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I found this on Cheezeburger
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That one made me
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31 March 2014, 09:33 | #143 |
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10 May 2014, 23:21 | #145 |
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Made this for a comment on a Stack Overflow question.
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17 May 2014, 20:37 | #147 |
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A quick q: did anyone get the irony?
Another one: (got a bunch of these, building up a stash of these for use in my coding articles) |
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Psst, made a bunch of these for the new Copperhade.Org site I launched Saturday if you're interested
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If Rammstein did code...
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How To Criticize Computer Scientists
or Avoiding Ineffective Deprecation And Making Insults More Pointed https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/...criticize.html |
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Haha.
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@thorham
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Looks like Jackie Chan!
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If Kerningham & Ritchie The C Programming Language went with a cover like this
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14 October 2020, 13:26 | #158 |
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Though it was devastating back then, by now I can see the humour of it.
So, when I went to do my first internship ever, I ended up at a company that used a version of Borland C with a fancy IDE. I was still 19 and had never heard of things like source control and as for backups, well who needs stinking backups? The company I worked at felt the same way: no backups, no source control. Management felt that just added to the costs without any gain (after all, nothing had ever gone wrong before). You get the idea. As it turns out, the very recently released new version of the Borland C IDE we used had a "bit of a bug". We never found out how this happened, but one day all our code for our biggest (well only, really) project stopped compiling with thousands of errors. It turned out that someone had pressed "save all" and the IDE had complied - it had saved all source files, even the ones that hadn't been changed. And while saving all the files, it also somehow changed the ASCII value of every fourth character (per line) up or down by exactly 1. So a B might be an A or a C. But more crucially, a = could become a < or an >, an < could become a ; or a = and a > could become a = or a ?... We never discovered what caused it and it only changed the files for that one project. Virus scan was negative and the problem never ever reappeared after we changed IDE's. It took us months to debug all the problems this caused. Strangely enough, management did want a daily backup after that. No source control though, as that would clearly just be spending money for no gain Last edited by roondar; 14 October 2020 at 13:33. Reason: I got my age a bit wrong :P |
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Horrible story!
Reminds me of a C++ project using Visual C++ back in 1999. We had Zenith PCs (pure crap) and one Dell PC (good stuff) When compiling a particular file, the zenith PCs had a tendency to crash with a BSOD. And since we often hit "build" without saving first, the save was done prior to the build, but the file was completely blank because of instant BSOD! BUT that worked perfectly on the Dell PC. So when someone had to work on that particular part of the software, they used the Dell PC. Other parts of the software (also C++, same project) didn't cause any issues with the Zenith PCs... Go figure. (we had source control, but we lost hours of work because of this bug before we understood that those crappy Zenith PCs were buggy) |
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