KevBurnsJr

So I’ve got PHP 5.3 set up and ya, it really is quite fast.

Finally moved away from WAMP and installed the environment myself from Apache 2.2, PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.1 binaries.

Much easier than I expected.

Some errors are so obscure that they hardly warrant resolution.

I encountered this error when upgrading my dev environment to PHP5.3

[notice] Parent: child process exited with status 3221225477 -- Restarting.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/287254?replies=1#post-1128557

It took me like 4 hours to track down the problem.
I didn’t fix it, but I did find a way to circumvent it.
Pragmatically, I find the solution satisficial.

Satisficing (a portmanteau of “satisfy” and “suffice”) is a decision-making strategy that attempts to meet criteria for adequacy, rather than to identify an optimal solution. A satisficing strategy may often be (near) optimal if the costs of the decision-making process itself, such as the cost of obtaining complete information, are considered in the outcome calculus.

Satisficial is a word I just made up as an adjective form of the verb Satisfice.

My solution may not be perfect, but the system’s behavior is close enough to what I want that I can’t really justify spending any more time on the problem. To determine a solution to fix the root of the problem would undoubtedly require a time investment several orders of magnitude larger than actually making the change. Considering that I’ve already spent 4 hours on this crap of bullshit, I’m ready to move on.

Some people say: “Never quit.”
I say: “Never say never.”

To me, this sort of decision making strategy is an essential aspect of execution intelligence.

Just ask Deep Blue =)