Wow. Guess I've been holding some angst in for some 25 years or so. I remember being pissed as hell when Kathleen (yeah, I remember her name, her cat hated me, she dated some dude I thought was a total douche, wouldn't date me) told me about the super sekrit config file they all loved, but didn't realize I held onto it for 25 years.
-- Why shouldn't we judge a book by it's cover? It's got the author, title, and a summary of what the book's about.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 13 2016, @04:48PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday September 13 2016, @04:48PM (#401390)
Dude Snotnose, you just make me want to give you a hug. We feel your pain. We all have stories. You're safe with us (well.... maybe...), we commiserate.
Maybe we should go all confession-time-slash-dailywtf?
One time I spent a month wondering why my unit would run in tests but not on production hardware. Turns out the boilerplate I'd been told to "just copy over" had a Magic Number that had to be incremented each time it was copy-pasta'd. I found out through a convoluted multi-process gdb session (nothing quite like single-stepping slowly along a rotation processess, checking a set of other processes for watchpoint breaks due to IPC). When I reported it solved I got a big fat "oh you didn't just increment the magic number? that was stupid of you!" Nowhere had this been documented.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Tuesday September 13 2016, @02:22AM
Wow. Guess I've been holding some angst in for some 25 years or so. I remember being pissed as hell when Kathleen (yeah, I remember her name, her cat hated me, she dated some dude I thought was a total douche, wouldn't date me) told me about the super sekrit config file they all loved, but didn't realize I held onto it for 25 years.
Why shouldn't we judge a book by it's cover? It's got the author, title, and a summary of what the book's about.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 13 2016, @04:48PM
Dude Snotnose, you just make me want to give you a hug. We feel your pain. We all have stories. You're safe with us (well.... maybe...), we commiserate.
Maybe we should go all confession-time-slash-dailywtf?
One time I spent a month wondering why my unit would run in tests but not on production hardware. Turns out the boilerplate I'd been told to "just copy over" had a Magic Number that had to be incremented each time it was copy-pasta'd. I found out through a convoluted multi-process gdb session (nothing quite like single-stepping slowly along a rotation processess, checking a set of other processes for watchpoint breaks due to IPC). When I reported it solved I got a big fat "oh you didn't just increment the magic number? that was stupid of you!" Nowhere had this been documented.
Needless to say, the company folded.
Anyone else to share some catharsis?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @12:18AM
Sounds like they had interprocess communication figured out, but not interpersonal communication.