Good morning

Stack trace and a cup of coffee, for the rest of the world - good morning.

brute force refactoring is slashing for 4 hours and then sweeping up the remains and testing through blood, sweat and tears for the rest of the week

no refac

feels like a rubbish bin surgeon - adding a significant feature in a stinky code that will go down the toilet in one year

symmetrizing the reflection

It's ok to talk to your code, it's not ok if it starts replying.

best thing about programming is all the code you get to delete.

good code = NP

buggy ride

It's tempting to think that the current bump is the last obstacle and that thereafter you can turn the cruise control on.

Cruelest code ever

void ExecWithIO::kill_child()
{
  if (running() > 0) {
   int status = kill(child_pid, SIGKILL);
   if (status < 0) {
    std::cerr << "error " << strerror(errno) << " (" << errno
    << ") killing " << child_pid << std::endl;
    }
  }
}

//Just received the code from my supervisor - it has to deal with piping or smthn, but essentialy this method just got me rofling for a while :).