- yes, it's also decentralised which I guess adds to the complexity. Other systems I've used seem to only offer a centralised repository."some very complex ideas"
“But you're out of your mind,” they said with a shrug.
“The customer's happy; what's one little bug?”
But he was determined. The others went home.
He spread out the program, deserted, alone.
The cleaning men came. The whole room was cluttered
With memory-dumps, punch cards. “I'm close,” he muttered.
The mumbling got louder, simple deduction,
“I've got it, it's right, just change one instruction.”
It still wasn't perfect, as year followed year,
And strangers would comment, “Is that guy still here?”
He died at the console, of hunger and thirst.
Next day he was buried, face down, nine-edge first.
And the last bug in sight, an ant passing by,
Saluted his tombstone, and whispered, “Nice try.”
Taken from GNU humor - credited to Lou Ellen Davis.
Anyway, as part of this boarding process, they say “we would like to pre-board…”…Well what exactly is that anyway? What does it mean to pre-board? You get on before you get on?
That’s another complaint of mine: too much use of this prefix “pre.” It’s all over the language now: pre-this, pre-that, “place the turkey in a pre-heated oven…” It’s ridiculous! There are only two states an oven can possibly exist in: HEATED OR UNHEATED!
- good to know. ;-)"So "pip" is the way to go."