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First off, everything the author writes is worth a read and I want to thank her for that. Re: >the error message has 0 results when you Google it While this u
by tclancy 5y ago
First off, everything the author writes is worth a read and I want to thank her for that. Re:
>the error message has 0 results when you Google it
While this used to (and still does, I suppose) cause a bit of throat-tightening for me, I've learned this usually means it's a case similar to "your assumptions are wrong". It tends to be something I have misconfigured or a dead-bang obvious typo that my eyes look right past. Often it's something like having the wrong virtual environment in one shell tab which is causing a process to half-work but then fail in a misleading way.
- nexuist 5y agoAnother hole I used to put myself in is I would often copy and paste stack traces verbatim, and of course most of a stack trace is just filepaths unique to your user account and of course nobody has posted similar stack traces like that because they don't have the same username and folder as you do. I've learned to copy and paste smaller snippets that are more likely to be generic across many different machines and found much more success with that strategy.
- cwkoss 5y agoEven better: the only result is a stackoverflow post that your coworker made, asking about the exact issue you're investigating, with zero answers
- QuercusMax 5y agoEven worse - when it's a stackoverflow post from yourself 2 years before, and there's still no good solution. This has happened to me.
- hmsimha 5y agoEven more worse: it's a stackoverflow from yourself 2 years before, which you then closed because you "figured it out" (without expanding on how)
- QuercusMax 5y agoOof, that really is even worse, because you only have yourself to blame
- hmsimha 5y agoRelevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/979/ https://xkcd.com/979/
- seba_dos1 5y agoI actually don't get this one. When you can find your bug on the Web it's like the debugging never even started :P