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The closest I've come is when programming embedded stuff and there is actually an issue on the die of a microcontroller that prevents a subsystem (like a UART) from working correctly. There usually is a work-around, but not always, something which I painfully found out not too long ago, a UART that would work intermittently at a certain baud rate. But generally speaking I agree with the other posters, that there are no unsolvable issues. Sometimes the issues are not with your code, but perhaps in a library or such that you're linking to. Is it possible to make a smaller project that exhibits the problem?
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Söderlund wrote: Have you guys ever found a bug or misbehaviour that you were unable to correct?
Yes - when it was an architectural problem which was at the center of the product design. A list of actions took place when triggered by an HI event. The actions could be processed in any order.
The proper way to fix this one was to rearchitect and rewrite the app - all 3 million lines of it.
Oh yeah it used the old SEH "__try" "__except" style of exception handling. It needed to be rewritten. Doing so would have required changing over 1000 lines of code in one whack.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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I don't think there are unsolvable bugs, but I have had a few that caused me much grief. In each case, the bug was not in our application, but rather in an outside component such as a printer driver or third-party library. These can be difficult to track down, and even though the 'fault' is not in your code, the customer doesn't care. Happy hunting!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I was told many years ago when I first started working in the computer industry "Don't sweat it! It's just 1's and 0's, how hard can that be?" (mainframes, 1965).
I never let a stupid machine that only understands 1's and 0's get the better of me.
Dave.
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Söderlund wrote: misbehaviour that you were unable to correct?
Yes, a WinForms app that would crash once in a while; probably due to a cross-thread problem, but I never took the time to figure it out; I just told the user to get back in and I'd try to track it down later. I never tracked it down; there were always more important things that I could accomplish.
There was also a memory leak in a C app that I didn't track down until a few years after I had left the job. So I made the fix in my copy, but couldn't get it to the client.
Söderlund wrote: unsolveable bugs out there
I can't prove that there aren't, therefore there must be.
I'd like to know more (unless it's in VB).
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SFW[^]
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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...from MSDNAA for use as a build server.
Yes, I already have access to Win8.1 and Win Server 2012 R2. I have had access for about three weeks now.
And yes, these are the RTM versions.
Keep Clam And Proofread
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And it was delicious.
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I really don't understand why you don't use twitter for this kind of Messages ...
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Klaus-Werner Konrad wrote: I really don't understand why you don't use twitter for this kind of Messages .
because 140 doesn't download an R2
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Twitter won't have them.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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True.
He'd have to add "and eating a sandwich" to bring it up to twitter standards.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I left my job a little over a year ago for several reasons. Now the company I went to work for closed down, and I returned to the original job.
Now I'm a lead developer! I brought book suggestions with me such as "Clean Code", "Code Complete" and "Head First Design Patterns". I'm introducing linq, entity framework, mvc, etc. Shoot, we even got these guys using version control, and I'm enforcing a code review process.
I think my extended leave was very fruitful 
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Sounds like they won't know what hit them 
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Hi, again.
No more jokes please. Some of those were 
Keep Clam And Proofread
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And it was delicious.
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Quote: have a rant, tell a bad joke, complain about someone or post stuff that that may not be appropriate for reading at work and/or isn't strictly IT industry related.
There are several options for you. You could, for instance, not open posts that are authored by me. At any rate, you should leave me alone about it. It's not appropriate to reply to unrelated posts to keep commenting on my joke posts.
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The key word there is 'a', it does not mean so many they fill several pages.
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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get off my thread with it. You're just trolling me with OT stuff.
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ehem ...
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I appreciate you expressing your opinion. My day is much brighter because of it.
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It seems like time is not the only thing that needs to move on.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Can you, please, explain to me what is an EXTENDED lave ?
You leave or not - tat's it AFAIK.
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I left the company, and then came back a year later.
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And if they're really lucky you'll tell some jokes!
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loctrice_ wrote: I brought book suggestions with me
That's one of the nice things about going back to a previous firm -- you know by exactly how much the desks and chairs wobble.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Oh my, young Steve Blais, genius and /or madman, in gestation at McGill University in Montreal, explains string theory in his multiple-persona cantata "Bohemian Gravity," set to the tune of "Bohemian Rhapsody:" [^].
Some 1.1 million people have now viewed waveform-and-particle Steve's latest bohemo-chorale lecture, topping the half-million+ who viewed his earlier smash-video "Rolling in the Higgs:" [^] billed as a cover of "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele.
I thought "Adele" might be Steve's nickname for his home-made fast-neutron reactor, or a grieved-for ex-ladyfriend, but turns out she's a popular singer (fine set of lungs, too).
The future of physics is bright, I believe, even if I can't see it.
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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