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stupid programmer tricks

2003-07-03 by cikira@cikira.com

A friend who's a high school music teacher and local lounge act, tests 
maxWerk for me. This individual can break anything that has a part to break. 
Musically very gifted but most decidedly non-tecchie.

Typically when he comes over he sits at my main workstation, and makes happy 
noises like a little kid playing a game. I sit at the other, pretend to ignore 
him. When I hear him go "Uh-oh", I cringe and go running over with a little 
notebook. 

This last time, he got into making a weird bunch of loops, and the 
vocalizations were a mixture of surprise and amusement. Finally he said, "Well, I don't 
really know what's going on, but I like the aleatoric quality you've got here" 
-- and he pressed on happily.

I discovered later that in making a fix I had introduced a typo in the 
program. One of the two controller assignments and patterns for each track was being 
routed to the adjacent one instead, all the way down the line.

There ya go Colin, a free secret to success. I'm bound to think of another 
one  :-/
 

--Amanda
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