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You are given a machine with SSD but your development environment runs in a slow VM beacuse of policies....
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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slow VM?
these days most run close to native - (they pretty much do run native apart from some dev I/O).
Is yours some sort of [other-than-host] CPU emulator?
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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VM sits somewhere else not on the same machine.
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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I do hope you're not complaining about cloud computing!
It's The Way of the Future!
... Sluggish and unresponsive. Couch-potato computing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If it is Hyper-V then a lot can be done by fine-tuning the number of virtual processors and memory.
But I also experienced a hardware problem on a server that throttled network performance, it was only solved after replacing the server, now everything runs twice as fast.
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replaced a whole server for the sake of a virtual machine?
wouldn't buying a PC be a cheaper option?
yeah I know.... just being literal
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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Not one virtual machine but several, some thought it would be a good idea to build our own server from "top notch" components, sadly these did not work together well. A lot of time was spent to find the cause and they even replaced the big hard disks with expensive SSD's, to no avail.
So after much whining and head banging they finally bought a standard server and hey presto, twice the performance 
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Rolex is now a total rewrite, because for some reason the bug with my DFA->NFA transformation is *not* cropping up in the new codebase.
It's the strangest thing. I wish I could figure it out.
Mystery bugs are the worst.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I don't know whether mystery bugs or mystery fixes are worse.
I'd been rewriting some code and was dreading trying to debug a crash in the exception-throwing code generated by MSFT's compiler. The kind of crash where you don't have any useful information to go on, like a stack or heap corruption that a debug build doesn't even notice at the time.
Before growing the pair that could take me back to it, I fixed some other bugs. When I finally reran the dreaded scenario...crickets. It ran happily. I have an inkling why it might be so but am loathe to think about it and would rather just count my blessings. But it's very scary indeed.
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I am so in the same boat right now. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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Mystery fixes don't exist. "Oh, it went away" is a recipe for disaster. Not professionally acceptable.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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If it passes the tests it passes the tests, as long as i can identify that something changed, i'll take it.
In my case, I suspect i know where the problem was, but figuring it out for certain involves injecting a ton of logging into performance critical code.
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 2-Feb-20 10:49am.
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Code in the same class was changed to fix bugs, so it's not entirely mysterious.
"Not professionally acceptable" might be a reasonable judgment given world enough and time. In this world, it's pompous.
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I have to agree with that. What it tells me is that I need to make sure I test.
It's still a pain though. It seems solid now, so I'm good. *kicks it to be sure*
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: Mystery bugs are the worst.
Tell it to Wuhan.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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20200202
2020-02-02
02022020
02/02/2020
02.02.2020
02-02-2020
(and probably other punctuations beyond my ken)
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Damn it.
I was going to post this early this AM - a bit too late, now.
I'm sure there's some lesson to be learned.
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... the privilege of living in a +1000/+1100 timezone!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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The last one was on 1010-01-01 / 01-01-1010.
The next one is on 3030-03-03 / 03-03-3030.
Happens once in 1010 years.
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Amarnath S wrote: Happens once in 1010 years.
Not wanting to start a fight, but how about 2121-12-12? Just over a century to wait.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Dude. 
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: 20200202
2020-02-02
02022020
02/02/2020
02.02.2020
02-02-2020
ummm, cultural issue, when you say "02-02-2020" is that DMY or MDY? Excel (despite setting region to a DMY zone) still very easily confused too often gets it wrong is a POS but unfortunately there's still no spreadsheet better.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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Not sure, but I thought / went with DMY and - with MDY.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Sunday02022020yadnuS, maybe?
I'm not sure I've got the hang of this, but I'm pretty sure that's how a computer would do it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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... and happy yadnuS to you too!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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