I am feeling useless. I was searching for a bug for 5 hours just to fix it in 5 seconds.

did you go out for a walk?

The 20/80 rule at work :D

Still tho, the actual fix did in fact take 5 hours, just actually executing the fix took 5 seconds

@heyheni actually yes

Kind of like me with parking sensors.. Except it took me 2 weeks and 20€. And the fix was literally just poking a single wire with a finger. Took me that long to figure out 2 things:
1. That I need to poke a wire
2. Which wire I need to poke

that's how we gain xp :) next time you will save someone 5 hours of headache!

@netikras Is it the red wire, or the blue wire? You have 5 sec...days to answer.

@Demolishun orange one

It happened to me too last week. Had the bug for about one week and I eventually asked my colleague to see if he could find it, it took him about one hour and it turned out I just forgot a = in an if-statement which led to assignment instead of comparison. It is often those bugs that are the most hard to find and the most irritating when you find the cause of the bug.

Preparation is usually longer than execution.

Aren't most of the bugs, long time to analyse and very short time to fix?

Fixing the bug: $5

Know where is the bug to fix: $50000000000

Honestly, that describes most bugs.

Let me tell you about the time when I was about 14 when I spent TWO WHOLE DAYS - and I do mean pretty damn close to 48 hours straight over a Saturday and Sunday - trying to figure out why my Commodore 64 program that showed a simulation of synapses in a brain firing that was due for a science fair entry on Monday just would NOT work until I finally found that the problem was ONE DAMN LETTER in a variable name spelled wrong. Oh, and bonus points when I tell you that the only reason I even had to bust my ass over those two days was because the floppy disk with the completed, ready-to-go code on it decided to go corrupt on me on FRIDAY, forcing me to dig up an older, incomplete copy from early in the week, and kill myself all day Friday to get it finished again, just to hit that bug when I was nearly done.

Come to think of it, and some of the garbage I've seen in my professional life, that could have happened last week save for the Commodore 64 part!

That is life!