Very likely. There are small local thunderstorms roaming across the country, and they seem to have been very strong.

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One of the lightnings of the on-going thunderstorm hit, most likely, one of the tall buildings on top of the hill that are maybe 100, max 150 meters from us. The bang was so damn loud…

You forgot the (oo-oo-oo)… 😆

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Indeed. And the funny part is that I am the expert on this part of the code in the team. 😆

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Spent the better half of the past 2 weeks refactoring a feature just to realize that the approach I took is not working. I will take the good bits and re-approach the issue again…

That is true. There will be one year when they all are teens (when the youngest is 13, the oldest is 19), then the number of teens will steadily go down as the kids move out. Hopefully. 😁

matigo.ca.

I often feel that many "modern" programming paradigms tend to just throw more resources at the problem instead of actually checking out potential improvements in the implementation. I find that rather wasteful way of thinking.

matigo.ca.

I no longer have children who are under 10 years old. 😁

That also means that it 10 years to date when I joined App.net where I met all you lovely folks.

As someone whose master's thesis title contained the phrase "computationally efficient" (from 2007) I have been waiting for this moment to arise…

matigo.ca.

Indeed. Especially as we are talking about a test framework for shell code. It is a really obscure thing, but there might be some people who will appreciate it.

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