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At one place I worked, a cute girl in the wallah department complained over a beer that she had to spend a huge amount of time decompiling delivered excel sheets into multiple contract-related sheets, so I whipped up a cool macro that did it for her in less than half a minute -- all graphically, so you could see the new sheets open and populate lightning fast.
Boy, did I ever regret it.
Sure, I had fun with the young lady, but that turned out to be transient.
The "Hey, I've heard you're good with excel!" factor, however, stuck like dog sh1t.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Not even their God can help them now...
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Sounds like an Access 2003 system (originally started much earlier) that I have to support...
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I wrote some Javascript about 10 years ago and I still feel the same.
You think you're over it, you think it's in the past, you think life's back on track ... then one night you wake up screaming and it's like it only happened yesterday. You spend hours in the shower trying to get clean but the filth just sticks to you. A car back-fires and you're back there on the battlefield. Blood everywhere. People screaming. People dying. And in the middle of it all - that filthy, filthy excuse for a language.
There is no recovery. No road back to sanity. No road back to dignity. You are marked for life. And all for a few lines of code.
Why? Dammit! WHY????
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Yeah, it's something you can only talk about if you have a doll you can use to identify what hurts.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That's funny, Somehow I always took you for a
Combats
type of guy, instead of
Uggs.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: VBA script in Excel Awesome. You can do all kinds of fun stuff. And, it's easy because you can record half of it usually.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Did you get therapy for this? You should write a blog about your painful experience, and other snowflakes can follow you.
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Most doctors shake their head, and apologize for not being able to help me "because the hurt goes too deep".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I'm sensing a pattern here...does JSOP dislike VB?
Variety is the spice of life! Yesterday for me was a mix of VB.Net, VBS, C#, JavaScript and CSS and I feel fine.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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It's the habanero chili of programming,
not the very hottest (the carolina reaper), but not far off
can be taken taken in small doses to excite the palette (or to show off)
but in large quantities will incinerate your mouth going in and basically de-ring you coming out.
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the any key may be continuate
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Super, super far off from a Carolina Reaper.
One makes pale people cry a little. The other is weapons grade.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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kmoorevs wrote: es JSOP dislike VB? No no no!
It's the love of his life!
It's VBA that's the problem, because it's a watered-down perversion of his beloved!
Please, cheer him up by sending all your questions about VB (NOT VBA!) to him!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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On my gravestone, I want "He was an evil b@st@rd!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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As I always say, it's not the tool that is used that's the problem, it's usually the tool that uses it.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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That the clever method you made, isn't conforming with the MSDN documentation and therefore might be dependent on a bug.
What do you do?
- Fix the (at the moment nonexistent) problem despite taking several days, just to make sure a nasty bug doesn't appear whenever MS changes their method, which they might never do.
- Or do you add a comment to the method in question stating what the fix is if it's ever needed.
- Other.
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In a idilliac situation point 1. Since I'm always overworked and underpaid, point 2.
CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"Go ahead, make my day"
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The answer would depending on many things like:
- If MS fixes their bug, would our bug immediately be visible, and if so, how severe would its impact be?
- Would it affect the core functionality of whatever product/system it's part of?
- Would it lead to revenue loss?
- Would this have a domino effect of some sort?
- How difficult is it to fix the bug at our end?
No matter what, I'd most certainly log it as a defect so that it could be tracked formally. And based on the answers to the questions above, the bug might have an appropriate priority anywhere from "Sometime before Christmas" to "MUST BE DONE YESTERDAY!"
All said, if the said code could be easily re-written or a fix could be made available relatively painlessly, I'd fix it up without putting it off.
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You can't deploy code to production that requires special instructions. "In case of fire, pull handle, kiss ass goodbye".
I would try to use another way, if possible.
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Other: Pretend I haven't noticed anything and hope that I'm far gone by the time it gets to be an issue...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Are you by any chance working as a consultant?
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Nope - If I were, I wouldn't do it that way. As a consultant you have to bill as many hours as humanly possible so in that case, I would definitely investigate the problem... Slowly... Very slowly...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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