alt Hacker NewsFor me the longer I work, the worse the bugs I work with become.
Nowadays, after some 17 years in the business, it's pretty much always intermittently and rarely occurring race conditions of different flavors. They might result in different behaviors (crashes, missing or wrong data, ...), but at the core of it, it's almost always race conditions.
The easy and quick to fix bugs never end up with me.
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ChrisMarshallNY • yesterday at 12:06 PM
The reward for good work, is more work.
I tend to mostly work alone, these days (Chief Cook & Bottle-Washer).
All bugs are mine.
Yep. Non-determinism. Back in the day it was memory corruption caused by some race condition. By the time things have gone pop, you’re too far from the proximate cause to have useful logs or dumps.
“Happens only once every 100k runs? Won’t fix”. That works until it doesn’t, then they come looking for the poor bastard that never fixes a bug in 2 days.