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conjure nothing
Jul. 17th, 2009 02:14 pmLast night I found that the Australians had re-inserted comments into one configuration file. I had removed them last month after I found that their Linux API chokes and dies if it encounters comments preceding the code. They had acknowledged the difficulty and said they would omit comments. I didn't get to proceed with the development cycle of my code.
They responded today asking why I was using those particular methods of their API. I pointed out they had suggested that method. I recalled the history of correspondence about instances where their API has not provided consistent results and does not have any means of signaling failures. They responded with a piece of code that I never would have expected.
Their solution is to connect to their server and then subscribe to an empty event list -- to subscribe to nothing.
The entire exchange is something I've read before, in one of the Technomage novels that filled in details which were omitted during the production of the Babylon 5 series.
Google has the page with that conversation.
Conjure nothing, for in so doing we get access to everything.
They responded today asking why I was using those particular methods of their API. I pointed out they had suggested that method. I recalled the history of correspondence about instances where their API has not provided consistent results and does not have any means of signaling failures. They responded with a piece of code that I never would have expected.
Their solution is to connect to their server and then subscribe to an empty event list -- to subscribe to nothing.
The entire exchange is something I've read before, in one of the Technomage novels that filled in details which were omitted during the production of the Babylon 5 series.
Google has the page with that conversation.
Conjure nothing, for in so doing we get access to everything.
