Nope nope, nope. I had a manager I lovingly refer to as my Former Bitch Supervisor From Helltm who thought program bugs were like roaches. If there was 1, there were 10, and no program was bug free. However, when we encountered a compiler bug, she refused to believe it. We tried to remind her how she claimed all programs had bugs. Didn't apply, this was a compiler (as in, it wasn't a program). So compilers ARE magic, according to her. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

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.

I like OCR A Extended. Apostrophes and Quotes are easy to tell apart.

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.

Before I was seduced by the dark side of programming, I was studying to be an architect. At the end of high school (where we self taught ourselves how to program), I was looking at 4 years of college and 10 years of apprenticeship, or 6 years of college and 4 years of apprenticeship, or "I can program now." I was one that found programming incredibly easy, compared to others around me. For that, I credit my parents giving me plastic model cars, rockets, and planes to assemble to keep me entertained as an only child living on a farm. I learned the importance of following directions. Programming was reversing that, creating directions, instead of following them. Architecture taught me the importance of planning and design. Both careers start with a blank sheet of paper and then creating something tangible.

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.

A story I was told by an engineer at One IBM Plaza in Chicago, IL was that there was a model of the S/360 that was so buggy that the engineers threw it into Lake Michigan where it...

Sank intermittently.

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.

Jacquers wrote:

For example, if someone updates the document you don't know what has changed.

Huh, what? I get a change bar and initials tag saying who made the changes. Maybe you have that feature turned off?

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.

My problem was convincing her Edge was the new IE. She then wanted to know why they changed the name then.

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.

I test as I go. I'd rather debug 10-50 lines than get 100's of lines in to find I must have been smoking the wacky taccy with code that had no hope of ever working. When people bring me code they want help debugging, I usually gut the code to something smaller and gives proof of concept instead of dealing with all the bells and whistles they coded before finding if the core code was going to work in the first place.

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.

My experience has been that salespeople will promise anything to get the sale and/or retain the customer. Whether they tell you about the feature they promised is optional. Your compliance however, is mandatory, whether or not if it is possible. If not, it's your fault, not theirs. It still aggravates me when I remember the time the CEO and VP called me to bitch me out for not having something done and then finding out the two of them had decided on a new feature and neither bothered to tell me about it, but they were steamed because I had somehow failed to read their minds.

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.

After the race, Thor met up with a woman and they made love all day and night. Thor returned to Asgard and told Odin of his deeds. Odin asks, "Did you tell this Earth woman you were a god?" Thor says, "I forgot." He returns to Earth and finds the woman. "I'm Thor," he says. "You're thor? I'm so thor I can hardly pith!"

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.

Jörgen Andersson wrote:

A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

As much as it pains me to somewhat agree with Steve Jobs (I met him once in '79 and concluded he was an asshole), my experience has been they don't know what you can do. After several iterative changes, I've asked, "Why didn't you ask for that to begin with?" And invariably the response is, "I didn't know if you could do that." Like it would never occur to me to say, "That's not possible."

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.

Tom Deketelaere wrote:

"I'm normal, it's everyone else that isn't"

For me it was.. "I'm not a genius, It's just the rest of you are stupid."

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.

I think it is just local interpretation. I used to work with a guy who thought if a sentence contained the word "are" that it was then a question. "Are you going to do that?" "Where are you?" He didn't have an audible response when I said. "You are out of your mind." So maybe in the writer's local culture, saying "should" implied "have to".

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.

Management standing over the web programmer with a whip, staring at his watch, and saying, "Upper management has decided the web will be put online at the end of the day." That's been my experience. I've had web sites that took over a month to write in Classic ASP be scheduled to be converted to ASP.NET in only a week by management without bothering to consult with me on how long it would take.

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.

Especially helpful when she is pissed at you because of something you did in her dream last night. -True story

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.

The BASIC that came with the Heathkit computers was way ahead of the game. It's error message said, "I'm a computer, not God" when you would divide by zero.

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.

I worked at a place that only wanted drones. :)

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.

Sometimes it requires looking at the company culture you signed on to. Nothing like the review I had once where they said I was being paid too much for what I was doing. I came back with, where is that my fault? I don't get to choose how much you pay me, nor do I get to choose what I work on. The company tended to pay better than most, mostly because they didn't know what they were doing (they were dragged kicking and screaming all the way into the computer age and overpaid big time for the consultants they initially used and thought they were getting a deal when they moved development in house).

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.

I taught VB6 to career changing Russian immigrants in the evenings back in the late 90's. Three nights a week and three hours a night. I had fun teaching it because I wasn't there to test them, I was there to teach them to be colleagues. So it was open book tests and I didn't mind them talking to each other. The primary criteria was "Did it work?" One lesson was teaching them how to write a four function calculator using infix notation. Since it required deferred execution of the operations, this was the class that separated the programmers from the non-programmers. It was interesting to see the light of inspiration come over some of their faces and for others to see the light go out. I'd then know which were the ones I would have to spend extra time with to get them to understand that you had to be able to look into the future to see the consequence of the instructions they were assembling. Some just could not grasp that concept. I tried to make sure the instructional books I choose for the class could overcome any failings I had as an instructor.

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.

I use it with my IOGEAR KVM switch. Bang on the Scroll Lock twice, and it switches between the two computers connected to 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.

GenJerDan wrote:

the 1520 I already have

:thumbsup: Love my 1520.

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.