Comments on: That can’t be happening

By: Dom

Dom — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:06:08 +0000

Any chance of you recording your Squeak sessions? I’m about to embark on some more Squeaking, and just know I’m going to do the slowest thing possible. I remember seeing something about shared Squeak sessions, but I can’t seem to get to squeak.org at the min. Hmm.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:02:13 +0000

That is so weird. I find it quite unsettling. I have quite often thought “this can’t be happening” when programming, and in the end I’ve always discovered some incorrect assumption that I made, or found that I was measuring the wrong thing etc. But in this case I really have no idea what happened. I’m encouraged that it wasn’t just me! But still, very strange …

By: Jon Dowland

Jon Dowland — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:27:51 +0000

The *exact* same thing happened to me, when I wrote a delicious hack in ruby: http://jon.dowland.name/code/ruby/ . To this day I do not understand why it didn’t work, then did.