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Something I learned long ago, but occasionally disregard to my peril: if you see something that looks like a bug, but the code/system still works, stop and figu
by macintux 4y ago
Something I learned long ago, but occasionally disregard to my peril: if you see something that looks like a bug, but the code/system still works, stop and figure out why it works.
It's very easy to mentally shrug and move on, but more often than not it comes back to bite you; maybe it's a code path that's rarely triggered, e.g.
- Winsaucerer 4y agoI have the same policy for similar circumstances. Sometimes, something isn't working, and I make a change that fixes it, but I didn't expect that change to fix it. Almost always it's worth me investigating why it's now working, because it indicates a deeper problem that would come back to bite me.