It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code

Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code by fierarul on Thursday May 17, 2012 @06:00PM (#3989347)

Heh, not the same corporate snafu, but my most expensive work was done to change 1 char.

Spent about 3 weeks with a new codebase to find that one number had to be increased. Funny thing is, there was a comment there and somebody had increased it before when they had a similar problem.

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Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code by rmc on Thursday May 17, 2012 @06:28PM (#3989448)

Time to change the character: 10 seconds

Time to find out what charater to change: 3 weeks

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Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code by cpeterso on Thursday May 17, 2012 @07:03PM (#3989574)

I've found that bugs that are very hard to debug often have the smallest fixes. Once you've discovered what tidbit of information you were missing, the fix is trivial. I guess this is a needle/haystack problem.

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