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all true, but it's not fun
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honey the codewitch wrote: all true, but it's not fun
Fun is what you do for entertainment. Being a boring person doesn't mean I don't like fun; but there's a time and place for everything.
Are you writing entertaining code, or reliable boring and predictable code? Which of those two will you invest in?
It's not sexy to be predictable, but you don't want sexy heating or tapwater in your house. You want them to "just work". You don't want a cool surgeon, but someone who claims to have done it a thousand times. You don't want financial advice from someone who goes for "sexy and cool". You want something reliable.
Here's one to keep you occupied; is your hubby a sexy, cool, adventurous kind? Or is he reliable and boring?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: is your hubby a sexy, cool, adventurous kind?
When I married him.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Or is he reliable and boring?
10 years of marriage, go figure. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: When I married him.
I remember marrying. It rained that day.
honey the codewitch wrote: 10 years of marriage, go figure.
Doesn't sound like the adventurous kind, but the reliable kind.
It applies to everything in life; people assume they want adventure, but they balk as soon as drinking-water isn't available. People want boring.
Write both articles, from both boring and sexy perspectives; see which one is more popular 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy suggested: Write both articles, from both boring and sexy perspectives; see which one is more popular
Not the same article, but I tried boring[^] and sexy[^], and the sexy one seriously triggered some folks!
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Of course; people want sexy, not boring.
I am not putting my money on what I find interesting though.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I am constantly surprised how what I think are my boring articles actually do better than the sexy ones.
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Sexy is a risk; boring is a promise.
Ask any female.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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honey the codewitch wrote: But now I had to choose boring/fast over cool/slow and that makes me a little sad.
That would depend on why you're doing this. If its for fun, I'd go with cool. Cool is fun. Cool is rewarding. Cool is, well cool. And sometimes, cool teaches you things that boring doesn't. OTOH, if there's an eventual customer in mind then maybe boring/fast is the right decision.
Speaking of performance, what's the difference in speed we're talking here? Is the performance difference noticeable, or can you only really tell by running performance analysis. Are we talking micro-seconds in a real-world situation, or seconds, or even tens of seconds. If you're looking at less than 250/300 ms for a given work-load, maybe Cool/Fun is good enough. If the difference can be measured in eye-blinks, why be boring?
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That's a good point about perf. I've already released the sexy lexer though, and I need the reliable one so i think i'll finish it up
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Then they'll incinerate it.
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Maybe we can get a time lapse video of that, too.
What goes up must come down!
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well it's being built for victims of the latest deadly disease that china produced (then covered up for a month) it's not as silly as it sounds, more people have died than recovered (ignoring the bogus "official" figures.)
this is also the same country that built high speed rail lines also very quickly, and there were inevitable disasters (also more than reported).
throw in Feb is their coldest month of the year: it shouldn't (but probably will be) paper thin construction - how long can it last? Nevermind it's being built for the poor masses, them the central government considers valueless anyway. anyone important gets the bug they'll commandeer [with some lame excuse] an existing high class hospital in Peking.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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Please at least try to make an effort to keep extremist politics and fake news out of the CP Lounge.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Please at least try to make an effort to keep extremist politics and fake news out of the CP Lounge.
Because that distracts you from thinking of new off-topic replies/brain farts on "Insider News" ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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At least there's nothing vicious or nasty in anything I post. Quite the opposite, in fact.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Please at least try to make an effort to keep extremist politics and fake news out of the CP Lounge.
and the what did you call it, "fake news" I posted is now common knowledge and in fact even worse.
Don't worry, I won't mind if you take your foot out of your mouth.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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"China" didn't cover anything up, the local governor/mayor did, but only for a matter of days. The people involved in the cover up have been fired and/or arrested, and there's a good chance that a couple of them will be executed, for causing the deaths of many others.
"China" didn't try to hide their one and only high-speed rail crash (that happened at low speed), "officials" did -- it's hard to tell which officials, because they were very quickly fired, prosecuted, and imprisoned, along with the people who made money out of cutting corners in the construction. I've been on several of the newer trains (topping 450kph), and I've never had a more comfortable ride -- or quiet, everyone speaks in whispers, because it's so quiet.
The prefab wards used for the quick-build hospitals are better equipped and more comfortable than many hospitals that have been around for a while.
So yes, the bullsh1t you spouted was fake news; and the way you spouted it was dumb-hick style racist and offensive.
And yes, there is a Hell of a lot of corruption at regional/gubernatorial levels in China, the rooting out of which has been one of Chairman Wu's main objectives, since he took office (and if he says it's one of his main objectives, you can believe it, because he's not an inveterate liar, like some countries' leaders), but when you compare it to the corruption at regional/gubernatorial levels in countries a fraction of the size/population of China, you realise that it's not particularly exceptional.
I love the way that people who have never been to China, know absolutely bugger all about China or its people, and have even less of a clue about how the country works, decide that they're experts on the nation after watching a few propaganda films from organisations with vested interests.
Don't bother to respond. I'm not interested in hearing more of your parroted propaganda, and I won't read it -- and when I say I won't do something, I don't do it; I'll bet you wish you could trust the word of your great leaders as much.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Six days, 15 stories: [^]
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Holy cr@p; you go away for a week's holiday, and when you come back, the geraniums in your window box aren't getting any sunshine!
Can't fault the buggers on productivity, that's for sure.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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xkcd: Networking Problems[^] What's the latency at exactly noon? I think we need to know.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I once debugged a problem where users reported that they'd print a batch of invoices, say 100, but only half of them were printed.
So I check the logging and sure enough, all print jobs were created, but only half of them finished.
No errors or exceptions, printer worked, the client couldn't think of anything that happened prior to the printing.
They printed two batches a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, but this only happened in the afternoon.
The next day everything went fine, then it didn't, when I tested it everything worked, I built all kinds of checks and logging, but NOTHING would solve the problem.
I even went there to check out why it went wrong, but I couldn't find anything and of course everything printed as it should that day.
This went on for months, not every day, but quite often and I would be looking for the problem regularly.
One fine day, my manager was over at the client and he wanted to go home just when the department was about to print invoices.
In a moment of clarity he thought he'd walk in to see if the invoices were printed.
He found the problem.
They selected 100 invoiced, pressed the print button, THEN TURNED OFF THEIR FRIGGIN COMPUTER!
That explained why it always worked in the morning, no one turned off their computer in the morning.
It doesn't explain why these people can't make a connection between turning off their computer and a printer stopping 
I don't think I've ever spent that much time on a "bug"
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I spent a week sitting in a library, waiting for an intermittent fault to happen.
We'd delivered a new design of VDT (a terminal that talked to a mainframe) and this one site 300 miles away had a problem with it glitching out and restarting sometimes. The hardware had been replace with a brand new one, it only seemed to happen with my software. So a service engineer and I went up there are sat until it failed. Monday was dull. Tuesday more so. Friday was "climb the walls" time ... And then it happened.
Because they laminated a new library user's card for the first time that week.
And the laminator "spiked" the mains supply and the VDT PSU glitched out, crashing the software ...
One line conditioner later and we headed for home.
That was an expensive problem, not just in our time, but definitely in the bar bill which was "quite staggering" in the words of the Managing Director!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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While we are at crazy causes of problems: The case of the 500-mile email[^]
(This is a classic story, probably known to the oldtimers, but lots of younger people are not familiar with it.)
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