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- Wed Jan 24, 2024 1:47 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: If you could work on your favourite magazine...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 591
Re: If you could work on your favourite magazine...
On a similar subject, there seems to be hardly any interviews/videos/blogs about or from the people who worked on the magazines. You can pretty much find an interview with any developer from back in the day, but nothing from old journo's. I've always found that really unusual. I'm really struggling...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 10:30 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Spectrum memes
- Replies: 1235
- Views: 202788
Re: Spectrum memes
This one really made me chuckle
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 12:55 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Crash magazine 16bit special.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 625
Re: Crash magazine 16bit special.
Ah, so in the end you didn't upgrade. ;-) :lol: :lol: I had a lot of good years out of that ST - starting with the awesome Dungeon Master and ending with Frontier - up until I upgraded to my first PC in 1994. A 486 running at a whopping overclocked 33MHz. Getting the latest Automation and Pompey Pi...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 10:32 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Crash magazine 16bit special.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 625
Re: Crash magazine 16bit special.
It was that issue and article that finally convinced me I needed to upgrade to 16-bit. November that year I got an ST.
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 12:42 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: The code so bad you won't hire
- Replies: 131
- Views: 3884
Re: The code so bad you won't hire
That's probably how I'd have done it in Sinclair BASIC! I'm not a proper coder - whats so wrong with that example? It works for all eventualities doesn't it? Yup, as Steve says it technically works but it should have raised alarm bells with anyone with a basic grasp of mathematics. All it's attempt...
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 11:25 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: The code so bad you won't hire
- Replies: 131
- Views: 3884
Re: The code so bad you won't hire
Holy hell - that's unforgivably bad!
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 9:12 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (John Gibson): vote
- Replies: 13
- Views: 915
Re: Devfinitive Edition (John Gibson): vote
1. Frankie
2. Cosmic Wartoad
3. Zzoom
2. Cosmic Wartoad
3. Zzoom
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:42 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: What does ZX mean?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1197
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:33 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Sinclair C5 ends up at Lincolnshire recycling centre
- Replies: 3
- Views: 437
Re: Sinclair C5 ends up at Lincolnshire recycling centre
It's quite astonishing what people send to the tip or dump in a skip. Even a cursory glance on eBay is going to tell you that a C5 in poor condition is still probably going to fetch at least £100. Someone will buy it. I always have a quick look in any skips we pass on our evening walks just to see i...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 12:50 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7894
- Views: 238579
Re: Guess the screen$
Feel free to jump in for my go.
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:15 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7894
- Views: 238579
Re: Guess the screen$
Race Against Time?
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: The code so bad you won't hire
- Replies: 131
- Views: 3884
Re: The code so bad you won't hire
People who refactor your code without telling you and it doesn't work how it used to is annoying though. If it ain't broke don't "fix" it! Oh god, yes. Is there anything worse than performing a code review where you notice swathes of working code has been refactored? Currently have a deve...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 12:06 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: The code so bad you won't hire
- Replies: 131
- Views: 3884
Re: The code so bad you won't hire
What you've just described though Pete is a developers life. We have all written sh*t code - anyone who says they haven't is a bold-faced liar. But we recognise what you found out - there's a better way of doing things and do it that way instead. It's called refactoring and is an important part of a...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:33 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: The code so bad you won't hire
- Replies: 131
- Views: 3884
Re: The code so bad you won't hire
Boss: Hey, you, programmer ... Programmer: Me ? Boss: We need to code this stuff... by Friday. Presto, presto. Programmer: But... I program for 6502. Boss: What ? Programmer: This is Z80. I don't code for Z80. Boss: What is the difference ? Programmer: Well, for start ... Boss: You are programmer, ...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 11:50 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Blasphemy! Your favourite C64 SID chiptunes...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 817
Re: Blasphemy! Your favourite C64 SID chiptunes...
Monty On The Run without a shadow of a doubt. It's a masterpiece.
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:47 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: The code so bad you won't hire
- Replies: 131
- Views: 3884
Re: The code so bad you won't hire
Ah I see. Fair enough if it's your own code that's faulty in the first place. I work with a lot of third-party APIs and this would be a perfectly valid fix because getting a third-party to change their results/fix their bugs is like pulling teeth.
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:47 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: The code so bad you won't hire
- Replies: 131
- Views: 3884
Re: The code so bad you won't hire
Earlier today I was asking some people: what line of code would make you never hire someone? My anti-hire line was: s = s.replace("&", "&"); Out of interest - what's so horrifically bad about this? I can see a purpose for it when cleaning up a simple string, ...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 4:07 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: The code so bad you won't hire
- Replies: 131
- Views: 3884
Re: The code so bad you won't hire
The guy responds: => People dying is inconvenient I agree - and they should be mindful of the chaos they cause when they do that. In my pre-developer career, working for Local Government as a young man, there was one senior management idiot who 100% thought like that. There was another guy, a team ...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 3:08 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: The code so bad you won't hire
- Replies: 131
- Views: 3884
Re: The code so bad you won't hire
Cursors are the work of the devil. But cursors within cursors - jesus... RBAR at it's finest. The company I'm currently doing work for has a section of the system that's database driven. The guy who created this section has long since gone, but he's legendary for a being a developer who followed the...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: The code so bad you won't hire
- Replies: 131
- Views: 3884
Re: The code so bad you won't hire
Relax, I was apologising for my own story, not yours. Apologies, equinox. I completely misread that and I'm being a bit too sensitive in my sleep-deprived state (I've been running on 2-3 hour kip per night for the last two weeks due to some ill health). Again, please accept my apologies for my tone...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: The code so bad you won't hire
- Replies: 131
- Views: 3884
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 2:42 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: The code so bad you won't hire
- Replies: 131
- Views: 3884
Re: The code so bad you won't hire
We got the phone lines full of screams from people who had been relying on the ****ing bug, where Norwich and North London had the same transport planning. This one reminds me of a report I inherited many years ago. It was run via a VB application, populating millions of rows of data from SQL Serve...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 12:32 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: The code so bad you won't hire
- Replies: 131
- Views: 3884
Re: The code so bad you won't hire
Not specific code examples but... A developer asked us to write down what the function he was working on had to do exactly as he could not wrap his head around it. So myself and a manager painstakingly wrote out in pseudo-code exactly what it had to do (it wasn't complicated at all). Two days later ...
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 12:17 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Happy New Year!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 977
Re: Happy New Year!
Happy New Year everyone.
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 6:58 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best rereleased Speccy game by Summit Software: vote
- Replies: 7
- Views: 341
Re: The best rereleased Speccy game by Summit Software: vote
1. Academy
2. Contact Sam Cruise
3. Hijack
2. Contact Sam Cruise
3. Hijack