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April 2008 - Posts

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 1:03 AM

The price of complexity

My house was haunted. One of the lights would randomly go on or off and random times without anybody fiddling the switch. The previous owner of our house had installed fancy dimmer light switches. On a whim, we replaced one of the fancy switches with
Posted by jmstall | 4 Comments
Saturday, April 12, 2008 12:22 AM

Codegen for On Error Resume Next

VB has a " On Error Resume Next ", which tells each line to swallow exceptions and just keep executing to the next line. It's kind of like a try-catch around every single line. It may be tempting for C++ developers to make fun of VB for this, but this
Posted by jmstall | 3 Comments
Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:35 PM

The waiting game

Punting on a problem can be good or bad, depending on the situation. Punting is not always retreating or surrendering. Punting is good when the problem will be easier to solve later. For example, maybe you suspect something may happen that will render
Posted by jmstall | 0 Comments
 
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