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  • C CodeWraith

    I can actually forgive that. This was just for demonstration's sake and does not really do anything else. Why make up fancy names that distract from what you are trying to demonstrate? I never got this obscession with code styles and conventions. We're writing code, not poetry. I'm used to writing machine code on a RISC processor. It does not get any more abstract than that, but by going down to the lowest level you really can see how little information you need when reading someone else's code. That's mostly about what resources are going to be used, what is being accomplished with them and possibly to point out critical or unusual code and the logic behind it. There actually is no need to make an art out of it.

    I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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    W Balboos GHB
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    CodeWraith wrote:

    We're I am writing code, not poetry

    FIFY

    Ravings en masse^

    "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

    "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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      CodeWraith wrote:

      We're I am writing code, not poetry

      FIFY

      Ravings en masse^

      "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

      "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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      CodeWraith
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      Do you recite your poetry before an audience? When will you publish your next book and where must I go to hear you read from it? :-) for (X = 0, y = 42; x < math.Pi && y > 0x1A; x++, y--) { } I just can't wait...

      I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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      • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

        Me: "What do you do at work?" Cushion maker: "Stuff." Me: "Alright then, keep your secrets."

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        Those cushion makers have too much fun; they're always in stitches.

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        • C CodeWraith

          Do you recite your poetry before an audience? When will you publish your next book and where must I go to hear you read from it? :-) for (X = 0, y = 42; x < math.Pi && y > 0x1A; x++, y--) { } I just can't wait...

          I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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          W Balboos GHB
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          It is recited on hundred of desktop - every day - all day. The audience appreciation is the comfort with which they use it and the other artist who can create, because of it's natural beauty, interfaces and outputs with ease. The applause - in a special way - include the silence resulting from everything working as expected. And the audience appreciation probably extends to the bi-weekly paying customer. The site is, for now, internal, only - so you'd need to work here. Surely, by now, you've seen shit masquerading as software. They have some here, too, built by their contractors. My target is a comfortable flowing experience for the developer through users - and also keeping it eye-friendly as most of them stare at it all day.

          Ravings en masse^

          "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

          "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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          • V virang_21

            I just discovered this SQL Server STUFF() Function[^] Bad day at work ?

            Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.

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            obermd
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            I'm trying to figure out why that function even exists other than for obfuscation purposes.

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            • F F ES Sitecore

              Not really, replace needs target text to be replaced, this function does it on character index.

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              Lost User
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              Not really, you can have an offset and a length. There is no "find" implied in replace. It was about "word play", not implementations.

              It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

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              • V virang_21

                I just discovered this SQL Server STUFF() Function[^] Bad day at work ?

                Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.

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                kmoorevs
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                Wow, thanks for that! Perfect timing as I just now happen to need something to swap out only the first 7 characters of an id field in a bunch of tables in multiple dbs. (prepping a demo) This works perfectly! :)

                "Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

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                • C CodeWraith

                  Do you recite your poetry before an audience? When will you publish your next book and where must I go to hear you read from it? :-) for (X = 0, y = 42; x < math.Pi && y > 0x1A; x++, y--) { } I just can't wait...

                  I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                  David ONeil
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                  rose = Red;
                  violet = Blue;
                  CodeWraithsUseOfDescriptiveAndPoeticNames = 0;

                  The forgotten roots of science | C++ Programming | DWinLib

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                    rose = Red;
                    violet = Blue;
                    CodeWraithsUseOfDescriptiveAndPoeticNames = 0;

                    The forgotten roots of science | C++ Programming | DWinLib

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                    CodeWraith
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                    F8 00 BD BE AC AD AE AF
                    F8 FF BC BF 7A

                    There you go. RGBA in two register pairs and the rest in a the microcontrollerish I/O flag Q. Big deal. :-)

                    I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                    • W W Balboos GHB

                      It is recited on hundred of desktop - every day - all day. The audience appreciation is the comfort with which they use it and the other artist who can create, because of it's natural beauty, interfaces and outputs with ease. The applause - in a special way - include the silence resulting from everything working as expected. And the audience appreciation probably extends to the bi-weekly paying customer. The site is, for now, internal, only - so you'd need to work here. Surely, by now, you've seen shit masquerading as software. They have some here, too, built by their contractors. My target is a comfortable flowing experience for the developer through users - and also keeping it eye-friendly as most of them stare at it all day.

