I go to bed to fucking REST, not solve more problems! Irrelevant, imaginary problems! (like how to code a blade of grass to play music???) -- the solutions to which I'll forget when I wake up, anyway!
I was fucking stuck in this dream this morning, writing some code, for like an hour and a half, going in and out of consciousness.
FUCK.
Will achieving Satori bring peace to my mind and dreams?
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Anonymous2008-02-22 13:05
Sometimes, when you're programming late at night, a solution will come to you that seems so ghastly and so barbaric that you don't dream of attempting it. But sometimes late enough, when you're tired and just about to drift off to sleep, or even if you are asleep, you'll type it without realizing it.
That is the first step. If you are truly brave, do as I say.
You will compile the code. Do not run it yet. Strip away the debugging objects and compile it once more. Open the code in a debugger, but after counting three system calls, stop.
Compile the code again. Run the program, even if it is not finished. You will see an input prompt. Ask it the question:
``To whom will they come?''
If at this point you hear any voices, scratching, or other noises behind you or in your house, get out as fast as possible, through your window (if they aren't there) if necessary. Run as fast as you can, and you may live.
If you hear nothing, then stay patient, focused on the blinking cursor. Stay absolutely calm and level-minded. If you allow fear, uncertainty, or doubt to enter your mind, you will meet a fate too painful to be imagined in the place where even in your own mind you will segfault, and demons will pierce you with exceptions for all eternity.
If you are calm, then after exactly 57 seconds, the program will crash and dump core.
In that dump is the information needed to debug them. Save it to a floppy disk and keep it with you at all times. You must not let them have it. You must keep it safe forever.