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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
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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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Shouldn't that be Sunday0202ς0ς0γɒbnυƧ ?
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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Nope.
A palindrome reads the same from either end.
It is required to have neither a mirror plan nor an inversion center.
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Not wanting to be critical but I think you have this backwards!
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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It's at the point where we don't even need to lock the doors because nobody in their right mind would steal it. I think it bluebooks for about $250 but it runs so well we haven't had the heart to give it up. The radiator fan is hardwired to the ignition, the drivers sid'e door is practically falling off, the power window on that door sounds like a cat in heat - it's been in a major collision (before we owned it) and parts of it are held together with zipties.
Toyotas are ridiculous. The entire car is falling apart around the engine, that seems to be the most durable and enduring piece of the whole mess.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Duct tape helps 
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Yup. Apply WD40 to the parts that are supposed to move, duct tape to the parts that aren't. 
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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honey the codewitch wrote: The entire car is falling apart around the engine, that seems to be the most durable and enduring piece of the whole mess.
1. Buy all the parts except for the engine
2. Replace old parts with newly-purchased parts
3. Profit.
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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