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We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead

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Re: We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead

#111

Borland's bug tracking tool for Delphi was also called RAID. It used the disconnected data set and resync technology that was part of Delphi itself, which was handy for remote working before always-on internet.

I wonder if Borland's RAID was inspired on Microsoft's, or just the same pun.

Re: We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead

#112

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Fun fact, one of Sweden’s most influential music- and culture journalists was being interviewed on national television about a weird documentary wearing a pink “Pink Flag” t-shirt with a modified Black Flag logo. Beyond meta.

Lokko or Strage?

Strage!

Re: We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead

#113
post #91

The bug puns were everywhere! When I started working at Industrial Light and Magic in 1998, there was no bug tracker in regular use. I ended up building a bug tracker in Python called "Roundup" (inspired by a program by Alan Trombla, who came up with the name). To create the thinnest veneer of plausible deniability in case the bug spray lawyers came after us, the icon was a little spinning GIF animation of a cowboy o…

I also sometimes work in film production. We use the status 'good enough'

It's also called "can't be bothered"

Re: We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead

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post #89

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Really depends on what you want in a show. If you came in expecting a show about people designing computer and solving hard and interesting technical problems along the way you will be become more and more disappointed as the show goes on and focuses more on the characters personal problems and whether or not they get married/divorced/sleep with each other.

Yes, it's very similar to Mad Men in that respect.

There is no comparison to Mad Men. MM was good all the way to the final season, with both professional view of advertising world and personal growth of characters. Was perfect balance. HaCF only had that in 1st season, in rest it lost its balance becoming a soap opera, which I can't stand.

Re: We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead

#116

> Unfortunately, the archive project renumbers the work items. Fortunately, the original work item is remembered in the title, so you can do a search for originalid:3141 to find the old work item known as number 3141. I wonder what happened if a bug was carried over for 2 or more databases.

Presumably the archive projects are read-only and therefore once a bug goes into the archive project it never moves again.

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Re: We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead

#117

The bug puns were everywhere! When I started working at Industrial Light and Magic in 1998, there was no bug tracker in regular use. I ended up building a bug tracker in Python called "Roundup" (inspired by a program by Alan Trombla, who came up with the name). To create the thinnest veneer of plausible deniability in case the bug spray lawyers came after us, the icon was a little spinning GIF animation of a cowboy o…

I think I used that. Was it open source? There was a short time when there were almost no open source bug trackers

http://www.roundup-tracker.org/

I'm sure bugzilla is older though.

Re: We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead

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post #98

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Here's an old version: https://images.app.goo.gl/zxbGoJuVHxSd2dhGA

That link breaks the back button, which looks like the URL shortness fault :/

What do you mean? You want to leave a google property?

I can't believe getting out of an amp page takes a copy paste on iOS.

Re: We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead

#120
post #57

I loved RAID. Lightning fast, so fast that speed was its own quality.

Of all my comments, this is oddest thing to downvote! Is RAID bad now?

seek not to comprehend the downvoters, for it is written: it is simpler to predict each gust of wind in a storm, than to explain even a single downvote

or something

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