internationally approved symbol for a glitch?
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A glitch is also the name for what happens when a neutron star undergoes a "starquake", changing the frequency of its rotation. Perhaps a picture of a small, vibrating ball...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
Like this: its clear; its dissimilar from other symbols; its easy to draw with klutzy IT fingers; and most importantly its really geeky.
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I am sure many of is have a whiteboard for informally recording significant events for quick visual reference. For fun (mainly) but also because its really handy we add a simple little emoji style graphic to show what kind of event it is. So a bug gets a nice little picture of a bug, a piece of software with a sunset date gets a setting sun and so on. Means we can tell whats what, and waste five minutes drawing it. Yesterday I found a data issue caused not by a bug but by a glitch. A power cut had thrown some data out. We should record this but we don't know what a glitch looks like :~. We can't possibly put it on the board without a picture. Please help with your suggestions.
How about a squirrel? Electrical disruptions caused by squirrels - Wikipedia[^]
"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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Here are some nice ones: Glitch icons | Noun Project[^]
like the hand with the zappy fingers - retains concept that glitch may be down to user activity after all
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How about a squirrel? Electrical disruptions caused by squirrels - Wikipedia[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
Another good suggestion, easy to draw and good back story.
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I am sure many of is have a whiteboard for informally recording significant events for quick visual reference. For fun (mainly) but also because its really handy we add a simple little emoji style graphic to show what kind of event it is. So a bug gets a nice little picture of a bug, a piece of software with a sunset date gets a setting sun and so on. Means we can tell whats what, and waste five minutes drawing it. Yesterday I found a data issue caused not by a bug but by a glitch. A power cut had thrown some data out. We should record this but we don't know what a glitch looks like :~. We can't possibly put it on the board without a picture. Please help with your suggestions.
How about a little gremlin?
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How about a squirrel? Electrical disruptions caused by squirrels - Wikipedia[^]
"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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Here are some nice ones: Glitch icons | Noun Project[^]
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How about a little gremlin?
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CodeWraith wrote:
Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
vibrating
rotation != vibration
The vibrations refer to the starquake, not the rotation.
CodeWraith wrote:
And where are the two death rays it emits at the poles?
I also don't show the electro-magnetic field, the gravitational field, and the [Cheela](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's\_Egg) living on the neutron star. This is a suggestion for a glyph, not a peer-reviewed article on Relativistic Physics!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
not a peer-reviewed article on Relativistic Physics!
Too bad. Should you still write the article, perhaps you should also mention the Hirogen[^] who love to stroll on the surface.
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...The Hirogen body armor had internal life support, with a breathing apparatus over the mouth and nose, and it can protect a Hirogen hunter while seeking prey in most hostile environments, including the surface of a collapsed star.
Good that they have life support when gravity crushes the protons into the neutrons. :-)
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Actually the first gremlin (again from thenounproject) is quite excellent!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
Not sure I like it for glitch but it is excellent, definitely going to use it somewhere.
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I am sure many of is have a whiteboard for informally recording significant events for quick visual reference. For fun (mainly) but also because its really handy we add a simple little emoji style graphic to show what kind of event it is. So a bug gets a nice little picture of a bug, a piece of software with a sunset date gets a setting sun and so on. Means we can tell whats what, and waste five minutes drawing it. Yesterday I found a data issue caused not by a bug but by a glitch. A power cut had thrown some data out. We should record this but we don't know what a glitch looks like :~. We can't possibly put it on the board without a picture. Please help with your suggestions.
Not sure how you are collecting data but this actually sounds to me as though a bug has been exposed. If the application/system has the assumption that once a write is issued the data has been saved - this 'glitch' has exposed that as a bug within the system. It sounds like the bug that has been exposed is that a save is not saved until it has been checked. A great opportunity for a unit test!
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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First thing to come to mind when you say "Glitch" is The Matrix, so perhaps a pictuer of Neo's head (complete with cool sunglasses) will do the job :cool:
Nah, the black cat was the glitch. So a drawing of a cat.
