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MarkMLl:

--- Quote from: Weiss on December 11, 2024, 07:56:20 pm ---I say, lets have rigid value to old and trusted facts. There is no gremlins in electronic circuits, but there are a lot of bad contacts.

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It is possible to have chaotic behaviour in electronic circuits: I raise you with the classic http://engineering.nyu.edu/mechatronics/Control_Lab/bck/VKapila/Chaotic%20Ref/Porfiri's/Biblio/Matsumoto87.pdf

MarkMLl

Wesbat:

--- Quote from: MarkMLl on December 11, 2024, 12:13:40 am ---In my student days, there was a "cult book" by the name of "Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance". The core of the narrative was that an academic had tried to isolate the concept of "quality" across multiple fields, and that the attempt had driven him to a nervous breakdown.

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Thanks for sharing this quote, very enlightening! I now want to read the book - will find a copy for my upcoming holidays :D

Wesbat:
In response to the Original Post - this is the reason why developers keep journals. It provides a way to problem solve in a lateral way, especially when written in a conversation-style form (a monologue for example).

I keep occasional journals for some of my longer-running projects, and yes it takes effort, practice and time, but consider this fact: programming is not exclusively limited to typing in code ;)

p.s. Do a search for "why you should keep a developer journal"

TRon:

--- Quote from: Wesbat on December 11, 2024, 10:16:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: MarkMLl on December 11, 2024, 12:13:40 am ---In my student days, there was a "cult book" by the name of "Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance". The core of the narrative was that an academic had tried to isolate the concept of "quality" across multiple fields, and that the attempt had driven him to a nervous breakdown.

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Thanks for sharing this quote, very enlightening! I now want to read the book - will find a copy for my upcoming holidays :D

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+1

Very refreshing to read about the art of Zen these days.

MarkMLl:

--- Quote from: Wesbat on December 11, 2024, 10:30:22 pm ---In response to the Original Post - this is the reason why developers keep journals. It provides a way to problem solve in a lateral way, especially when written in a conversation-style form (a monologue for example).

I keep occasional journals for some of my longer-running projects, and yes it takes effort, practice and time, but consider this fact: programming is not exclusively limited to typing in code ;)

p.s. Do a search for "why you should keep a developer journal"

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An engineer was, traditionally, expected to keep a notebook: usually hardbacked, and often with squared paper for ease of neat sketching.

This had sufficient recognition that it was acceptable in court cases, and my understanding is that so far there is no recognised software equivalent. Obviously there's things like Jupyter Notebook, but the problem is that it's difficult if not impossible to produce an adequate audit trail of when things were done... this is obviously something that a blockchain could help with but could we please not go there.

In terms of software, my code is very heavy on the comments. And I regularly update colleagues by email as to what I'm doing, particularly if they respond it provides a modicum of traceability.

MarkMLl

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