@musician Not my code, someone else is doing it and our team does zero automated style enforcement.

if (expression) {

}

That is what I meant. Though

if ( expression ) {

}

is still more readable than

if(expression){

}

It's *especially* not cool when you modify my code (which *did* have it spaced correctly) to condense it into the aforementioned abomination.

No, seriously. It's even against the design standard our company is purportedly following.

Just. Don't. Do it.

Well...turns out this one was on me.

The results were being saved, but I wasn't pulling all the results in my search request so it looked like they weren't being saved.

Derp is me.

I bet it has something to do with the company DB architecture being old and archaic, and it would be a huge hassle to rebuild everything. I work for a company that's in the same boat.

Gotta support that < 2%

How will they ever survive without their precious adware installer

I think this is more of a "I need to justify why I have this six-figure job" kind of situation, for Finance.

Well, I just reversed a string as part of comma injection for numbers. Guess I answered my own question.

Honestly, I'm the opposite. I don't like splitting the same tutorial up into multiple parts. Though either way, I actually have to write the thing first before deciding whether it should be split up. :P

MarI/O proves this case in point. :P

*upvotes AlexDeLarge*

*continues to not give a fuck*

@pransmarclou I know I could just turn off auto-save...BUT DAMMIT THIS IS MORE FUN!

I think they want to see how far out you've planned your life. The less you've planned, the easier it is to program your future to keep working with them.

Grog the Orc: "I attempt to hack the door."
DM: Roll Hacking
*rolls d20, d12, two d10, d8, two d6, three d4*
DM: Nope, wrong result.

@Bagul You aren't in swinging range. Yet.

While we're at it, fuck open office and cubicle farm layouts and anyone who ever legitimately thought it was a productivity and collaboration boost.

@linuxxx What display adapter/docking port are you using to connect those monitors?

@CryptoNode Blow up the sun. Then it'll be dark enough for him to get the picture.

@RudeJake

@practiseSafeHex My dad and I made the desk top when I was 15 years old, and it's sitting on top of two filing cabinets and a pedestal on the back corner. Sorry, you won't find it anywhere else. :/

That was probably one of the few times in his life someone spoke critically of him. Of course he would interpret that as a life-threatening situation! You ought to be glad he didn't call the police on you, you just can't abuse people like that!

/sarcasm

@LynxMagnus The "proper" way forward for legacy systems that are so brittle is to rebuild them so they no longer become brittle. That much is obvious. But, depending on how poorly the code is written and how garishly it is architected, that can take months, maybe years of dedicated work. Good luck selling that to the folks upstairs.

"Is this really necessary?"

"Yes, right now it's a miracle anything even works!"

"Well, do it in your spare time, then! Meanwhile, here's this great new idea you need to implement..."

Given the choice between imperfect unit tests and no unit tests...at least imperfect unit tests still provide info, and I'll take that over waiting for the whole system to be refactored so we can make proper unit tests with mocks and spies and everything.

Translation: you haven't shown enough experience with taking it up the ass to make us confident you'll do the same for us.

I mean backend.

*shrug* Sometimes, legacy systems are so brittle you have to hack it to get unit tests working.

This is why we need TDD

You want to be a fish.

Shhh I need to boost the stocks of my company.

What the fucking hell

Just up the charge to 1.99. Then it'll be the bestest app ever

Corollary: Companies and recruiting agencies, stop asking for ninjas of any kind. Rockstars too, while we're at it. That shit's just ridiculous.