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Pulp by Byredo
Thread: Really Fruity Scents ?
hey guys what's up
so i need ur help .. i'm looking for a real nice fruity scents .. by fruity i don't men cologne fruity like lemon or bergamot or anything citrusy .. by fruity i mean : strawberries , berries , peaches , melons... etc
something like : Black Xs which i absolutely ADORE !
Last edited by Mad14; 9th June 2011 at 10:00 PM.
Sean Jean's I Am King is very fruity with both citrus and berries as well. Cranberry, along with tangerine give it a really great unique smell. Only downside is longevity is really short. But the cranberry note is really nice.
Have you tried Carlos Santan for Men?
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The best in this category
Paco Rabanne's Black XS...in my opinion it's really good stuff.
What begins as a sweet strawberry candy melts into a darker, softer strawberry-patchouli combination that projects well and lasts a long time.
Just don't over-apply it.
Montale Wild Pears
Montale Mango Manga
The next step after Black XS may be "women's" frags, which do have strong notes of things like strawberry.
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Hmmmm...are fruit scents going to be the next direction in men's scents?
Visa (Piguet).
Dunhill Desire
Aventus by Creed makes me drool.
If you love Black XS you should probably blind buy Power by 50Cent. Seriously it is loaded with the same berry note as Black XS, and a guava note you'll probly like alot. I feel they're both too sweet and sugary. Zara Sprint 9.58 is another great fruity scent (pineapple), with the same woody basenote as Black XS. One more Pineapple/Apple scent, that I feel is well done (if you don't mind tobacco like Burberry London) is Baldinini Man......basically a more natural Burberry London with more fruit.
Others to test that I like:
Pal Zileri (Apple)
Xeryous Rouge (Strawberry)
Lauder Pleasures for men (Nectarine)
Montale Boise Fruite (tart berries)
Millesime Imperial (melons)
Aventus (pineapple, Apple, Currant)
Cereus #4 (Apples)
Heeley Menthe Fraiche (Raspberry)
Amouage Ciel man (Peach)
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CK Be ( Peach Heaven )
I also second Montale Mango Manga.
I had always assumed (falsely?) that this was a citrus/floral EDC-style scent. Am I way off base here ? Can anyone fill me in?
What variety of fruit? Is it a subtle fruit to compliment citrus like the papaya/mango in Hermes D'Orange Verte ? Or more prominent ? I'm very interested to know more about this scent.
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Another vote for Mango Manga.
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Forgot another very sweet fruity scent, on the level of sweetness that Black XS has, but a much clasier presentation of fruit notes....very smooth as well....
Parfumerie Naturelle Ararat
It's got the same Pineapple note used in Zara Sprint and early batches of Aventus, only no sharp citrus or coniferous/woody notes have any prominence to balance it back away from overly fruity......Ararat is a very sweet fruity scent, Pineapple, a little bit of citrus and apple, alot of light gourmand undertones incliding Peach and vanillic notes. Unisex, leaning femme, but an awesomely fruity scent I forgot about.
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+1 Xeryus Rouge.
Diesel Fuel For Life smells like raspberry to me.
Imperial Jade Emperor by Agatha Brown is another one to try.
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Kenzo Pour Homme
Xeryus Rouge
Creed Aventus - Pineapple Heaven!
Creed Vigin Island Water - Coconut and Lime Bliss!
Xeryus Rouge - Sweet and slightly spicy Pimento? Kumquats (just readin its name makes me lol) too.
Paco Rabanne One Million - Blood Orange?
Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue - a sour and sweet Apple
Calvin Klein Euphoria for Men (or is it Intense?) - Watermelon note?
Tried Creed MI and got jacksquat with its fruity notes.
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Like a fruit juice carton and lasts hours:
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If you are including dried fruit soaked in cognac then 1275 by Frapin is a must. It appears very sweet initially but I don't think it persists when worn.
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Jubilation XXV
If you want something which smells almost the same as Black XS when it comes to the well-known synthetic strawberry tart note that it gives, I recommend Calvin Klein Euphoria Intense. I think it has more complexity than Black XS, not as linear.
I think among all of the more recent CK offerings (which to me are mostly dull and insipid) this one stands out as the best, and I think it is a quality fragrance for CK.
For others not similar to Black XS. I recommend.
Un Jardin Sur le Nil by Hermes- Green mango note.
Aqua Allegoria Lemon Fresca by Guerlain
Aqua Allegoria Grosellina by Guerlain
Aqua Allegoria Orange Magnifica by Guerlain
Aqua Allegoria Pampelune by Guerlain
Aqua Allegoria Mandarine Basilic by Guerlain
Guerlain's Aqua Allegoria range is actually quite nice. I like it!
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Delicious CLoset Queen by Etat Libre D'Orange - berries
but you know fruity (berries, watermelon, etc) is almost ubiquitous in all mainstream scents marketed at women. I'd say you'd have a lot more luck with them. A lot of the ones listed above dont smell fruity to me at all
Diptyque Oyedo is a good one. Citrus and berries that last almost all the way through the fragrance. It is not really sweet though, which keeps it interesting.
Kenneth Cole Reaction: musk, grapefruit, patchouli, mandarin, melon rind, green apple, and muguet.
