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I could read bug stories/refactoring stories all day. It's the programmer's version of This Old House.
by droob 12y ago
I could read bug stories/refactoring stories all day. It's the programmer's version of This Old House.
- gee_totes 12y agoThen I probably shouldn't introduce you to The Daily WTF[0] [0]http://thedailywtf.com/ http://thedailywtf.com/
- mr_tyzic 12y agoThose are stories about what idiots other people are. Not as interesting, and predictable after a while. Good debugging stories, like the OP, are mysteries.
- tiziano88 12y agoMark Russinovich's "the case of the unexplained" [0] blog posts used to be one of my favourite read on the entire web. [0] http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2012/07/02/3506849.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2012/07/0...
- chadrs 12y agoI've always felt there should be a conference for bug hunting. All talks about bugs, how they were solved, dead ends attempted, tools/techniques used to diagnose, etc. Would be really useful to see how other people approach debugging and you'd probably get to learn about lots of tools you didn't know existed.
- pavel_lishin 12y agoThat would be fantastic. I imagine a fun format where you are presented with the bug, and given some appropriate, but short, length of time to try and diagnose it. (Let's say, 15 minutes to an hour.) Then, the presenter polls everyone to see if anyone figured it out, and explains the actual bug and the fix in an actual presentation.