sometimes you don’t compile it enthusiastically enough
Ah, come on this is valid investigation.
If you get the same error every time, you know you can find it and debug it, somewhat with ease.
If you don’t, you might have a thornier issue at hand.
does it count if i run it again, but with a debugger attached?
This genuinely happens regularly in our testing environment 🥲
I started coding professionally using Visual Basic (3!). Everybody made fun of VB’s
On Error Resume Next“solution” to error handling, which basically said if something goes wrong just move on to the next line of code. But apparently nobody knew aboutOn Error Resume, which basically said if something goes wrong just execute the offending line again. This would of course manifest itself as a locked app and usually a rapidly-expanding memory footprint until the computer crashed. Basically the automated version of this meme.BTW just to defend VB a little bit, you didn’t actually have to use
On Error Resume Next, you could doOn Error Goto errorHandlerand then put theerrorHandlerlabel at the bottom of your routine (after anExit Sub) and do actual structured error handling. Not that anybody in the VB world ever actually did this.xkcd 242 obviously
You know what this is based AF because if you don’t do it a second time how would you know if it wasn’t a weird edge case or a race condition or maybe you just didn’t internalize the cause and effect because you weren’t looking for it until a bug appeared
I feel called out. I’m not sure which way I’d go.
Get somebody else to pull it.
For science.
Me playing point and click games
Because you’re Good developer
You make a change. It doesn’t fix it.
You change it back. The code now works.
the real fix was the journey, the destination never mattered
The code now
worksbreaks in a new way.
The absolute worst thing that can happen is if it suddenly starts working without doing anything
Sweet, push to production.
But sometimes it works, or throws a different error …
And a different error means progress!
A different error each time?
I refer to @[email protected] comment.
When it does a different crazy thing every time and you have no idea why, it means you’re a genius and have created life.
Or you’re coding in C.
you have to check if you are dealing with a bug or with a ghost
Actually tru. Damn preprocessors.
Trying to debug race conditions be like
Yuuup… Debugging concurrent code is a bitch.
The usual for me is that I flip back over to my editor and hit ctrl+save, cause heaven forbid I ever remember to do that before running.
I have no regrets from setting my editor to save-on-blur
Code doesn’t work; don’t know why.
Code works; don’t know why.
Cargo Cult Programming is bad.
The error message goes stale when it’s been sitting for a while. I need to see a fresh one.
The first one is to warm up the engine. Like getting your car ignition to kick over in the winter
and sometimes that’s exactly what’s needed. Services wake up, connections get established and then when you try again things are up and it works.
