When developer give up on naming things...
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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.
"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
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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F8 FF BC BF 7AThere 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.
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"
"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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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.
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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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?
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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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.
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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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.
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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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.
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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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.
STUFF is ancient database function: Clipper Reference Guide · Clipper 5.3[^]
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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.
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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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.
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.
