Hi!

[Karlos]

She's real.

Unfortunately for me; I guess my daytime posting is going to be a bit curtailed now.



@Mel

Welcome anyway. I wasn't expecting you to actually sign  up :lol:

[Karlos]

This isn't right. I feel my sanctuary has been violated :lol:

[Karlos]

AJCopland wrote:

Its also time for me to try and drag a specification kicking and screaming out of one our designers.

Don't go around giving people into contact sports (that I happen not to have submitted said notes to on time) ideas involving kicking and screaming. Please.

[Karlos]

I'm a developer.

/* I don't do documentation */

Actually, that's a lie. I've been up to my eyes in UML diagrams and grepping through wads of source files and other stuff all day so that I can sign over this project. On top actually designing and implementing another system :-/

Someone is going to have a full inbox first thing on Monday :-P

[Karlos]

@AmiDude

Come on man, I have to work with this person and I'm in enough bother already :lol:

[Karlos]

I can see it now. I'll get done for some sort of "harassment by proxy" crime for having foolishly introduced her here.

[Karlos]

I could have told you that :lol:

@CannonFodder

I guess you never read the entire thread, then.

[Karlos]

@A4000_Mad

What did he say? :lol:

[Karlos]

NattyBoh wrote:

mel_zoom wrote:
countzero:

How come?

If it were to Karlos, you would be somebodys 5th wife, carry around a rug all day long to pray 6 times a day with your butt in the opposite direction of mecca and you'd be wearing a burka, lest you wanted to get stoned to death.

Tit.

[Karlos]

@AJCopeland & Agafaster

He's not worth my composing a longer sentence. I used four characters on the tosser, I'm not wasting any more.

[Karlos]

countzero wrote:
Oops seems like I've just opened pandora's box here. Let's close this sensitive issue right here right now and never open it again ok ? I just wish I could go back in time and never made that post.

How does that foot taste? :lol:

[Karlos]

lou_dias wrote:
Well, though you may have V.D., I don't.  That being said, I'm a VB.Net programmer and we go out with girls like this:

www.geocities.com/lou_dias

Sure, right up until she found out you were a VB developer :-P

[Karlos]

@Mel

Learn C. Then forget everything about it except for the basic syntax and learn C++. It is the only way :lol:


Hmmmm. Could this be the perfect excuse I need to actually get at least one of my machines working again?

:lol:

[Karlos]

lou_dias wrote:

I had an A in C++ all semester long but in the final project, I made it SO object-oriented and used every feature of the language just to prove I could (like a dork) and then the damn thing just crashed at the same point for no apparent reason.

This is probably why. You wrongly assumed that by using all these features you were demonstrating the appropriate level of dorkiness but in fact a good developer always knows when to use feature X and more importantly when not to.

Anybody can learn the features of a language, design patterns and a myriad of other techniques and paradigms. Knowing when and where to use them is what makes the difference between a bad developer and a good one.

[Karlos]

Well, if you insist on waving the willy:

I learned BASIC on the ZX81 (then onto the ZX Spectrum) and was writing z80 machine code by the time I was seven years old.

I built a 256KB paged memory expansion and wrote a functional (read crap but worked) eprom based switching kernel for it by the time I was 12/13. Unfortunately I ballsed up the hardware slightly and ultimately fried the lot during a later stage of the development :lol:

Took a huge sabbatical from it all until I was about 18 and started coding in Blitz Basic / 680x0 assembler for a while then taught nyself C, then C++. Since then I've learned a whole family of syntactically related languages.