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Debugging is often best accomplished as a binary tree search aimed by familiarity/experience. Once you can put bounds on the search, it becomes possible to get
by 65a 14y ago
Debugging is often best accomplished as a binary tree search aimed by familiarity/experience. Once you can put bounds on the search, it becomes possible to get the answer in just a few questions.
Totally agree.
- hobs 14y agoThis is the best way to work through debugging/troubleshooting as far as I can tell, amazingly a skill many people lack, and others that just understand it intuitively without it ever thinking about it. That is one of the big divisions between hackers and everyone else in my mind.
- chii 14y agoi think perhaps some people just don't see the world in a hierarchical way, so in their frame of mind, the problem is intractable.