@larand The 21st century's version of "the guys what row the boat to the beat of a drum"
// @jmreekes
@hybotics The few times I've had that happen, I've taken the, "Alrighty then", approach. The comments in the code would go thusly..,
// When this fails. And it will. Go see Frank/Joe/whoever told me "This is the way we do things here"
// @matigo
@hybotics He was a close friend and helping him modernize that code is why I wound up in the south to begin with. Heavy pot smoker. His code reflected that. There was a sort of idiot savant genius about the stuff he did.
We lost him a few years back to a massive heart attack. Miss the guy.
// @matigo
@hybotics My worst BASIC experience was a binary tree filing system written in Microsoft Professional Basic by an engineer.
It's a standard sort of thing that sane languages handle with recursion.
To anyone who has coded them before..
Imagine it being done, with ANSI standard BASIC. Line numbers. GOTOs. GOSUBs. And the whole thing being done by someone who was an engineer/physicist by trade.
It made my head throb.
// @matigo
@hybotics Being confined to other people's code is about the closest thing to Hell you can experience.
// @matigo
@larand I've been in a mood all morning. I think everyone here realizes it too. Wide berth. Even the CEO. Have a very complicated and time consuming remote configuration coming up soon that will likely keep me after hours. I'm trying to improve my mood by doing nothing in particular until that phone call comes in.
@phoneboy This reminds me. I have a Seiko and a Mondaine with broken bands and dead batteries I need to do something about.
// @thrrgilag @larand
@matigo Yeah. That company's local tech person called yesterday to confirm that a new power supply was in place.
"She told me about the switch. Can you believe she did that?!"…"Yes".
That tech and I have many conversations that go this way. She's damned good at what she does too. I was she were closer. I'd contract her out in an instant.
// @hybotics
@larand They should never have that label because people like me look at it and say, "Oh yeah?", then lose weeks of our lives.
// @phoneboy @japchap @hybotics