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> Grab a notepad and make a note every time you encounter some software bug in production (be it yours or someone else’s), or need to rely on your knowledge as
by l0b0 5y ago
> Grab a notepad and make a note every time you encounter some software bug in production (be it yours or someone else’s), or need to rely on your knowledge as a computer expert to get a non-expert system to work. Email me your list in a week.
Sorry, writing that list would take longer than I spend actually using software. Evolution telling me I'm "offline" because the DNS resolution isn't working because of some resolv.conf DNS extension gobbledygook. Community members seriously suggesting to blow away configuration which took a long time to establish in order to maybe fix some completely broken desktop application. CLI tools doing their own hard line splitting because they don't understand how terminals work. Web sites broken in any browser other than Chrome (I could have sworn the IE6 days were over). I can find about 10x more bugs than I have energy to even report, considering how completely broken most bug reporting processes are.