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lungdart2975266dThose are the best issues. You don't want to hunt them down only to find out the design is completely broken and it has to be rewritten to fix it
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netikras34549266dThese happen all the time.
I remember I burned through 2+ weeks hunting down a severe bug. Turns out, the problem was a ')' instead of a '}' in a string that should be interpolated.
In ide these two are visually very similar. In a file full of such strings -
coldfire3407266dOh man, try finding a single missing comma after a string in Python.
Dont be sad, we have all been there -
AlgoRythm50984266dTaking multiple paid weeks to find an issue with a solution that has a character length of the average text between father and son is a rite of passage.
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Grumpycat478265dDon’t forget to let non technicals know that this shit sucks and they don’t have to deal with it. That is why your pay is justified.
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Wisecrack9198259d"I burned that time into the weekend. I'm both satisfied and dissatisfied with this decision."
I've been coding less lately precisely because of this very realization.
And now I'm even more satisfied and dissatisfied at the same time. -
iSwimInTheC42055257d@devapsarl it really wasn't. The issue had the most annoying red herring and no one on my team could figure it out or replicate it.
Oh man... I fucked up. I spent almost 36-40 hours in 3 days trying to fix a bug, that was quite literally a single, two word fix.
Change `Key` to `Value.State`
I burned that time into the weekend. I'm both satisfied and dissatisfied with this decision.
rant
cowabunga dude
insomniac coder