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  • H honey the codewitch

    Can speak from recent experience that faster machines don't help. They just raise your expectations accordingly. What? why is it taking 10 seconds? (this used to take 2 minutes) ARGGGGG

    To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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    englebart
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    But you can never go the other way… This used to take 43 seconds, now it takes 44 seconds. why? Why? WHY?

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      But you can never go the other way… This used to take 43 seconds, now it takes 44 seconds. why? Why? WHY?

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      honey the codewitch
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      Oh I went the other way, but it cost me a pretty penny. :)

      To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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      • S StarNamer work

        "There is absolutely no way it could do that."

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        jschell
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        To be fair I have seen that. The code did not now and never did what they were claiming. They were asking for a new feature but claiming that it was a bug.

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        • M Marc Clifton

          I literally had a conversation this morning where we hit all four popular things programmers say: "It works for me" "It worked a couple days ago" "Huh" "The JSON is bad"

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          BillWoodruff
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          i just would quote (paraphrase ?) from the Lurianic Kabbala tradition: "trust nothing, question everything." this would be ignored by the non-technical exec who was telling me that ... in a very complex "skunk works" prototype under development (in this case what became Acrobat) ... with just a little change "we" could have this shiny "feature." i'd have different words, now :)

          «The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

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          • J jschell

            To be fair I have seen that. The code did not now and never did what they were claiming. They were asking for a new feature but claiming that it was a bug.

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            Cpichols
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            Same

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            • M Marc Clifton

              I literally had a conversation this morning where we hit all four popular things programmers say: "It works for me" "It worked a couple days ago" "Huh" "The JSON is bad"

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              decaffeinatedMonkey
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              "It works, but I don't know why." - anonymous "It doesn't work, and I don't know why." - anonymous

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              • K k5054

                That's a hardware problem.

                Keep Calm and Carry On

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                Gary Wheeler
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                True story: We spent months debugging a timing issue that swore up and down it was in our software. (Yes, the bug was talking to us at this point) We finally discovered that the problem was caused by a steel roller changing diameter due to heat from an infrared paper dryer.

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                • Mike HankeyM Mike Hankey

                  Why no that's not a bug that's an undocumented feature.

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                  obermd
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                  Just remember, a feature is a bug with seniority.

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                  • M Marc Clifton

                    I literally had a conversation this morning where we hit all four popular things programmers say: "It works for me" "It worked a couple days ago" "Huh" "The JSON is bad"

                    Latest Article:
                    Create a Digital Ocean Droplet for .NET Core Web API with a real SSL Certificate on a Domain

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                    Matt Bond
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                    For bugs that are really hard to reproduce: "Must be a solar flare".

                    Bond Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere

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                    • C Craig Robbins

                      Sounds like a PICNIC to me. (Problem in Chair, Not in Computer) And I say this knowing sometimes I am the one "in the chair" :)

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                      User 11907673
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                      Similar to the ID-10-T error.

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