Waiting for Godot

[billroper]

I will eventually figure out what's going on. All I need is enough data...

Comments

Aaaaahh

[maverick-weirdo.livejournal.com]

...

Re: Aaaaahh

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Wizards at War?

Re: Aaaaahh

[maverick-weirdo.livejournal.com]

Quote:
VLADIMIR: We're waiting for Godot.
ESTRAGON: (despairingly). Ah! (Pause.)

[sraun]

For kalmn, Godot is the place-holder name for her hoped-for adopted kid. She's finished all the paperwork, and it's been sent off to whichever foreign country they chose for her. Does that help?

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Shall we go?

[scarfman]

The capital of South Dakota is Pierre.

[kyril.livejournal.com]

If you torture the data enough, it will confess.

Today I tuned a query that was going to take a million seconds down to just a few minutes' runtime...but that doesn't really count because it wasn't out of development yet, one of the "optimizations" was "kill the runaway query that's stealing all the resources", and most of the other changes were "jiggle the handle" kinds of changes.

Re: Aaaaahh

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

(nod)

In the last couple (so far) of Diane Duane's "Young Wizards" books, there are a couple of scenes with Spot and some of the other sentient machines sitting in front of the (intergalactic) TV. One of the humans asks what's up and they reply "Dataaaaahhhh...".

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to come round to that opinion.

[whl.livejournal.com]

Of course, if you were waiting for Godel, you'd know you would never have enough data.