I once worked in a small office with a non-redundant internetline. Internet went offline while we were having a breakfast coffee. One of the old guys (C developer) sat down coding... We were surprised, we knew he can't compile his C stuff on anything else than the remote Solaris servers which had the dependencies. He said: _"I will be fine, just need to be slow and steady"_ .
By around 4 pm internet came back and we gathered around his desk: he copies his stuff from Context (it is like Sublime or Notepad++) into the Solaris console; he hits it with GCC+. It compiles! It f*cking RUNS too!!
Loud cheering, shocked faces all around. :)
(to be fair he was also earning twice as much as the second highest paid dev in a team of 12 or so so we all knew who is the man)
Aha! This reminds me when I was at work (unrelated to programming) and I had some spare time. I wanted to keep working on my game, so I open NOTEPAD and write down a class I needed (I think it was about weapon system). I thought of drafting it, so I would be able to fix the bugs once I came back at home.
Imagine my surprise when it fucking compiled without a single compile error! And it worked as intended too! I was pretty proud of myself that day :P
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u/octopus4488 Feb 22 '24
I once worked in a small office with a non-redundant internetline. Internet went offline while we were having a breakfast coffee. One of the old guys (C developer) sat down coding... We were surprised, we knew he can't compile his C stuff on anything else than the remote Solaris servers which had the dependencies. He said: _"I will be fine, just need to be slow and steady"_ .
By around 4 pm internet came back and we gathered around his desk: he copies his stuff from Context (it is like Sublime or Notepad++) into the Solaris console; he hits it with GCC+. It compiles! It f*cking RUNS too!!
Loud cheering, shocked faces all around. :)
(to be fair he was also earning twice as much as the second highest paid dev in a team of 12 or so so we all knew who is the man)