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My colleagues keep complaining that my software fails and I keep having to correct them... My software successfully reported that it was unable to complete its task.
There's a difference.
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After "here comes the choo choo" Johnny's mom used more aggressive methods to make him eat his vegetables.
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At one time I was working on a business critical WinForms application.
Sometimes we'd get an (really unexpected and random) error in our software and display an error like "An unexpected error occurred, please contact an administrator."
We couldn't display what really happened as we simply didn't know.
The problem was, users would just ignore it and continue, resulting in invalid orders and production data (which was usually discovered days later).
So our solution was quite simple, include the technical error message and stack trace in a screen filling error message.
Now that the error looked a lot more intimidating users were hesitant to simply ignore it and almost always called in an administrator who would then start over to prevent invalid data and report to us so we could actually fix the issue 
If it looks stupid and it works then it ain't stupid 
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I can see that being effective.
Forgive me for stealing the idea.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sander Rossel wrote: So our solution was quite simple, include the technical error message and stack trace in a screen filling error message.
But, but that is my standard error message functionality, with a button to email it to the front line support. Then crash the application, works about 95% of the time.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Then crash the application, works about 95% of the time.
You'd think crashing the application would work 100% of the time, unless an unexpected error occurs while unexpected erroring
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Johnny J. wrote: which one of you jokers
Did you not see the signature?
Broccoli[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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AE-35's have never failed, so it's the computers fault and you need to start pulling its RAM out (without turning it off first).
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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modified 26-Aug-19 8:39am.
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That still was real quality! They were reinstalled in 2010 and HAL was his old merry self again.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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OriginalGriff wrote: pulling it's RAM out
But if the bug is caused by a misplaced apostrophe, it can be quite difficult to trace.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's dirt on your screen, I'm sure.
(Please ignore the "modified 15 secs ago." message at the bottom of my message, that's a typo) 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's "bullying by vegetables", and it's a crime.
while (!(success = Try()));
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Hmm.
There's a time for humour, but when someone suffers a program crash is not one of them.
If I'd lost work/time/effort over such a crash, my immediate instinct would be to kick the smarmy wanker in the teeth.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I laugh so I don't cry. Oh look, the parser I released has a crippling bug that will require a rewrite hahahaha.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Sure, but that's personal.
Laughing while your customers are suffering is not acceptable.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I worked at Microsoft.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Oh good!
I want to design a new icon, so I might call on you for advice!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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How to find pi's root (6)
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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sudo. As simple as that. 
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Sorry - not enough letters! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No, man - no squares here!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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