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I'm going for a run.
NOW !!!
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What is the WTF? Does Raygun run slow or what?
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There is nothing in the world that will prevent ugly patches... Because, sometimes, an ugly patch is all that will make your software work, because of either problems with the compiler, runtime environment or both... I have personally been involved in tracing a particular problem with an aerospace simulation application... Everything worked as expected in the debug version of the code, but crashed in the "release" version of the code... same code, just compiled for release instead of debug... Since we/I could not pinpoint the problem in the debug version, we/I started adding "print" statements at various places in the code where things could break... Things kept breaking until one particular print statement was added... Removed all of the other debug-print-statements... The software was still running correctly in the release version... Modified the print statement to actually print nothing, and the software was still running correctly.... To this day, there is still an empty print statement remaining in the code base, because it made the system work... Cause of the problem: unknown, Solution to the problem Unknown, patch: throw in a print statement that prints the null character to the /dev/null device... Ugly as hell, as we were never able to actually trace the source of the problem, except, maybe, to the compiler optimizer used in our "Make" funnel... No other solution was ever found... Until we moved to a completely different hardware architecture with a completely different compiler...
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There is nothing in the world that will prevent ugly patches... Because, sometimes, an ugly patch is all that will make your software work, because of either problems with the compiler, runtime environment or both... I have personally been involved in tracing a particular problem with an aerospace simulation application... Everything worked as expected in the debug version of the code, but crashed in the "release" version of the code... same code, just compiled for release instead of debug... Since we/I could not pinpoint the problem in the debug version, we/I started adding "print" statements at various places in the code where things could break... Things kept breaking until one particular print statement was added... Removed all of the other debug-print-statements... The software was still running correctly in the release version... Modified the print statement to actually print nothing, and the software was still running correctly.... To this day, there is still an empty print statement remaining in the code base, because it made the system work... Cause of the problem: unknown, Solution to the problem Unknown, patch: throw in a print statement that prints the null character to the /dev/null device... Ugly as hell, as we were never able to actually trace the source of the problem, except, maybe, to the compiler optimizer used in our "Make" funnel... No other solution was ever found... Until we moved to a completely different hardware architecture with a completely different compiler...
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Don't tell me my software sucks. I don't need your worthless monitoring tools. Peddle them to the Indian framework cobblers.
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I came here expecting to read about a snakeoil product from Initrode that some unwitting manager had bought because shiny! and was now forcing unto the programmers. You know, classic WTF material. Seems like I'm a bit too early this time.
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So.. How many bugs and duct-tape is found in Raygun APM? Probably a lot more than in the systems Raygun manages (because of it's huge scope) =)
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So.. How many bugs and duct-tape is found in Raygun APM? Probably a lot more than in the systems Raygun manages (because of it's huge scope) =)
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I'll just leave this here
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Drink...more...Ovaltine? A crummy ad? Son of a...
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Is this an ad not a WTF???
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Am I the only one who sees the bottom half of an anatomically correct pig in that logo?