Nobody's just reading your code

Re:Nobody's just reading your code by hinkley on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @09:43AM (#16473684)

But there are often times when you can trick it into doing what it’s supposed to do.

And a really targeted bug report can often get a bug fixed pretty quickly. Several times I’ve been working at a place where the goddamned IP lawyers were so power mad that I could not file a patch for a bug even though I knew how to fix it, but filing a bug with an exact line number and description of what’s wrong with it can get it fixed anyway.

Filing a razor sharp bug report seems to be a rare skill, but if you can learn it your quality of life is better.

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Re:Nobody's just reading your code by convolvatron on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @01:56AM (#16481232)

10 points for tricking it. often times its not completely broken, but may have been written with different assumptions, be failing on an avoidable edge case, or have an issue with a dependency.

knowing and deciding you can't reasonably fix it is a much better position to be in than shrugging and hoping it gets fixed in a later release, trying lots of versions or trying to refactor around it.

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