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Nah, the black cat was the glitch. So a drawing of a cat.
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I am sure many of is have a whiteboard for informally recording significant events for quick visual reference. For fun (mainly) but also because its really handy we add a simple little emoji style graphic to show what kind of event it is. So a bug gets a nice little picture of a bug, a piece of software with a sunset date gets a setting sun and so on. Means we can tell whats what, and waste five minutes drawing it. Yesterday I found a data issue caused not by a bug but by a glitch. A power cut had thrown some data out. We should record this but we don't know what a glitch looks like :~. We can't possibly put it on the board without a picture. Please help with your suggestions.
Many moons ago, we referred to an anomaly seen in an oscilloscope display as a glitch. "look at the output of that flip-flop, it's not steady, there is a glitch in it". I would suggest a lightening bolt kind of icon. Maybe with a beard. :)
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Many moons ago, we referred to an anomaly seen in an oscilloscope display as a glitch. "look at the output of that flip-flop, it's not steady, there is a glitch in it". I would suggest a lightening bolt kind of icon. Maybe with a beard. :)
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I am sure many of is have a whiteboard for informally recording significant events for quick visual reference. For fun (mainly) but also because its really handy we add a simple little emoji style graphic to show what kind of event it is. So a bug gets a nice little picture of a bug, a piece of software with a sunset date gets a setting sun and so on. Means we can tell whats what, and waste five minutes drawing it. Yesterday I found a data issue caused not by a bug but by a glitch. A power cut had thrown some data out. We should record this but we don't know what a glitch looks like :~. We can't possibly put it on the board without a picture. Please help with your suggestions.
- Large & in color: a banana peel. - Small: a reversed box with a this side up arrow at the bottom.
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Not sure how you are collecting data but this actually sounds to me as though a bug has been exposed. If the application/system has the assumption that once a write is issued the data has been saved - this 'glitch' has exposed that as a bug within the system. It sounds like the bug that has been exposed is that a save is not saved until it has been checked. A great opportunity for a unit test!
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
All very true and happily planning a minor update to make it more robust. Still a glitch at root cause though.
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CodeWraith wrote:
Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
vibrating
rotation != vibration
The vibrations refer to the starquake, not the rotation.
CodeWraith wrote:
And where are the two death rays it emits at the poles?
I also don't show the electro-magnetic field, the gravitational field, and the [Cheela](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's\_Egg) living on the neutron star. This is a suggestion for a glyph, not a peer-reviewed article on Relativistic Physics!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
the Cheela living on the neutron star
+5 nerd points to Daniel! :-D (excellent novel, BTW)
Software Zen:
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I am sure many of is have a whiteboard for informally recording significant events for quick visual reference. For fun (mainly) but also because its really handy we add a simple little emoji style graphic to show what kind of event it is. So a bug gets a nice little picture of a bug, a piece of software with a sunset date gets a setting sun and so on. Means we can tell whats what, and waste five minutes drawing it. Yesterday I found a data issue caused not by a bug but by a glitch. A power cut had thrown some data out. We should record this but we don't know what a glitch looks like :~. We can't possibly put it on the board without a picture. Please help with your suggestions.
A picture of the universe with it's middle finger pointing towards you ? For the religiously oriented, use a cloud, instead, in the form of a one-finger salute.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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I am sure many of is have a whiteboard for informally recording significant events for quick visual reference. For fun (mainly) but also because its really handy we add a simple little emoji style graphic to show what kind of event it is. So a bug gets a nice little picture of a bug, a piece of software with a sunset date gets a setting sun and so on. Means we can tell whats what, and waste five minutes drawing it. Yesterday I found a data issue caused not by a bug but by a glitch. A power cut had thrown some data out. We should record this but we don't know what a glitch looks like :~. We can't possibly put it on the board without a picture. Please help with your suggestions.