Versace Man Eau Fraiche: Lemon, Rosewood, Carambola, Cedar leaves, Tarragon, Sage, Musk, Amber, Sycamore wood.
Azzaro Chrome Sport: amber, fresh cut grass, citron, grapefruit, aquatic notes, bergamot, pure oxygen, cedar, ginger, white musk, mandarin, bitter orange.
CK Summer: cucumber, cardamom, hedione, watermint, moss, musk, blonde woods, watermelon.
Perry Ellis 18: Spice, Lemon, Citrus
L'Artisan's Mure et Musc Extreme - Black Berries / Musk
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Montale - Pretty Fruity
It's a massive fruit salad blast!!
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Due to this thread I have a list of colognes to try... Among mine, I could suggest Herrera Chic: an elegant watermelon note that lasts till the end; Black XS (like a strawberry Hall's); Escada Sentiment (which unfortunately only the top notes - jackfruit - are good and they last 2 minutes, if that much); to me CK Escape presents a very strong pear scent; and Xeryus Rouge, of course.
One that I just recently discovered is J. Del Pozo's On El. Its practically the precursor to Black XS. It has more of a generic, fruit punch aroma than just a strawberry note. If you like fruity fragrances, you should give this one a sniff. Pretty cheap when you find a bottle.
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Versace Pour Homme
Kenzo Pour Homme (vintage)
Dolce & Gabbana Pour Homme (vintage)
D& G Masculine
Christian Dior Dune
Guerlain Homme (EDT)
Bond No9 Riverside Drive
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Seem's no one has mentioned Dolce and Gabbana's #3 L'Imperatrice. It's technically unisex, but comes off as very fruity so take it for what it's worth. At the local Sephora, it was lobbed into the Men's fragrances...
All that i tried i found to be artificial. Black XS is vile and smells like flavoured lipstick. Xerius Rouge either. Despite being synthetic, some popular scents are resonable as D&G pour Homme (orange) and Versace Eau Fraiche (starfruit), but again i would never buy none of both.
Montale Pretty Fruity
Black XS is really synthetic strawberry, like a car air freshener but stronger. Try Carlos Santana if you like that. Maybe even Boss Bottled 6
Pulp is hard to wear, and it smells like overripe to rotten fruits
There are many to choose from, here's a good blend of designer and niche that I think stand out in terms of what you asked for:
Paris Hilton for Men (the original ,not Hilton Man)
Ck Obsession Night for Men
Guerlain's AA Orange Magnifica
Comptoir Sud Pacific Mandarin
Fragonard Orange Canelle
Serge Lutens Bois et Fruits
Christian Dior's Dolce Vita
L'Artisan Parfumeur Premier Figuier
Laurence Dumont's Figue Sauvage
Canali Black Diamond edp is quite fruity. Lots going on, but the pineapple, apple and peach are vocal.
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I agree with Byredo Pulp-- my husband wears it. Smells great!
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Soooo missing the point. There would be NO shut down if not for Repubs and their demand to control.
I agree totally! Obama is hurting animals just to make the point that he can. He is a dictator
Obama even ate dogs in the past. He is ruthless to animals
What an idiotic statement. The president was fed a meal that contained dog meat when he was a small child. Get over that. The fact is that Republicans held our country hostage, demanding to change law in order to keep the government functioning. That is not how it's done. Remember "I'm just a bill on Capital Hill?" No, I don't think you do. Or else you wouldn't be blaming the president for what the republicans did in this case. Laws are made and repealed through very different processes.
Everyone stop trying to blame one side. It is the fact that neither side is willing to compromise that we keep finding ourselves in these messes. I'm sorry but I've never seen a president who gets as childish as this one does if everything isn't his way.
The Republicans are taking most of the heat for it but the fact is if both sides don't start compromising this country is just going to start spiralling out of control. This empire is in a sure and steady decline.
This free-for all piggybank is drying up and I for one have paid my entire life into programs that I'll be lucky if they still exist in 10 years when I retire. But thank goodness I've been able to watch my hard earned tax dollars (which I think I'm one of the handful of people who actually work a regular job and pay the taxes I'm supposed to pay) support a few people who actually deserve and need it and whole bunch of freeloading, lazy leeches.
Obama is the hold up in all of this....he wants his precious Obamacare to go through, even though most Americans do not want it.
OMG! It is LAW there is no repealing the healthcare law that went into effect 14 days ago! Get a clue! Our economic future along with the world is at stake. Not if but when we default on our debt again (we were triple A+ and now double A+) means lots of other economies will crash and the dollar will be as worthless as the confederate dollar. Then who will able to SAVE THE ANIMALS....Ted Cruz? I think not...he believes in killing animals and children with military grade assault weapons and ammo.
make a law change a law as easy as pie not one republican voted for it.they bribed every dem in the senate to get it passed,more doubledealing went on you must not watch tv even cnn admitted no republicans voted for it so it was a rip off.Get a repub in law gone just like that.they cancel laws everyday.and when they do you will kneeel and kiss their hands.
Some one needs to help these animals now not later.please dear GOD don't let this government crap neglect these animals.

