The Weird and The Wonderful

I mean _absolutely_ nothing, just like the error messages you posted meant nothing.

I was just mocking about that "obvious" number; you shouldn't take that seriously.

But _if_ I had intended a deeper meaning with the sentence you just quoted, it would be this:

There are some people out there who are writing code just like this "obvious error message". When it comes down to maintenance, no one else could handle that kind of bullsh... horse dung. That's active job security, right there! $Shucks | :-\$ So, whenever you stumble upon some messages like these, rest assured: There's a dude with a water tight career. He's roared up to a position where his employer is taking crap like that from him, because he couldn't let him go.

But that's just a interpretation of what I wrote. Hell, if I know what I was thinking all the time, I would at least be a miner god. Or totally crazy. Better not find out.

That seems to be a PEBKAC problem, Sir. Why don't you go and fetch a coffee while I handle the operation?

"not even" D'Oh! | :doh:

So odd.

Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.

that's actually what the error is referring to... Laugh | :laugh:

...but the user has no idea, they just get a lot of errors saying "not even"... it's "not even" their fault, its when one of our drivers malfunctions Laugh | :laugh:

I can't forget "Catastrophic failure." from Delphi 5. How somebody can support this? rsrsrs...

Error message syntax error

or

Error message add 1 for odd error and not even

Or that usual "Fatal Error" ... Should I look over my shoulder? OMG | :OMG:

Prime example of a bad error message.

Maybe I'm just showing my age and where I went to High School (So. California) - but my first thought was that the message would be followed by "as if" and "gnarly" prompts. D'Oh! | :doh:

-Bob

that's what came to mind when I first saw this error message...

Not even if you pay me?

I'm not a programmer but I play one at the office

Don't get odd, get even.

My favorite all time error message on a program I worked on- "Shut 'er down Clancy, she's pumping mud." shown just before the program crashed. No other information. Good for a laugh, but not much else.

An internal tape drive with a power light started constantly flashing the power light. Having been in the Army, I recognized the light pattern: ... --- ... (SOS).

Reminds me of post[^] tests

That's not bad, that's epic good.

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

Assuming that something was wrong with the tape drive it makes sense to flash the light as an indicator. OTOH, if it was flashing SOS during normal operation, I'd say there was something wrong with the one who programmed it. Wink | ;)

Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.

The tape drive was going bad, so the SOS was a good alert even though it did not give a hint to what the actual problem was.

I used to work at a tape drive manufacturer, and we had a whole list of LED error codes. SOS was not on the list, but I did see it once when I accidentally shorted two pins on the controller chip with a scope probe. I though that was cute, but it would have been more cute if it had spelled out the designer's name.

I like that one, actually.

The worst error message IMO remains "Abort, Retry, Fail?"

Yesterday evening, I told the VMWare tools of a virtual machine to shrink disk "C:" of that machine. It took extremely much time. When I looked through the log files this morning, I found the reason:

Sep 30 01:28:56.081: vcpu-0| Progress 101% (none)

Now I am 101% sure that the shrinking process has really been completed!

It seems they wanted to shrink it as much as they could, 1% extra. So, if it was a 500 gig disk, you get an additional 5 gigs free. Smile | :)

Or your disk now has -5 gigs Poke tongue | ;-P

It's an OO world.

C#

public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{}

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Bernhard Hiller wrote:
It took extremely much time.

That turn of phrase gave me pause, it's more common to say "It took a lot of time." implying that in your opinion, it took much more time than you expected. So, what's syntactically wrong with your statement? Breaking it down, I found: nothing.

Thank you for inadvertently pointing out to a native English speaker, that sometimes he doesn't know his own language so well. Smile | :)

I've heard the phrase "I'm 110% sure that I'm right" several times. Which makes me 99% sure they are wrong in some way.

I remember a TV series, one of the characters can't forget. He was saying they tested him as a kid, again and again making the 99'th percentile. She said, "What's the matter, you couldn't reach 100?" He said, "There isn't a 100'th."

I knew that, but it made me feel better about my SAT's 98th percentile in math because it meant that maybe I was closer to 1.1% away from the top kid in the nation. I took the SAT's over 40 years ago. I'm quite sure my math has degraded since then. It doesn't matter what I scored as a kid.

I can't prove it, but I still think I am above the 50th percentile in math. It took me a week to convince a manager that the math was wrong, when I knew it was wrong within 10 seconds of reading the line of code. (I never said I was superior in English. Laugh | :laugh:

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