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Mention crowbar, perhaps this is also a lesser known fact - about Phineas Gage.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I guess I just lowered the bar considerably.
You just dropped it to the floor - no lower than that...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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You're raven mad to post that.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Apparently, you're suffering from corvid-24.
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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Jokes like this, Nevermore.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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"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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I built out a lexer and half baked parser to scan a C header and produce a CSV with certain data pulled out of it.
I got the lexing and parsing of the header done in no time, and with a minimum of fuss.
But outputting the CSV
if (s.Key == "data_packet" || s.Key == "status_packet" || s.Key == "config_packet")
This code exists in two places. Between those two places I got this simple line wrong 3 times, and caused relatively a lot of churn w/ my colleagues in terms of their own work, which relied on this to function properly.
Why sometimes its the simple parts of the code that cause the most problems I'll never know.
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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Because we're always so careful on the big stuff. It's tricky to begin with so more care is taken. But the small stuff, it's so simple. What can go wrong?
I once made an oh so minor 2 character change to a simple program. It was so simple and so obviously correct that I just dropped it back into production. And thus tipped over an entire healthcare claims reporting system. Oops! 
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My favorite was, in my C++ days, putting a ; at the end of a for statement and then spending several hours in the debugger wondering why the code in the for loop executed only once! 
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I create my own function when dealing with these types of statements. For any number of reasons. It just compares objects.
bool ok = MyFunc.IsInList( s.key, "data_packet", "etc" );
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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return 0++ 
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I have had such weird code snags in C.
Had one that two of us could not see the error.
We laughed when we solved it. So simple.
Wish I had saved the code, but good riddance.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Sometimes overthinking/overengineering something has this effect.
Recently came across a piece of code which went something like this during one my code review sessions.
bool condition;
viewmodel.AllowSomething = !condition == true ? false : true;
We laughed for about 30 minutes, including the guy who wrote this.
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It looks like that code evolved to be that, rather than written that way to begin with. At least I hope.
I've been there. In fact, I've had code I wouldn't touch because it was like that, took forever to get right, and it worked, including handling difficult corner cases.
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: At least I hope.
It was written that way. We laughed at it as it meant that we assign true when the condition is true and false when it's false. Just the way to go about it was really through Caradhras mountains and then through the mines of Moria.
honey the codewitch wrote: took forever to get right
At first glance my thought was also to replace with !condition. As I missed the first ! to begin with.
modified 23-Feb-24 7:54am.
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