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Hillary 10 Person Rio Grande 4 Room Family Dome Tent
Cheaply made tent. Used tent for two camping trips,…
Source: bought it new
Price Paid: $185
Cheaply made tent.
Used tent for two camping trips, has 3 ripped seams, and 3 broken poles. cheap tent. my inexpensive tent from Kmart ( before Sears bought it), is better and still intact after 5 years.
water everywhere, broken zippers, my wife me and our…
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Ease of Setup: easy to set up
water everywhere, broken zippers, my wife me and our two children trying to sleep in the mattress in the middle of the tent where we were getting less wet than on the sides of the tent.
please people, do not buy this junk, is just perfect for the kids if they want to camp inside the house.
The shape of the tent is perfect for my family of…
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My biggest complaint with it is once the main door eyebrow is installed the main zipper doesn't work.
It seems to be discoloring prematurely as well.
I bought this tent on sale from Sears, for something…
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Sleeps: 6+
Ease of Setup: 1 person-40 minutes/several helpers-20 min.
Price Paid: $100
I bought this tent on sale from Sears, for something around 100 bucks. I wanted a family tent for summer (hot weather) camping, so this tent with its ventilated roof looked like it would stay cool during warm days and nights; which it did quite well.
We camped about 11 nights in five different Rocky Mountain states in July and it did very well, even during several rain showers. I've read a bunch of reviews from people whining that it's leaky, however, we didn't really experience too severe of problems with several days of rain. We slept on cots which definitely helps.
Sure it leaks a little bit, but show me a tent that never leaks. . . . Uh, hate to break it to you, but there really isn't any such thing folks.
I am an avid outdoorsman and camp 10 to 12 nights a year during the fall and winter in an "almost leak proof" tent (Cabela's Alaknak II), but here's the catch, that tent costs around 6-times what the Hillary tent runs! Yep, $600 bucks! But even after a couple of days of rain, the floor of that $600 tent will get a few small puddles developing.
Pure and simple, you can treat the seams of any tent with sealer which helps, but anytime you get fabric that is sewn together, it WILL leak eventually.
The Hillary tent isn't as bad as what many say. It's a great hot/warm weather tent, and will keep you relatively dry if it isn't really windy. Basically, you get what you pay for. And for $100, it's a decent value.
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Sleeps: 6+
Ease of Setup: Very easy
Price Paid: $90
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Tent went up fine but when it started to rain there…
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Sleeps: 6+
Ease of Setup: easy
Price Paid: $128
Tent went up fine but when it started to rain there was no protection, rain came right through. Rain water all over the floor, all the bedding was soaked. I had five children in the tent with my wife and what a mess.
UUUUUUUGH!! Might as well have slept outside in the…
Design: 3 season 4 room tent
Sleeps: 6+
Ease of Setup: very easy
Price Paid: $150
UUUUUUUGH!! Might as well have slept outside in the rain because the tent offered no protection. It seemed like there was no roof on the tent the way the rain was coming in. The shame of it all is that it was a birthday present for my son.
I own three Hillary tents and don't know why I keep…
Sleeps: 6+
Ease of Setup: Yes
Weight: 23lbs
Price Paid: $220
I own three Hillary tents and don't know why I keep buying them. I will not any longer, I just got back from a camping trip and it was steady rain the whole time. The tent leaked very badly from the roof, needless to say it really sucked. If you are looking for a good tent look elsewhere, I camp a lot (just usually not in the rain) so hopefully I'll find one that doesn't leak so bad soon.
Do NOT BUY THIS TENT!! We bought it last year, and…
Design: 4 room
Sleeps: 6+
Ease of Setup: Easy - with two people
Price Paid: $260
Do NOT BUY THIS TENT!!
We bought it last year, and have used it twice. Last year went ok, just the divider hooks ripped off with very little pressure. The dividers are really TOO small for the opening, offering very little privacy. Okay, so I can sew the hooks back on or MAKE larger dividers.
THIS year was a different story. When we unpacked the tent we found that the shock cords for the poles had disintegrated. OK, so we went out and bought new cords and fixed the poles. What really frosts me is that, this year it rained. Not a heavy rain but steady. Our four boys might as well have been camping under a screen. Every seam, every corner, every door and window leaked. There was condensation? on every wall. Four boys, their sleeping bags, and ALL their belongings were soaked. We spent two days of our six day camping trip trying to correct the leaking, mopping up and then drying EVERYTHING! Our relaxing camping trip turned into a nightmare. Can you imagine camping with four soggy, tired, stressed out boys, age 9 to 15??? I cannot believe that ANYONE could possibly sell a camping tent, that would leak like this. Absolutely, totally unexceptable. (I am currently waiting for an E-mail response from Sears customer service)
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Part of St. Louis's Municipal Service Building complex built in 1928, the Power House has been sitting vacant for 30 years after having been decommissioned by the city in 1980. (Continued.)
Cannon Design has revamped the building's interior for its own regional office, creating a three-story interior gallery, rooftop penthouse, urban garden, and 32,000 square feet of office and conference space. The effect is part vintage airplane hangar, part Guggenheim. And it's LEED Gold certified.
Designed to accommodate four people, this architecture office is housed in a cramped home on Detroit's east side. But how to turn a tiny, residential space built in 1907 into a cozy office? (Continued.)
