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Need a new word mean "it worked first time and that's crazy because I just wrote the code in one hit and just compiled and ran it"

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  • Z zpinklb

    fluke!

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    BrainiacV
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    I'll never forget the business card I got one day from a Fluke Instrumentation salesman "If it works, it's a FLUKE" Loved it.

    Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

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    • C Chris Maunder

      ...but shorter, and more catchy. I've just completed about 8hrs of solid coding that involved tearing into the guts of my code, touching about 20 modules, ripping out a component and replacing it with a different (3rd party) component whose documentation is of the "documentation is Evil" variety, plus a bunch of refactoring and configuration changes and the first time I ran the code it...just...worked. Isn't that the best feeling in the world. It's like everything stops, and everything is perfect just in that moment. We need a word for it.

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      StatementTerminator
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      When that happens to me, my knee-jerk reaction is, this needs some more testing :)

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      • C Chris Maunder

        ...but shorter, and more catchy. I've just completed about 8hrs of solid coding that involved tearing into the guts of my code, touching about 20 modules, ripping out a component and replacing it with a different (3rd party) component whose documentation is of the "documentation is Evil" variety, plus a bunch of refactoring and configuration changes and the first time I ran the code it...just...worked. Isn't that the best feeling in the world. It's like everything stops, and everything is perfect just in that moment. We need a word for it.

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        Leng Vang
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        How about Bam! or Dang!? When scientists discovered something unexpectedly, they usual muttered "That's funny".

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        • C Chris Maunder

          ...but shorter, and more catchy. I've just completed about 8hrs of solid coding that involved tearing into the guts of my code, touching about 20 modules, ripping out a component and replacing it with a different (3rd party) component whose documentation is of the "documentation is Evil" variety, plus a bunch of refactoring and configuration changes and the first time I ran the code it...just...worked. Isn't that the best feeling in the world. It's like everything stops, and everything is perfect just in that moment. We need a word for it.

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          Member_5893260
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          The word you're looking for is in fact "holifuck"(tm)...

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          • C Chris Maunder

            ...but shorter, and more catchy. I've just completed about 8hrs of solid coding that involved tearing into the guts of my code, touching about 20 modules, ripping out a component and replacing it with a different (3rd party) component whose documentation is of the "documentation is Evil" variety, plus a bunch of refactoring and configuration changes and the first time I ran the code it...just...worked. Isn't that the best feeling in the world. It's like everything stops, and everything is perfect just in that moment. We need a word for it.

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            zwickerr
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            Been there. The word is surreal.

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            • C Chris Maunder

              ...but shorter, and more catchy. I've just completed about 8hrs of solid coding that involved tearing into the guts of my code, touching about 20 modules, ripping out a component and replacing it with a different (3rd party) component whose documentation is of the "documentation is Evil" variety, plus a bunch of refactoring and configuration changes and the first time I ran the code it...just...worked. Isn't that the best feeling in the world. It's like everything stops, and everything is perfect just in that moment. We need a word for it.

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              jeeves77
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              I've done this too using the try { InguaralObject.FirstRun(); } catch(Exception ex) { } It works every time!

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              • C Chris Maunder

                ...but shorter, and more catchy. I've just completed about 8hrs of solid coding that involved tearing into the guts of my code, touching about 20 modules, ripping out a component and replacing it with a different (3rd party) component whose documentation is of the "documentation is Evil" variety, plus a bunch of refactoring and configuration changes and the first time I ran the code it...just...worked. Isn't that the best feeling in the world. It's like everything stops, and everything is perfect just in that moment. We need a word for it.

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                yacCarsten
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                How about FIGJAM (Elephant I'm good, just ask me)?

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                • C Chris Maunder

                  ...but shorter, and more catchy. I've just completed about 8hrs of solid coding that involved tearing into the guts of my code, touching about 20 modules, ripping out a component and replacing it with a different (3rd party) component whose documentation is of the "documentation is Evil" variety, plus a bunch of refactoring and configuration changes and the first time I ran the code it...just...worked. Isn't that the best feeling in the world. It's like everything stops, and everything is perfect just in that moment. We need a word for it.

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                  Vivi Chellappa
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                  #77

                  Simple word: lie. More complex: It really didn't happen that way but I just want to piss all of you off.

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                  • S Sentenryu

                    It's not working. You just didn't find the bugs yet, believe me.

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                    KP Lee
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                    #78

                    Sentenryu wrote:

                    It's not working. You just didn't find the bugs yet, believe me.

                    Kind of my reaction, just not the religous ferver you have.

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                    • U umlcat

                      Been there. I called "Works suspiciously too well"

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                      KP Lee
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                      umlcat wrote:

                      Been there. I called "Works suspiciously too well"

                      He said needs a new word: WSTW? (Whistwa)

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                      • C Chris Maunder

                        ...but shorter, and more catchy. I've just completed about 8hrs of solid coding that involved tearing into the guts of my code, touching about 20 modules, ripping out a component and replacing it with a different (3rd party) component whose documentation is of the "documentation is Evil" variety, plus a bunch of refactoring and configuration changes and the first time I ran the code it...just...worked. Isn't that the best feeling in the world. It's like everything stops, and everything is perfect just in that moment. We need a word for it.

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                        bobc4012
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                        First, congratulations on a job well done! Archimedes had the perfect word centuries ago. Eureka - the sudden, unexpected realization of the solution to a problem. You coded a solution to a problem - it ran the first time -- an unexpected realization. Eureka!!!!! :-D

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                        • C Chris Maunder

                          ...but shorter, and more catchy. I've just completed about 8hrs of solid coding that involved tearing into the guts of my code, touching about 20 modules, ripping out a component and replacing it with a different (3rd party) component whose documentation is of the "documentation is Evil" variety, plus a bunch of refactoring and configuration changes and the first time I ran the code it...just...worked. Isn't that the best feeling in the world. It's like everything stops, and everything is perfect just in that moment. We need a word for it.

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                          pwsJason
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                          A friend of mine coined a word for that exact concept. He called it a prograsm.

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                          • C Chris Maunder

                            ...but shorter, and more catchy. I've just completed about 8hrs of solid coding that involved tearing into the guts of my code, touching about 20 modules, ripping out a component and replacing it with a different (3rd party) component whose documentation is of the "documentation is Evil" variety, plus a bunch of refactoring and configuration changes and the first time I ran the code it...just...worked. Isn't that the best feeling in the world. It's like everything stops, and everything is perfect just in that moment. We need a word for it.

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                            Patrice STOESSEL
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                            Woaw, working 8 hours ... ... in a row without any intermediate point to see whether the code will work ... and ending the session with a run that you expect to crash and to debug that is really too much for me, now that I'm used to 5 mins cycles with refactoring and TDD I'm not amazed but sorry for you :-(

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                            • P Patrice STOESSEL

                              Woaw, working 8 hours ... ... in a row without any intermediate point to see whether the code will work ... and ending the session with a run that you expect to crash and to debug that is really too much for me, now that I'm used to 5 mins cycles with refactoring and TDD I'm not amazed but sorry for you :-(

                              gzo

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                              Chris Maunder
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                              That's kind of like being frustrated that when you take you car in for an engine change they can't take the car around the block every half hour to make sure it still works. Sometimes changes can be big.

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