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gnomon

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Robertson screwdriver owner, believer in the value of personal-scale computing and skeptic of the value of computing scales any larger than that

(previously https://twitter.com/gnomon ; account de-funked)

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foone , an Random Englisch
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Imagine your software develops a bug of the same sort as that OpenOffice bug where you can't print on Tuesday:

How long does it take you to figure out that the random intermittent failures aren't random at all, and are actually based on the day of the week?

gnomon ,
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@foone if I recall correctly ( @oration please fact check me here) ot took me just under a year to notice a sawtooth performance problem in the morning financial positions ingestion job at $PREVIOUS_EMPLOYER, then an hour to notice the period was ten calendar days, then a week to track down that someone had written chop in a Perl script somewhere when they should have written chomp. (I didn't know Perl then and I still don't know.)

foone , an Random Englisch
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It's a pity that the technology never aligned such that we could get an e-ink pda

gnomon ,
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@foone goodness, yes please.

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