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I dont get this, its so often a bug, and so many people dont report bugs, this strategy of telling people to reboot or reinstall or redownload just perpetuates
by tsewlliw 15y ago
I dont get this, its so often a bug, and so many people dont report bugs, this strategy of telling people to reboot or reinstall or redownload just perpetuates these voodoo-style fixes.
Im not saying fix everything always immediately, but dont write people off as victims of cosmic rays just because you can't repro in 30 seconds or dont see the bug where youd expect in the code.
- jodrellblank 15y agoHe didn't say "cosmic rays" anywhere in the article. voodoo-style fixes They're not voodoo, they're sledgehammer to smash a nut fixes. A reboot reinitializes every part of your system into a mostly-known-good state. If you knew what, you could say "restart this service" or "reinitialise this driver like that", but a reboot gets all of it. If you actually stabbed a doll with a pin and your program started working, that would be ... scary.
- tsewlliw 15y agoHis actual criteria for taking the time to find a bug is reasonable, but I take issue with the assertion that its not a bug in code he wrote most of the time.