Arrogant or merely delusional?
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The difference between arrogant and confident is success. So, I guess over confidence could be labeled as arrogance. ;) I once inherited a C code base and discovered, to my surprise, that most of the functions declared an 'int' return type, but there were no return statements for success. :wtf: A successful result would have been whatever happen to be in the AX register after the call was complete. The compiler was not happy and generated lots of warnings. :( I went through an uncounted number of functions and added the return statements. The compiler was very happy, no errors or warnings. :) But, the code would no longer work. :doh: I decided that I had more import things to do than fix code that worked, so I dropped the whole idea and lived with the warnings. :-O Besides, 80 percent of the time they were not checking the return type any way. :sigh:
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I once inherited a C code base and discovered, to my surprise, that most of the functions declared an 'int' return type, but there were no return statements for success.
Please don't tell me that. It's an abomination. I cannot believe a
Cprogrammer could have done such a thing. :omg: -
I made several thousand code changes over a couple of hundred files and I wholeheartedly believed all my unit tests would just work. I hate it when my serene view of reality doesn't align with what the rest of the world considers reasonable.
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
what the rest of the world considers reasonable
The rest of the world isn't always right. A lot of great inventors were called arrogant, delusional, and even mad, yet they invented airplanes, discovered America, discovered that the earth was round and that the sun was the center of the galaxy... You, however, might just need another coffee to clear your head ;p
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I made several thousand code changes over a couple of hundred files and I wholeheartedly believed all my unit tests would just work. I hate it when my serene view of reality doesn't align with what the rest of the world considers reasonable.
cheers Chris Maunder
Maybe just feeling lucky! :laugh: It's a nice challenge isn't it? It's either a fist pump or a quick swearing fit followed by bug hunting, usually followed by more swearing fits and disbelief that I could have made such stupid mistakes/overlooked the obvious. I'll settle for lots of little victories! :laugh:
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I made several thousand code changes over a couple of hundred files and I wholeheartedly believed all my unit tests would just work. I hate it when my serene view of reality doesn't align with what the rest of the world considers reasonable.
cheers Chris Maunder
Unit tests - pffff ;P The only unit tests I have are the end users droids units who test my code.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I made several thousand code changes over a couple of hundred files and I wholeheartedly believed all my unit tests would just work. I hate it when my serene view of reality doesn't align with what the rest of the world considers reasonable.
cheers Chris Maunder
The solution to all of your problems![^] :doh:
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I made several thousand code changes over a couple of hundred files and I wholeheartedly believed all my unit tests would just work. I hate it when my serene view of reality doesn't align with what the rest of the world considers reasonable.
cheers Chris Maunder
Hey, I weekly change stuff according to my client's wishes, every time believing that when I fulfil said wishes, I can finally draw a line under the particular work package, only to find my client to have more wishes.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I wholeheartedly believed all my unit tests would just work.
You forgot to take into consideration that they were French unit tests - and as usual, they were on strike.
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We French unit tests merely rose a (white) flag here.
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I made several thousand code changes over a couple of hundred files and I wholeheartedly believed all my unit tests would just work. I hate it when my serene view of reality doesn't align with what the rest of the world considers reasonable.
cheers Chris Maunder
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I made several thousand code changes over a couple of hundred files and I wholeheartedly believed all my unit tests would just work. I hate it when my serene view of reality doesn't align with what the rest of the world considers reasonable.
cheers Chris Maunder
I would suggest: Misplaced Optimism... Has this EVER Worked this way? Consistently? While the wife is trying to make sure you get home in time for those Dinner Plans? (LOL, that ALWAYS breaks a build!)
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I made several thousand code changes over a couple of hundred files and I wholeheartedly believed all my unit tests would just work. I hate it when my serene view of reality doesn't align with what the rest of the world considers reasonable.
cheers Chris Maunder
"tests"?
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I made several thousand code changes over a couple of hundred files and I wholeheartedly believed all my unit tests would just work. I hate it when my serene view of reality doesn't align with what the rest of the world considers reasonable.
cheers Chris Maunder
Delusional would be making all of those changes and then when someone asked you how the unit tests went, you say, "What's a unittest?" or "Unittesting is a waste of time."
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Chris Maunder wrote:
when my serene view of reality doesn't align with what the rest of the world considers reasonable.
That's my normal state. However, I've come to realize that what the rest of the world considers reasonable is actually quite unreasonable.
Chris Maunder wrote:
all my unit tests would just work
But that's what unit tests are for -to destroy your serene view of reality. You should be celebrating!
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I discovered if I comment the tests out my blood pressure reduces back to normal quite nicely.
cheers Chris Maunder
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There's nothing "apparent" about it. You know how these things go: you start off well, and then generations of changes with lots of "I'll clean that up later" mean things get a little messy. sigh.
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