Architecture design office Synecdoche used a CNC machine and went to work making holes in wooden screens to diffuse light and define the space for the office of graphic design and marketing group WYLD. Flexible seating allows for fewer people to spread out, or more to find a comfortable work station.
Once a pair of crumbling farm buildings owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, Architype's offfices have been reworked as contemporary architecture studios. The rural setting allows the buildings to seem airy and pastoral, while at the same time they are sustainable and inspirational—and therefore, quite modern. (Continued.)
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Hangar transformed a nearby warehouse into workspace for 75 employees, complete with conference rooms, kitschy-cool phone booths, and a lab for "the exploration of product design."
Located in Cleveland's historic Midtown Corridor neighborhood, Vocon's headquarter building dates from the 1920s. The architecture and design frim modernized the space with bold colors and big shapes in a first-floor design laboratory and second-floor studio, café, lounge, and outdoor deck. (Continued.)
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Crispin Porter + Bogusky, the advertising and creative content company, went west from Miami looking for space. It found a 60,000 square foot former indoor soccer facility. (Continued.)
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I once had to work on a Classic ASP application where the lead developer had proudly claimed to have rewritten the underlying data-access components in .NET.
Technically, he wasn't lying, and the code was littered with statements like:
Yes, that's a web-service, cunningly named 'Service1.asmx' (the default name given by Visual Studio), that will happily run any SQL statement given to it.
Oh, and the web-service was completely open to outside access as well.
The scariest code I've ever dealt with would probably be the code for a .NET 2.0 application:
Here's some C# code I discovered yesterday, created by a code monkey from a certain country (that shall remain nameless), which specializes in very, very low-cost outsourcing. (Proving once again that you get what you pay for.)
The programmer created a UserControl - let's call it
So what does she do? Raising an event would have been much too straightforward. ("That's just what they would expect!") Herewith the code inside the
I once found this monster in our code base. Yes, there is a variable named "the_list".
120,000 lines of pure FORTRAN 77 spaghetti code. Sprinkle in some undocumented OpenGL API, and the worst filename/path handling on the planet (still can't use spaces in path), developed over many years by 3-4 engineers, with no formal training in how to program and there you have it.
~180,000 lines of PHP code, without a single function defined. A complete mess of cyclic include directives.
And this was before PHP added the goto keyword. I shudder to think what it would have looked like had that been available.
These days it's down to < 80,000 lines of code with an object-oriented approach to design. Most circular includes are gone. Still, a good chunk of original, unmodified, duplicate code exists in the system, but it is much, much more maintainable now.
I don't remember the method itself. It's too long to paste in here anyway (some 2000+ lines). But it had this Javadoc on top of it:
Haha. But I refactored it away (gradually over 2 years) and then the adapted comment read:
But I have to admit, compared to the 120k lines of FORTRAN that I saw around here, that was a piece of cake.
We have a file called
In a past job in an industrual automation control company, I used to maintain a large MFC application that was built on a code base that was originally written like this:
Back in the 1980s, they didn't even have programmers. They simply had their electrical and mechanical engineers write code, because the UIs were command line based and simple. All the code was embedded C anyway, so it wasn't so bad for (especially electrical) engineers to do.
When the controls were updated to Windows in the 1990s, they simply got the electrical engineers to take the embedded C code, and turn it into into Windows C code with a simple GUI. Times were changing, so eventually, the market started to demand a more sophisticated graphical interface - so what happened? - They let a small group of their electrical engineers take the code base and attack it with a Visual C++ For Dummies type of book. Difficulty? - All the company had was a C compiler in the early days. They only bought the full version of Visual Studio later down the line, a couple of years before my time.
End result: C code with macros containing function pointers which mimics C++ classes, with some "proper" MFC thrown into the mix on top of this. Absolute. Nightmare. If I never have to see "void***" again for the rest of my life, it'll be too soon.
This is a small chunk of a monstrous VB6 app. (I refactored this into 1 simple stored proc.)
I have quite a few examples of this, but I would have to say the scariest one I've ever had to maintain (read that as fix) was the web client I'm currently working on.
The whole reason I was hired here was to fix this webclient. Every day I find new and exciting code horrors.
To give you some idea of the magnitude of how bad the code is, let me tell you that the bulk of the code was written by co-op students that had no web development experience what-so-ever. What wasn't written by unsupervised newby co-ops, was written by two people who were fired because their code was so bad that it was eating hours on fixing it. Both were sent to webclient limbo before they were fired, because it would cause the least impact on the overall code base.
The one biggest error I've seen in this web client's codebase is the blatant misuse of the word Cache. Cache is used everywhere...most times when it is Session they want. Search results? Cached. Reports? Cached. User permissions? Cached.
What's worse are the hacks that have been written to kinda make the Cache behave like the Session.
I've fixed all of those. Every page I touch I try to leave it in better shape than it was. Rewrite a procedure here. Clean up a method there. If it can't be saved, scrap the page and start fresh. If nothing else, this code base will keep me employeed for a few more years atleast ;)
I used to work on an integrated word processor, spreadsheet, and database package that was originally written in the 1980s. A lot of the internal communication between components was done using a global
I cried a bit when i saw this... sigh
The scariest piece of code I've had to maintain was in some respects a work of Mad Genius, written by a self taught programmer over the course of about 20 years. Some of the code was really clever, but some commonly known problems were solved in excruciatingly complicated ways.
