[LUAU] OT: Looking for networks-off topic

[Jim Thompson]

On Sep 18, 2005, at 5:03 PM, Tim Newsham wrote:

>>> I've had more practice in analytical and exploratory programming  
>>> in the last two years than I ever wanted.  And then there's  
>>> always a certain amount of fear that you're going to program  
>>> something wrong and burn it up.
>>>
>>
>> You get over this when you finally do.
>>
>
> Get over it?  I hope not.  That's the best part about programming!
> It's nice to be able to ask the question online in hopes of making
> your life easier, but if you haven't figured out the answer before
> someone else answers it for you, you're not working in an exciting
> field :)

Naw, when you finally do let the smoke out of something (via  
software), you get over the fear.

The caution stays, but the fear is gone.

And yeah, mine was a $250k "beta" box.

they were sorta glad that I managed to find the equivalent of a HCF  
instruction.

The thing you're talking about is 1/2 the joy of programming.   The  
other half (for me) is the joy that knowing that most of the time,  
the mistakes are my own.   You're more certain of this with "open  
source" or free software, of course.  Nothing quite like the compiler  
bugs you have to work around because the vendor won't fix them.

Jim
(HCF = Halt and Catch Fire)