I'd like a compiler add in that appends ",in my opinion" to all it's error messages :-)

By default, they are applied automatically. There is a configuration setting to disable them though.

Not interesting enough. - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

This is programming as an art[^] (For the unaware, this is the youtube recording of a 64kbyte executable - all real time calculation, including the music playing. The executable can be downloaded from pouet.org) Do not escape reality : improve reality !

Richard Deeming wrote: Isn't that the same cow that appeared in The Lounge yesterday[^]? I guess I'm chewing the cud. Marc Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

Good Lord! No sooner do I mention affirmation of the consequent in one posting, but I find an example of it in another posting! How synchrowhatzitous! The thingy drifted 15 km, therefore it was caused by the Yarkovsky effect! ... Or maybe it hit a 3cc pebble, somewhere in the millions of miles that it travelled. I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

It is an amazing feat. New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!

I would give that manager a choice: the second word out of my mouth can be "you" or "off".

Nish Nishant wrote: I thought he just bought a sports car and was gonna congratulate him for that. Waste of money. :) If I had that cash to burn, I'd donate it somewhere. Marc Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

:laugh: Jeremy Falcon

I'm prepping a talk on distributed event stream processing so I did a trial run with my wife and a dog we were looking after - I have a feeling that their reaction will be fairly typical of what the target audience will have...

I have no clue. I was amazed by what looks like a CRT monitor and really ugly keyboard. I am a simpleton. "You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[^]

Yes

What's the problem? Some moron at ms is into the olympics, so you have to be into the olympics. How dare you not be! Just like some moron at ms is into baby blocks, and another into ribbons, another into a cr@ppy VocReg (that really is cr@p, compared to apple's), etc. You don't own your property, any more. They've decided that their OS is "a service", which to them means that any machine it's run on belongs to them, as far as they're concerned. Why anyone who knows anything about computers updated to winio, I simply do not understand. I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Glad you're OK. Bill-ji. /ravi My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

charlieg wrote: blocking any meaningful reform Because I wasn't talking about reform. I was talking about illegal predatory loans that could never be serviced by the borrower should interest rates go up (they did) and these loans packaged and mislabeled (by the financial institutions). Loans made not by Wall Street, where the fraudulent packaging and reselling took place, but my Main Street, where the local mortgage broker talked people into these loans. So far as I've heard, none of these brokers got so much as a slap on the fingertip for the profits they pocketed. But who was minding the store? Checking and approving/not approving these loans. Well, it was a replay of the Reagan FSLIC era: the Federal enforcement was called off as it was inhibiting commerce. Or, had it been in the 'recognized crime' world, influence peddling and racketeering. But - as I did mention - the money finally spent was from the Middle Class's pockets. At least for the auto industry, the loans have been (or are being) paid back with interest. The laws, meant to stop this, never made it through congress (dominated by which party - duh). 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 are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

I just can't find the time to sit down and focus on anything to write! Yes I have plenty of time..........but it is all broken into pieces so keeping train of thought together is a nightmare....... I have just come back from a week in the UK and took back with me, RasPi, Arduino, Beagleboard, EveAlpha and 4 Punchthrough Beans, with the hope of getting back into things. :sigh: Dave Find Me On:Web|Youtube|Facebook|Twitter|LinkedIn Folding Stats: Team CodeProject

I did something similar. My program connects to a SQL database and when that database connection is broken an exception is thrown and logged to a message processor which also tries to log it to the, wait for it, SQL database. Which then throws the exception again.....

You can't call it engineering until some objective measures can be applied to the whole endeavour of software development; of which there are very few. Mathematics and science does factor in some ways (e.g. code metrics or relative performance of algorithms) but taken out of context of requirements, design and success - in the business sense - not that much help. To put it another way, there is no way to observe an existing project and predict it's outcome, even with a margin of error. You can't observe a software developer and objectively measure their performance either. Nor can you apply any true measure to a team. To describe software engineering as dead, misses the point. It never was alive as an engineering discipline because the basics have never been discovered let alone applied. At the moment it is an artistic endeavour. The best analogy I've come across is the comparison to a team sport where science helps, but cannot fill in for the human factors. Frustratingly I'm not an academic so I'm not familiar with any formal studies, but I do know some are being made. However, the studies I have read about don't, IMHO, control the myriad of variables correctly or mitigate them through wide statistical sampling. Not convinced they are asking the right questions either. If I ever had the opportunity I would perform a range of studies to try and uncover some fundamental truths about software development. For prosperity here is a list of studies I would like to see done; 1. TDD vs non-TDD 2. How effective is refactoring? 3. Does documentation help a new developer? 4. Is pair programming more effective than lone development? 5. Is it better to learn through documentation or pair programming? 6. How accurate are comments? 7. Is bug fixing more expensive than good design? 8. Is untidy code more fault prone? 9. Are some requirements more error prone than others?

I posted a question on SO last year that got downvoted before it has solicited a single response. Apparently my QUESTION was poor quality :doh: For this reason I have little to do with SO. Unfortunately it has emigrated miles and miles away from where it started. It's now very much an elitist club where only rock star devs and coding ninjas go to have hang out whilst they tell each other how awesome they are :-D "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter