fdiggle at gmail
May 16, 2008, 3:10 PM
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no one cares :(
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 5:41 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks[at]vt.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 May 2008 04:54:24 +1000, Fredrick Diggle said:
>> yes fredrick is very jealous :> your ability to accidentally crash
>> software is astounding, almost as astounding as your inability to
>> determine the actual problem beyond the debug output.
>
> You've obviously not been paying attention - a large fraction of the time,
> when I report the bug, I also have tracked down the exact code change that
> caused the failure. And at that point, you really *do* have to go back to
> the person who wrote the code change and ask "What did you *expect* this code
> to do?".
>
> Also, if you paid attention, you'd realize that another large fraction
> of the time, it's *not* worth the effort of tracking down the actual code
> change, because simply posting the traceback allows somebody to look at it
> and realize it's a brown-bag bug and create a patch faster than I can
> track down the commit.
>
>> Actually in all seriousness I am jealous of you but it's your
>> mustache. Is it real or did you glue a squirrel to your face?
>
> Fear not, in a few years you'll probably have enough hormones in your
> system to grow one yourself...
>
>
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