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The fun part is our lab with our build servers. The lab contains a lot of equipment that generates heat. I've come into the lab on Monday morning after a hot weekend and the temperature is over 100°F and most of the machines have turned themselves off with over-temperature alarms. We did have one ancient Intel server box that didn't have temperature sensors that would stay running, but it's long decommissioned.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I've experienced (been tortured with) the opposite; having to write code while sitting in the server room which was about 60 F. I was literally an iceberg pecking at the keys writing code, trying to get done fast so I could finally go back to my cubicle.
I was being trained by a consultant while at a large company and for some reason the server room was the only location big enough to house both of us at the same time. I guess no one wanted to hear him training me or something??
Anyways, I think it was also for the "torture" component of the situation in an effort for BigCo and BigManager to "send the message" that they could make my life terrible if they wanted to. 
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raddevus wrote: having to write code while sitting in the server room which was about 60 F
The worst part of that is trying to use a keyboard while wearing gloves...
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I briefly "consulted" in a cold office building in particular "Sears Tower" before it was renamed "Willis Tower". I utilized programming gloves id est the tips cut off. The project itself was a complete failure. A Sears repair person upon a visit to my apartment to repair the HVAC some years subsequent I inquired was he utilizing the project code on his lap top. He explained no the data it transmitted to central office simply disappeared. I am not surprised. A weaker bunch of "consultants" was hard to imagine. I took it upon myself to fix many bugs in my supervisor's code. One could see she was not happy about it but she did not reprimand me. However put a mouse in her hand and place her in front of a game and she became a terror. Also she was not happy I did not accept her advances.
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I had a similar experience at a customer site. I spent a week in a server room that was freezing cold. The workstation I was using had me sitting on top of a massive floor vent generating gale force winds.
I ended up with a massive sinus infection. Maybe causal from the location, maybe not.
I think security standards today would have required my host to sit next to me the whole time.
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The same thing happened to us a couple of years ago during a heat wave, it was 94°F in the office, we left a bit early that day.
"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
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She got many small gems in her timeline.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Nice ,positive and to the point.
Makes me curious how she put it together - using her intellect. Mrs Google or AI.
Yes , I see way too many articles using same AI approach
" smart so and so discovered this ( amazing toilet cleaner - as an example ) , buy it before "they" take if down..."
whatever happen to
" ...operators are standing by..."
and do not tell me that operators have been replaced by "professional chatters "
Cheers
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All I can see on CP today are the Wordle posts - no option of going to the next page or anything - is it me or the site ?
Edit
It went back to normal after I posted this - go figure 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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HHGTTG:
Trillian: We will be restoring normality as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway. Thank you.
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
1.
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Hope Chris backs up the site before the SSD or server goes down.
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Programmer's Joke
!false
Its funny because its true.
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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Reminds me of this code someone did few months ago (I wish this was only a joke)
bool condition;
viewmodel.AllowSomething = !condition == true ? false : true;
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Put something like that in your code to prove that it has been stolen from you when you find it out in the wild.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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In my open source projects I've been known to bury silly comments deep in the source to make astute reviewers question my sanity.
// The moon landing was faked. It is cheese.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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That would explain the 15ish lines I found that were setting up like they were gonna pitch something to the db but then never even opened the connection or sent anything on it.
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I hope conditon is initialized elsewhere or has a default.
condition definitely needs a better name, too.
condition is likely calculated as a “false” condition which drives me crazy.
And none of these is what you are complaining about!
(scratch everything to the right of the == including the ==)
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Visual FA is the project I've most enjoyed in C# in recent years. But it's finished.
Not only is it finished, it's fairly polished. It slices and dices state machines, you can render them to graphs, to and from regular expressions, and analyze them in a myriad of ways. You can generate (optionally dependency free) matching code with them, or compile directly to an assembly. The matchers can stream from TextReaders or match off strings.
I have nowhere else to go with it. It has been a long time since I've truly stuck a pin in a project as "completed for the foreseeable future" but after like 5 articles and 2 tips, plus the code itself and it's associated nuget packages I have nothing left to do.
I'm glad. But I also wish there was more for me to do. I really enjoyed this project.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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honey the codewitch wrote: Visual FA
To those of us on the eastern side of the pond, that is quite funny.
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I picked something unfortunate eh?
Well, oh well. Too late to change it now.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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No, it's fine. It is just that over here when asked a question such as, "What is the government doing about X?", a common answer would be "F*** all", meaning nothing. It is sometimes euphemistically stated as "(Sweet) Fanny Adams" or "Felicity arkwright". And "FA" is a common contraction, so Visual FA could be vapourware. 
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I gotcha. I like the way that turned out.  I actually use the expression myself but have never seen it abbreviated so it just wasn't on my radar.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Richard, Thanks for explaining this!  I'll try to use that in a sentence at dinner tonight. Cheerio!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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