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I had something that worked flawlessly for me, and pass my tests for two weeks before taking it to COMDEX where it promptly crashed in front of fortunately just one person at the time. Had to take it back to the hotel room and try to hotfix it. I put a bandaid on it that also disabled a feature to get it working.
The fault was mine. Early days of professional programming for me, and I tried to do too much with not enough time.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Worst perhaps is what I've been saying throughout my entire career, and that is we, as developers, "aren't building cathedrals". What I mean by this is that most of us can spend years on some software product, and no matter how great it might be, software rarely has a shelf life of more than a few years. After a decade or two, it's like the software never existed. Cathedrals, on the other hand, are still standing after hundreds of years. Mind you, nobody might know the names of those who worked on it, but the monument still stands after centuries.
I've never been in it to "leave my mark", and I'm okay with that. But anyone in this industry who wants to make the history books will be severely disappointed.
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It depends what you're working on. Probably the most useful things I did was to develop two application frameworks. One of them is still executing code over 20 years later, and the other (as far as I know) is still executing code over 35 years later. Applications are still being developed on the first one, but I'd be surprised if that was still the case with the second one.
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I'd have said it depends on how badly you screw up, and how publicly as well. In my case, no history books, because nothing I do working for a market research company is going to have any lasting effect on anyone or anything, and I like it that way.
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I suppose there's also the aspect of visibility. Only those who develop against your app framework know anything about it. I'm betting this is entirely meaningless to the end users.
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It's certainly invisible to end users.
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Like a Tip of the Iceberg. We don't see the huge mass hiding below in the water.
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C. Clarke
You should be happy you are such good wizard On the other hand inside each of us there is a little cabotin who would die to reveal the secrets and get the applause.
Mircea
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The easier you make it look, the more you are taken for granted.
I'm aware of one who rose to V.P. because he was responsible for a COBOL mess called "the P&L": the Profit / Loss statement.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
modified 28-Jul-20 13:08pm.
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Marc Clifton wrote: ...and it takes less than 2 minutes to demo it to the customer. Yes, but now you can spend the rest of your life organizing your CD collection!
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David O'Neil wrote: Yes, but now you can spend the rest of your life organizing your CD collection!
I'd welcome that. Try organizing a collection of untagged MP3 files...
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If they are organized by directory, MP3Tag can take a lot of the work out of it. MP3Tag is an amazing tool for that job.
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I'm a long-time fan of MP3Tag. But there's only so much automation can solve.
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And the longevity of some quick-and-dirty code is surprising as well.
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We harmonise on the cusp of laughter without greeting. (11)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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We harmonise - SING with U
(on the) CUSP - definition
laughter withouut greeting HILARITY
Guess I'll try something simpler for tomorrow.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I thought the definition had to be at either end, not somewhere in the middle.
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It should
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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All's fair in love and war ...and cryptic crosswords
I guess you've met the classic
gegs (9,4)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I've been playing chess since I was around 9 years old off and on. If anyone plays on chess.com I'd love to organize a CodeProject group or just add some friends. I'm not the best (~1500-1700 depending on time controls) but I'd love to play with any range of player whether I'm helping teach them or they're helping teach me.
Anyone interested?
Random chess content: View from arguably the greatest speed-chess GM Hikaru Nakamura and IM Levy Rozman on the ranking of common openings.
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Chess ... chess ... Is that the one with the Horsie and the Prawns, or the BFG 6000?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Hmmm, I think it's the one where you do things on peasants and you're always checking stuff with your mate
Sorry for the joke at your expense French speakers!
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I do. Badly.
I doubt if the international rating goes low enough to give me a score.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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