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The downside of working from home 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Happy birthday Griff.
Well I got to work to a power cut which took 2 hours to resolve (well maybe as they the electric company are sending a ground crew to see what the fault is) and potentially we could lose power to the office for up to 2 days.
Good thing you say? nah I'd then have to go home don the DIY outfit and fix things with small children trying to help and then she'll moan as a 5 minute job could take a an hour etc etc.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Get the company to hire a generator: think of the amount of work they will lose without electricity - the telephone exchange won't work, customer order will build up, ... And it's going to get seriously cold, according to the news.
Mind you, round here the electricity company turns up with BIG generators and plumbs them in while they fix the problem, if it's going to take that long.
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We have a Disaster Recovery site (the fun on having a multi national parent company) for these kind of situations but application development are then not considered critical so we are sent home in these situations.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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A belated happy birthday OG.
Don't say what else can go wrong because odds are it always does.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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I have been carefully avoiding that phrase!
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Belated happy birthday!
Sounds like your wife owes you one 
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Wrong.
There's no such thing as a two-way binding with wives.
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Some days, the dragon wins. 
Belated Happy birthday.
User: Technical term used by developers. See Idiot.
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"So . . . it didn't really go to plan."
Really now, would you have it any other way?
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In a word, "Yes"!
One of the good reasons for having a cat rather than a dog is that you don't have to follow it around picking up it's faeces ... 
And I like steak much more than I like little bits of pasta.
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Glad to know I was born a week after you on the calendar. I think you have a couple of years on me from some other post recently.
Hope my birthday goes better than yours. But at least we are still having them.
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Herself kept apologising for "Ruining my birthday" but as I said - if I'd been 8YO, then yes, it would have been ruined. As it was, I didn't get to eat what I wanted - not a major problem, the steaks are in the freezer and I'd eat 'em when she's better. The cat poo I could have lived without...
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Hi All,
I am testing some code in a new version of an old product. It has suddenly started to pass a test it shouldn't. Time to dig deeper or time to report it and pass it on? I'm think its time to go deeper but am not sure?
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I'd dig deeper - sound like the test is faulty, and that could impact current equipment.
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It is finally happening! Your code has become self-aware and has fixed itself.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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NOT my code! I'm testing it 
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If it doesn't smoke, ship it.
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If it is good stuff, smoke it.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Hmmm, Silicon Oxide and Carbide, Umm no thanks!
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Since it isn't your code, dig deeper... find out what is wrong.
Document what you are seeing, what you find, and what you do to resolve the issue.
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If you know that the conditions are so that a test should fail, yet it doesn't fail, then there must be something wrong with your code!
(Saym your code actually fails the test, but immediately thereafter, a write through a stray pointer changes the verdict from 'fail' to 'pass' ... Certainly not very likely, but not failing when you know that it should is not very likely either.)
Gererally speaking: Failing to fail may indicate a failure.
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Member 7989122 wrote: Gererally speaking: Failing to fail may indicate a failure.
I fail to see your point.
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It used to be we would just test our code, usually by walking through it line by line (though maybe that's being optimistic) or, even more "archaic", we would write up acceptance test procedures and walk the application through the steps in the ATP. Now, with the advent of unit tests, what do we end up doing? Testing our tests! 
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Depends - what's your job? Do you have access to the source? What did your boss ask you to do? What's your skillset? Is this a wind-up question?
Asking daft questions can often give unexpected results too...
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