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  • Re: My computing practical exam source code.

     It's better than most of the code I see on a daily basis but then again the interview screening assignments I review are also better than most of the code I see on a daily basis.
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by JimLahey on 05-13-2013
  • Re: You just went full hungarian

    Yep. I see this in spades, every day. Some of us are using a similar convention for our class and method names. Firstly, you can prefix all our classes or interfaces with a capital letter, let's say "X" so we can tell what's ours because hey, source code and namespaces just aren't enough. If the method is allowed to be ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by JimLahey on 04-26-2013
  • Re: SessionFactoryImpl - take it to the dry cleaner?

     wow. I don't know how this translates to NHibernate but I wouldn't have expected all that in Hibernate.
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by JimLahey on 04-17-2013
  • Re: Backdoor Caffeination

     The best drinking game I've seen is "the rum game". The rules are simple, sit in a circle with an opened bottle of rum. take a swig and pass the bottle on. the next person has to take a bigger swig. that's all.
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by JimLahey on 04-12-2013
  • Re: Auto-Restart Calc.exe After Crash

    [quote user="bridget99"]If Microsoft wants to try and hide their little forced reboot like a 3-year-old throwing his Brussels sprouts under the table, so be it.[/quote]  I just let it happen these days. Not using a windows PC for more than two weeks always results in about an hour's downtime for "installing update 1 of ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by JimLahey on 04-11-2013
  • Re: sure, I'll agree to this EULA....

    [quote user="morbiuswilters"]LOL, hey guys, I tried installing Minecraft on my Atari Jaguar and---I'll be goddamned, it worked.[/quote]  I'm certain our CI setup runs on an abacus.  
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by JimLahey on 04-09-2013
  • Re: I love you guys, seriously

    Only a fool would enter the nightmare of cake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwylBRucU7w
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by JimLahey on 04-08-2013
  • Re: The Bar-Seperated Values CSV

    [quote user="KrakenLover"] Vendor:   Well, for one, you can't have commas in your data anywhere or it confuses the parser. Vendor:  You can't have quotation marks in the file at all, it confuses the parser.  And wrapping commas in quotes doesn't matter.  You can't have commas in your data.  ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by JimLahey on 04-08-2013
  • Re: How can it get this bad?

    [quote user="joe.edwards"]I want a Visual Studio add-in or extension that adds an arsenal of weapons you can use to shoot, burn, bomb, and nuke bad code.[/quote] That sounds nice. happy, friendly bombs. It might not be enough in our case. I may resort to chucking our SVN server into the brook behind our office building. It's a ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by JimLahey on 03-21-2013
  • WTF Count

    So my patience is running out. The web application I inherited when I started here is throwing exceptions in all the places in the code that I said from the outset were not fit for production. Today's error: "Value cannot be null", accompanied by some Linq to Xml related stacktrace. No logs. What does the page in question do? It ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by JimLahey on 03-21-2013
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