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Yep, documentation and source when googling begins to fail.

• zo1 10y ago
  And occasionally you'll happen to come across a bug in a library you thought was beyond your understanding/comprehension.
  • alistproducer2 10y ago
    I actually enjoy finding/fixing bugs in OSS. I strive to be more of an engineer than a developer. Learning how large projects are put together and maintained help make me a better engineer.
  • buu700 10y ago
    I've found this to be the case much more often than "occasionally" since I've started habitually comparing third-party software's behaviour to relevant specs/documentation rather than assuming whatever the implementation does is correct. I've caught and reported several Chrome vulnerabilities this way just in the course of normal usage, and have to work around bugs in libraries that my code depends on (often involving poking around said libraries' code for insight into the problem) on a fairly regular basis.