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The cloud - just someone else's pc...
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
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isn't cloud computing just a new name for vaporware?
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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Is cloud computing performed with fuzzy logic?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Whoa!
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'ing great!
Thanks
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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One of the principles in the book (Think and Grow Rich) is to decide on an amount of money you would like, to visualize it, to write it down, etc.
So, I just got a message indicating I had inherited that exact amount from an African prince. Coincidence? I think not. See ya later, suckas!
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I just tried it - I very clearly visualised this bit of train-wreck code that I'm trying to fix working properly, I scribbled a note saying "hey! it works now!" and because all mystic things seem to come in threes, I wrote a similar message in Notepad and ... well, I'm still working on it.
Still has to go down as one of my more effective attempts, though, so there's clearly something in this New Age clap-trap!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Surely your code is correct and the compiler is at fault?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Surely your code is correct and the compiler is at fault?
With my code that's often the case. With this guy's code, the compiler has every right to scream in agony!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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I figured out a solution to your problem.
Try and get in contact with some Nigerian coders! I'm sure they've inherited some legacy code that would solve your every problem (+ shipping and handling).
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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PeejayAdams wrote: I very clearly visualised this bit of train-wreck code that I'm trying to fix working properly, I scribbled a note saying "hey! it works now!" and because all mystic things seem to come in threes, I wrote a similar message in Notepad Maybe I need to try that. [long story omitted]
Software Zen: delete this;
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011111100010 wrote: So, I just got a message indicating I had inherited that exact amount from an African prince. Coincidence? I think not. See ya later, suckas!
Sorry, the Minister of Finance already promised it to me last week,
I already Western Unioned the funds needed to release the paperwork (plus the $2.35 for his taxi fare.)
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Or are CP emails running at least an hour late?
I'm getting them from other people, but suddenly not from CP.
I'm wondering if the "You must be logged in to post a reply" message I got a couple hours ago (when I was and still am logged in) had anything to do with it?
Anyone else noticing this?
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Very late... still waiting for confirmation of my CCC post
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I've raised it in sugs'n'bugs - so a quick kick to the server may be forthcoming soon.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The system appears to be a bit slow.
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Nope!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I have not received any mail from CP since yesterday evening but there where some replies which has been shown as notification.
I did not get the "You must be logged in to post a reply" message. So it seems not related to that but a general problem.
Looks like the mail hamsters are taking a duvet day.
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No, they are running DAYS late, or, are broken entirely.
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I noticed that I'm getting my daily newsletters later than usual, but I thought it might be due to DST?
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Maybe you've heard about this before, but it is very interesting.
It's a good example of the need for "code organization / code management" that you get from higher-level languages and OOP.
Bjarne Stroustrup wrote: On 23 September 1999, NASA lost its US$654 million
Mars Climate Orbiter due to a navigation error. “The root
cause for the loss of the MCO spacecraft was the failure
to use metric units in the coding of a ground software
file, ‘Small Forces,’ used in trajectory models. Specifically,
thruster performance data in English units instead
of metric units was used.”5
The amount of work lost was
roughly equivalent to the lifetime’s work of 200 good engineers.
In reality, the cost is even higher because we’re
deprived of the mission’s scientific results until (and if) it
can be repeated. The really galling aspect is that we were
all taught how to avoid such errors in high school: “Always
make sure the units are correct in your computations.”
Why didn’t the NASA engineers do that? They’re indisputably
experts in their field, so there must be good reasons.
No mainstream programming language supports units,
but every general-purpose language allows a programmer
to encode a value as a {quantity,unit} pair. We can
encode enough of the ISO standard SI units (meters, kilograms,
seconds, and so on) in an integer to deal with all
of NASA’s needs, but we don’t because that would almost
double the size of our data. Furthermore, checking the
units in every computation would more than double the
amount of computation needed.
Space probes tend to be both memory and compute
limited, so the engineers—just as essentially everyone else
in their situation has done—decided to keep track of the
units themselves (in their heads, in the comments, and
in the documentation).
In this case, they lost.
From http://www.stroustrup.com/Software-for-infrastructure.pdf[^]
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Some form of quality control and testing regimen would probably have helped too.
The only good thing about this is that QA didn't exist in 1999 so it wasn't as a result of a "how do I navigate my spacecraft to Mars? SND CODZ URGNTZZZZ!!!!!" question and answer...
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