Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixing it in 1 line of code

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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