The main things that made it so tough was that variable names averaged between 3 and 4 letters, max of 6, all uppercase, and about 90% of variables were global. No comments ever, 3 pages of docs written 5 years ago.
Plus, he had written a custom database access layer that gave each column name a unique integer ID, and all code referenced only that ID. And his favorite control statement was a goto (why use a loop when you can use a conditional goto to build your own?).
This meant a lot of the code would read like (in pseudocode):
and so on for pages and pages (I think about 500k lines of code total). Bear in mind that I would generally have no idea what any of the variable names meant, and would be reading this code as part of tracing a call through one of the myriad pachinko machine paths though the forests of GOTOs that were often based on the values of variables set in some unknown line of code somewhere in the code-base (which, as you might by now assume, was one giant module).
Part of the code was a screen driver for a terminal window, which supported many hundreds of screen-based forms. The driver had been modified to control a VB6 GUI application, with the small problem that the event model of a GUI form simply doesn't match that of terminal, so the form code frequently didn't work (e.g., you can't enter screen-based field values out of order, so you never need to worry that prior fields are undefined- until you switch to a GUI).
The GUI was supposed to handle all of these conditions by doing things like forcing focus back to fields that would have been filled out in a screen based form. The design was inherently a viper's nest of race conditions and I spent most of my time trying to account for most of the possible variations.
I don't have the code accessible, but it was in the massive VB5 "translator" services (moving/mangling between databases) that I had to maintain. The top of each function contained a dozen lines of DIM statements, multiple dims each line, none with any clear names, all scoped for the entire function. The functions themselves were often hundreds and hundreds of lines of DEEPLY nested if statements (often half the function was encased in a giant if statement). I've never had to scroll to the right so far to read code.
These were ad hoc programs that became the core of the business. Oh, and no one had any of the business rules written down. Anywhere. Only one person actually knew the rules.
There were some nice people at that company, but the software situation was horrendous, and no one wanted to fix it (too risky!). I just couldn't keep going and had to leave.
I worked on a loyalty card application once. All the old developers had decided to quit, and we inherited this 'working' app. But, when we looked closer, we found it was difficult to add new data to the DB. turns out it had somehow become normalised so one table had dependancy on data in another table which had dependancy on another which had a dependancy on the original table. God alone knows how they managed to get data in there in the first place. It was the only time I've seen a need for a total rewrite (and I hate the 'lets rewrite' attitude!)
Mind you, perhaps the scariest thing was a report generator written many years ago by some Russian contractors. Nothing wrong there, the product was good, those guys were really, really great (and ridiculously cheap in the days before outsourcing became popular). But all the comments were in Russian. Oh, and to get network connectivity back to their university, my manager had to deal with the KGB. He liked that.
It was part of rather large C++ application. Original programmer probably thought, that it would be very smart, to create two sets of database tables for single entity such as mail address book. Main addrbook data was kept in a 'simple' table with one blob field. That blob contained all addressbook fields joined with special escape characters like '\x2'or '\x5' between them. And there was second set of tables, that looked pretty normal. But they were used only for reading by some functions. Worst things happend when those two got out of sync.
I wasn't allowed to change this, because 'new addrbook is almost ready'. But there was no week without some bug reported in old code, that I was supposed to fix ASAP. :)
I once had to work on a legacy in-house developed content-management system that was based on Classic ASP, VBScript, HTML3 and used MS Access for the back-end database. All of the code was mixed in with the HTML and it was highly dependent on magic-numbers, hard-coded values and other such constructs. To give you a flavour of the code, here's just part of the "function" that works out what intro text to display for a page:
I think this speaks for itself...
I got lots of scary code to maintain right now on one of our large projects. It really makes me sick every time I'm facing in front of my laptop untangling spaghetti code. One of those are nonsense for-loops with nonsense variables in it. The person responsible for it already left our company and he didn't fix the code ever.
I'd have to say the scariest piece of code I ever had to maintain was this windows service... written in Visual Basic... as a control... in French. (The company I worked for had bought a French software company for their code.)
Yes, that means that the function names were in French, the variables were in French, and the comments were in French. It was amazing. I would have an online translator in one browser window the whole time, translating things so I could get an idea of what they were. As I figured out what the private methods did, I would convert their names and arguments into english, but anything that was public had to stay in French, although I did update the comments.
I found a Visual Basic testing framework that I was able to connect the control up to so I could try automating tests and nail down what it was supposed to do.
Eventually, of course, I left the company and it became someone else's problem, although I believe the whole framework was being rewritten in Java anyway.
When I was interning at a place I was put in charge of their internal reporting website which used Coldfusion (which I had to learn in 2 days) and some crazy JS to make it look cool. From what I could tell it was a few years old, and of course had little documentation, most of which was out of date. And of course a bazillion people had worked on it over the years.
