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This afternoon was another real winner. There's been something rumbling for a while - two senior developers couldn't solve a coding problem, and came to my boss and me with it. We spent some time on it, working different angles. I thought I'd got it last week (my boss was away for the last three days of the week) but when I went back to them they gave me lots of info they hadn't given me before, to my irritation, so I decided it could wait to see if my boss's approach would crack it. (I should add that I have the greatest respect and admiration for my boss, and he's the one person in the division who I'm sure is a significantly better programmer than I am.)
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.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.cinescene.com/reviews/images/unbreakable.jpgI've had enough of scheming and messing around with jerks
My car is parked outside, I'm afraid it doesn't work
I'm looking for a partner, someone who gets things fixed
Ask yourself this question: Do you want to be rich?
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
three months pass...
I felt useful because I explained the difference between a German and Indian swastika to someone who didn't understand what they were doing in writing a report on marketing to people in India.
― nobody, Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Is there a difference, or have you just fallen for that whole "good=clockwise, bad=anticlockwise" myth?
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 25 August 2005 06:04 (eighteen years ago) link