A long time ago, I needed to group some wires from my monitors together to clean up my office rig. I don't know why, but I thought "duct tape". After some time passed, I needed the monitors again and I needed to swap out a DVI cable for a VGA. This meant a couple of hours dedicated to little pocket knife use, but much frustrated gnawing. I didn't unplug the stuff and do this over a table, mind you, but down by the AC outlets on all fours because it's just SO much trouble to stand up.
Also, I used to do stuff like this for a while:
class foo{ int m;public: void set(int n) { m = n; } int get() const { return m; }};
What stupid things have you done in your IT/programming experiences?
[Edited by - zyrolasting on October 24, 2010 5:16:23 PM]
in the good old days, where hard disk are of OK size, and both CD-R drives are really expensive, and so is zip drives (and zip disk). I was a poor student at tha time. but an animation student.
so it's normal for us to swap hard disk (2nd hard disk) just to transfer large files between computers. we're not talking about close computer here. we're talking about different student block, student who rent rooms/houses outside university. and no, there is no internet connection to student block, in those day.
it was so normal that most of us either have only one side of the casing wall, or none at all.
anyway, after all those plug-in and removing, I became too careless. One day I broke a few of the IDE pin, rendering the hd useless (and the data inside).
those are the days. being animation student, it remind me of the interview with tron animator. they said they have to be perfect, since it not a matter of if we made a mistake, hey, lets fix it in post. it was a matter of, this animation is screwed.
so basically, that hd and the animation inside is screwed. lucky-ly, it is a transfer hd. you know, when you buy a larger hd, you tend to use it as C:, and the old hd as D:. so i still have most original files on C:. but i do lose files that i only keep on D: (the screwed hd). but what the files are, i'll keep it to myself :-)
it is ironic that he was given the same room he was charged 10K previously. of course, he could choose to ask help earlier. but i guess that life. i went through a lot of tough times myself, so I know how it feel.
stupid? sad? not getting enough info? not getting enough help? (why didn't the security guard talk to university people after found out for a fact he is a student there? or the getting helped after 5 minutes of fame? (you know, the people that nobody bothered to help until their story is in the newspaper, so that those that go and help got some screen time or a face in the news.
not related to IT, but one of those stupid thngs we do when we lack of cash and option, just like my hd sharing thingy.
Stupidity strikes me from time to time too. I wouldn't say it's behind me, though, since every 3 or 4 weeks I make a dumb mistake that I should've avoided.
My worst 'dumb moment' probably is this beauty. (From a year and a half ago)
Quote:Original post by Servant of the Lord Stupidity strikes me from time to time too. I wouldn't say it's behind me, though, since every 3 or 4 weeks I make a dumb mistake that I should've avoided.
My worst 'dumb moment' probably is this beauty. (From a year and a half ago)
TRWTF is DevC++
_______________________"You're using a screwdriver to nail some glue to a ming vase. " -ToohrVyk
When I was 9, I got my first programming book on Visual Basic. I read the first 4 chapters, but after that I got so impatient that I started programming a game (an RPG) with what little I knew. I spent dozens of hours working on it without ever opening the book or looking at a tutorial.
Turns out the next chapter was on arrays.
When I eventually did read that chapter, I was able to shrink my game down from something like 20,000 lines to 500.
I used curse words as variables and anger as debugger.. for a real job. I hope the mess I created wasn't used for real. If I could get a time machine I would go back 5 years and kill myself to prevent that monster from being created.
Debugging a function like crazy. Hitting the keyboard, screen and head like crazy. Cursing the God for hours. Adding tons of debug code, printing stuff, putting in globals. Crying, giving up, yelling, breaking things, wanting to die. Then I realised that I didn't call the function and it worked just fine.... And it happened at least 3 times.