(Note I haven't touched CF in 2 years, so some of the terminology might be wrong)
It was a pain since code was spread all over the place with no standards in place. SQL (which was MSSQL when I only knew MySQL) was stored all over the place: Stored Procedures, 4 utility classes, and in code. The menus had a utility class to autogenerate some (that was used only twice) and custom implementations everywhere else. And there where classes locked away in some default include directory on the application server that I of course didn't have access to for a while. And of course basic patters like MVC weren't followed, it was just some inline CFM inside of HTML pages and separate utility classes.
You also had some crazy stuff like trying to display 2 million test records one one page, SQL that locked the server for a few minutes trying to run it, along with a few other things. Not only that but apparently projects were hosted on the server, which I accidentally froze a couple of times with infinite loops or giant SQL queries. And then their was IE support...
I spent a long time just removing duplicate code, centralizing stuff, fixing the ridiculous JS, and fixing as much SQL as I could, and of course tons of documentation. I had to rewrite most of the "utility" classes and most of the JS animations. I was so happy when I did the final commit, knowing that I wouldn't have to touch that mess again.
It might seem like I'm whining when you compare it to C++ or Ruby, but for me it was hard.
In my case, was a REALLY big piece of software in C++, about 15 years old since the start, with bizillions of coders working on the code during that time, and each one with their particular code standards...
Two different modules can appear almost as written in different languages. Sometimes you'll expect a complete file with just one comment line (the date) and then another one with more comments than lines (and usually out of date)
There were also some "funny" features of C++, like overloading the call (bracket) operator (you'll think that it's calling a function, but not, it's an operator on the object). Overloading operator is 99.9% of the times a VERY BAD IDEA. Makes your code a lot more difficult to read.
Sometimes the code was highly object oriented, other times was more like plain C. Sometimes makes use of non-evident mathematical properties, like using matrix determinants (of course, without stating that or comment it on any way).
The most important work I had to do was completely redesign from scratch one of the modules that was been considered as completely unmaintainable from a long time, and have severe performance problems on the long run. It contains some parsing to describe functions. The parsing was made completely by hand, by some really weird code (I didn't even try to understand it, one of the directives at the start was "everyone that has try it has gone mad", maybe that was some sort "Necronomicon code"). I used Bison. The testing was completely black-boxed, set the same inputs, run the module and check the outputs.
Well, at least everything ended fine, the CPU time was reduced in about a 80%, memory in about 30% with better resolution and lower latency. But sometimes working with that you wanted to commit suicide...
Back in 1997 I was given my first developer job which consisted of supporting an accounts package written in QuickBasic 7.1. The code for this app had many hallmarks of poor practise:
There were no useful comments in any file. Likely the only comments you'd get were the usual, pointless, file header comments like this:
I wasn't sure what the name of the file was, but thanks to this comment, I was enlightened.
Debugging problems in the code took ages. Seriously, trying to solve a particular bug could be a real MENSA challenge due to the poor code.
One time, the managing director of the company was standing next to me whilst I was debugging an issue. In my frustration I asked him "Who wrote this poor code?", he said "It was me". You would have thought I'd feel a little awkward at that moment, but, in my mind, I was laughing my head off. Not many get the chance to tell their boss that they're a shit developer!
Cheers. Jas.
I found several uses of the
Also, Classic ASP with zero indentation and variables that looked like vowels were removed, and duplicate logic with like one thing different. Along the lines of:


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GRAPEVINE -- Police say the lab results show Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Jay Ratliff's blood alcohol content was twice the legal limit after he was pulled over last week for suspicion of Driving While Intoxicated.
Grapevine police Sergeant Robert Eberling said the results of Ratliff's blood test showed a BAC of 0.16.
The Cowboys player was arrested in the early hours of Jan. 22 after he hit an 18 wheeler in his pickup truck before running into the guardrail on State Highway 114.
Ratliff failed a field sobriety test, declined to submit to a Breathalyzer test, and refused to answer questions when asked to participate in a DWI interview. Investigators secured a warrant and took his blood.
Meanwhile, the Cowboys publicly commented on Ratliff's arrest for the first time Monday.
Calvin Hill, a former Cowboys player himself and current consultant in the team's player development program, said as an organization, the Cowboys understand the ultimate consequences of driving while impaired and that one incident is too many.
In December, Ratliff's Cowboys teammate and fellow defensive lineman Josh Brent was charged with intoxication manslaughter following a crash in Irving in which practice squad teammate Jerry Brown Jr. was killed. Brent, whose BAC was 0.189, is facing intoxication manslaughter charges.
The critical goal is to effect the decision making process in the hours before the wrong decision is made, Hill said in the statement. [...] We will continue to draw upon the best expertise and resources available, both internally and from outside the organization, to work toward being the best in the areas of education, prevention, and effecting the right decisions.
The statement said the team has been in touch with Ratliff and will monitor the legal process and work within the NFL guidelines for player behavior moving forward.
Team owner and general manager Jerry Jones usually speaks out on most things Cowboys, but he remained silent on Ratliff's arrest when asked last week at the Senior Bowl workouts.


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I bought these mainly just to start running again and getting back in shape. I ended up using for just about everything. They're very comfortable providing your feet with enough cushion, but keeping the barefoot feel. Pretty durable, too. I've had mine for over a year and a good many miles, the soles still look like new. All around, great shoes. Worth the money.
