You should always try to scare technology.

[dandy72]

That too. My mere presence fixes other people's systems. This does not apply to my own however. And mine never present simple problems.

[StarNamer work]

trønderen wrote:

The Babbage programming language

In the 1980's I programmed in the real Babbage language on GEC 4000 computers at Manchester University and Daresbury Laboratory and thought "I don't remember that!", but the article you referenced is clearly a spoof! :)

[trønderen]

The two languages are completely independent of each other. The name coincidence it nothing but a conincidence. (Note that even 'your' Babbage language has taken its name from somewhere else :-))

Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.

[JudyL_MD]

Me too, my one and only super-power. Our office gremlins are terrified of me; stuff always works as soon as I sit down to observe the bug.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss. Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love" by Robert A. Heinlein

[Mark Starr]

Interesting. I recently bought a couple of a Eufy cameras. Haven’t had the battery issue yet. I’ll try to remember your note if it happens. But I did find that if I blocked them from internet access (limited them to LAN only) they’d go offline within an hour or so.

Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events. - Manly P. Hall Mark Just another cog in the wheel

[sasadler]

Ha, same here with the wifey. She'll have a problem with something on her computer and when I come down and try it it works just fine. She swears she'd did exactly the same thing I did (yeah right!).

[jeron1]

One of my colleagues has the opposite effect. You'll be testing a device, everything's going smoothly, you think you're done... then this person inevitably walks up and touches something, *KABOOM* something breaks. This person is now our 'acid test' prior to release. :)

"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle

[dandy72]

jeron1 wrote:

then this person inevitably walks up and touches something, *KABOOM* something breaks. This person is now our 'acid test' prior to release

I had a coworker from the QA department like that. I was just getting started as a dev, and in hindsight, he probably made me a better programmer, as he would inevitably force me to expect the unexpected.

[jeron1]

dandy72 wrote:

made me a better programmer, as he would inevitably force me to expect the unexpected.

Exactly!

"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle

[Gary Wheeler]

Back during The Dark Times (before the Empire), I had a VCR that routinely stopped recording randomly. Sometimes it would even eject the tape. I sometimes lost minutes out of a program. After I replaced it, I took the old one out to the garage and had a cathartic experience with a sledge hammer. Interestingly, the new VCR never screwed up.

Software Zen: delete this;

[Dave Kreskowiak]

Sometime you have to make an example of someone. :laugh:

Asking questions is a skill CodeProject Forum Guidelines Google: C# How to debug code Seriously, go read these articles. Dave Kreskowiak

[Gary Wheeler]

Leaving heads on pikes outside the castle walls is a profoundly useful motivator.

Software Zen: delete this;