Karl Kraft » Quotables http://www.karlkraft.com Just a 2 bit programmer in a 64 bit world Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:20:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 On Transparency http://www.karlkraft.com/index.php/2008/01/23/on-transparency/ http://www.karlkraft.com/index.php/2008/01/23/on-transparency/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:07:07 +0000 Karl Kraft http://www.karlkraft.com/index.php/2008/01/23/on-transparency/ From an article in the 1/21/08 issue of Fortune, talking about the Fed. “They ought to go back to the days when it was more of a delphic oracle. The problem with transparency is that people see through it“

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Overheard in IRC.  More than one developer has burned an afternoon trying to “read” his code to find a bug that is actually a side effect of some lower level kit.  This was in response to  this code snippet: Paste number 43572: Why isn’t this working?

No matter how long you stare at that code you aren’t going to find the bug. 

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Ditheratri is one of my favorite sources of amusing quotes from the tech industry.  A while back they went all-quiet.  Now they are back.  Just in time for all the great iPhone quotes!

Followup: Shortly after I posted it went dark once again…..

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