{"id":7511,"date":"2011-01-04T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7511"},"modified":"2011-01-04T03:00:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T08:00:22","slug":"scientific-method-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7511","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Method Acting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/patrickthomson.tumblr.com\/post\/2499755681\/the-best-debugging-story-ive-ever-heard\">The Best Debugging Story I\u2019ve Ever Heard<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Expert got a chair and a cup of coffee and sat in the computer room \u2013 these were the days when they had rooms specifically dedicated to computers, after all \u2013 and watched it as the attendants queued up a large print job. He waited until it crashed &#8211; which it did. Everybody looked to The Expert \u2013 and he didn\u2019t have a clue what was causing it. So he ordered that the job be queued up again, and all the attendants and technicians went back to work.<\/p>\n<p>The Expert sat down in his chair again, waiting for it to crash. It took something like six hours of waiting, but it crashed again. He still had no idea what was causing it, other than the fact that it happened when the room was crowded. He ordered that the job be restarted, and he sat down again and waited.<\/p>\n<p>By the third crash, he had noticed something.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Best Debugging Story I\u2019ve Ever Heard The Expert got a chair and a cup of coffee and sat in the computer room \u2013 these were the days when they had rooms specifically dedicated to computers, after all \u2013 and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7511\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}