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Ask Slashdot: Where's the Most Unusual Place You've Written a Program From?
theodp writes: "Michael Raithel was polling the SAS crowd, but it'd be interesting to hear the answers to the programming questions he posed from a broader audience: 1. What is the most unusual location you have written a program from? 2. What is the most unusual circumstance under which you have written a program? 3. What is the most unusual computing platform that you wrote a program from? 4. What is the most unusual application program that you wrote?"
That would be in the butt, Bob.
That would be in the butt, Bob.
A 24 Horus deadline? Just six of those falcon-headed bastards strutting around all godlike and hassling me about missed TPS reports is bad enough, but 24... To be honest, at that point I might just throw myself into the Nile and let my ka move on to the realm of Osiris.
Weren't you afraid of a core dump? Or, worse, a buffer overflow?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
There is no reason to put from at the end. Is stupid just something caught the internet from?
Prepositions on the end of sentences is something up with which I will not put.
Or to paraphrase, "That is something up with which you will not put".
Just make sure you have the right back end capacity. It's usually just a matter of checking your logs.
Nobody wants to get woken up at 2am because of a period.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
As for most unusual circumstances, about 15 years ago me and the owner (and also programmer) of the company i was working for at the time fixed in 15 minutes a bug that neither of us had been able to fix in the last 2 weeks sober. It was 3 am and we were both dead drunk as we were celebrating someone's birthday at the office :)
Ah, yes, the "Ballmer Peak." A well-documented phenomena.