Me, flirting with a cute girl from the finance dept. in the kitchen:

"Well, back to the grind. I've got this really nasty bug to figure out."

Her: "It's a bracket."

Me: "Hahaha."

2 hours of debugging later… it was a missing bracket in a json string. 😓

Its always a bracket. Or mixed up tabs/space indentation in python

Get her number yo.
Tell her about it, it is agreat convo starter.

@tobsve That's terrible... I hate those in Sass :l

Plot twist - she snuck the bracket in in the first place

@Bikonja Do I sense the beginnings of a blockbuster developer romance brewing? 😄

I see all of these stories from people hunting down bugs like these... what editors/IDEs do you use?

No red lines under syntax errors? No mild electrical shocks administered?

Most annoying hunts for me is always related to predicates with too many not/and/or operators.

So, did you marry her?

@bittersweet I don't remember exactly as it was at my last job and I've flushed all of that from my brain. But it was a syntax error inside a hard-coded string in either an Obj-C or PHP file. So the compiler/runtime didn't catch it, and it was only manifesting in an error condition that I hadn't tested. 😖

Anyway it was easy to fix (obviously), catching it was the tricky part.

@qbasic16 Nah, I ended up leaving the city shortly thereafter unfortunately. Woulda made a good story to tell my coder grandkids though wouldn't it? 😉

@bittersweet
I use Emacs, I don't need something to tell me 50 ways of doing something, all I need is a good editor with some good tools and a conpiler.

@mrtnrdl
Yes? The problem being?