5 stages of debugging

3 years ago by ZachAR3 to c/programmerhumor

aaron 12 points 3 years ago

People don't understand that the average programmer's EQ is in the top decile because they're forced to work through the stages of grief several thousand times a year

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zexu 7 points 3 years ago

declares the bug a feature 😂😂

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Lemmesee 5 points 3 years ago

Relatable...

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gestalt 3 points 3 years ago

Ah great, just reached the acceptance stage of my cycle. Decided to browse Lemmy instead of quake and found this gem :)

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MakuNagetto 2 points 3 years ago

A few years into my career I started identifying bugs that are too deeply rooted within the spaghetti. For those, I just skip to step 5 instantly. Not worth the 2 years worth of reduced life expectancy trying to fix this shit.

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gestalt 2 points 3 years ago

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earthquake 1 point 3 years ago

IMO just skip to step five. Here, you can download Ironwail here: https://github.com/...

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