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Oh grief. *writes email to dev team*
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:lol:
Based on a true story...

No, seriously, that's exactly what it's like. See the "bug at 3 am" pic? I've been there. More than once.
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The workin on a Friday, broken on a Monday thing?

That's why we never deploy on Fridays.
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another_commander wrote:
:lol:
Based on a true story...

No, seriously, that's exactly what it's like. See the "bug at 3 am" pic? I've been there. More than once.
Heck yeah.. in fact, I used to write a column called "The 3am Programmer" for an Australian C64 magazine. :mrgreen:
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I particularly liked the 'When you develop without specifications' one :)
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We always used to refer to bits of code as 'Friday Afternoon Code' back when I was an actual programmer for a living.
No idea how it was supposed to work, and no idea why you thought it would work anyway.


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Similarly, I was taught not to write spaghetti code. Now they have to avoid Lasagna code ...
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NigelJK wrote:
Similarly, I was taught not to write spaghetti code. Now they have to avoid Lasagna code ...
Not heard that one before, but make sense.

I thought this so I decided to go back to basics and learnt some assembler for fun. Quickly decided I'd rather write fiction as my pastime.

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maaarcooose wrote:
NigelJK wrote:
Similarly, I was taught not to write spaghetti code. Now they have to avoid Lasagna code ...
Not heard that one before, but make sense.

I thought this so I decided to go back to basics and learnt some assembler for fun. Quickly decided I'd rather write fiction as my pastime.
Don't you mean your "pasta-time"?
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Done the database one. Forgot to put a LIMIT 1 at the end of the SQL query.
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:lol:
When something that worked on Friday doesn't work on Monday
:lol: :mrgreen: - Sounds like my late printer ! LOL
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