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I was working on a streetlight in the early morning. Some drunk guy stumbled across the road and nearly got hit by a car (whose driver may also have been drunk, or maybe just half asleep). The drunk guy then stole my ladder out from under me, forcing me to grab on to the light I was fixing. As the drunk was making off with my ladder, some other bloke walking his dog saw the spectacle, but instead of helping me, he just phoned the police to report a burglar. He must've seen me, because he looked directly at the busted streetlight from which I was hanging. Why on earth did he not help me? I had to hang there for over an hour, clinging on for dear life, before some good Samaritan helped me down.
What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
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I was going to have lunch with a buddy of mine.
He just called and canceled.
He works down at the local police station.
I guess the phone has been ringing off the hook all morning.
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Yeah, some days are like that. My day is looking to be rather busy too. 
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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Looked out of my window this morning cause the streetlight had gone out and I wondered why. There was this bloke with a dog following a man with a ladder, obviously up to no good as he was keeping out of sight of the ladder carrier. Luckily a passing car lit them both up so I could pass the description on to the police.
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Sounds like a good enough reason to call in sick.
It is way too dangerous to go outside.
As for the strange man with the dog - I'd would have called the police myself, but I lost my phone when I had to dive off the road to avoid an oncoming car.
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They have new engines this year in Formula 1.
V6 turbocharges (more or less hybrid if I understand correctly the techno-babble).
You can hear the noise difference in the video attached to this link (in french)
http://www.tuxboard.com/moteurs-f1-2013-2014/[^]
I like the new noise.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Awful! They sound like bloody hairdryers. I went to the Hungarian GP many times and it was brilliant, the sheer brut power could be heard roaring around the track. That? Barely hear it across the road. 
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Was that a Ford Focus I saw in the middle of the pack? 
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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That's the worst thing I have ever heard.
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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Yeah, its the old KERS back, with more power stored. Its a good idea, really good, storing KE in batteries for later use is going to transform the urban cycle economy of every day cars.
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I was walking the dog this morning I saw a suspicious looking man dressed in dark clothing, crossing the street with a ladder. He had even gone to the trouble of disabling the street light so as not to be seen. I got a good look at him though as he was lit up by an oncoming car. I have passed his description on to the Police.
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Blue Waffle wrote: crossing the street with a ladder.
How did he do that?
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I'm not an expert coder on the level of a lot of the guys here, but I do some at work. What I'm finding is that I like debugging more than the actual coding. Anybody else feel that way?
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Kind of. Churning out the code can get boring and repetitive. Chasing down bugs gets adversarial and is more of a challenge, more of a thrill when you nail the little buggers.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Nope, I prefer coding.
If I have to debug it means my code is not good and I have to work better next time.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I'm with you on that one!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I prefer the coding. Debugging is useful, but Bob help me when i am debugging code written so good that he belongs in The Weird & The Wonderful section... in a wooden box.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Yes. Most of my professional life was in tech support so I was trying to debug other people's code. I did enjoy the occasional break to write some code for myself, but soon got fed up and went back to debugging.
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Certainly not.
Nothing beats the feeling from nailing your code at first try.
And before anyone start the sarcastic commenting, I mean strictly from a programming point of view.
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I've only experienced that once and have to agree with you. Maybe if I experienced it more often I would have been more in the forefront of my thoughts.
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It's not like it happens a lot to me either, (hardly at all to be honest) that's why it feels so good when it actually does.
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I think they go both hand in hand.
you need to learn from bugs to write better code and you can't really understand what the code does until it breaks that what I believe.
But I in the mundane day of just bashing out code I prefer to chase bugs as chriselst said it can be quite satisfying to get the little bleeder.
But I also enjoy the coding of something new and different more than trying to debug it.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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