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I'm working on some code of my own creation. It involves retrieving similar (but not identical) data from about half a dozen databases. This data ibnolves medical clinics. Each database source has its own id/naming convention for clinics. Yesterday, I realized that I needed the department name under which each clinic operates. Instead of writing another stored proc to retrieve just this info, I completely ripped out all existing code for the individual data sources, and wrote a single stored proc that returns ALL of the data for a given clinic from all of the database sources, and then spent a couple of hours refactoring the code to use the new data. Benefit - I only have to retrieve the data one time when the app starts up instead of waiting until it's needed (and it WILL be needed). Everything became easier because the data is always available (in a static Globals class).
New programmers (as a rule) would rather code around the problem rather than address the problem directly. Granted, it can be difficult to know when optimizing the code is the right way to go, but still...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Well, a "Master of Disaster" indeed (see his own response). 
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The problem is, you're assuming what the end result looks like from the names. If this is a Windows Forms app with multiple tabs, and each tab had a mix of textboxes and a grid, then it's entirely possible that it would look like this by default. It could be that they have created a data capture application that is driven by a wizard type interface.
Of course, having a decent naming convention would be a big start.
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A uni lecturer told me of a colleague who had used various case spellings of "Fred" for variables in a Fortran program, which is just about as useful (stupid too). I suppose one could argue that one did it deliberately and one by being lazy, but I'd still say shoot them.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Quote: A uni lecturer told me of a colleague who had used various case spellings of "Fred" for variables in a Fortran program, which is just about as useful (stupid too). I suppose one could argue that one did it deliberately and one by being lazy, but I'd still say shoot them.
What? Fortran programmers?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Heck no, just the ones called Fred.
Cobol programmers, on the other hand ....
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I though they had died of old age (saying that I started as a Cobol programmer but managed to escape before it caught hold)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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are you looking at Lucy code? back in the day when I was a newbie programmer, I and a friend were assigned to work on a team with this russian gal named lucy. lucy wrote all her code with default names and to make it worse, she used the following for names for variables.
int var1, var2
string var3, var4, var5
double var6, var7
I am not making this up.
Some of the things we were doing were fairly complex. Her code usually compiled and she would brow beat(small shop and she was an angry russian) the installer to roll her code out.
IT never ever ever worked and then she would almost always be gone the next day on vacation/sick. I rewrote about 90% of it and would get in trouble for taking so much time.
It was not the most fun experience but at the time I really did not know any better. I did learn how to use the debugger quite well and how to set break points etc...
To this day I call this lucy code.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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sorry - was busy battening down the hatches ready for the cyclone expected in the morning,
Its a nerds mistake, being late (9)
Good luck!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Tardiness!
"its a nerds" - mistake = anagram = Tardiness.
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Damned!
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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+5 - first by a whisker!
Good luck tomorrow!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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"Tardiness" - anagram?
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Sooooo Cloooooose (you got it right, of course - just missed winning by about 4 seconds!)
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Its a nerds
mistake (ANAG) being late
TARDINESS
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You took too long formatting that - POmpey smashed in the answer first 
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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The irony of his being too late given the answer.
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And I chose the word because of my tardiness
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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A combination of my natural tardiness, and the sluggish way the site is responding this morning...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Its a nerds mistake - boy (they are always boys XD)
being late - chick (chicks are always late ... )
BOYCHICK
i have no idea what im doing 
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HobbyProggy wrote: i have no idea what im doing
Being incredibly sexist?
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What do you expect from a bloke?
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i googled that term and as far as i understood it has nothing to do with s3xism?
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Um..."chicks are always late" isn't sexist?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Um..."chicks are always late" isn't sexist?
Ups, but well, thats a fact i had to learn 
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