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Comment So very much better than the Sausage Machine (Score 1) 289

by lawrence.a.sim on Saturday May 22, 2010 @09:56AM (#32305162) Attached to: When Rewriting an App Actually Makes Sense

We had one of our apps Sausage Machined, very sad... Translate one chunck of code into worse code in another language and different platform. A complete from scratch re-write would have been SO much cleaner (and maintainable).

LHC Shut Down Again — By Baguette-Dropping Bird 478

Posted by timothy on Friday November 06, 2009 @04:50AM from the first-causes dept.

Philip K Dickhead writes "Is Douglas Adams scripting the saga of sorrows facing the LHC? These time-traveling Higgs-Boson particles certainly exhibit the sign of his absurd sense of humor! Perhaps it is the Universe itself, conspiring against the revelations intimated by the operation of CERN's Large Hadron Collider? This time, it is not falling cranes, cracked magnets, liquid helium leaks or even links to Al Qaeda, that have halted man's efforts to understand the meaning of life, the universe and everything. It now appears that the collider is hindered from an initial firing by a baguette, dropped by a passing bird: 'The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant overheating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.'"

Comment Re:seen some bad shit. (Score 1) 683

by lawrence.a.sim on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @08:18AM (#29199493) Attached to: Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline

Reminds me of our load-bearing comment, you remove it or shrink it in any way and the app would fail to compile...

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