… what an ideal engineer should be in the eyes of his contemporaries: […] a man of hardware and a child of software.
Amir Alexander, From Voyagers to Martyrs
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If debugging were profitable, everybody would be debugging.
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Cyberwar industry 100 years after WWI arms and munitions profiteering. A call for 98% tax on cyberweapons.
… international cyberracketeers bent upon gaining profit through a game of cyberarming the world to cyberfight ….
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Computation is short. Debugging is long. Problem is fleeting. Troubleshooting is risky. Diagnosis is difficult.
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Software diagnosis requires intelligence.
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Always imitate the behavior of the working program when it is crashing.
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Debugging before profits.
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Philosophy is about memories, people’s memories.
Dmitry Vostokov, The Last Presocratic, Founder of Memodealism
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On natural pointers vs. pointers that are not natural, like a NULL, wild or dangling pointer.
Thus, a man who intends keeping pointers naturally tries to get as good debuggers as he can … .
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3 bugtations in a column:
Every debugger I know has trouble debugging.
Talent is helpful in debugging, but guts are absolutely necessary.
With failure comes a dump.
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An advice to succeed in Software Technical Support:
They said : The dump came from the wrong site
He’s a page from the end of the dump
I said : The dump came from the right site
Took me just one look
<…>
With a little debugging
You will survive
With a little debugging
You will get by
Do what you want
Go your own way
in Technical Support.
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The beginning of a debugging tale:
He was debugging for 7 years and when he stopped and looked around he saw only 2 people left from the team of 50 strong technical support engineers.
Folktale
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Word of Memory.
Dmitry Vostokov, Memoriarch
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150 bugtations so far…
Program history has two sides, a computational and a human.
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Making Software A Better World.
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Does God play keyboard?
Dmitry Vostokov, Memoriarch, Founder of Memory Religion (Memorianity)
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The idea of this bugtation came to me when I bought the book in a local bookshop The Presence of the Past
The Presence of The Memory Dump: Code Resonance and the Habits of Debugging.
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The idea of this bugtation came to me when I was browsing Wrotten English: A Celebration of Literary Misprints, Mistakes and Mishaps
In a chapter on funny book titles I could find:
Dumps (The story of a plain app and its struggles in computation).
Dumps by Meade (Chambers, 1905)
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Never thought that I would one day bugtate Bill Gates but found his quote in Knuth’s The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1:
Memory Dumps “have” not “changed in the past two decades.”
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“… further” applications “suffered from over-expansion owing to the exhaustion of their” computational “opportunities…”
Graeme Snooks, The Dynamic Society: The Sources of Global Change
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