Comic for February 17, 2009: … Hammer Time
For the non-techies in the audience: a “core dump” is basically a computer’s way of barfing all over you when a program crashes. It’s not fun times.
Chronillogical
a sci-fi webcomic about time traveling grad students
Yeah… that’s pretty much how I spent last week.
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Also… does it say “SYNTAX PARALLAX SNORLAX”?
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Yes. Yes it does.
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Fantastic. “I’ll take a dump ON your core!”
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Ahh, I remember days like this with my first computer…for the record, it was a black and white Macintosh and it was bought in 1990 (I didn’t get to play with it until 1992).
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Her binary code is giving me flashbacks of translating assembly code to hex for the 8051 microcontroller. No. No, I don’t want to deal with datapointers every other line. Johnny, don’t push that byte onto the stack. Johnny? Johnny! JOHNNNYYYYYYY!!
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Absolutely accurate – there’s always some bozo looking over you shoulder and asking “will it be ready to ship tomorrow”? Is it done yet? How about now? Now?
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BooooOOOOOOOring!
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look at the sleeve of the girl in the second frame, and compare it to all the other frames
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If I remember well since those good ol’ days:
gdb a.out core
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@ eugene: Oh dang! I completely missed that!
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Disregarding the absence of profanity, this is precisely how I speak to inanimate objects.
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Error, error. Computer face! LOL, nice comic.
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@Eugene – the sleeve could have simply been rolled up, as it is the colour of the undergarment.
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I left my heart in syntax error
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A dereferenced pointer would cast a warning, not error; no bug, move on.
“Since when is a warning a bug? It compiles, ship it!!”
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ah… “core dump” is followed by a memory flush and discharge…
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@eric
I don’t know what language you code in, but in c++, dereferencing a null pointer is neither a compiler warning or error, it is a run-time error resulting in a crash.
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“A dereferenced pointer would cast a warning, not error; no bug, move on.”
Listen to this guy, he knows what he’s talking about!
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that makes my skin crawl….. to close to the truth for sure.
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About the sleeve in the 2nd frame being different… she was cold in that frame. those rooms are cold. I get cold in those rooms. She must have been cold… in THAT frame.
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That’s not really funny/a comic because that’s just showing exactly what happens and what people do in a shitty situation.
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If you don’t think shitty situations are humorous in retrospect, you’re out of touch with reality.
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new project mgt style WIISIO
this is when everything from management in end analysis could be described more simply as Wack It In Switch It On.
If it will run past my KPI date who gives a….
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