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Seemingly works is a better way of putting it. That goes for most web/cloud development. Then you hit that super rare race condition and no one can repro it in dev 
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Is 50 lines of code amazing because it's very little, or very much?
Because it's very little, and as Chris said, because it works.
Marc
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That's a lot of points of failure. 
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: That's a lot of points of failure.
Yup. Technically, I could set up a websocket between the web server and the BB's directly, thus avoiding two intermediate steps, but that introduces other complications, such as verifying permissions, recovery routines on the BB, and having the BB's notify the local server of state change (everything gets logged to a database), so for now, this is the simplest approach -- as in it took the least amount of code to write -- didn't have to touch the BB code at all because the functionality already existed for remote state management.
Ugh, didn't mean to get into that level of detail.
But the main point is, this is for monitoring BB status remotely and clearing a couple states, the recovery in case of a comm / server failure is straightforward, so if it fails, it's not "mission critical."
Marc
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Hi All,
Just a post to say I have completed my first week working for a BIG company and it I think it went well as my Dept Head said to on her way out "Well, Glenn you have been more use this week than I hoped and I have good things from others, Keep up the good work"  , I was doing my best not to bump into the funiture and appear busy...
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Sounds good! 
"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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Congrats! May the honeymoon last as long as possible!
Marc
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Many thanks ! 
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I am about sixteen months into working for the biggest company I have been with. They are a multi-billion dollar company but are privately held so that is rather interesting. I am really glad to not be working for a publicly traded company more. I got really tired of the quarterly report nonsense. What I mean is far too often we had to ship unfinished products just so they could be invoiced in that quarter and then we were sent along afterwards to make them work.
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Been there done there,done that... 
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Bloody hell, a week and you have actually been able to do some work, it takes longer than that to navigate HRs onboarding process and up to 6 weeks to get a computer where I work.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Well I should add a caveat to it, I was only able to do some stuff as the company I now work for has only recently bought the company who's office I am in so they still have there intranet and things also the boss apparently raised He double hockey sticks to get me a PC and a Desk (Chairs now come seperate as we found...), I still have to go to the Corpate Head Office for my Corpate Induction, but I am now 50% done (I would have completed the online induction, but my PC didn't have the ability to connect to get the Java update(?! a useful update!) to allow me to run it...really the only task I have done is reading the documentation that had gone through approval and sign off and spotting two mistakes (the same byte being assigned two different values in the send function, the circuit diagram had a short) so good times(?)
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Great news
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You said it! Also I was under the impression there were 3 basic Minions & the purple evil version giving 4, whats the fifth one look like? 
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glennPattonWork(!) wrote: ...
At work on a Saturday? No wonder they like you. (Another newbie trying to impress the bosses )
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Nope...(Boss was off yesterday and today at Blood Stock, a Heavy/Death Metal Festival in Norway)
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Keep on truckin' [^]
cheers, Bill
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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I don't know, I was expecting a link to the Greatful Dead doing Truckin' (got my foot down...)<heads off="" whistleing="">
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Do breast implant surgeons charge a flat fee?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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No. Their fees are inflated.
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Depends, some do volume business.
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I'm sure they charge a robust fee!
(nipped that one in the bud, didn't I!)
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If mammary serves me right, I believe they do.
"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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