Bugtation No.36
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008Exception “is what we see at a glance.”
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Archive for the ‘Bugtations’ Category
Bugtation No.35
Sunday, September 28th, 2008Crash dump analysis “does not consist merely in” peeking” the memory and enlightening the understanding. Its main business should be to direct the” Customer.
Joseph Joubert, Pensées
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Bugtation No.34
Thursday, September 25th, 2008“An excellent precept for” programmers: “have a clear idea of all the” functions “and expressions you need, and you will find them.”
Ximénès Doudan, Pensées et fragments suivis des révolutions du goût
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Bugtation No.33
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008“The art of not” coding “is extremely important. It consists in our not taking up whatever happens to be occupying the” management “public at the time.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena: On Reading and Books
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Dumps, Bugs and Debugging Forensics
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Finally Dr. Debugalov adventures are going to be imprinted with bugs inside. This full-color book features never published before cartoons and a few surprises. It sets a new standard for entertainment in software engineering.
- Title: Dumps, Bugs and Debugging Forensics: The Adventures of Dr. Debugalov
- Author: Narasimha Vedala
- Editor: Dmitry Vostokov
- Publisher: Opentask (1 December 2008)
- Language: English
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.0
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-25-4
- Paperback: 64 pages
The cover was designed by Narasimha Vedala.
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Bugtation No.32
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008“A” code “never — well, hardly ever — shakes off its” legacy “and its formation. In spite of all changes in and extensions of and additions to its” base “, and indeed rather pervading and governing these, there will still persist the old” code.
John Langshaw Austin, Philosophical Papers: A Plea For Excuses
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Bugtation No.31
Sunday, September 21st, 2008Opcodes “- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a” manual “, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Notebooks
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Bugtation No.30
Saturday, September 20th, 2008APIs “govern the world.”
John Selden, Table Talk
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Bugtation No.29
Friday, September 19th, 2008“There are many rare” crashes “in the World, which Fortune never brings to Light” again.
Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs
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Bugtation No.28
Thursday, September 18th, 2008“Some” processes “are very busy, and yet do nothing.”
Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs
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Bugtation No.27
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008“But perhaps the” OS “is suspended on the” finger “of some” developer.
Anton Chekhov, Notebook
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Bugtation No.26
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008“Think before you” debug!
Pythagoras, Teachings
This bugtation is also illustrated graphically here:
Bugtations: a semiotic approach
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Bugtations: a semiotic approach
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008Now a bit of theory behind bugtations. If you know about semiotics you will instantly recognize bugtations as paradigmatic substitutions in quotations (syntagmatic axis). This is better illustrated on the following picture adopted from Daniel Chandler’s book Semiotics, The Basics (2nd ed., figure 3.1, page 84) using this simple bugtation created from Pythagoras famous quotation:
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Bugtation No.25
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008“The only way to read” code “without being bored is to” browse “it at random and, having found something that interests you, close the” browser “and meditate.”
Charles-Joseph, Prince de Ligne, Mes écarts
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Bugtation No.24
Monday, September 15th, 2008Comments “are not” code.
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Bugtation No.23
Sunday, September 14th, 2008“You can take better care of your” code “than another can.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals
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Bugtation No.22
Saturday, September 13th, 2008“One can best feel in dealing with” systems “how primitive” debugging “still is.”
Albert Einstein, Communication to Leó Szilárd
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Bugtation No.21
Friday, September 12th, 2008“I like people who can do” debugging.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals
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Bugtation No.20
Friday, September 12th, 2008“Crash dumps are fossils” of computations.
Thomas Monahan and Dmitry Vostokov, Crash Dump Analysis for System Administrators and Support Engineers (Chapter 1: The Origin of Crash Dumps)
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Bugtation No.19
Thursday, September 11th, 2008“A perfectly healthy” program “, it is true, is extremely rare.”
Henry David Thoreau, The Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
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