Rube Goldberg Code

[JÞB]

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@James_W wrote:

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@James_W wrote:

I do have 10 different serial ports - what is this

" autoindexing parallelFOR loop "

I think I am missing something here

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Found it - thanks Genius!!

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I have limited evidence to confirm or deny your acqusation of genius.  I have met Christian,  he does seam rather bright but the actual IQ of any frequent poster is unknown to me.

As far as de-rubing code algorhythms...  I'll watch how the master does it from the back seat and learn a trick or twenty while I'm along for the ride.

Youth and ingeuity will often be out-classed by age and experience.  I may someday become older than Christian,  I am unlikely to ever achieve his experience in these matters.

[James_W]

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@JÞB wrote:

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I have limited evidence to confirm or deny your acqusation of genius.  I have met Christian,  he does seam rather bright but the actual IQ of any frequent poster is unknown to me.

As far as de-rubing code algorhythms...  I'll watch how the master does it from the back seat and learn a trick or twenty while I'm along for the ride.

Youth and ingeuity will often be out-classed by age and experience.  I may someday become older than Christian,  I am unlikely to ever achieve his experience in these matters.

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Am I misunderstanding you Jeff or are you refuting Christian's Genius?

James

[JÞB]

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Am I misunderstanding you Jeff or are you refuting Christian's Genius?

James

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Apparently I am missunderstood.

I would not be at all surprised if Christian is a leading member of MENSA.  I simply have no direct evidence to support the claim one way or the other.  But, claims of genius should have some means to support them other than ingenuity.

<Sea Story> I once worked for a "Old-School" engineer that would routinely ask me embarassing questions like "But, What evidence do you have to support that theory?"  He also had a nasty habit of using the phrase "It Doesn't take a genius to...."  like "It Doesn't take a genius to install and align a new TWT in one of these systems!  Why are they failing early?"  I had successfully done the task, my reasearch lab partner had accomplished the task but, our field techs were somewhat less successful.  I asked what evidence he could provide to support that theory.  (Despite a few laughs, I was then promptly sent on a 12 cities in 8 weeks tour replacing a dozen traveling wave tubes) Lesson Learned: Filiments should be energized with an AC Source to prevent galvanic corrosion of HV connections even if the 400Hz ripple adds a few seconds of phase noise to the forward beam of your weather radar.  It took several "geniuses" to discover that!  A neophyte metalaergist would have realized it a lot sooner.

[Intaris]

I take a much more personal view on the term "genius".  It's like it was once said, a sufficiently advanced technology is virtually indistinguishable from magic.  For me, a person who comes up with amazing solutions which I can't understand (but which is demonstrably correct) is, to me, a genius.

Of course the depressing side-effect is that as my knowledge grows, there tend to be fewer and fewer geniuses in that area (Assuming my learning rate exceeds theirs).

It also prohibits me from ever referring to myself as a genius which I find appropriate.

Is Altenbach a genius.  Sure, at times.

Spoiler

The only exception to the "me genius" rule is fermentation-induced solutions which sometimes take me  years to actually figure out why the idea was right.  But then the genius could always be attributed to the liquid mind lubricant and not my fragile physical being.

[Hooovahh]

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@Intaris wrote:

It's like it was once said, a sufficiently advanced technology is virtually indistinguishable from magic.   

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"The word technology means magic.  It's anything that you don't know how it works.  And if it breaks you have to buy a new one."

[crossrulz]

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Intaris wrote:

Spoiler

The only exception to the "me genius" rule is fermentation-induced solutions which sometimes take me  years to actually figure out why the idea was right.  But then the genius could always be attributed to the liquid mind lubricant and not my fragile physical being.

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So you found the Ballmer Peak?

[JÞB]

Some days you don't even ask....Seen here.

[Hooovahh]

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@JÞB wrote:

Some days you don't even ask....Seen here.

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Not that I'm defending him, but wasn't there versions of LabVIEW that didn't have the Stop if true?  I know that there are versions that default to the Stop if false but I feel like 5.x era didn't have a stop if true.  Can't say I have 5.x installed to test this with.

[crossrulz]

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@Hooovahh wrote:

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Not that I'm defending him, but wasn't there versions of LabVIEW that didn't have the Stop if true?  I know that there are versions that default to the Stop if false but I feel like 5.x era didn't have a stop if true.  Can't say I have 5.x installed to test this with.

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Just judging from code I have had to convert, I think it was around the 6.0 era when the Stop If True came about.  So the invert to the Continue If True was just how it was done.  So if they just upconverted some really old code, I would not consider this a Rube.  If they just now made that with a "modern" version of LabVIEW, then it definately is a Rube since you have to change the conditional terminal to be Continue If True.

[altenbach]

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@Hooovahh wrote:Not that I'm defending him, but wasn't there versions of LabVIEW that didn't have the Stop if true?

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Yes, stop if true did not exist back then, so this looks absolutely normal.

This was also the time when wiring the stop terminal was not required (e.g. for a single iteration LabVIEW 2 style globalaction engine use). This tradition lives on for the timed loop for some unknown reason. 😉