sergio_101Question of the day - #programming #devlife
The worst technical decision you've ever made that seemed smart at the time?
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I think one of my biggest oopsies was installing libraries in the C# world and not realizing that they were trial versions. I had never seen these types of things before.
The libraries didn't do much of anything special, but they were prohibitively expensive.
I ended up pulling a few all-nighters, recreating the library’s functionality to avoid going triple budget.
Victor 4X6GP@sergio_101
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Using a 3rd party component that was automatically translated to Object Pascal from C in a Delphi program.
The developer disappeared and it was impossible to debug.
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Using a 3rd party component that was automatically translated to Object Pascal from C in a Delphi program.
The developer disappeared and it was impossible to debug.
@sergio_101
Lazarus is a present day open source descendent of Delphi.
Lazarus is a present day open source descendent of Delphi.
I need to look at this!
Fabian Kurz, DJ5CW/SO5CW@sergio_101 Using NI Labview for an elaborate test system.
Sam Oldman 🐀@sergio_101 Using a checksum to believe that two files were the same. (It can only tell you that they are different.)
I have seen this issue! Good call.