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Re:Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixi... by dylan604 on Friday June 21, 2024 @02:44PM (#40752406)
F-that! That's one of those times where I re-enact the scene from the Bond Golden Eye film where the guy jumps up extending both arms yelling "Yes! I am invincible!" Of course I totally expect the hubris to be short lived, just maybe not with liquid nitrogen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXW02XmBGQw

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Re:Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixi... by squigz on Friday June 21, 2024 @03:12PM (#40752674)
I alternate between "I am the best programmer to ever exist" and "I am completely incompetent at this and I should quit" while debugging.
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Re:Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixi... by dylan604 on Friday June 21, 2024 @03:35PM (#40752870)
I've been known to inform people that the person that wrote the incredibly horrendous code that caused whatever problems to occur should be fired immediately knowing good and well that I was the only dev to write any of the code.
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Re:Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixi... by dmd on Saturday June 22, 2024 @08:56AM (#40758813)
me, yesterday: What absolute piece of shit asshole wrote this shell script? my wife: Was it you? me: Well obviously
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Re:Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixi... by dctoedt on Saturday June 22, 2024 @09:37AM (#40759054)
> my wife: Was it you? me: Well obviously

"Research shows" (I read long ago) that the happiest men are those take their wives' advice — that's certainly been true for my own N=1, for coming up on four decades now. I'd imagine we could replace "wives" with "spouses" and get comparable results.

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Re:Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixi... by Angostura on Saturday June 22, 2024 @12:21PM (#40760136)
> I'd imagine we could replace "wives" with "spouses" and get comparable results.

Haven’t you just risked an infinite loop in your code?

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Re:Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixi... by dctoedt on Saturday June 22, 2024 @02:32PM (#40761095)
Hah! I was referring to some men having husbands these days, but I take your point!
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Re:Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixi... by saagarjha on Friday June 21, 2024 @07:58PM (#40755056)
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/275/257/dbc...
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Re:Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixi... by 9659 on Saturday June 22, 2024 @02:18PM (#40760993)
If you are honest, it may not even alternate. Both feelings can exist at the same time.
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Re:Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixi... by Aerbil313 on Sunday June 23, 2024 @05:31PM (#40770741)
I prefer "Why did I need to see this subtlest detail to resolve the bug, modern software sucks" and "Why do we not have better tools that would have prevented me from writing this bug in the first place, modern software sucks".
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