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I love Merrel's barefoot shoes. These however, are made of a sort-of soft shell style material that is meant to keep your feet warm and dry in the cold/wet. However, I personally would rather have feet wet with rain that drenched in sweat. Don't get me wrong, I still use them everyday I just have this particular gripe. If your feet tend to sweat go with a different model of Merrell's.
I tried on several brands of barefoot closed toe shoes and the Merrell shoes fit the most like a glove and were the most comfortable and natural. I compared these Merrell Sonics to the Merrell Trail Glove and I preferred the Trails because the mesh material in those shoes is more flexible and comfortable than the fabric in the Sonics. The Sonics have a more traditional shoe fabric that will keep out more water and debris than the mesh of the Trail gloves, but I would prefer the Trails for running because they feel softer. The Sonics are more beautiful though!Finally, I love these shoes because they bring many of the benefits of the VFF's without looking like a dork!
This is my first pair of barefoot shoes, I choose these over the multiple toe kind for the fact that I feel that they give you more protection. I can say that they are super light and comfortable. I have received several comments on the appearance of them which I like. I better buy some more of these because I do not think I will be wearing any other kind of shoe for a while, we will have to see how cold I get in winter lol.
I absolutely love these shoes! They are so light and they fit your foot like a sock. I also have a pair of fivefingers but I like these more as they draw less attention but still push me to run and walk ball of my foot. I have noticed that these are chilly on cold winter days here in the NW but also hot on summer days. However, I love these and will continue buying them in the future. I also love the fact that you are connected to the ground, when you step on a rock you will feel it there although it does not hurt. Also walking through the grass or mud you feel the texture more than in a conventional shoe.
I wore these shoes rather reticently to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro's 'Whiskey Route'. I don't have ankle problems, so that wasn't a big deal for me. I was really surprised about how incredible they were. I wore these shoes for 6 days straight and loved how comfortable they were. The only issue I had was once we reached summit, my feet were frozen, and I was wearing two pairs on wool socks. I have also been hiking in Tennessee and also Italy with these, and I just can't say enough about how awesome they are. Definitely recommend.


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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Washington Monument did not sink any further into the ground as a result of last year's 5.8-magnitude earthquake, government surveyors said in a report released Tuesday.
The upper portion of the monument sustained several large cracks during the quake on Aug. 23, 2011, and the iconic obelisk will likely be closed for repairs until 2014. The repairs, estimated to cost at least $15 million, will require a massive scaffolding to be built around the 555-foot monument.
The monument was built on land that used to be underwater and has sunk about 2.2 inches since 1901. Surveyors expected at least some modest settling as a result of the earthquake, but in a report released Tuesday, the National Geodetic Survey said the quake had made no discernible difference.
Dave Doyle, the project manager for the survey, said he was surprised and pleased by its findings.
"We're talking about a rather huge object _ 90,000 tons," Doyle said. "It sits on a base that is constructed mainly of sand and gravel and clay. With a 5.8-magnitude earthquake, you sort of thought that there might be a little bit of motion."
Doyle said the lack of settling was a credit to the engineers who shored up the monument's foundation in the 1880s. The monument was completed in 1884 and was the world's tallest structure until 1889, when the Eiffel Tower was built. It remains the tallest structure in the nation's capital, which has restrictions on building heights.
The survey was conducted in March. A previous survey was conducted in 2009, which meant that any measurable sinking since then could likely be blamed on the earthquake. But the measurements were unchanged from the earlier survey.
"If there was any movement, it was at the sub-millimeter level, and that's just not reasonably detectable," Doyle said.
The NGS has also recommended using global-positioning technology to determine whether the earthquake caused the monument to tilt, although there is no evidence to suggest it did. That work would be done while the monument is covered in scaffolding.
Most of the National Mall was created with soil dredged from the Potomac River. That's one reason why the structures on the mall are prone to settling in the ground, leading to problems that required major renovations of the Jefferson Memorial plaza and the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
The monument was one of a few buildings in Washington to sustain significant damage from the rare earthquake. The National Cathedral was also damaged.
Besides the cracks, the quake caused chunks of stone to be shaken loose on the interior and exterior of the monument. Visitors were inside the monument when the earthquake struck and fled down the stairs. No one was seriously injured.
The monument has been closed to visitors ever since. It normally gets about 700,000 visitors a year who take turns riding an elevator or climbing stairs to the top.
Last September, engineers rappelled from the top of the monument to conduct a damage assessment. They found that scaffolding would be necessary to provide repair workers access to the top of the structure. The monument was previously covered in scaffolding in 1999 and 2000.
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New Zealand referee Bryce Lawrence has retired after officiating his 200th first-class match.
Lawrence, who faced mass criticism from the South African rugby fraternity after his poor performance during the Wallabies' victory over the Springboks in the 2011 World Cup quarter-finals, became the fourth Kiwi official to reach the 200-match mark. He follows Paddy O'Brien (221 matches), Paul Honiss (220) and Steve Walsh (210).
Lawrence also refereed 25 Tests and 60 Super Rugby games.
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'It got pretty bad,' said Lawrence. \Not really threats on my family as such, there was a concern, but it was mainly aimed at me through social media. On Facebook they launched a 'get rid of Bryce Lawrence' site and it was pretty nasty.
