Life is a mistake

 Life is finding the answers from mistakes.

人都在錯誤中找到答案。

I have written a few thousands line of code. I do not want to clear it away despite having many errors. I would patch it up when I found the errors and adding more ridiculous code to it to correct them. Then it caused another problems like a jigsaw puzzle having similar parts and colours. I patched one side but it was more fitting on the other side and you do not know which one has been missing. I looked back at the code, there is actually a shorter better way. I ironed up my heart, delete the code…. and with all the iron heart I have just ironed out, do the edits with clearer picture and a few hundred lines less. Well, could I have done it earlier on? Maybe know. The understandings and realisation of a mistakes came from the patching and they gave me a clearer picture when I am finally tired with patching and catched enough errors to know how bad my code was. Though it is still bad but at least the problem handling is still predictable. Not like a surprise. The only release is to change early and probably save more time than the endless patching of code to fix the mistakes. The structure is first. Like my first program, I realised the structure that I cannot change like I did in test environment. Then my code was done in that environment. If it is different from production, problem will arise. I think the first step is to ensure all structure is same before developing and it should be set first before developing. Never put yourself in a loop also. I tried to do something that I kept on looping myself and actually that loop was very unnecessary. Because it doesn’t matter but because the code is there and I have just that idea out of nowhere it would make it better. Turned out, I only need a few of that line and enough to make the code and checking work.

Story short. My eyes are tired today. I felt wide awake at night. Have been doing work at night. Most of the time I think better at 2 - 3 am… I changed the code around 11-12 pm last night. Successfully implement the first change until 3 am. Now adding more because of that stupid loop in the design. It gave me a lesson, never to design a loop if I were to design. If I did, hell. Summing it up, it is all about learning from mistakes but the answer is, do you get out of it or you decided to continue to dwell in it. 

After travelling down the roads, if you found a shortcut, probably that’s the best answer. If you found it but not use it, that’s another thing.