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A comment on The Six Stages of Debugging (2012).

Re:The Six Stages of Debugging (2012) by ufmace on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @01:13PM (#6477517)
1. This doesn't work, and I don't know why

2. I have no idea how this is supposed to work

3. Let's change some random thing that shouldn't be related at all

4. This works now, and I have no idea why

5. Pray to the gods of code that whatever it was that broke doesn't happen again

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Re:The Six Stages of Debugging (2012) by vajrabum on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @02:55PM (#6478296)
From a recent meme:

99 little bugs in the code, 99 little bugs. Take one down, patch it in Prod, 117 little bugs in the code. -Attributed to Kurt Cobain

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Re:The Six Stages of Debugging (2012) by AlexanderDhoore on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @04:31PM (#6478900)
I just sang this to my sister. She laughed, but doesn't understand. God, we're nerdy.
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Re:The Six Stages of Debugging (2012) by sateesh on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @11:58PM (#6480524)
And then there is Joe's (Joe Armstrong) Law of Debugging :) "All errors will be plus/minus three statements of the place you last changed the program".
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Re:The Six Stages of Debugging (2012) by Theriac25 on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @02:27PM (#6478101)
This seems more accurate to me than the OP.
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