'That was absolutely the reason for my career change. I got told at the end of the World Cup that I would have a break from Test rugby for the Six Nations and I could totally accept that as there has to be a consequence for poor performance.
'I was told I would be brought back in the middle of this year, as I was ranked in the top three or four referees in the world. But because of the political reaction from rugby unions like Australia and South Africa behind the scenes, they dropped me.
'Sanzar used me but not in South Africa, so eventually they said it was getting tough having you in the draw, because we have to keep making changes to keep you in the system when you are not going to South Africa, so see you later. So I knew I was not able to referee at the level I needed to be re-contracted, really – all because of that one game.'
Lawrence also admitted that there was outside influence going into the Wallabies-Springbok quarter-final clash.
'I went into the game knowing it was a massive match and I didn't want to overly influence the outcome and that was in the back of my mind. The way that transpired was I didn't make decisions and if I had my time again I would just go out there and do what I normally do, which is just referee and back myself.
'I had four really good games at the World Cup and then I had that. I had outside pressure from pretty senior people from rugby countries behind the scenes that really created my mindset of lacking confidence to deliver what I normally do.
'There was some pretty nasty political stuff going on about that appointment. I refereed Australia versus Ireland and Ireland had won but behind the scenes guys like [Australian CEO] John O'Neill were kicking up a massive stink. I knew a bit about that and it was enough to affect me, and it probably made me freeze on the biggest stage.'
Lawrence take on a new post as the NZRU High Performance referee reviewer.
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But this week I haven't been able to clear a single boss on heroic. Lack of vengeance is contributing to all of the struggles. Most bosses I can get within 10-15% before enrage, other bosses I can no longer outheal the incomming damage.
But this week I haven't been able to clear a single boss on heroic. Lack of vengeance is contributing to all of the struggles. Most bosses I can get within 10-15% before enrage, other bosses I can no longer outheal the incomming damage.
I'm full dps gear in ilvl 530, though i m pretty sure i could have killed him before the enrage if i would have focused more.
Managed to solo him after patch, 20sec of enrage, 541ilvl with 4pc prot/dps cloak and gem/feather/spark, used drums of rage. Could have done it faster but killed ghouls too early.
Managed to solo him, 2 min away from enrage, 552 item level, ret gear, but hit and hard expertise cap, Heroic Feather/ Heroic TG Primordius trinket, used Drums of Rage, this is really doable, Drums of Rage helps A LOT, you can use it twice in the fight, so please keep that in mind, it will make it a lot easier when soloing him, the vengeance changes really made this a pain in the ass lol but still fun to do this.
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picked up a 561 weapon and one shot him this week like I have been for weeks now. Really seemed easier even with the vengeance nerf, probably because of the GC change. Didn't try the prolong p1 strat, just did the fight normally and sat in defile as per usual, used one drums right after the first frostmourne phase.
Doesn't seem any harder than 5.3 which is good news.
So this will be impossible for the lesser geared paladins? I'm barely hitting 510 ilvl and i wanted to do this, but looks like the nerfs slapped right onto my face.
I believe past 550 gear Ret will do the job faster and most likely easier but I need to test that theory, so since I am a healer mainspec (if you have followed me), and I am pretty much last in line this tier for any 550 gear for either offspec, I probably will need some time before I get to that
Had been beating the enrage rather easily. 3 and a half to 4 minutes left on it. Solo'd it today for the first time since patch and it took me 8 seconds past enrage and I was using the new "bloodlust drums". Still doable but MUCH harder.
Does anyone know if he is still soloable with lvl 80/85?
Damnit, I geared my paladin to solo this before 5.4. Now I need 540+ ilevel?
When i enter frostmourne, after some time i am suddenly 1 shotted. anyone know why? doesnt appear in logs
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I found that using the DPS legendary cloak is very useful on this to just passive cleave down adds to waste less globals getting them down in time. I still had GC procs steady through p1 and p2 but the cloak took the ghouls down passively (it probably killed the first wave/2 off by the time I was in 2nd transition but I dont think it affected GC procs much if at all). Not a huge gain, but I'm sure it saved me a few globals that I was able to put into LK.
I was one of those paladins using the burn strat in 5.3, so I never tried doing it the normal way. I've just attempted this for the first couple times post 5.4 and I get WRECKED in p3 - I can maybe survive through a couple frostmourne phases, but the soul shriek combined with everything else just overwhelms me. I'm using all dps gear (as my main spec is ret) with a 530 shield/mh and 522 prot helm, overall ilvl 543.
I do fine until a couple minutes into p3. I probably have 5 mins or so left after the 2nd transition.
I will mention that the last time I played prot for 'real' was in LK, so it's very possible I could just be super rusty and bad at the spec now.
Anyone who has done this post 5.4 have any tips that I may have misssed/could be doing better?
Edit: logged out in the gear I'm attempting this with.
Edit 2: I think I could be killing the ghouls too early.
I've got 2 questions a search can't seem to get me an answer to:
Can you still clear all of icc on 10 man and put it on 25 hc for just lich king? I don't seem to be able to find this information with a search.
Can you enter with a save with just using your own alts, or do you need a friend to help on that?