Comments on: Programming and Ego http://blog.xcski.com/2006/02/01/programming-and-ego Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:40:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Rants and Revelations » We’ll call that a tie, shall we? http://blog.xcski.com/2006/02/01/programming-and-ego#comment-1624 Rants and Revelations » We’ll call that a tie, shall we? Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:30:33 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2006/02/01/programming-and-ego#comment-1624 [...] The controlled test turned out to not show the symptoms at all. So now the QA person is going to have to figure out what he did to get it into the state where he saw the problem. I suspect that the database wasn’t in the state he thought it was in, and the problem is going to devolve into another finger pointing exercise, this time between the other group (the guys who send us the playlists) and a third person in our group (the guy responsible for accepting those playlists and putting them in the database). That one won’t be nearly as much fun, because Tony (the guy responsible for accepting the playlists) doesn’t have anywhere near the ego that I do. [...] [...] The controlled test turned out to not show the symptoms at all. So now the QA person is going to have to figure out what he did to get it into the state where he saw the problem. I suspect that the database wasn’t in the state he thought it was in, and the problem is going to devolve into another finger pointing exercise, this time between the other group (the guys who send us the playlists) and a third person in our group (the guy responsible for accepting those playlists and putting them in the database). That one won’t be nearly as much fun, because Tony (the guy responsible for accepting the playlists) doesn’t have anywhere near the ego that I do. [...]

]]> By: Tina Marie http://blog.xcski.com/2006/02/01/programming-and-ego#comment-1623 Tina Marie Thu, 02 Feb 2006 07:03:05 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2006/02/01/programming-and-ego#comment-1623 Only 2 weeks? I've sulked longer than that over bugs in my code... Only 2 weeks? I’ve sulked longer than that over bugs in my code…

]]> By: Bill http://blog.xcski.com/2006/02/01/programming-and-ego#comment-1622 Bill Thu, 02 Feb 2006 04:46:17 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2006/02/01/programming-and-ego#comment-1622 1000 quatloos on TOMBLIN! 1000 quatloos on TOMBLIN!

]]> By: Vicki http://blog.xcski.com/2006/02/01/programming-and-ego#comment-1621 Vicki Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:58:33 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2006/02/01/programming-and-ego#comment-1621 <i>Unless it turns out the problem is in my code, in which case I’ll have to go into a 2 week sulk.</i> How interesting. And where will you be living for the next two weeks? I'll wash some underwear for you to take with you. Unless it turns out the problem is in my code, in which case I’ll have to go into a 2 week sulk.

How interesting. And where will you be living for the next two weeks?

I’ll wash some underwear for you to take with you.

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