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geewee 77 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Developer Philosophy

I think it depends on how thorny the thing you need to debug is. Race conditions, intermittent bugs that crash the process leaving no trace, etc. Debugging is much more than using a debugger

parpfish 76 days ago [–]

I like to differentiate between “bugs that stem from a recent code change” (easy to fix) and “bugs that suddenly appear out of nowhere” (hard to fix)

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