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Jan 09, 2011 17:17

Repeat after me, one million times:

! is not bitwise NOT. ! is not bitwise NOT. ! is not bitwise NOT.

This has been a public service message from the Bit Twiddler's Association. Thank you for your time.

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e_spy January 10 2011, 13:40:25 UTC
Oops. What's the context - and you, or someone else?

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jarkman January 10 2011, 13:43:37 UTC
Oh, mine. Writing an Arduino class to handle an MSF time receiver:

http://www.pvelectronics.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=9&products_id=2

Spent a long time looking for a subtle bug which was actually a very, very stupid bug.

Still, it's working now, and a vast array of pointlessly elaborate clocks now beckons.

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e_spy January 10 2011, 14:12:50 UTC
Ah. Well, at least you hadn't hard-coded a flag for debug and wondered why your decoder struggled with correctly setting that flag.

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jarkman January 10 2011, 14:14:54 UTC
:-) Not this morning, anyway.

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