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A quick look at the list: - Field Master: Have 100 fields in a single class. - Overload: More than 10 overloads of a method. - Potty Mouth: Use 5 different curse words in a file. These are funny, but they miss what achievements are good for - encouraging new users to adopt good behaviours.
Do notice that these achievements give exactly 0 points. They're not discouraging bad behaviour, but not exactly encouraging it either.
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Given that Visual Studio underlines all your compilation errors and lists them in the Error List as you write your code, I don't see how this would work.
It would be part of the upcoming Hardcore mode, in which not only are intellisense and on-the-fly error checking disabled, but if your code fails to compile first time, it deletes the entire source tree.
I would like to see something like this in Eclipse.
Honestly I know it's all done in fun but really, people using the product are trying to concentrate, they're trying to solve really hard problems and you're going to pop up some crap telling them they achieved some stupid "award".
You morons, this is akin to the marketing joker in the office that annoys alls the programmers by interrupting them all day with stupid jokes, you know the guy, he's the one you want to punch in the face everyday.
And to the guys that actually coded this up, learn to say no. Put your job on the line; fuck it it's not worth making the world a worse place by adding this kinda crap to a developer tool.
Wow. Thanks Microsoft for cluttering up yet another product with more UI Craptastic. Honestly I know it's all done in fun but really, people using the product are trying to concentrate, they're trying to solve really hard problems and you're going to pop up some crap telling them they achieved some stupid "award". You morons, this is akin to the marketing joker in the office that annoys alls the programmers by interr…
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It would be part of the upcoming Hardcore mode, in which not only are intellisense and on-the-fly error checking disabled, but if your code fails to compile first time, it deletes the entire source tree.
Wouldn't that be more aptly named 'Nightmare mode?'
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given that Visual Studio underlines all your compilation errors and lists them in the Error List as you write your code, I don't see how this would work.
It would be part of the upcoming Hardcore mode, in which not only are intellisense and on-the-fly error checking disabled, but if your code fails to compile first time, it deletes the entire source tree.
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