wrote:
Anyone doing anything exciting at the weekend?
Got a delivery of a table coming. It's a replacement for one they delivered last week that turned out to have screws too big to fit in the holes. Rather than just supplying new screws, they are sending a whole new table. Crazy. What a waste of time/effort/petrol/etc. Planning on booking next years hols too. Other than that it's a nice quiet weekend.
eyeseetee wrote:
I saw Bond again last night - 3/5.
Might go see that.
eyeseetee wrote:
Whats the worst bit of coding you have ever seen?
Yesterday I cam across this line:
float aVar = (float)(double)something.Value;
[Names changed to protect identity] Thought it was stupid, then realised it was actually needed because Value was declared as an Object type, but was actually a double. and aVar had to be a float because of what it was being used for. I blame stupid excel interop. Why is everything just returned as objects rather than actually typed properly. In the end I refactored it all into a bunch of excel classes that abstracted the messy interop stuff away and left a nice pretty interface that returned properly typed objects. (And I replaced all the direct references with reflection and late binding because we need to support excel 2007 soon)
Simon
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eyeseetee wrote:
Anyone doing anything exciting at the weekend?
We've got a frienf of Mrs Wife visiting.
eyeseetee wrote:
I saw Bond again last night - 3/5.
I saw a Danger Mouse DVD with the kids last night 6.37/5
eyeseetee wrote:
Whats the worst bit of coding you have ever seen?
C:\win.exe
eyeseetee wrote:
Trying to get conversation started
It's Friday, waut until after lunch and mabe people will be a bit more /relaxed/.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
DM rocks. Penfold was brilliant. And what a theme tune: He's the greatest he's fantastic he's the best.
Simon
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williamnw wrote:
eyeseetee wrote: I saw Bond again last night - 3/5. I saw a Danger Mouse DVD with the kids last night 6.37/5
Good Grief!
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
Cripes DD!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
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Certainly was, it is the one where Ursula Andress rises from the water whilst miming to "Oh My Island In The Sun" as sung by Diana Copeland. (She went on to play Sid James' wife in 'Bless this House')
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
Ursula Andress was in "Bless this House"? :omg: "Doctor, no!" and "Coldfinger" are among proctologists' favourite films.
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Ursula Andress was in "Bless this House"? :omg: "Doctor, no!" and "Coldfinger" are among proctologists' favourite films.
Diana Copeland! (It wasn't clear, apologies) You only look twice. The man with the golden bum. Moonraker? For your eyes only? There seems to be a link here!
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
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Anyone doing anything exciting at the weekend? I saw Bond again last night - 3/5. Whats the worst bit of coding you have ever seen? Trying to get conversation started :zzz:
eyeseetee wrote:
Whats the worst bit of coding you have ever seen?
All other answers to this question are rendered obsolete as I may start on a little experimental app later today! Does VB still have GOTO? Rich
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Diana Copeland! (It wasn't clear, apologies) You only look twice. The man with the golden bum. Moonraker? For your eyes only? There seems to be a link here!
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
Dalek Dave wrote:
The man with the golden bum.
King Midas after visiting the loo.
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Anyone doing anything exciting at the weekend? I saw Bond again last night - 3/5. Whats the worst bit of coding you have ever seen? Trying to get conversation started :zzz:
eyeseetee wrote:
Whats the worst bit of coding you have ever seen?
#define CASEDEF1 case 5: value = 3; break; \
case 6: value = 10; break; \
// goes on line this for 10 lines or so
#define CASEDEF2 case 50: DoSomething(...); break; \
case 63: DoSomethingElse(...); break; \
// more of the same
//...
switch (variable)
{
case 1: DoThis(variable); break;
case 2: DoThat(variable); break;
CASEDEF1
CASEDEF2
//...
CASEDEFn
}The programmer who wrote this abortion was eventually terminated with extreme prejudice. Ironically, he showed up back here a couple of months ago for a job interview. Needless to say, my long memory for his atrocities held us in good stead, and he did not find gainful employment at our fine establishment.
Software Zen:
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Anyone doing anything exciting at the weekend? I saw Bond again last night - 3/5. Whats the worst bit of coding you have ever seen? Trying to get conversation started :zzz:
Beth and I finally got home from Berlin yesterday afternoon, so we're still catching up on everything (not least writing up my notes from the conference[^]). I'm halfway through now, as a result of a mad binge of editing last night. :) As they say "normal service will be resumed as soon as possible". :rolleyes:
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No weekend plans yet. Want to see the new Bond (thought the first one rocked!) No amount of therapy will fix the coding horrors I've seen (some my own) :)
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on! A post a day, keeps the white coats away!
Steve Echols wrote:
Want to see the new Bond (thought the first one rocked!)
So did you watch the other 20-odd or just the first?
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williamnw wrote:
eyeseetee wrote: I saw Bond again last night - 3/5. I saw a Danger Mouse DVD with the kids last night 6.37/5
Good Grief!
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
I watched Shrek last weekend, and plan to top off my exciting weekend with Shrek II.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Certainly was, it is the one where Ursula Andress rises from the water whilst miming to "Oh My Island In The Sun" as sung by Diana Copeland. (She went on to play Sid James' wife in 'Bless this House')
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
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Anyone doing anything exciting at the weekend? I saw Bond again last night - 3/5. Whats the worst bit of coding you have ever seen? Trying to get conversation started :zzz:
I'm going to be playing with android and possibly the facebook SDK. I bought a book on yoga last weekend so I'll probably be trying to bend myself into some positions that my body just won't believe are possible. Fortunately one of those circuits in the brain that locks memories away in a safe place where you can't find them has kicked in and hidden the horror story that was the worst coding I ever saw. For months after i left that job I could see the code in my sleep. Russell
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eyeseetee wrote:
Anyone doing anything exciting at the weekend?
Got a delivery of a table coming. It's a replacement for one they delivered last week that turned out to have screws too big to fit in the holes. Rather than just supplying new screws, they are sending a whole new table. Crazy. What a waste of time/effort/petrol/etc. Planning on booking next years hols too. Other than that it's a nice quiet weekend.
eyeseetee wrote:
I saw Bond again last night - 3/5.
Might go see that.
eyeseetee wrote:
Whats the worst bit of coding you have ever seen?
Yesterday I cam across this line:
float aVar = (float)(double)something.Value;
[Names changed to protect identity] Thought it was stupid, then realised it was actually needed because Value was declared as an Object type, but was actually a double. and aVar had to be a float because of what it was being used for. I blame stupid excel interop. Why is everything just returned as objects rather than actually typed properly. In the end I refactored it all into a bunch of excel classes that abstracted the messy interop stuff away and left a nice pretty interface that returned properly typed objects. (And I replaced all the direct references with reflection and late binding because we need to support excel 2007 soon)
Simon
Simon Stevens wrote:
Planning on booking next years hols too.
Thanks for reminding me, I should be coming back from holiday 1 month from today. Haven't booked it yet though :omg: Better get looking tomorrow!
