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  • M martin_hughes

    What I don't get is, given your technical excellence and all that jazz, why you aren't the team leader? Mumbler? Strange body odour? Shy? Unwilling/unable to shout at management types and make demands?

    print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text Ain't that Groovy?

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    Nagy Vilmos
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    martin_hughes wrote:

    technical excellence and all that jazz

    by the bucket full

    martin_hughes wrote:

    Mumbler?

    no

    martin_hughes wrote:

    Strange body odour?

    no

    martin_hughes wrote:

    Shy?

    no

    martin_hughes wrote:

    Unwilling/unable to shout at management types and make demands?

    no

    martin_hughes wrote:

    team leader

    apparently not. I'm a 'technical lead' which means my TL is half my age with 1/4 my knowledge and and 1/8 my experience. But I'm not bitter :mad:


    Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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    • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

      leppie wrote:

      he has been spending the last 6 weeks working on something that should have taken 3 days max

      Holy Zucchini! I'd have certainly rocked the boat...

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      leppie
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      His average estimate takes 8 times longer to complete than what he promises the manager/client and that is if it ever gets completed and not taken over by someone else.

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      • L leppie

        as my 'team leader' does not why the following wrong:

        a.SomeProp = a.SomeProp; // no funny side-effects, plain old property

        And then he asked me not to criticize him... :wtf:

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        Pete OHanlon
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        This seems perfectly reasonable to me. Put in a load of code like this, then seem like a god when you dramatically increase the performance of your application by removing these useless no-ops.

        "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

        As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

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        • N Nagy Vilmos

          martin_hughes wrote:

          technical excellence and all that jazz

          by the bucket full

          martin_hughes wrote:

          Mumbler?

          no

          martin_hughes wrote:

          Strange body odour?

          no

          martin_hughes wrote:

          Shy?

          no

          martin_hughes wrote:

          Unwilling/unable to shout at management types and make demands?

          no

          martin_hughes wrote:

          team leader

          apparently not. I'm a 'technical lead' which means my TL is half my age with 1/4 my knowledge and and 1/8 my experience. But I'm not bitter :mad:


          Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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          Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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          Nagy Vilmos wrote:

          apparently not. I'm a 'technical lead' which means my TL is half my age with 1/4 my knowledge and and 1/8 my experience. But I'm not bitter Mad

          :laugh::laugh: Sorry! That was just insanely funny! I know how you feel, I was like that 1.5 years ago and then I left becoming independent.

          If the post was helpful, please vote, eh! Current activities: Book: Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Project: Hospital Automation, final stage Learning: Image analysis, LINQ Now and forever, defiant to the end. What is Multiple Sclerosis[^]?

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          • L leppie

            Marc Clifton wrote:

            But isn't that the worst thing about AOP, that you don't know what side effects might be introduced?

            That's the problem with age old pensioners, very unpredictable :) (sorry, im trying to cheer myself up)

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            modified on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:02 AM

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            Nagy Vilmos
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            0. Complain that you have headache. 1. Tell rfwstl that you're going to get some fresh air. 2. Mix the fresh air with a large GnT. 3. Rinse, dry, repeat.


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            • P Pete OHanlon

              This seems perfectly reasonable to me. Put in a load of code like this, then seem like a god when you dramatically increase the performance of your application by removing these useless no-ops.

              "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

              As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

              My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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              leppie
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              Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

              This seems perfectly reasonable to me. Put in a load of code like this, then seem like a god when you dramatically increase the performance of your application by removing these useless no-ops.

              What do you think I do when reviewing his code? :)

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              • L leppie

                Marc Clifton wrote:

                But isn't that the worst thing about AOP, that you don't know what side effects might be introduced?

                That's the problem with age old pensioners, very unpredictable :) (sorry, im trying to cheer myself up)

                xacc.ide
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                modified on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:02 AM

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                Pierre Leclercq
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                Hmmm... What is the point of your post? Do you mean Marc is a pensioner? How does that relate to AOP or side-effects?

                You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.

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                • L leppie

                  Pierre Leclercq wrote:

                  I always wonder why clean functional programming is not more common?

                  I write 90% of my C# without side effects (excluding generated-code of course, that doesn't count). There is no reason why someone cannot do the same.

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                  Nagy Vilmos
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                  leppie wrote:

                  is no reason why someone cannot do the same.

                  There is a good reason. HINT: CAT scan


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                  • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

                    Nagy Vilmos wrote:

                    apparently not. I'm a 'technical lead' which means my TL is half my age with 1/4 my knowledge and and 1/8 my experience. But I'm not bitter Mad

                    :laugh::laugh: Sorry! That was just insanely funny! I know how you feel, I was like that 1.5 years ago and then I left becoming independent.

                    If the post was helpful, please vote, eh! Current activities: Book: Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Project: Hospital Automation, final stage Learning: Image analysis, LINQ Now and forever, defiant to the end. What is Multiple Sclerosis[^]?

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                    Nagy Vilmos
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                    You can measure how far I'll let them push me with a micrometer


                    Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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                    • N Nagy Vilmos

                      0. Complain that you have headache. 1. Tell rfwstl that you're going to get some fresh air. 2. Mix the fresh air with a large GnT. 3. Rinse, dry, repeat.


                      Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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                      leppie
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                      Or just 42: Get a case of beer. (24 of them, coincidence, I think not, when you drunk they look the same)

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                      • G Gary Kirkham

                        What's wrong with it? Useless isn't the same as wrong.

