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Apple Unveils Redesigned iPad Pro with OLED Display and M4 Chip
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Microsoft Shuts Down Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda
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Ten Years Ago Microsoft Bought Nokia's Phone Unit, Then Killed It As a Tax Write-Off
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Boeing Starliner's First Crewed Mission Scrubbed
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CodeSOD: Suspicious Contents
While poring through some VB .Net code, John noticed some odd things in their datamodel. For example, a different process would scan files, and log any "suspicious" files into a database. The program John supported would then report on that data.
One of their classes had a property which looked like this:
Public ReadOnly Property SuspectedItem As SuspectFileDataItem Get Return Me End Get End PropertyNow, there are many reasons why a method might return a reference to the instance- builder patterns are often a nice way to describe things in code. But a property returning its own instance, well… that doesn't make sense at all. "Give me the thing I already have."
It didn't help that it was also used: item.SuspectedItem.someProperty() was scattered all through the codebase.
Then again, perhaps this code is self describing. I suspect a lot of things about this item. I also have some suspicions about what substances this developer may or may not consume which lead to this code.
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Stockholm Exergi Lands World's Largest Permanent Carbon Removal Deal With Microsoft
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Novel Attack Against Virtually All VPN Apps Neuters Their Entire Purpose
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Google Fit Dev APIs Shutdown Set, Fate of Android and Wear OS Apps Go Unannounced
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Pokemon Go Players Are Vandalizing Real Maps With Fake Data To Catch Rare Pokemon
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Jack Dorsey Departs Bluesky
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The Rabbit R1 Could've Just Been a Mobile App
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Alternative Clouds Are Booming As Companies Seek Cheaper Access To GPUs
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OpenAI and Stack Overflow Partner To Bring More Technical Knowledge Into ChatGPT
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'The Good Enough Trap'
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Shell Sold Millions of 'Phantom' Carbon Credits
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North Yorkshire Apostrophe Fans Demand Road Signs With Nowt Taken Out
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Google is Changing How You Set Up 2FA
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40,000 AI-Narrated Audiobooks Flood Audible
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Poorer Nations Must Be Transparent Over Climate Spending, Says Cop29 Leader
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