What a gem.

[AaronM_NZ]

Stumbled across this gem today. http://pastebin.com/4Nx8yggU[^] For preservation sake, here is a snippet, but you get the idea:

Public ReadOnly Property BatteryPercent()
' This code will retrieve the BatteryLifePercent property and convert it to a percent.
Get
If SystemInformation.PowerStatus.BatteryLifePercent.ToString = "1" Then
Return "100%"
ElseIf SystemInformation.PowerStatus.BatteryLifePercent.ToString = "0.99" Then
Return "99%"
ElseIf SystemInformation.PowerStatus.BatteryLifePercent.ToString = "0.98" Then
Return "98%"
ElseIf SystemInformation.PowerStatus.BatteryLifePercent.ToString = "0.97" Then
Return "97%"
... etc

Wow is all I can say.

[smcnulty2000]

And well commented. I think we can all appreciate the thoroughness of the approach.

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[AaronM_NZ]

And found another similar bit of work (done in Perl, so may be 'leigt'?) http://pastebin.com/TiyDDuPp[^]

for ($loopCount=0; $loopCount <= $stringLength; $loopCount++) {

            $char = substr($inputString,$loopCount,1);
               if ($char eq 'a') { $char = uc($char); }
            elsif ($char eq 'b') { $char = uc($char); }
            ...
            elsif ($char eq 'z') { $char = uc($char); }
            else { $char = $char ; }
            $outputString = $outputString . $char;
    }

return $outputString;

[Julien Villers]

It couldn't have been done with a generic approach, look at the last line:

Else
Return "NA"

That required a custom solution! Just kidding ;) BTW, shouldn't that be 'N/A'?

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[Nagy Vilmos]

Julien Villers wrote:

BTW, shouldn't that be 'N/A'?

Na

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[Lutoslaw]

This is a good example for an uncertainty principle. Such method of retreiving a "battery percent" may indeed change the BatteryPercent itself...

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[0bx]

This is pure genius, if he gets paid by the line that is. If this method is ran while the battery is charging, is there a chance that it would return "NA" because the battery percentage changed at the correct moment? :)

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[Fabio Franco]

Wow! This is only not worse than what I've seen, because the DB field length related to what I found is small:

public string GetStringToDatabase(int value)
{
if (value > 99999999)
return "0" + value.ToString();
else if (value > 9999999)
return "00" + value.ToString();
else if (value > 999999)
return "000" + value.ToString();
.
.
.
}

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[edmurphy99]

Maybe they got paid by the line

[BGArts]

Should be an philosopher, not a programmer. This is pure, unadulterated logic.

[Tomz_KV]

I am wondering if the statement continues to reach 0%. To return a result, the program will have to add a power source somewhere.

TOMZ_KV

[Lilith C]

Could have made a better case for switch/case statements. And if the device needed display "NA" it probably wouldn't have been running anyway.

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[Lilith C]

Julien Villers wrote:

BTW, shouldn't that be 'N/A'?

Not when you have to scrape for every byte you can get.

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[Paulo_JCG]

I like the ToString...

If SystemInformation.PowerStatus.BatteryLifePercent = 1.00f then ...

is such a PITA

Paulo Gomes Over and Out :D

[James Treworgy]

What a shortcut! A qualified programmer would have accounted for the fact that BatteryLifePercent is floating point, and may not be in increments of 1/100th. What if it's 0.975? Obviously this should have been written as:

If SystemInformation.PowerStatus.BatteryLifePercent <= 1 And
SystemInformation.PowerStatus.BatteryLifePercent > 0.99 then Return "99%"
ElseIf SystemInformation.PowerStatus.BatteryLifePercent <= 0.99 And
SystemInformation.PowerStatus.BatteryLifePercent > 0.98 then Return "98%"
...

:)

[Jasmine2501]

They are clearly just coding around a bad framework. There's a field called BatteryLifePercent, but it's not actually a percentage number. Obviously the framework is incorrect.

[Sander Rossel]

Option Strict is off or the Property would have an As clause! Correct would've been:

Public ReadOnly Property BatteryPercent As Percent
Get
If SystemInformation.PowerStatus.BatteryLifePercent.ToString = "1" Then
' No implicit conversions with Strict On!
Return Convert.ToPercentage("100%")
' Etc...

Now that just made a world of difference :)

It's an OO world.

public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}

[YSLGuru]

Could be wrong but it looks like a case of lack of knowledge, not knwoing/understanding that there is a better/more effecoent way to achieve teh same goal. I work in RDBMS (sepcifcally SQL Server) and I routinely see this same kind of bad design choice and usually its due to a lack of knowledge/eductaion on the product/system. For example when the develoepr needs to store a bolean value ( 0 and <>0 ) they use a NUMERIC data type which [by default) uses 9 bytes instead of using the smaller BIT data type.

[AspDotNetDev]

This is why degrees are useful. You may not be the best programmer in the world after graduating, but at least you should learn enough to avoid code like this. Having a get-r-done attitude is fine and all, but a get-r-done intelligently attitude is much better.

Somebody in an online forum wrote:

INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.

[weberrich]

Although, I know doesn't look all that good. There may be come consideration to optimization. Does the huge case statement cost less than a few function calls? Just a thought, and like to play devils advocate.