Stup1d C0d3
Why is it when I'm on site with a customer that I run into stupid code problems? I guess it has something to do with the interaction of lab-grown code and the real world, but I always end up looking like an idiot. Anyway, as I'm the lead on this particular code base, it's within my power to fix it, but I spent the whole day staring at the same few lines of code until my eyes went cross. And I don't think that's something my optometrist can help me with.
posted by Sanford Owings at 7:17 PM
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It's a corollary of the well known rule "don't do math in public". By yourself you can integrate over the complex plane or determine Fourier-Bessel coefficients with ease. With others watching, simple arithmetic becomes impossible.
Similarly, while you might normally fix such an easy problem with some clever assembly code, with a customer watching, following if-then branches becomes impossible. ;)
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