                        Gary Kirkham Forever Forgiven and Alive in the Spirit The men said to them, "Why do you seek the living One among the dead? He is not here, but He has risen." Me blog, You read

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                        Oakman
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                        Gary Kirkham wrote:

                        Useless isn't the same as wrong.

                        Well, it would be wrong if it was written in VB.NET. But since C# programmers can do no wrong. . .

                        Jon "You don't respect those people very much, because you're young and arrogant. But I don't respect them very much either, because I'm old and wise." ~ Neal Stephenson, "Snow Crash" Soap Box 1.0: the first, the original, reborn troll-less

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                        • P Pierre Leclercq

                          Hmmm... What is the point of your post? Do you mean Marc is a pensioner? How does that relate to AOP or side-effects?

                          You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.

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                          leppie
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                          Pierre Leclercq wrote:

                          Hmmm... What is the point of your post? Do you mean Marc is a pensioner? How does that relate to AOP or side-effects?

                          If you read the tiny text, you would see it was a joke. Most OAP's are way more predictable than my 'team leader'.

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                            Because he was the clown that wrote up a quarter-assed client functional requirement spec. It lacks about 70% of the requirements. And somewhere inside his skull that info still lives (or rots). Please note, this 'client spec' is the only thing our team has to go on, and consistently the client complains about missing functionality. Professionally, I have been trying to avoid taking responsibility for someone else's fuckups, but it seems there is no other way now. Bottom line is, I dont wanna do anything, while he has write-access to the code. he has been spending the last 6 weeks working on something that should have taken 3 days max, given most of the code was copied from somewhere else on the internet (like pretty much all of his code, copies of other people's code, and mine...).

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                            martin_hughes
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                            Well personally I'd be having a word with management. Going back to the customer and re-drafting the spec will cost face, but not nearly as much face as a product that doesn't work, is never fully delivered, is full of holes and doesn't deliver on promises.

                            print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text Ain't that Groovy?

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                            • P Pierre Leclercq

                              Hmmm... What is the point of your post? Do you mean Marc is a pensioner? How does that relate to AOP or side-effects?

                              You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.

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                              leppie
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                              Added a joke icon, just in case it was not understood. Sorry for any inconvenience.

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                                Gary Kirkham wrote:

                                Useless isn't the same as wrong.

                                Well, it would be wrong if it was written in VB.NET. But since C# programmers can do no wrong. . .

                                Jon "You don't respect those people very much, because you're young and arrogant. But I don't respect them very much either, because I'm old and wise." ~ Neal Stephenson, "Snow Crash" Soap Box 1.0: the first, the original, reborn troll-less

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                                Gary Kirkham
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                                Obviously :)

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                                • M martin_hughes

                                  Well personally I'd be having a word with management. Going back to the customer and re-drafting the spec will cost face, but not nearly as much face as a product that doesn't work, is never fully delivered, is full of holes and doesn't deliver on promises.

                                  print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text Ain't that Groovy?

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                                  Nagy Vilmos
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                                  Are you suggesting *gasp* taking pride? Wanting to deliver a quality product? Not having to enter a witness protection scheme should anyone find out were you work? What a novel idea!


                                  Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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                                  • M martin_hughes

                                    Well personally I'd be having a word with management. Going back to the customer and re-drafting the spec will cost face, but not nearly as much face as a product that doesn't work, is never fully delivered, is full of holes and doesn't deliver on promises.

                                    print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text Ain't that Groovy?

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                                    martin_hughes wrote:

                                    Well personally I'd be having a word with management.

                                    Check x 15. No joy.

                                    martin_hughes wrote:

                                    Going back to the customer and re-drafting the spec will cost face

                                    Check x 10. No joy.

                                    martin_hughes wrote:

                                    but not nearly as much face as a product that doesn't work, is never fully delivered, is full of holes and doesn't deliver on promises.

                                    We are already in penalty clause area, and the product is about 60% finished.

                                    xacc.ide
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                                      martin_hughes wrote:

                                      Well personally I'd be having a word with management.

                                      Check x 15. No joy.

                                      martin_hughes wrote:

                                      Going back to the customer and re-drafting the spec will cost face

                                      Check x 10. No joy.

                                      martin_hughes wrote:

                                      but not nearly as much face as a product that doesn't work, is never fully delivered, is full of holes and doesn't deliver on promises.

                                      We are already in penalty clause area, and the product is about 60% finished.

                                      xacc.ide
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                                      Nagy Vilmos
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                                      leppie wrote:

                                      We are already in penalty clause area, and the product is about 60% finished.

                                      You need more managers!


                                      Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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                                      • N Nagy Vilmos

                                        I wondered were my boss had got to! But as am in a kind mood, you can keep him. ;)


                                        Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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                                        Brady Kelly
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                                        Haha, ditto.

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                                        • N Nagy Vilmos

                                          martin_hughes wrote:

                                          technical excellence and all that jazz

                                          by the bucket full

                                          martin_hughes wrote:

                                          Mumbler?

                                          no

                                          martin_hughes wrote:

                                          Strange body odour?

                                          no

                                          martin_hughes wrote:

                                          Shy?

                                          no

                                          martin_hughes wrote:

                                          Unwilling/unable to shout at management types and make demands?

                                          no

                                          martin_hughes wrote:

                                          team leader

                                          apparently not. I'm a 'technical lead' which means my TL is half my age with 1/4 my knowledge and and 1/8 my experience. But I'm not bitter :mad:


                                          Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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                                          Brady Kelly
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                                          And those under you are twice your age, with 4 times your knowledge and 8 times your experience? :)

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