{"id":91431,"date":"2015-10-06T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20151006-00\/?p=91431\/"},"modified":"2019-03-13T12:20:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:20:17","slug":"20151006-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20151006-00\/?p=91431","title":{"rendered":"First, try reading the error message, episode 4: Even programmers see error messages without reading them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2010\/03\/24\/9983984.aspx\">Same story<\/a>, different details. It&#8217;s the same internal programmer&#8217;s tool which I have been calling <i>Program&nbsp;Q<\/i>. Many people have written scripts that help to manage your q tables. <\/p>\n<blockquote CLASS=\"q\">\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to fribble my q table, but the fribble script gives me the following error: <\/p>\n<p><tt>fribble: Error: Could not refresh counterbalances. Please manually run q refresh frib1 frib2 -r library<\/tt> <\/p>\n<p>What does this mean, and what should I do? <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, this programmer just froze up and stopped reading at the word &#8220;error&#8221;. The error message is two sentences long. The first sentence answers the first question. The second sentence answers the second question. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t even explain this away as a TL;DR. How can two sentences, each of which answers a question you asked, count as TL? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-91431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Here we go again.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}