Comments on: All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one. http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2007/05/30/all-things-being-equal-the-simplest-solution-tends-to-be-the-best-one/ The random things that spew forth from my brain... Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:43:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19620 By: Adrian Howard http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2007/05/30/all-things-being-equal-the-simplest-solution-tends-to-be-the-best-one/comment-page-1/#comment-6345 Adrian Howard Thu, 31 May 2007 14:22:11 +0000 http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2007/05/30/all-things-being-equal-the-simplest-solution-tends-to-be-the-best-one/#comment-6345 Ha. Been there! Years back I was helping a friend debug an ATM-ish program that was doing its stuff over a serial line. The problem was that the code that tested the serial line had this weird heisenbug. One minute working. The other not. After about a day and a half we finally figured out that maybe... just maybe... there actually was an intermittent fault in the cable. D'oh! Ha. Been there!

Years back I was helping a friend debug an ATM-ish program that was doing its stuff over a serial line. The problem was that the code that tested the serial line had this weird heisenbug. One minute working. The other not.

After about a day and a half we finally figured out that maybe… just maybe… there actually was an intermittent fault in the cable. D'oh!

]]> By: apokalyptik http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2007/05/30/all-things-being-equal-the-simplest-solution-tends-to-be-the-best-one/comment-page-1/#comment-6344 apokalyptik Thu, 31 May 2007 13:49:18 +0000 http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2007/05/30/all-things-being-equal-the-simplest-solution-tends-to-be-the-best-one/#comment-6344 SMP issue, actually... SMP issue, actually…

]]> By: Lloyd Budd http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2007/05/30/all-things-being-equal-the-simplest-solution-tends-to-be-the-best-one/comment-page-1/#comment-6343 Lloyd Budd Thu, 31 May 2007 13:42:57 +0000 http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2007/05/30/all-things-being-equal-the-simplest-solution-tends-to-be-the-best-one/#comment-6343 Hardware issue then? Battery? Hardware issue then? Battery?

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