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Stage 7: Who wrote this?

Stage 8: Ah ok… it was me

Stage 4.5: console.log() everything.

@zqwzzle@lemmy.ca
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And then the logging fixes the subtle timing issue causing the problem.

V699
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Race conditions are the worst

Good ol’ Heisenbugs.

We have logging software built in, but I can never remember how to turn it on, so I just console.log

Step 4.6: Get another drive for the logs.

“I notice that I am confused, and thus that one of my beliefs is fiction.”

PtitSerpent
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if (0 === 0) {
var_dump($test); die;
}

if ((x != x) || (x == x+1)) then it’s one of those weird numbers

How did that ever work, I’ve been there many times.

ShustOne
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As true as true can ever be

Rhaedas
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I have some Excel VBA scripting that I’ve been on 1-4 for a while now, so there’s a branch off of 4 that should be “fuck it, here’s the workaround” or “that part isn’t that important anyway, ignore it”.

(it’s actually not Excel that’s the problem, it’s the change to its call to IE that throws up a stupid security warning.)

Oh my god this comment gave me an aneurysm

RandomBit
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One of the best pieces of advice I have ever gotten was to build diagnostics first. The time it takes to do will pay for itself 100X over the course of development.

100% unit tests ftw

Hate making them, love them when they are here

DarthYodaX
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My boss does 1 <–> 2 with us over most every bug any of us has ever found. Ticking time-bomb…

Everyone always skips the last step, but that’s where you learn.

z500
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Every time that last part happens I have to check the proper spelling of Berenstain. I’ve had some that really seem like they should have been impossible lol

console.log("Does it happen here?")

6 stages of dev grief when I find a bug which doesn’t make sense and report it to the devs. Lol.

Get enough experience and you just have a brief moment of stage 3 as you dive straight to stage 4.

Unless it’s a customer/that-one-guy-at-work (it’s a title, but there’s usually a handful of them) and then there’s this vast stage 0 of back and forth of “are you sure that’s happening, run these commands and paste the entire output to me” to be sure of what they are saying then you jump to stage 3/4.

V699
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I jump straight to step 6

kriss0706
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its funny i see this now, after spending 3 hours debugging D:

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