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Nice article. I’ll admit that, when I clicked, I was anticipating a rant about “the algos.” Does anyone else feel a bit panicked these days when you search fo
by dogruck 9y ago
Nice article. I’ll admit that, when I clicked, I was anticipating a rant about “the algos.”
Does anyone else feel a bit panicked these days when you search for an answer online, and not see any pointers? The feeling of, “whelp... I guess... I’ll have to diagnose and solve this myself...”
- pjc50 9y agoI'm somewhat used to that, due to working in legacy / embedded / unpopular software areas :) Maybe I should do a writeup of some of the more significant investigations. Such as the six months spent (intermittently) on a bug reported only as "touchscreen sometimes stops responding". In fact, returning to the car theme, I was recently able to save myself a considerable amount of money by using Youtube videos to disassemble my dashboard, re-solder the joints on the back of the instrument cluster, and re-fit it. The only difficulty was matching the video to the exact model of car. I didn't expect to find it, but there was a video with a few dozen views of exactly what I needed. Previously I'd have had to resort to Haynes manuals, which are excellent but not quite as good as being able to watch someone else do it.
- mar77i 9y ago> Such as the six months spent (intermittently) on a bug reported only as "touchscreen sometimes stops responding". Would definitely read. I've read stuff like that on retro computing forums or from malware analysts and there's probably nothing more intriguing about our trade of code-slinging than that.