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By R Mutt (Thu Jul 06, 2006 at 04:15:37 AM EST) MLP (all tags)

22 comic panels that always work [:( PU]

Erotic watches [NSFW :o BB]

Granny is hogging the best landline phone ever [PU :(]

How to be a better tourist [:o BB]

Beware the Turing tar pit "where a program has become so powerful, so general, that the effort to configure it to solve a specific problem matches or exceeds the effort to start over and write a program that solves the specific problem." [:( PU LL]

Gratuitous cruelty department. Walrus does situps video. Man will shock himself for money, video [:o LL MeFi]

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[/.] = Stolen from Slashdot
[M] = Stolen from Memepool
[BX] = Stolen from Blogdex
[X.] = Stolen from Christdot
[)] = Stolen from Monkeyfilter
[B] = Stolen from B3ta
[GG] = Stolen from Green Gabbro
[BFB] = Stolen from Big Fat Blog
[BB] = Stolen from Boing Boing
[PU] = Stolen from PopURLs
[S2MM] = Stolen from Stuff I Send To My mates
[[:)] = Needs sound
[:(] = Serious
[:)] = Amusing
[;)] = Ironic
[:o] = Strange
[*] = Flash
[#] = Free registration required
[NSFW] = Not Safe For Work
[NSFWFUP] = Not Safe For Work For Ultra-Prudish
[(UK)] = UK-centric
[LL] = Late or repeated link

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WIPO: My first solution to every problem by DesiredUsername (4.00 / 2) #1 Thu Jul 06, 2006 at 07:19:13 AM EST

If you aren't writing a generalized programming environment to allow users to script solutions to their own problems (e.g. adding a column of numbers) then what was the use of that college degree?

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Oh yes by ucblockhead (2.00 / 0) #2 Thu Jul 06, 2006 at 01:06:11 PM EST

My own personal karmic hell came after a project where I created such a tarpit. We created an extremely generalized solution and though we completed the project, by the end we realized that the bulk of the generalized code was not worth it.

The hell came when after starting another project where the decision was made to do things in a more simple and straightforward matter we were forced to use someone else's overly generalized toolkit.
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Just like a programming language, by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #3 Thu Jul 06, 2006 at 02:28:57 PM EST

without any of the consistency that makes them work.

I know the feeling, too.

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Closer to the mark than you realize by ucblockhead (4.00 / 1) #4 Thu Jul 06, 2006 at 02:31:41 PM EST

At one point in the project, a coworker said "Hey, you realize that if we just add $Feature, it'll be Turing complete?"
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: Well, yes, by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #5 Thu Jul 06, 2006 at 02:51:27 PM EST

that was the situation I was in, too.

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I'm involved in one by snugglebunny (2.00 / 0) #6 Thu Jul 06, 2006 at 07:05:47 PM EST

We appear to be paying for a program that is working it's way to that state. Everytime I raise a defect they reply with "it's a configuration issue".

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