My view one second before 2012.
dustin
Wants vs. Needs
- jyfl987: hi, i am planning to implement an memcache server side application, can you guys told me where is the parsing part in projects memecached
- dsal: What? Are you wanting to write an engine?
- jyfl987: yes, my boss want to using memcache's protocol as our rpc protocol and i want to use inetd to wrote an simple and multi-thread implement for it
- jyfl987: found it, its in memcache.c try_read_command
- dsal: No, you want the storage engine framework. Trond wrote a tutorial on writing engines with it: http://blog.couchbase.com/writing-your-own-storage-engine-memcached
- jyfl987: nope, i dont need the storage engine
- dsal: If you think you need try_read_command, you need the storage engine interface.
- jyfl987: i just want to learn how to parse the command :]
- dsal: Why do you want to parse the command?
- jyfl987: i am not a cs student, so missed some knowledge on parsing/compiling
- dsal: This is definitely not the place to look, then.
- jyfl987: anyway, i found what i need
- dsal: I think you found what you were looking for. You've yet to find what you need.
- jyfl987: yep,
Another shot from the show last night. My phone can do some pretty amazing stuff.
Test Ease
- E: R, what would you like this repo called?
- R: Test tools?
- D: When I was in fourth grade, I had to find my own spelling words out of the dictionary and write stories and stuff around them.
- D: One week, I used the word "scrotum" -- "pouch containing testes". My story was very interesting and I could not convince my teacher that I did not know that "testes" was not the plural of test.
- D: My story involved a scientist conducting tests on a deer.
- D: The part about delivering the results my teacher found particularly disturbing.
- D: So, if you're asking for my opinion on what to call your bag of tests...
Movie Night
- (my daughter got invited to movie night by some boy and mentioned another boy would be there. I asked her if she'd be watching porn with a bunch of boys. She said she would not. Then I got this SMS later)
- her: ...23:30 or would you mind at 24:00 because we are watching forest hump 22:51
- her: Gump* 22:52
- Me: ¡ I knew you were watching porn! 22:52
- her: Dad! 22:52
YAGNI
- (upon finding an important bug obscured deep within code we will never use)
- Him: on 679, sounds like you're tempted to make some big changes to fix it right but pointy haired boss (me) is loathe for big changes at this time
- Me: I hope you recognize you're making every argument I've ever made against adding code that we don't need because of the horrible support burden it brings.
