http://fourwalledcubicle.com/blog/archives/257 Blog for Dean Camera Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:03:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://fourwalledcubicle.com/blog/archives/257/comment-page-1#comment-890 Mr. C Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:33:31 +0000 http://fourwalledcubicle.com/blog/?p=257#comment-890 I doesn't matter how many years of experience you've got.. sometimes you do stupid mistakes.. Like this other day I had to test a FPGA date version ( a long hex number ) in a bootloader and in a FPGA driver in Linux. Did the exactly right thing in the bootloader.. But managed to type the comparison value in dec rather than in hex in the Linux driver.. damn 0x.. my brain didn't really pick up on that although it's so obvious it's ridiculous... Sometimes your brain just cheats you. That's why one needs to accept that we are just human and that embracing rigorous testing and a large user community is the way to go. :) The code passed initial testing because I did not try combinations of versions... I doesn’t matter how many years of experience you’ve got.. sometimes you do stupid mistakes.. Like this other day I had to test a FPGA date version ( a long hex number ) in a bootloader and in a FPGA driver in Linux. Did the exactly right thing in the bootloader.. But managed to type the comparison value in dec rather than in hex in the Linux driver.. damn 0x.. my brain didn’t really pick up on that although it’s so obvious it’s ridiculous… Sometimes your brain just cheats you. That’s why one needs to accept that we are just human and that embracing rigorous testing and a large user community is the way to go.
The code passed initial testing because I did not try combinations of versions…

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