Rube Goldberg Code

[Ray.R]

Without LV installed, I don't get to see the fun code, unless images are posted in this thread..  🙂

They probably thought that any 2D array data had to be dynamic.  😄

[altenbach]

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Ray.R wrote:

They probably thought that any 2D array data had to be dynamic.  😄

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No, it starts out as a 2D array. Note that the same code is used twice, once for the first column (x) and once for the second column (y). 😮

Here's the entire original code section:

Message Edited by altenbach on 09-14-2009 09:40 AM

[Ray.R]

LOL!!

Another example of why Express VI's should be avoided...  People think there's some sort of majic going on within them..

LOL!!

😄

Thanks for showing the entire code...  LOL!

[altenbach]

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Ray.R wrote:

Another example of why Express VI's should be avoided...  People think there's some sort of majic going on within them..

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Dynamic data is more like voodoo. Here's the equivalent code refactored. It's a little bit simpler. 😄

Message Edited by altenbach on 09-14-2009 11:19 AM

[RavensFan]

How to go get a timestamp from a string seen here.

Smercurio provides the non-Rube way at the top of this image.

[Ray.R]

The bottom method looks so much more impressive for his boss.  😉

I remember fixing code by simplifying it and the manager was not impressed.  He thought that I had removed functionality just to show off a smaller code.  - sigh -   😞

Do I need to mention that the manager was not from SW background.. 😮

[Ben]

The valdictorian from my high school senior class was talking about her job as a technical writter. One of her co-workers was bragging about blowing up a manul from thre pages to thirty the same day she had editied one down from fity to 25 whcih caused her to think "If they are doing work then did I just do negative work?".

The next tmie you run into one of those managers, tell them you did that along with using a smaller font to save on disk storage*.

Ben

Smaller font ... less storage line is from Dilbert.

[altenbach]

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Ravens Fan wrote:

Smercurio provides the non-Rube way at the top of this image.

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It's not quite the same. The upper code lacks all the intermediate indicators ("output cluster", "month", "day", "year"). Maybe they are required by specs. 😉

(just kidding...) 🙂

[Mathan]

Reinventing the wheel (exploring my computer in a very harder way!!!!!) using pure LabVIEW.

Spotted here

[PaulG.]

Just a sample of something I inherited a few years ago. I still have nightmares about working with this code. It took up about 2x3 screens.