• skulbuny@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    I learned early in my software engineering career these two beautiful rules of debugging:

    1. Read all of the words
    2. Believe them
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      3 months ago

      Unless you were the one writing the program and its error messages - then check, that you didn’t mess up there…

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      3 months ago

      Until you write a compiler error in some deeply templated C++ code, in which case just reading every word takes all day

      /s but not too much