Rube Goldberg Code

[altenbach]

This is just the tip of the iceberg of the code posted here. The other problems are too numerous to list (almost all terminals disconnected and exclusive wiring via local variables, stacked sequence with 8 frames and 7 sequence locals, while loops with the stop condition wired from the outside, fixed iteration count WHILE loops instead of FOR loops, never heard of "spreadsheet string to array" and using convoluted while loops instead, etc. etc.)

So, let's look at the picture below.

For some reason, we need to get the same "pages" property five times in parallel, each getting the same array result of course, then we need to index out one element from each and writing to the visible property. For some reason this is still not enough, so we need to repeat all that five(!) times in a while loop as fast as the computer allows! Why?????

In the end, we are getting the same "pages" property 25 times and writing each visibility five times with the same value.

 

[BowenM]

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@altenbach wrote:

This is just the tip of the iceberg of the code posted here. 

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You weren't kidding. That is some of the best bad code I have seen in awhile.  He took it to a whole new level

[Hornless.Rhino]

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Jeff·Þ·Bohrer wrote

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Dont leave dT = 0 you don't have enough memory, trust me ok? 

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How about machine epsilon?

[crossrulz]

Lets have some fun with converting strings to timestamps: Get Time Stamp will milli seconds from string time stamp format

[bsvare]

Hopefully you realized that your outputs didn't match,wrong AM/PM flag. At least the answer doesn't complicate your code, just change the format string to "%<%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S%u %p>T"

[crossrulz]

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@bsvare wrote:

Hopefully you realized that your outputs didn't match,wrong AM/PM flag. At least the answer doesn't complicate your code, just change the format string to "%<%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S%u %p>T"

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Yeah, I noticed my %H vs %I issue.  It was just a little too late to actually edit it.

[Yamaeda]

Not quite RGC, but very fitting to the thread title and idea. 🙂 http://www.haneke.net

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[thoult]

That is bonkers - but a good use of a tiled background GIF to ensure continuity of the balls at the edges.

[PaulG.]

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@Yamaeda wrote:

Not quite RGC, but very fitting to the thread title and idea. 🙂 http://www.haneke.net

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That's horrendous. Should come with a "May induce a migraine. Do you wish to continue?" warning popup. 

[altenbach]

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@PaulG. wrote:

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@Yamaeda wrote:

Not quite RGC, but very fitting to the thread title and idea. 🙂 http://www.haneke.net

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That's horrendous. Should come with a "May induce a migraine. Do you wish to continue?" warning popup. 

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I was immediately trying to turn off "hightlight execution" mode. 😄