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Errors are bad, k? We don’t want errors. More importantly, we don’t want weird errors. To reach...the unreachable exception. To fix...the unfixable error.
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catch{
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MessageBox("This should never pop up #XX. If it does, something went veeeery wrong. Please contact us and tell us the number");
}You would be surprised how often you can find things like this.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Sadly, not too surprised. I think I may have written that a few times.  
TTFN - Kent
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In interpreted languages, you don't even need all that catch/throw red tape. Just write a line of
"This should never pop up #XX. If it does, something went veeeery wrong. Please contact us and tell us the number" with no stash or wrapping. When the interpreter tries to parse the message, it will fail, and crash.
Details depend on the language. If the language allows random constants (as I have seen some do!), remove the ""s and phrase the message so that it cannot be interpreted as valid code.
One alternative is to use a static code analysis tool, with proper flow analysis. If it is a good one, it will tell you that 'if x is between 0 and 10 in function so-and-so, when calling function this-and-that and y is 0, and then ... then it will cause this statement to be executed', giving you the recipe for reaching that unreachable code.
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A customer was doing an inventory of the files on their system, and they found files named passwords.txt that were filled with somebody else’s passwords. And I've been saving all my passwords in that file
No wonder it keeps telling me they're no good
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Next time use another name, like 'ctrl.com' or something similar and the passwords will stay safe.
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GitUI provides you with the comfort of a git GUI but right in your terminal For those who like the command-line, but not really?
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Quote: GitUI provides you with the comfort of a git GUI but right in your terminal
Supporters of Terminals and GUIs immediately declare a ceasefire to attack the blasphemers.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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In a viral LinkedIn post, a CEO said he fired two engineers for secretly working two full-time jobs. Are you working hard, or working two jobs at a time?
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Dilbert 2020-12-24[^]
If someone can work part-time and do what is touted as a full-time job to their manager's satisfaction, good for them. High performers are usually way underpaid, and this is one way to rectify it. This CEO is probably grossly overpaid himself, which makes him a sanctimonious butthole who should have tried to keep performers like this on staff. Imagine what they could contribute if working for the company full time.
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I would agree with your sentiments in the general case, but in one of the cases, the engineer was not meeting expectations:
Quote: Bell said Canopy discovered the first engineer was secretly working a second full-time job after 2 1/2 months of poor performance, which had been flagged by the engineer's teammates.
In the other, the new hire was told before hiring that the company does not allow dual full-time jobs, and he/she lied about it.
Quote: The second engineer showed similar red flags before they even started the position, Bell said, and HR told the person directly that the company was not OK with dual full-time employment. An employment-verification request soon confirmed HR's hunch was correct, despite the engineer's initial denial.
Firing was justified in both cases, but for different reasons.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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When I clicked on the link, all I saw was a headline and a photo. There wasn't even a scrollbar, let alone part of an article. I'm guessing it was because of my ad blocker, but there was no prompt to turn it off. 
I'll still be cheering for anyone who pulls this off while performing satisfactorily. 
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Greg Utas wrote: When I clicked on the link, all I saw was a headline and a photo. There wasn't even a scrollbar, let alone part of an article. I'm guessing it was because of my ad blocker, but there was no prompt to turn it off.
I didn't run into anything like that this time; but it has become annoyingly more common. IN the good old days you could just block the modal and it's full screen background and be good. Increasingly I'm finding pages that skip the fullscreen modal background and just disable scrolling on the main content instead. With the tools I have the only LART I've found that works is often to fully disable js on their site.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Before I accepted the nomination for a Boy Scout District Commissioner (volunteer) position, I talked to my boss about it. The reason is that we frequently tell new volunteers that It's an hour a week but we omit the last two words It's an hour a week per scout. I knew this position would impact my paying job so I checked first.
Anyone who doesn't check first is a fool.
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Reading the list and the reasons for the firings, they had nothing to do with morals, ethics, or holding multiple jobs. None of these items is a defensible reason in today's environment. However, firing them for subpar performance is valid. This CEO's only real mistake was publishing why they were fired.
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couple years ago the guy that outsourced his work, but companies that outsource parts to another country, ah no.
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Cloud skills are complicated and in high demand. Smart enterprises need a practical approach to the staffing shortage, and smart employees need multicloud skills. And some people have a cloud problem
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Someday it would be interesting to compare the knowledge of the CEOs/CIOs,C*Os who are pushing this, to the knowledge of the programmers programming it. I suspect the former greatly lags behind the latter, because the former is full of buzzwords vs. actual knowledge. And I suspect if pay became commensurate with knowledge, the world would change overnight.
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David O'Neil wrote: if pay became commensurate with knowledge, the world would change overnight.
- Real-estate prices would plummet, as the CxOs could no longer afford the mortgages on their McMansions and they are repossessed by the banks
- Ditto for high-end vehicles
- The CxOs would be forced to compete for living space with the other homeless
- Violent crime would increase, as the CxOs tried to make ends meet with no visible talents or abilities
- The several States would have to build more prisons to incarcerate all those criminal ex-CxOs
- There would be a shortage of builders, requiring the States to put all of those ex-CxOs on the chain gang!
What could be bad? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Sounds like a wonderful world! If Frank Capra was still alive he could make a feel-good movie about it!
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Even better, 99% of our current politicians and bureaucrats would be gone if knowledge was a prerequisite.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: There would be a shortage of builders, requiring the States to put all of those ex-CxOs on the chain gang!
What could be bad?
The collapse of buildings when the ex-CxOs decided to speed up construction when no one was watching by "optimizing" away the installation of 80% of the fasteners and 90% of the bracing specified in the blueprints as needed to maintain structural integrity.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Dan Neely wrote: "optimizing" away the installation of 80% of the fasteners and 90% of the bracing
The Romans allegedly had a very good quality-control system for their bridges. When a bridge was complete, the engineer was made to stand under the bridge, and a legion was marched over the bridge. If the bridge collapsed, the engineer would have been the first to be killed.
I'm sure we can think up a similar arrangement for the chain gang workers...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Google Search is timing out when users search for specific terms like "How many emojis on iOS," "How many emojis on Apple" and "How many emojis on Windows." "But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know"
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