Month: February 2004

Its a Feature

Had a co-worker send me this.  Pretty funny if you are a programmer.

Top 23 replies by programmers when their programs don’t work:

  1. “I thought I fixed that.”
  2. “Where were you when the program blew up?”
  3. “Why do you want to do it that way?”
  4. “You can’t use that version on your system.”
  5. “Even though it doesn’t work, how does it feel?”
  6. “Did you check for a virus on your system?”
  7. “Somebody must have changed my code.”
  8. “It works, but it’s not been tested.”
  9. “THIS can’t be the source of THAT.”
  10. “I can’t test everything!”
  11. “It’s just some unlucky coincidence.”
  12. “You must have the wrong version.”
  13. “I haven’t touched that module in weeks!”
  14. “There is something funky in your data.”
  15. “What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?”
  16. “It must be a hardware problem.”
  17. “How is that possible?”
  18. “It worked yesterday.”
  19. “It’s never done that before.”
  20. “That’s weird…”
  21. “It’s WAD (Working As Designed)”
  22. “It’s a feature”
  23. “Who did you login as ?”

A dead end in space

The New York Times has an article discussing the role (or lack thereof) that the International Space Station will play in future space exploration.  Its really sad that political decisions have caused the ISS to effectively become a dead-en as a stepping-stone for future space travel. On a side note, its a good example of why doing what is right is often NOT the same thing as doing what is politically popular.

QT weekend Tutorial

The Independent Qt Tutorial is a Linux QT tutorial maintained by e8johan. The strength of the KDE environment is based in large part to the power and flexibility of the QT toolkit. If you are a MFC, gtk+, or Cocoa developer you will be totally blown away by QT. Check out the tutorial for a good intro to QT for people who already have some C++ experience.