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July 28, 2005

Monday will be my 6-month anniversary of having a job for which I don't actually write code. I'm coping better than I expected... it's amazing how once you cross that line, the feeling that everyone who doesn't code should be fired kind of subsides. I can feel my grip on reality... slipping... away... In fact yesterday I saw an org chart of our marketing department, and the fact that it contained at least 80 people with 6 digit salaries and completely unexplainable, unjustifyable roles didn't even really bug me that much.

But looking back, thinking about all of the programming challenges I've faced, there's still one that comes to mind that makes feel a bit defeated.

I guess V was my white whale. Will anyone ever bring it down?

Posted by rus at 09:30 AM

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Yes! Well, not really, but I am making a big change to the form of v. I'm still working on the change and not everything is building yet. Currently about 400+ files are modified, it's rediculous just how many different programs other than multi use v. What does a disassembler have to do with a debugger? Well see there's this source file they share called "disease.cc"...

So I'm not getting rid of v, but I'm changing it from meaning a vague "process" to meaning "thread of execution", then there are other things that mean "group of threads of execution which share the same address space" and on up. In reality, given the scope of the project I'm not entierly convinced that the whole attempt is futuile and doomed to failure. But my paycheck tells me to keep trying, so that's what I'll do.

Anyway, I guess that white whale is still there. Some abuse it, it abuses others, but you it can just amuse ;)

Posted by: Not hard to guess at July 28, 2005 10:21 AM

Don't worry, I have new things to abuse me now. :)

Posted by: Rus at July 28, 2005 05:47 PM