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Dilbert[^]
1. If you are the engineer, don't talk too much and launch the old despot into space already. He wanted it, he got it.
2. If you are the CEO, use natural processes to motivate the engineers and weed out the bad ones. I would suggest to use Igor Sikorsky's method: You built it, now you fly it.
Quote: “At that time the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.”
-- Igor Sikorsky
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.
modified 9-Nov-21 7:27am.
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A very sound principle! My grandfather had a sporting motor of some pedigree which had cable operated drum brakes. The correct servicing and tensioning of the cables was essential to stay out of the ditch. After every service he would put the mechanic in the co-pilots seat, and then give it some serious wellie along the Hog's Back (a road which Brits will know of).
The brake cables were always perfectly adjusted! 
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Guildford - Farnham.
I know it well. It's really boring now, straight dual carriageway replaced the early two-lane curly stuff that needed good brakes. 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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And they have added average speed cameras on the Farnham to Guildford side so no racing to Guildford anymore.
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I haven't driven it for (gulp) 50 years, but back then it had considerable charm (and skid marks).
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First time I hit the the magic (well it was then ) ton was on the hogs back , the bends seemed to get tighter and tighter the faster you went - and my Bonneville wasn't the best handling / stopping machine.
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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So what does it say about the Boeing Starliner that the original test pilots for it have all left Boeing?
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It's taken so long no one alive today was around when it started?
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Watch band pout - maybe catch a rodent? (9)
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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MOUSETRAP - def
MOUE - pout
STRAP - watch band
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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And that means you are up tomorrow! 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Then I discovered I wasn't entirely alone in this:
Implement a stack in SQL Server using stored procedures – SQLServerCentral[^]
Although I will be using temporary tables instead of external stored procedures.
It's weird enough driving simple finite automata from a database, but driving push-down automata from inside a database is a little insane.
Real programmers use butterflies
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You're crazy. I love it! 
But yes, a temptable and a row pointer variable is probably the right way to do it.
If you really need to. 
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Use the right tool for the right job.
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That doesn't sound like fun at all.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I have created Turing Machines in T-SQL, but only to prove that it can be done, not for reals.
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The primary reason I'm targeting T-SQL with a parser is to ensure that my code generation templates are flexible enough to be able to target most any language.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Keep at it I'm looking forward to the article.
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Have you seen Reggie lately?
I wrote this Dismantling Reggie[^] which covers how Reggie works.
The thing is, Norm works the same way, but instead of FA state machines for lexers and matchers, it writes PDA state machines for parsers.
It's shockingly similar, so understanding how Reggie works will make understanding Norm par for the course.
As far as understanding the process of generating the parse tables that the code is generated from, I've covered that in several previous articles and I won't be covering it that much when I cover Norm, any more than I covered the workings of the regular expression engine when covering Reggie.
I'm just putting that out there FWIW, and so you know what to expect.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Anyone use this?
It appears to cripple front-end development time. To quote someone:
Quote:
Ngrx adds so much more code to the codebase and it makes things much more difficult to understand and work with.
And because of that, it becomes harder to analyze what the underlying code is doing.
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Errrm, yes. I do. It's not really that hard to use.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Errrm, yes. I do. It's not really that hard to use.
It must be how it's being used then. Interesting. Thanks for the feedback.
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One of the big problems with NGRX is that it appears to have a really bad debug story to it; the reality is, once you get your head around the fact that it has been designed to separate operations and state, debugging becomes a bit more intuitive. If you really want to see what's happening, I find this extension[^] to be invaluable.
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Thanks! I passed that along to our front-end devs.
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Isn't that what all code generators do?
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