Satanicpuppy

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Jun 13	awarded	Civic Duty
Jan 30	awarded	Good Answer
Dec 2	awarded	Yearling
Oct 22	answered	Is server validation necessary with client-side validators?
Jun 22	answered	Are my negative internship experiences representative of the real world?
Jun 13	awarded	Pundit
Feb 8	awarded	Good Answer
Jan 9	comment	Do you sign each of your source files with your name? @JohnFx: Nothing like a user who wants to chime in 3 months after the question is closed, just to make a snide remark. I leave my name on it in case they need to add new features, or lose the documentation, or have any questions. If your code is so simple that it never needs to be supported, then no, you probably wouldn't want to put your name on it. I, on the other hand, just made 5k modernizing some Java code from 2000. Yay me.
Dec 11	awarded	Nice Answer
Dec 2	awarded	Yearling
Nov 3	comment	What do you do when you encounter an idiotic interview question? @graham: It was a perl job, but they were testing my Java ability. I did a bunch of stuff in Perl, and then they said, "Now do it in Java." I did it, but I used "elsif" where I should have used "else if". Bullshit test. If you can do the logic, everything else is semantics.
Oct 21	comment	Do you actually write 'clean code'? @peter: And in two decades, I've never seen a place where every piece of code was clean. I've rarely even seen a place where half was. Where do you work? NASA?
Sep 14	comment	Bogarting the Data Access Layer @spaghetti: Yea...I'm probably worse than most because I've done a lot of DBA work, so I have twice the "I know how to do it better!" than most programmers. I will say this: with databases, it's a lot more important to get it right early...If you keep adding until late in the project, it's almost certainly going to cause issues.
Sep 14	answered	Bogarting the Data Access Layer
Sep 12	answered	Arguments for or against using Try/Catch as logical operators
Sep 10	comment	Don't like my current job, want to leave, how to explain this in a job interview? @job: That's why you take your prospective coworkers out for a beer later. There is nothing wrong with being honest, but don't be negative. Managers imbibe that "power of positive thinking" crap with their breakfast cereal every morning.
Sep 9	comment	Don't like my current job, want to leave, how to explain this in a job interview? +1: NEVER air dirty laundry in a job interview. It just makes you look like an unpleasant, negative person.
Aug 31	awarded	Nice Answer
Aug 25	comment	Do you sign each of your source files with your name? @sleske: Effectively impossible, I'm afraid. We're not remotely standardized, and any attempt I made to push something like this would devolve into a pissing contest among larger business units about what sort of repo, who'd host it, code naming conventions...Yuck.
Aug 25	comment	Do you sign each of your source files with your name? @sleske: In my industry it's pretty common to pass source around among different business units. Even with compiled code, I put my name on the config files, so when there are issues, they know who to call.