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edw519 on March 21, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: The First Rule of Programming: It's Always Your Fa...

Remarks from 2 mentors I have never forgotten:

1. Everything worked fine. You came along and did something. Now it doesn't work. I wonder if it has something to do with what you did.

2. I seriously doubt that the operating system, which has worked perfectly well for 20 years, suddenly and unexpectedly messed up on the exact same day you arrived.

sant0sk1 on March 21, 2008 [–]

A remark from 1 mentor I have never forgotten:

1. If you can't think in base-8 you CAN'T be a programmer!

so I set out to write a program that would think in base-8 for me...

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