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August 10, 2005
All Nighters Suck
Especially when they involve long periods of waiting on somebody else's build, punctuated by frenzied debugging. I am the rules engine god where I work, so when somebody screws up their rules, they come to me for salvation.
Good all nighters involve Orbital and Eno and Sasha & Digweed as drugs to put me in the programmer's trance.
But bad all nighters? Velvet Underground and Dirty Three. To shut out the world, the three different managers all coming by for status checks every 30 minutes, the coworkers panicking because their rulesets aren't deploying right, the voices in my head trying to convince me that I don't rock, I don't walk on water, I can't overcome this, a seven figure sales deal can go up in a puff of smoke and it will be ALL. MY. FAULT.
It won't be all my fault. Hell, we'll probably make the deal. We're that good.
But the voices are there. And the Dirty Three are gloriously louder than them.
Send me IM love. Send me email love. Send me chocolate-covered espresso beans. I'm here all night.
Posted by ray at August 10, 2005 9:22 PM | Permalink
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