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I had hoped you would have spayed away from that one.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Send them all to purrgatory!
veni bibi saltavi
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That gave me pause.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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So for I don't know, a week? I've been working on optimizing a finite automota powerset construction algorithm to work with unicode ranges without breaking it.
The "without breaking it" bit has me in fits. I've tried two different ways of tackling it on my own, and that worked until it didn't  at which point I ripped a technique off from another library, and that I thought worked, again, until it didn't. 
So now I'm just gutting the engine out of GPLEX and using that as the heart of Rolex.
Screw it. I know a wall when I hit one.
Now I just have to get the Gplex code torn down, retooled and slangified. No small feat. Harder in fact then if i had just gotten the above working.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Hey, I test all my code in Production and if it works more than 50% of the time, I'm winning.
I don't document anything, and I abhor scale-ability designs and frameworks.
I don't hit walls, I build them.
It's much easier to enjoy the favor of both friend and foe, and not give a damn who's who. -- Lon Milo DuQuette
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aren't you glad we don't build bridges and skyscrapers?
Honestly though, my issue surprisingly isn't a testing issue so much as a design issue. My algo is Wrong(TM).
The trouble is, I can't seem to find the Right(TM) way to do it.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Is it a matter of coding this the correct way (Right(TM)) or just getting it to work correctly, without the almost bit?
Your title says "almost" so I am guessing it does not work correctly. I would get it to work correctly, then refactor if possible to make it the Right(TM) way?
good luck
It's much easier to enjoy the favor of both friend and foe, and not give a damn who's who. -- Lon Milo DuQuette
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It's not that simple though. I do have a working version. It takes hours to generate the tables once you introduce unicode ranges.
And refactoring it isn't really the solution, since it's an algorithm change that is in order in order to fix that, which means the code has to work different, not simply be organized different, if that makes sense.
The Right(TM) way in this case refers to the correct implementation of the algorithm. There is one, and its derivatives. I just don't know how to find it.
Real programmers use butterflies
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In code, almost working is the same as not working. 
But I agree with others, get it working first and then optimize. Whenever I have tried to do both at the same time I have always run into nasty troubles.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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LMFTFY
So for I don't know, a week? I've been working on optimizing a finite automota powerset construction algorithm to work with unicornunicode ranges without breaking it.
I'd rather be phishing!
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may as well be
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That shouldn't be a problem, because, according to the APHINA English Dictionary, a near miss is a hit.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Too bad my computer doesn't care about APHINA
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ms would have shipped it, and they're worth billions, so who's doing it wrong?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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maybe the "near hit" philosophy is how they're rolling out their windows updates.
Real programmers use butterflies
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So he may now know the answers to The Quiz of the Ever After.
It's getting so that there are hardly any entertainers of "concert-party age" left (Parsons himself never served, but he was the right age) -- almost everyone who was on the telly when I was a child has gone.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I grew up listening to Just a Minute and he has left a great legacy for radio/wireless listeners.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Robin Ince tweeted that instead of a minute's silence, we should all talk about him without deviation, hesitation or repetition. I thought that was brilliant
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It was the least I could do.
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No big deal, I guess? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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You also believe in funnymalism I gather.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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IRL? 
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