Re:What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014)
by analog31 on Sunday November 22, 2015 @01:28AM
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Time : making assumptions about it, dealing with it distributed systems etc. Nobody thinks about it until it stops working or systems' time gets snapped back somehow.
I once wrote an industrial control program, and used a time function that rolled over at midnight. To make matters worse, we never bothered to set the clocks on the computers, so it seemed like a completely random glitch, and was a devil to debug.
I once wrote an industrial control program, and used a time function that rolled over at midnight. To make matters worse, we never bothered to set the clocks on the computers, so it seemed like a completely random glitch, and was a devil to debug.