For some reason, people in my profession like to masturbate, mentally that is. They like to impress themselves with their crafty solutions. Solutions that weave in and out of themselves, intertwined in such a Rube Goldbergish way that it's amazing that it works, and nearly indecipherable to anyone except the person who created it, I suppose it's called Job Security to the people who do it. What is this? Computer programming. Some days I'm a programmer. So I have to write my own code, and occasionally use and fix code from others. One of the things we do when we write code is look for ways to make our code less reduntant and therefor more efficient. (unless you work at Microsoft, hahaha-maybe.) But it can be taken too far sometimes. So my life becomes amazingly difficult as I have to weave my way through a bunch of defined functions trying to trace down variables by someone trying to create one piece of code that does two things, instead of just making two pieces of code each of which does just one thing. Now I love a challenge, but give me a problem to solve, not cleaning up someone else's shortcut solution that doesn't work.

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