Can’t really win the future; it can just wait us out until we’re all dead.
Going mad with power is on my bucket list.
Hate it when you find a huge bug that explains everything, you fix it, and… no change.
Favorite bug of all time was in college when a group of us spent hours with logic analyzers to realize we plugged a square chip in sideways.
“Going mad with power is on my bucket list.”
Yep, it’s on mine too. And every day that goes by that the masses don’t acknowledge and celebrate my greatness just makes me madder and madder, and when I finally aquire the necessary power I’m going to be really mad. So I actually will be pretty mad long before I get the chance to go mad with power. I may be so mad by then I won’t really remember why I was so mad in the first place and everyone will escape the consequences of making me mad. I hate it when a plan doesn’t come together!
I’m not sure I want to go mad with power. Can I just stop at quirky with power?
Getting a bucket is tops on my list.
Bugs in code. Hate ’em.
Had one on a Website one time that I fixed … and it still occurred. No matter what I did, it still happened. I actually removed the page, expecting a 404 as a result. But no. Still the (now missing) page with the error!
Turns out the Development site was being cached by some new something Network had added and didn’t tell us. Hope you find the reason your fix doesn’t fix it is something simple you can blame on someone else.
Here’s a bug I have noticed in IMAO lately – no Jeri Thompson pictures. I’d regard this bug as a blocker.
Nothing to see here. This is not the source code you are looking for. Move along.
“Hate it when you find a huge bug that explains everything, you fix it, and… no change”
Yeah, that would be like replacing Obama with a RINO in 2012
“Hate it when you find a huge bug …”
I get those quite often, but then I tend to not look stuff up when I don’t remember how to do it, and just trust the compiler to let me know when I wrote something nonsensical. That works ok in java, but when you try to do that with C, it can have really bad consequences.
I dunno. My goal for today is to win tomorrow. I yield for no man.
A lot of software is now designed and developed by the developer. This gives new meaning to “works as designed”. That is, whatever the developer develops, it works as designed (WAD).
“Hate it when you find a huge bug that explains everything, you fix it, and… no change.”
Here in FLA we know all about huge bugs. You go out in the Everglades and the mosquitos (our state bird) are so big they have been known to carry away alligators and deer. At the same time. Then there’s the palmeto bugs, known to the rest of you as “really big ‘ol roaches”. Then there’s that most evil of bugs, the Florida Sand Flea, which while the smallest of the lot, is the most numerous and the main reason letting your cats be outdoor cats is such a horrible idea, because those little SOBs will eat you alive. It’s high time we rename “The Sunshine State” as “The Were Did All These @#$%&*^! Bugs Come From” state.
“Going mad with power is on my bucket list.”
Done…next?
1. I just need the power… I”m already mad.
2. What’s a bug? My code’s always perfect.
3. See #1 above…
I spent a good half hour the other day trying to figure out why a “copy” command wouldn’t work in a batch file. Turns out, you should stick to \ and avoid / in Windows command-line pathnames, ‘cuz if one of your directories/files begins with a letter that’s also an argument for the command, it won’t work.
Frank, I’ve noticed you have started talking more and more about software and product testing. As a fellow software engineer, I think you should start another website just to talk about the highs and lows of software development…
Just sayin’…
–>BubbaB
Proud Infidel, if you have been reading long enough you should remember Frank being attacked by sea lice on his honeymoon. One of his personalities even posted a pic of it so we could sympathize with his plight.
Every time I try to win the future, it becomes the present.
Removing the bucket from his head, is on O-bah-muhhz Bucket List.
Favorite bugs of all time were the ones in ‘Starship Troopers’. The giant ones that fired plasma bursts from their arse were awesome!
I used “logic analyzers” in college. I preferred Orange Micro Dot but in a pinch Mushrooms did the trick as long as we had a blunt of some really good stuff! Our analytical skills were off the chart!
The Dims are trying to win the future by re-writing the past.
(old school) Funnest hardware bug ever: spent hours trying to figure out why a serial port wouldn’t work only to discover that the hardware engineer had flipped the pin-out on the board layout…