{"id":106407,"date":"2022-03-29T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=106407"},"modified":"2022-03-29T07:27:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:27:49","slug":"20220329-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20220329-01\/?p=106407","title":{"rendered":"How to become a Senior Detective, according to Murderville"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my colleagues pointed out a screen shot from the Netflix documentary series\u00b9 Murderville<\/i> as the Senior Detective introduces himself:<\/p>\n

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m_vecSockets.clear();<\/tt><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
m_ButtonStartServer.SetCheck(BST_UNCHECKED);<\/tt><\/div>\n
m_ButtonStartClient.SetCheck(BST_UNCHECKED);<\/tt><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
EnabledControl();<\/tt><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
m_wndCountPeople.SetWindowText(\"0 peop.\");<\/tt><\/div>\n
SetWindowText(\"Error\");<\/tt><\/div>\n
}<\/tt><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
void CChatCppDlg::OnBnClickedButtonSend()<\/tt><\/div>\n
{<\/tt><\/div>\n
CString strChat;<\/tt><\/div>\n
m_wndSend.GetWindowTxt(strChat);<\/tt><\/div>\n
SendChat(strChat);<\/tt><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
}<\/tt><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
void CChatCppDl<\/tt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It looks to me like the Senior Detective is busy typing out the next method of CChatCppDlg<\/code> at the bottom of the screen.<\/p>\n

It also appears that Senior Detectives believe indentation is superfluous, use MFC, and are very conscientious about wasting space, preferring to abbreviate “people” to just “peop.” to save one character. (But why not “ppl.”?)<\/p>\n

Another colleague was able to find out that this Senior Detective plagiarized his code from a Russian Web site<\/a>, which in turn appears to have been derived from an MFC sample program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So that’s how you become a Senior Detective: Find a Russian Web site, copy its code, including the odd indentation, but strip the comments, and translate the strings back to English. Instant promotion!<\/p>\n

\u00b9 No, Murderville<\/i> is not actually a documentary. It’s a comedy. The running joke in all of these “How to\u2026 according to” posts is that I’m na\u00efve and think that all of television is real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A little copy pasta will take you far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-106407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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