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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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If it works then you have a spec, better than a beer coaster. You probably don't want to know the details of how such a dev achieved a result, just reverse engineer it!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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So the Snr Dev tells the boss: "These consultants are doing things all wrong. They hack 'solutions' live on customer sites, then
rewrite largely the same thing from scratch on the next site - just with a few customisations. It's horrible to maintain and impossible to support. They should be using SVN!"
Boss: "It's fine. It's the way we've always done it."
Fast forward to the next week...
A customer support call comes in: "I have a problem with version 1.7."
So the support engineer searches SVN and finds nothing. He DOES find dlls for version 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5. But WTF where is 1.7 (or 1.6 for that matter)?
Calls back the customer: "This is terribly embarrassing but can you send me a copy of the dll."
Support Engineer goes to Snr Dev: "Hi, we don't seem to have source code for version 1.7. Can you reverse engineer this dll please?"
Snr Dev "Reverse Engineer OUR dlls!?! Arrgh, I'm gonna kill those consultants!"
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WiganLatics wrote: consultants
I think I see your problem.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
(√-sh*t) 2
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You really will get mad, when you would see what they charge for that crap. Twice or more of your salary.
Your boss is a fool - get away
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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KarstenK wrote: boss is a fool
What new here?
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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KarstenK wrote: boss is a fool
finally, someone tells the truth
In code we trust !
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As a consultant, I find that the situation is usually the reverse, where the in-house staff have no SCM, and hack things directly on their system. My first task I usually do in those cases is to a) get everything under version control, b) set up a clean, consistent build process, c) document all of this, and d) bill for all work done.
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I'd be much obliged if you'd come and do that for our lot.
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WiganLatics wrote: It's fine. It's the way we've always done it. Up to a certain age he always sh*t his pants - does that make it "fine" to continue on the same route and refuse potty-training?
WiganLatics wrote: Reverse Engineer OUR dlls!?! If they had proper obfuscation, that would be hard
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I might ask him about the potty training.
Quote: If they had proper obfuscation, that would be hard
True, the key word being 'if'.
In this case it's kinda good that they didn't have it, BUT also quite worrying in general.
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Message Removed
modified 13-Dec-14 20:44pm.
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Message Removed
modified 13-Dec-14 20:44pm.
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The other day my father was trying to copy 12 GB from the flash to the PC. But then he had a wonderful idea. He somehow knows the recycle bin folder was in the hard drive. He deleted the files because he thought the files will be on the recycle bin on C: and then he will click restore and they will be restored on the hard drive. And all the files will be copied on the PC in seconds. I laughed so hard I almost had asthma
Amazing the way old people think...
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There are times I'm glad my father uses a Mac.
Did you see the "Dumb Things People Do?" Loung thread the other day?
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In his defense, this old guy wants to know if your father can spell "genius"?
cat fud heer
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sorry its hard to be trilingual
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I thought my Dad was displaying his final act of dumb stubbornness when he wouldn't get on the internet and even gave back the 486 I gave to him.
He and my mom are still not connected.
I run a PC (Antivirus anymore) shop and couldn't be happier about that.
It is not popular but I contend a good number of the world's population should do something other than operate computers.
It was all were forced onto them by the internet.
I tell them when their drive is going clunk cluck cluck that computer is a terrible place to put your memories (Remember shoe boxes?) And to back them up a lot cause you just can't trust them.
I'll stop here before I launch into a rant about WD scorpio blue drives. Suffice to say I have a pile of dead ones.
/ron
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Ron Anders wrote: WD scorpio blue drives
Insist on Black. Black is cool.
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I'll second the WD Black...the only time I had a problem was because an Intel chip fried on my Prescott box and it fried the electronics on the WD Black HD...WD gave me a new one, no questions asked.
I use Green drives on my HTPC...haven't had any problems with those either.
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DaveX86 wrote: Green drives
I considered Green, but I leave my system running and I used to run Folding@Home, so I figured it would never get any rest, ergo I opted for Black.
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Yeah, the box I leave running 24/7 has all black drives in it too...I do allow them to spin down which saves a lot of wear but it's a pain in the butt waiting for them to spin up all the time.
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Saves lot of heat too - my NAS does that and it's fan hardly ever moves.
And heat is a killer for electronics as well as bearings - lowers the MTBF from my experience.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Very true...looking forward to trying those supposed 10TB SSD drives that Intel has been bragging about
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Now I'd like four of those in a NAS, set up for RAID5!
But I'd hate the mortgage I'd probably need to get one...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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