The Workplace

I appear to be working with voodoo code.

The vendor helpfully provides these nice example sources so you can play with their hardware and figure out how to make it do what you need it to do.

In their example code, I see something like this (where the variables are 'int' variable types):

FrameWidth = 1920;

FrameHeight = 1080;

When I stream the values of these variables to std::cout, FrameWidth shows as 780, and FrameHeight shows as 430... even after they were set immediately before streaming the values to std::cout, with no intervening commands that could change those values.

I have to believe there's a logical explaination for this, but at the moment, I'm at a loss.  It looks like voodoo code.

I found my logical explaination.

1080 is 0x483.  The stream was still displaying numbers as hexidecimal from an earlier setting.  So the number wasn't different after all, just the display of it.

No, something dumber.

std::cout << "Display this as hex: " << std::hex << variable_with_some_huge_number << std::endl;

std::cout << "Display this as dec: " << 1080 << std::endl;

The second line will display as hex unless you do:

std::cout << "Display this as dec: " << std::dec << 1080 << std::endl;

By 'dumber', I mean I was stupid.  I should have remembered that the std::hex thing would stick to the thread until I cancelled it with std::dec.

Grr... not 'thread', but 'stream'.

I knew of one company who seemed somewhat convinced that we wrote voodoo code.  They didn't really believe that we could do all the things we said we could do.

You've read a few weeks ago that the company I work for recently bought a new, bigger building.

Today, we had our first run-in with rodents. There was a little tiny mouse running around our office! he was no bigger than my thumb and was jumpy... he jumped about a foot high, out of my hand and ran out of the office from under the door. :D production floor is going to have fun catching him now.

ah... the adventures my office has.

Conversation at work:  "Will you make sure XXXXX flushes the toilet after he's done?"  "Ah...why would you think I would want to because the rest room police?  That's a polite way of saying "Get the fuck away from me!""

True story.  Apparently I do NOT work with geniuses.

Very few of us do

the router died. half a day offline during tough timelines have to be met.

since our admins prefer to have the router as a single point of failure even local DNS and DHCP was gone...

so I wasted some time to get  2.6.38 running.

Probably a couple of weeks, as the work order cleared seven layers of internal red-tape.

this is the advantage of a small business. My brother has an extra cellular-to-wifi-point thingy. He figures if his office goes offline for 2 hours a year, it pays for itself.

well, the linksys would probably be a little overdosed with all those vpns and stuff.

and... some where using their android as hotspot to continue surfing... but sometimes you need internal infrastructure and some of those vpns too...