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I've got a bug that only pops its head up after my code chunks on a computation for several minutes.
I know where the bug is coming from, but not exactly how to reproduce it outside this case I am running that again, takes several minutes.
i remember it taking several minutes between builds. in 1988. i could make a sandwich while waiting for Orca C to compile.
This feels like that. It's all console work, and it's all just reams of code to solve what amounts to math problems.
I have gone back in time.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I'd be concerned about possible Daleks
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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It'll be fine, so long as you can get your DeLorean up to 88Mph. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I got fined last time i laid down fire tracks in the street 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Streets? Where we're going, we don't need streets. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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hah fair.
as an aside by brain hurts. i have to write an awful lot of code that solves interdependency chains, and I keep getting into infinite loops.
i hate handling stuff like this. i have a headache in my eye. meh.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Though, of course, the DeLorean was already traveling much faster just sitting there in the parking lot.
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Heh, I saw the one of the Back to the Future Delorians on the freeway a few weeks ago. It was the one with the Mr Fusion.
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Welcome. I found it easier just to stay in the 80s, where I understand everything.
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guys in makeup i'm here for.
but the hair i couldn't stand for more than a year or two
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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The bloke hair was as bad - remember the Mullet?
And don't forget the Shoulder Pads!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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and shoulder pads could have worked too. it's all in the execution.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Agreed - the person who invented them should have been executed.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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that's a little harsh. I usually reserve that sort of criticism for VB developers.
i'm kidding. i don't care what language they code in, i have equal contempt for them all. 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I want my mullet back. It just makes all kinds of sense.
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I use blood magic.
If I could tap Isaiah 53 without it ending my own life you all would be in for wonders.
Code notwithstanding.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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My current project requires half an hour to build (it has to fetch every component from the main customer server over a slow VPN and cross-compile every module + execute a lot of code generators and yocto run) and can't be debugged stepping into code, we can only register terse debug messages and analyze post-mortem.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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that sounds almost as awful as when i had a project where every build revision had to go through gov approval.
i do not envy you.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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great time to be alive! 
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https://www.xkcd.com/303
BTW, one of the projects I maintain is a DOS-based Pascal 7 app which indeed takes minutes to compile.
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If you cannot reproduce it in the debugger, it could be a stack based variable that is getting overwritten (b/c it is somehow being returned). Logging is the ultimate answer.
It should be repeatable... If it is, it is solvable!
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it's repeatable, it's just that it's right in the middle of a LALR parser generator table transformation so building the table in such a way as to reproduce it is the trick. That's why i said i'm sticking with the current repro. Finding another one is tricky, not impossible. It's just because of where the bug is and what it is.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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