Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: Never demo on a development server

Author:	Dave Winer
Posted:	5/21/1999; 1:20:59 PM
Topic:	Never demo on a development server
Msg #:	6557 (In response to 6555)
Prev/Next:	6556 / 6558

BTW, the fix for that show-stopper bug was all of one line and took me about 5 minutes to spot and fix -- I had neglected to initialize a pointer :-(

As Murphy says, Shit happens!

From "Programmers": "Programming is good training in the scientific method. For example, last week I spent five hours learning that "50" + 1 = 501 in my scripting system. That truth was available to me the instant I discovered the malfunctioning software, but it took five hours of investigating, digging in, and challenging assumptions before the truth was clear, and I could move on to the next problem."

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