                      Ravings en masse^

                      "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                      "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                      CodeWraith
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                      How romantic. :-) The truth is that your audience gets my totally unromantic binaries and your poetry may or may not survive as debug information.

                      I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                      • C CodeWraith

                        F8 00 BD BE AC AD AE AF
                        F8 FF BC BF 7A

                        There you go. RGBA in two register pairs and the rest in a the microcontrollerish I/O flag Q. Big deal. :-)

                        I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                        W Balboos GHB
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                        Ya' know what?   I think you would benefit from buying some of that computer memory that comes with colors and fins and looks almost ready to fly. Maybe some colored lights, too. "For in the land of the blind, he with one good eye is king"

                        Ravings en masse^

                        "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                        "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                        • V virang_21

                          I just discovered this SQL Server STUFF() Function[^] Bad day at work ?

                          Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.

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                          David Crow
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                          What happens if you call it twice?

                          "One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson

                          "Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons

                          "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles

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                          • A Amarnath S

                            Isn't this intended for the Verb meaning of Stuff, as in verb - fill (a receptacle or space) tightly with something. "an old teapot stuffed full of cash" Indeed, this function is filling tightly the old characters with the new ones. Or, am i missing something?

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                            Wizard of Sleeves
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                            Any computer I work on will end up with a folder off the root called Stuff, in which I put... well, stuff that I might need.

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                            • V virang_21

                              I just discovered this SQL Server STUFF() Function[^] Bad day at work ?

                              Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.

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                              User 13269747
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                              Could be worse. Back in 2003 I worked on a codebase (which had copyright notices going all the way back to 1991) that had "DoProcessing1()", "DoProcessing2()", etc scattered all over. Come to think of it, it also had variables named "ByteArray1", "ByteArray2", etc scattered all over too.

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                              • V virang_21

                                I just discovered this SQL Server STUFF() Function[^] Bad day at work ?

                                Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.

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                                I don't understand your comment. I use the STUFF function regularly and it seems perfectly named. From macmillandiction.com: Stuff (verb transitive): to fill a container or space with something So we have the following evolution:

                                Stuff \[space\] with \[something\]
                                Stuff \[ from  for \] with \[something\]
                                Stuff 'SQL Tutorial' from (character 1) for (3 characters) with 'HTML'
                                STUFF('SQL Tutorial', 1, 3, 'HTML')
                                

                                It seems to me whoever named it came up with a very precise and succinct name.

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                                • V virang_21

                                  I just discovered this SQL Server STUFF() Function[^] Bad day at work ?

                                  Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.

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                                  T Brian Hughes
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                                  We have a method named MixMaster. We were at the whiteboard and didn't know what to call something; drew a box and labeled it Mix Master just to avoid being stuck. The method name has survived about 7-8 years...

                                  Brian Hughes

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                                  • V virang_21

                                    I just discovered this SQL Server STUFF() Function[^] Bad day at work ?

                                    Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.

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                                    STUFF is ancient database function: Clipper Reference Guide · Clipper 5.3[^]

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                                    • C CodeWraith

                                      Do you recite your poetry before an audience? When will you publish your next book and where must I go to hear you read from it? :-) for (X = 0, y = 42; x < math.Pi && y > 0x1A; x++, y--) { } I just can't wait...

                                      I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                                      Member 11005478
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                                      Not quite coding, but...

                                      12 + 144 + 20 + (3 * 4^1/2)) / 7) + (5 * 11) = 9^2 + 0

                                      to be read: "a dozen, a gross and a score, plus three times the square root of four, divided by seven, plus five times eleven, equals nine squared plus not a bit more"

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                                      • W Wizard of Sleeves

                                        Any computer I work on will end up with a folder off the root called Stuff, in which I put... well, stuff that I might need.

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                                        DerekT P
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                                        I always have a folder called _A in the root of each (fixed) drive on my systems. This means it's always at the top of the directory listing and quicker to find than "stuff". All "temporary" or "uncategorisable" stuff goes in there and every few months I have a cleanout.

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