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I find it useful mentally to get out of the office for lunch. Unfortunately, being a single man, I don't eat the best and my belly would tell you it's not the greatest. 
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seriously? prepare a fancy meal?
My wife and I are foodies, so we cook. There are always leftovers. But you can surely whip something up for lunch. Breaks your thoughts away from code.
That said, CV19 really elephanted with my reality and still does. I was a cubicle dweller before and now I work from home. It's weird.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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The problem with doing stuff you like is that you naturally gravitate towards eating while doing said stuff you like. It is a problem because that's kinda sh*tty from the health perspective, both metabolic & mental so I force myself to get away from the home office desk for lunch.
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I'm watching The Software Architecture Hour with Neal Ford with Guest Martin Fowler[^] (on O'Reilly).
Fowler said a couple of very interesting things about abstraction that get to the root of OOP.
Martin Fowler
"...the key to controlling complexity in software is the ability to build abstractions for your particular circumstance and then be able to evolve those abstractions and use those abstractions to write & compose into better solutions."
He then said,
Fowler on Spreadsheets... "one of the most successful programming environment...the most widely used programming environments that is out there is spreadsheets. For relatively simple tasks they can be very effective. But again, this inability to create your own abstractions... The fact that you all the time have to work at the level of rows & columns does end up getting in the way."
Often, people who write one-off solutions or who see the solution too simplistically (from a higher level, like a manager) think you are wasting time Engineering or Designing a solution that works to solve a Class of Problems.
Martin Fowler: "If you can't build your own abstractions, you're not going to be able to tackle anything of serious complexity."
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And Marc says, abstractions are great, but you need concrete code to get things done.
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Marc Clifton wrote: you need concrete code to get things done.
I agree, but you know the Abstractions Fowler is talking about are code too, right?
I also understand that there are times that "Architects" create "Class Hierarchies" which offer little to no benefit, but being able to interact with higher level things is almost always better than fussing over pedantic details every time.
Of course, the counterpoint to that is, "Someone, somewhere has to write the pedantic code that parses each byte or whatever." But that should be properly stuck behind an interface (notice small i) and used as a black box to save time.
It's just if you get stuck thinking at the level of bytes then you can never get enough air to be able to see the whole picture.
Of course, again, if you're doing embedded type of work this will all sound ridiculous again.
But creating larger solutions based upon step-by-step details will probably preclude you from ever building something "bigger".
Lots of trade-offs. But when it comes to Business-Logic (IT World - versus aforementioned embedded) Abstractions provide a strong ability to get large projects done.
I myself am back & forth on it, because I do quite a bit of embedded, backend, detailed algos and then also want to just crank out a usable End-User Product.
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Yes, but still...
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When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don’t know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don’t actually mean anything at all. These are the people I call Architecture Astronauts.
" -- Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You – Joel on Software[^]
If'n I recall correctly, several years ago there was a member whose signature included an admonition against making something generic before you have seen at least three examples to go from.
Someone who can't think in abstractions will not succeed, nor will someone who thinks only in abstractions.
It's about balance.
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A round-about way of saying you need to "analyze; then design". He could have just as well said "model" instead of abstraction and more people would have understood what he was talking about.
ERD diagrams, UML diagrams, etc. are all "models" / abstractions to help create the "final" abstraction (of some process) in code.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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My cat frequently has whisker fatigue. 
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A great feast confined the base price. (9)
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Craig,
It's misspelled but you chose the correct answer.
Pentecost
A great feast confined the base price. (9)
A great feast = definition
confined = Pent
the base = e
price = cost
pent
E
cost
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Thanks for the correction - I figured "cost" was "base price" -- the amount paid by the retailer for a product, which they then raise by some amount to make a profit. I didn't know what the "e" was (or "a" in my case  ).
Best wishes from chilly Minnesota! - Craig
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@Randor
Where's the CCC? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Time for an Oi Randor !!!
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I dun it.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Free speech! Unless it's critical of me or my new toy!
For a supposed genius Musk doesn't understand a thing about anything. He's about to find out though.
Edited to remove a political statement. I forgot myself. It's early and I'm still trying to clear the cobwebs out of my head.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
modified 7-Nov-22 4:54am.
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So nothings changed since the last owner!
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - A updated version available!
JaxCoder.com
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And now he banned Kathy Griffin. Time for some popcorn. 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
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She was banned for impersonating another Twitter account, which is specifically called out in the Twitter TOS.
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I think he did it because she made him look dumb, like everyone else who did it. And all the people that warned him that's exactly what would happen when he changed the way the checks work. They were making a point, at his expense.
I'll believe it's actually about impersonation when impersonator accounts like @mueiiershewrote are removed as well. Then maybe.
Otherwise, I'll continue to believe this is about his bruised ego.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I'll continue to believe this is about his bruised ego.
Ditto. 🍿🍿🍿
Its sad that one person can have so much power in our system that issues like this happen.
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It was already in the Twitter TOS before Musk took over. “Certain groups” are just getting whiny now that the rules apply to everyone - not just “other groups”.
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