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Article #620973Re: Computer science hot major in college (article)
From: Gene Wirchenko
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 16:27
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 16:27
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On 24 Feb 2018 08:19:22 GMT, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se>
wrote:
>On Fri, 2018-02-23, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>> On 22 Feb 2018 22:54:45 GMT, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se>
>> wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>>On the other hand, I feel uneasy when I'm just writing code and noone
>>>is going to run it for real until a year later. The code isn't
>>>complete until it's in production.
>>
>> Interestingly, I have just such a situation this morning. The code
>> is not working.
>
>I was probably unclear: I meant something more specific:
>
>- A long distance in space and time between the programmer and the
> user is a problem.
>- You're not done until someone is using your code as intended.
I live in Kamloops, BC. The business is in Ferndale, WA. Google
Maps says 201 miles. I wrote the code about a year ago.
>Sometimes (not so much recently) I meet programmers who think their
>job is to write the code, make it compile, ship it off to testing --
>and then they're done. That's an inefficient and boring way to work,
>IMHO.
>
>> My system and the Production systems are just different enough in
>> this area that there may be some gymnastics required.
>
>Ah, yes. It's good when those two to be similar, but it's not always
>feasible.
Quite.
I solved the problem. It turned out to be a race condition that
I thought was not an issue with the second way I had worked out to do
the task. It had not been when I tested. Their system had failed on
two reports; mine had failed on only one.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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