Some days, you know how good you are at your job...

But Martin's right ... good days do happen sometimes, which makes it all seem worthwhile.

Even the machines are in awe of Dan's powers! ;-)

*Me, last week

Today he was stumped, after spending many more hours, and we went through it together. We were really struggling, and it was getting more and more hideously complex. We took a break mid-afternoon, and I closed my eyes and started rethinking. Within two minutes I had an approach I was convinced was the right one, and within half an hour I had the code to prove it. It's a thousand times simpler to understand and maintain, took no time at all to write, and is, for all the nasty and awkward test cases we've been given, perfect. I'm 100% positive that it will work for all cases - I think I could prove it mathematically, if there were any point in doing so. It's the kind of success I've had several times by stepping way back from how things are being done to think of what we need to achieve, and then seeing better ways. As satisfying a programming achievement as I've had in months, maybe years.

This is exactly the OPPOSITE of my actual real life mutant ability! OMG UNBREAKABLE