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Sounds like visual studio

It's that feeling of...holy shit I'm never gonna have to do that again :D

Or..I'll never have to wait for them to do that again :D

Oh my...How long did that go on for? I've had too many conversations like this...I was getting frustrated just reading your rant lol

@orijin or even worse if they mix data and VoIP cables :/ gotta cross those not run in parallel

Man..I wish my friday afternoons we're like this, jelly.

@T-Hammer no...NTFS is just the file system on the drive. HDD used NTFS as well. The reason an SSD is faster is because there is no disk, no moving parts in order to rotate and read data from, an SSD is a type of flash memory with near RAM speeds. While a file system can help a little the real bottle neck is the physical hardware.

@ygtgngr isnt that any of the code you write 4 months later.

Hey that's how I got started too. I was in IT support and was the only one. As the task list kept growing I automated more and more using c# and vbscript. I eventually made the transition to a new job after a few years to be an entry level developer because I got so tired of trying to support third party products with clueless customer support. I like being the one to make those products and if something goes wrong, I have the source to figure out why :D

Keep your head above water. It'll pass, I was told by my manager at my first job to make sure I leave work at a decent time because there's always work to do. No matter how much you work there will always be more, so make sure I get my rest so I don't burn out.

I want to commit this at work and just wait for someone come across it

What I've learned is that they normally just don't know any better until someone tells them. They aren't akin to looking for better solutions but instead just using what is provided. Try and present the alternative in a way that makes it seem like a great time saver and communication helper. Which, it is lol

@justatshirt I had to upvote for because I just pictured someone saying that and being completely serious and watching the awkward silence fall over a room :) ++

Funny...I've written code suspiciously like this when dealing with Microsoft's AppFabric

This would only work if the social situation threw an exception.
Equivalent of try { processRiskyText();}catch {/*swallow */}
The exception would never boil up and you would never know if you left whatever attempted to process you risky text in an inconsistent state or not. That could bite you in the ass later.

I see this alot when a company converts an Access database to MSSQL. I don't understand why they don't update the names... I get so tired of having to wrap everything in [ ]

@Artemix sounds like you have very little direct human interaction with your database system lol which is good

Ever try to rollback a delete transaction in production that was missing a where clause? Just watch all of those tables lock :D

In my company this happens so often they ended up creating a category for these requests called requirement bug. Meaning when the requirements were originally gathered this was missed lol

@Grundeir I don't agree that tests couldn't replace documentation because gherkin provides a great higher level syntax for business or anyone to describe functionality and then create step definitions that execute that spec.

That's pretty cool. I might need to try rust.

@alqaline94 agreed. I love how every place I've worked say no magic strings, use a config or something. But it never happens and it never gets enforced. So you have the same magic strings referenced in 10 places in 3 systems and you misspell one and can't figure out why something is breaking. Good stuff

I know quite a devs who get pretty intense under pressure. Normally very nice people, very intelligent, just scary if they are under pressure lol

This is why I practice TDD, my tests TEL you how this should work. Which sounds like Rust has the concept baked, am I understanding right?

You don't like magic strings?

Sooo...Seeing that all roads down the engineering path lead to refactoring...The engineer in me wants to refactor the picture to be, if you're an engineer then refactor. Or, is that the joke??

able to access the JavaScript console, so don't just have client side validation.

I can read your rant as sarcasm and it still works :D

are terrific exploratory testers...

@Synth-Synapses it wasn't the bank that used ie8 it was one of our business clients that utilizes our web apps for remote capture, etc.

Do you work for a bank? I could see that. When I was doing an on-site setup of one of our apps for a client, I noticed they were still using ie8, Windows XP. Being curious, I asked why and they said their IT staff said that most of the web apps they use didn't support other browsers so they couldn't upgrade. I didn't know what to say. Sounded like they were using the wrong web apps.

I answer this way sometimes to encourage entry and junior devs to either think about the correct question to ask or to encourage them to look for an answer on their own first. Of course, if it's a critical issue where production is going down and things are on fire that isn't always a good teachable moment.