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netikras
2y

Out of all the bugs, the most annoying are the ones that come out and make me say "WTF?!?!? WHY THE FUCK HAS IT BEEN WORKING FOR THE LAST 2 YEARS??!!?!!??? THERE"S NO WAY IT COULD HAVE!"

When the bug surfaces, you investigate and see that it indeed IS a bug and there's no way it would ever work w/o a fix. But then SOMEHOW it's been working just fine for years....

It's like server elves went on strike and said "no more, it's enough covering that bug - it's time you fix it, lazy-ass idiot!"

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  • 4
    2y
    Happened a lot on 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. Monkey patch after monkey patch methodology!
  • 2
    2y
    Heisenbug
  • 1
    2y
    Nuff said
  • 2
    2y
    i've had a great time missreading "bugs" for "drugs 😄
  • 1
    2y
    cache. it's always the cache
  • 1
    2y
    Did a library or platform change? Something get removed from an interface?
  • 2
    2y
    @Demolishun neither. There's a non-null constraint on a column. And I forgot to set the value. That part of code has been running fine for years. DB restarts several times a week. No major db changes [apart from ebabled query logging AFTER I started getting sql exc]...
  • 2
    2y
    The conclusion I usually come to in that case is that nobody has been using the feature and therefore nobody has noticed. Either that or they (users) noticed but didn’t care
  • 2
    2y
    @black-kite Makes sense.

    Except that the failing feature is... login :)
  • 1
    2y
    @netikras ha ha ok. Maybe an environment related bug?
  • 0
    2y
    Recently bumped into code that took a map, destructured into keys and values sets and put them in a database as 2 lists. Luckily the map was a linked hashmap so the sets order were preserved, but otherwise it would result in pretty horrific bug 🤷‍♂️
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