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RavenDB Workshops - Deep dive into practical use of Document Data Modeling
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Nov 06 2008

I call this, being optimistic

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Here is a joke that only tech people will get:

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Leon
06 Nov 2008
16:09 PM
Leon

hehe, yes, that is quite optimistic. I'll certainly help achieve that goal if this is for tracking sales of NH Prof! :)

Frank Quednau
06 Nov 2008
16:33 PM
Frank Quednau

Nice. Thank God they didn't use Haskell and chose the Integral type.

Panso
06 Nov 2008
16:50 PM
Panso

I wish I could 'set' my sales ;)

Peter Morris
06 Nov 2008
16:55 PM
Peter Morris

I like

public class Geek : Earth { };

Clearwater
06 Nov 2008
16:59 PM
Clearwater

What is more, that is virtual :D

Even manipulate the get.

mendicant
06 Nov 2008
18:49 PM
mendicant

I wish I could've been the first person to re-iterate the joke in the comments :)

Stephen
06 Nov 2008
19:49 PM
Stephen

its probably virtual because its a biz entity being used by nhib~

(im aware thats not the point of the post)

Ivo Ramírez
06 Nov 2008
23:08 PM
Ivo Ramírez

public class God {

 private God() {}

 public God Instance{

       get{ return null; }

 }

}

Will
07 Nov 2008
14:52 PM
Will

The obvious optimism is in the type. Byte would be more appropriate for my sales.

Stephen
07 Nov 2008
15:17 PM
Stephen

..or a bool .. hurr! ;)

alwin
07 Nov 2008
15:54 PM
alwin

Bool FinallySoldSomething {

get { return Bool.SaleNotFound; }

}

thedailywtf.com/Comments/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_.aspx

Stephen
07 Nov 2008
16:20 PM
Stephen

Hahaha.. I like the subtler wtf reference

Fred
07 Nov 2008
18:29 PM
Fred

On the other side; just have a look at these piece of scripts written by "functionnal experts".......

First : Just to be sure ; or "just in case coding style"

if Fee.TransactionStatus_ID = 40 then

Fee.TransactionStatus_ID=40

        else

Fee.TransactionStatus_ID=10

End if

Second : Rounding issues (Get redy for the biggest laugh or your day)

NbDec =abs(NbDec)

NetValue=abs(NetValue)

Select Case NbDec

Case 0

                x =  abs(Round(NetValue,0))

Case 2

x =   abs(Round(NetValue,2))

Case 3

                 x =  abs(Round(NetValue,3))

Case 4

x =  abs(Round(NetValue,4))

Case 5

x =  abs(Round(NetValue,5))

Case  Else

x =  abs(Round(NetValue,2)) 

End Select

Bill Pierce
07 Nov 2008
21:51 PM
Bill Pierce

ulong would have been funnier.

Srdjan
08 Nov 2008
19:44 PM
Srdjan

This is funny!

Can I use it as interview question?

I like checking if the candidates have a sense of humor...

:)

jb
09 Nov 2008
02:04 AM
jb

You can have a lot of fun with acronyms, we turned a 3 day off site design meeting (back in the day in medium design up front) into a lot of fun when we realized that our Client Resident Application Protocol was being designed, which mean that our server was going to send a lot of CRAP to our clients.

I know this wasn't in code but we had some interesting diagrams going before the project was scrapped. Guess the business folks didnt like the concept of us sending CRAP to our customers;-)

Matt
11 Nov 2008
20:19 PM
Matt

Is that code from NH prof? Perhaps in the licensing module? :D

Khalid Abuhakmeh
12 Nov 2008
14:17 PM
Khalid Abuhakmeh

Oh No! I'm a nerd. haha, good joke though.

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