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Do you need a good laugh?

by salegurus
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I am sure i am not alone when i say that i get most of my work done between 11pm and 3am, why? it's quite and there are no distractions.

Anyhow, i returned to my old stomping ground "eBay" to list my wife's old camera.
Cut a long story short: After creating the ad i decided to add a few pics to the main ad page using HTML, so i added <img src="http://whatever.com/images/2045589myimage" />

And?
Nothing, the pics were not showing in the preview page. It's about 12:30am and i'm a bit drowzy, i stare at this HTML code for 10mins, i do google searches, i check my sites files, make sure the server is online.
After about 20mins it finally jumps out at me, i forgot to add the .JPG at the end of the image file name.
Needless to say i felt like a real jack@##

Sometimes we dismiss the obvious, instead looking for a more complex solution to a problem.
Cheers
  • Profile picture of the author Igor Pauer
    I remember, when I was programming in Turbo Pascal about 20 years ago. The biggest problem when making long program was that every "(" have to have corresponding ")".
    Sometimes it takes us more time to find these lost ")" then programming itself
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    • Profile picture of the author Marian
      It happens all the time... at least to me, not so often, but happens.

      Marian
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    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      Originally Posted by Igor Pauer View Post

      I remember, when I was programming in Turbo Pascal about 20 years ago. The biggest problem when making long program was that every "(" have to have corresponding ")".
      Sometimes it takes us more time to find these lost ")" then programming itself
      For PASCAL!?!? NAW, that is SIMPLE! You want to have problems with matching brackets/braces? Try LISP! Here's a sample routine:

      (defun sphere-normal (s pt)
      (let ((c (sphere-center s)))
      (unit-vector (- (x c) (x pt))
      (- (y c) (y pt))
      (- (z c) (z pt)))))

      Steve
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      • Profile picture of the author Igor Pauer
        Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

        For PASCAL!?!? NAW, that is SIMPLE! You want to have problems with matching brackets/braces? Try LISP! Here's a sample routine:
        (defun sphere-normal (s pt)
        (let ((c (sphere-center s)))
        (unit-vector (- (x c) (x pt))
        (- (y c) (y pt))
        (- (z c) (z pt)))))
        Steve
        Thank you, I am feeling much younger now
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        • Profile picture of the author seasoned
          Originally Posted by Igor Pauer View Post

          Thank you, I am feeling much younger now
          VERY FUNNY! HARDY HAR HAR!

          Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Hey, I had a problem, and a query took over 40 minutes. I LOOKED for one thing I thought was a problem. After several hours, I found that WAS the problem. The 40 minutes dropped to 12 SECONDS. The problem? A table with NO join criteria, so it created a cartesian product. In laymens terms, the data returned increased tens of thousands of times!
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  • Profile picture of the author arklove
    staring at computer screens all day can take it out of you...

    So just Relax... and realize Nothing is under control
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  • Profile picture of the author jacktackett
    Uhg - feeling old here.

    Steve - since I've stopped using emacs many years ago can't say I've really seen any lisp in a loooong time. Though its the only language where solving the tower of Hanoi problem can be done in so few lines of code (never tried in prolog so don't know about it).

    nothing guts you more than spending several hours debugging a program to either

    a) have someone walk up behind you and ask why there's not a ';' THERE.
    or
    b) have someone walk up behind you and ask why you commented out that section of code (this was way before color coding editiors)

    I feel those situations justify justifiable homicide. At most you should be charged with littering for leaving the body out in the open....

    I'll use my walker to go get some air - at least its a nice day outside.

    best,
    --Jack
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