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Just had one of these moments with SQL Server. Bounced the server but I couldn't find out why one table in one database was locked.
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All the time...
Also the classic stages of dealing with a support case:
1) Before attempting to reproduce: It is working fine, we would have caught it if it is broken.
2) Before troubleshooting after reproducing the bug: How is this broken?
3) After finding the issue: How did this ever work?
4) After checking in the fix: This could never have worked!
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oofalladeez343 wrote: Program: Will not work for anything...
Programmer: Doesn't know why... 
Why get mad? The manager and the owner of the company don't know why either. That's why I am paid in the first place. I have no idea today, but gimme some time and I'll at least isolate what is causing it.
oofalladeez343 wrote: Program: Works 100%
Programmer: Doesn't know why... 
It never works 100%, and if you don't know why then some of your code comes from StackOverflow.
oofalladeez343 wrote: You're welcome...
Anytime.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Nope.
However, often the program has very nasty bugs. It doesn't work as expected and I don't know why.
Quote: Program: Works 100%
That would be a miracle. Only God blessed programs and trivial ones could work 100%.
However sometimes I wonder how can it work for a quite amount of time without crashing.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Well... I mean compared to how it wasn't working at all...
No code works 100% unless it is a simple HelloWorld code.
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Messing around with flex/bison--have it working in a simple case. Moved to another application, same compile/link/etc.--won't link.
I seriously believe that Babylonia failed because they were the first to develop computers.
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I was messing around with Python Turtle because I had nothing better to do...
And while I was messing around, I did this...
import turtle
def main():
t = turtle.Turtle()
t.shape("turtle")
t.speed(100)
t.right(10)
length = 1
t.color("crimson")
for i in range(250):
t.forward(length)
t.right(100)
length = length + 0.5
main()
And it looks very much like the golden ratio in the center...
So I tried this...
import turtle
def main():
t = turtle.Turtle()
t.shape("turtle")
t.speed(100)
t.right(10)
length1 = 1
t.color("crimson")
for i in range(250):
t.forward(length1)
t.right(100)
length1 = length1 + 0.5
t.penup()
t.setpos(0,0)
t.pendown
length2 = 1
for i in range(250):
t.forward(length2)
t.left(100)
length2 = length2 + 0.5
main()
And there was only one difference in the design,
where the code stops is mirrored... That's it... No other variation...
Any opinions?...
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I was just reading up on the UltraRam from yesterdays news letter
UltraRAM Breakthrough Brings New Memory and Storage Tech to Silicon | Tom's Hardware[^]
It sounds awesome for computers in general, but it would have a huge impact on embedded applications.
feel free to chime in honey the codewitch.
to have a small embedded device that does not have to maintain power to RAM while waiting for a trigger would be a huge power savings for the embedded CPU. and if the device looses power all together, you wouldn't have to worry about writing data to flash or EEPROM, before loss. even to just have a 128K of it on an embedded CPU would be a huge step forward.
imagine having a device that someone powers up in 999 years after being dug up from some old found landfill and having it start working, is the stuff of sci-fi books. (I would say boot up, but if everything is still in memory, not much booting needs to happen)
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If Scotty had had this, he wouldn't have needed to put the transporter buffer into a continuous diagnostic loop. 
STNG "Relics" episode[^]
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the Dyson Sphere episode, that was one of my favs
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I loved that episode.
I loved when Scotty gave LaForge some good advice.
SCOTT: Do you mind a little advice? Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now and they want it their way, but the secret is to give them only what they need, not what they want.
LAFORGE: Yeah, well I told the Captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour.
SCOTT: How long will it really take?
LAFORGE: An hour.
SCOTT: You didn't tell him how long it would really take, did you?
LAFORGE: Of course I did.
SCOTT: Oh, laddie, you've got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker.
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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Doesn't that also apply to us developers and the stakeholders?
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I just re-watched ST:NG (all 7 seasons) last fall. I liked that episode, but one thing caught my eye.
If you were orbiting a Dyson sphere at anything less than a distance of several million miles, it would look like a flat surface. You couldn't see curvature.
Pedantic and fatuous, I know   .
Software Zen: delete this;
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This made me think, what would a Dyson sphere look like in the flat earth model, then I remembered they don't have one...
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Well,
Just ignore the journalism, there is nothing to be excited about. The paper is theoretical and not a single piece of UltraRAM exists. Looks complicated to manufacture to me. Keep in mind that FeRAM[^], MRAM[^] and ReRAM[^] were all supposedly going to be used for storage and replace RAM. Never happened.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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I need to read more about this as it sounds almost like existing Pseudo-Static RAM (PSRAM) or maybe SRAM too? (I can't remember) technology that's been around for awhile the way you describe it.
EDIT: Now that I've read it, it works differently than PSRAM, and PSRAM despite being non-volatile in a sense, isn't usually set up to remember on powerdown. The non-volatility is more for avoiding needing complicated refresh circuitry in a memory controller. However, unless I miss my guess, it *could* be non-volatile on powerdown, it's just not used that way typically. I might be wrong there. It's an educated guess.
The upshot seems to be PSRAM style simplicity with DRAM style access speeds. Price is an issue according to the article. I wonder about that, since the whole point of using this stuff vs. traditional RAM is ultimately to cut down on cost (and perhaps power consumption)
This is all just initial thoughts and I'm fuzzy on some of the details of SRAM and PSRAM, since I've never needed to know them. So take all of this with a whole lot of salt. In fact, check with your doctor about your sodium intake before consuming this post.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Matt McGuire wrote: imagine having a device that someone powers up in 999 years after being dug up from some old found landfill and having it start working, is the stuff of sci-fi books. (I would say boot up, but if everything is still in memory, not much booting needs to happen)
City Of Ember does this with a 200 year window. Fun concept. (Movie grossed about 1/3 of the cost of production)
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When eating scrambled eggs, have you ever thought "tastes like chicken?"
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I also never ate chicken and thought it tasted like scrambled eggs.
Althoughiguana does taste like chicken.
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 I am still trying to process what you typed....
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The reptile known as an iguana tastes like chicken.
There's a space missing between "although" and "iguana".
Had to check thrice myself before I got it, especially since iguana's don't live where I live and I didn't know you could eat them 
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Chicken of today tastes like whatever spice they have been spiced with.
They are simply not able to develop that distinctive taste of hen of the old days, in the six short weeks they are allowed to live. You may praise the tenderness of the meat, and most certainly the amount of it per chicken. A hen giving you three hundred eggs before being slaughtered will give you far less meat, and require longer cooking, but it will give you a lot more taste. And definitely if that hen has been allowed to roam around in the green grass and being fed more or less unprocessed fodder, rather than no-taste soy pellets from Chile.
At least here in Norway, turkey factoring hasn't gone quite as crazy with super-fast growth; the meat still has a distinct taste of bird, and you can enjoy it without covering it with spices. (Well, a little garlic is nice to support that taste of bird, though ...)
In Norwegian, there is a way of speech: "This is taking the taste of a bird!", meaning "This seems to turn into something really great". The expression is certainly not based on the 'taste' of modern chicken.
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I wouldn't know, haven't eaten chicken in 24 years
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Same here, not many iguanas in the American South, but there are anodes, which are like mini iguanas with the crests on their heads.
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