OT: Filemaker 8

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On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 08:35:18PM -0500, Laura Brody, the prominent pundit,
witicized:
> code (and torture-tested it for 8 years). He may be a lazy
> husband at times, but never a lazy programmer. Once he begins
> a project, it will be designed and coded with excellence.

And, to his credit from my perspective, he also seems to not be able to
rest until he's tracked down the source of something that's gone amiss.
I'm betting there've been more than a few nights where you had to drag him
to bed to get sleep because he was chasing that One Elusive Bug.

I remember one time in the fP Room when it was John, me, a couple others
maybe, and we got Ken in on something--John did, actually.  We didn't get
it about what was going on, so John called and we asked, and Ken found and
traced something right there and then, on the spot.  I believe it was fixed
that night.

Seems like he can let bugs rest about as well as I can--which is to say
that on a personal level, he probably can't. :) That's a Good Thing[tm]
in a programmer, and one of the things I admire most about him.  The
other two of the top three being his unrelenting patience in the face of
cluelessness, and his personal dedication to being an active part of the
community when even the CEO refuses to.

> Adding some enhancements to filePro is like trying to baptise
> a cat. It can be done, but the programmers are going to have

Ewwww--sounds...painful!

> 	BTW, until you *do* know a bit more about filePro the
> progam (and the company), you should make more of an effort
> to keep your comments to yourself.

C'mon, Laura!  If it weren't for the God Given Right to an uneducated
opinion, people wouldn't think I'm half the bastard they imagine. :)
Thankfully I usually only start out with an uneducated opinion and actually
get educated along the way.  But I guess ya gotta start somewhere.  I speak
from painful experience, as more than a few here know!

Seriously...sometimes getting taken to task along with an explanation of
where you hung an incorrect left is a really expedient way to learn--if a
bit painful.  If one kept one's incorrect information and/or opinions to
one's self, one's false impressions may never be corrected.  I'm not saying
it's a -good- way to learn, but it's -one- way.

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