Bugtation No.93
Friday, May 22nd, 2009“Oh, he is a good” troubleshooter, “but he has no power of” debugging!”
Charles Darwin, The life and letters of Charles Darwin, Volume 1
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Archive for the ‘Bugtations’ Category
Bugtation No.92
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009“To” debug “is proper to man.”
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Bugtation No.91
Monday, May 4th, 2009On universal memory dumps:
“[…] the first man who noticed the analogy between a” dump “and” an observation “made a notable advance in the history of thought.”
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World
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Bugtation No.90
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009“The first rule of” debugging “is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of” debugging “is to sit tight and wait till you” hit “a” breakpoint.
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Bugtation No.89
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009On the great divide in modern software factories:
“We have in fact, two kinds of” engineers, “side by side: one that” design, “but do not” code, “and another that” code, “but seldom” design.
Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
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Bugtation No.88
Monday, April 27th, 2009On the deliberate practice to become a Debugging Expert:
“Of all days, the day on which one has not” debugged “is the one most surely wasted.”
Nicolas Chamfort, Maximes et Pensées
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Bugtation No.87
Sunday, April 26th, 2009“A” fix “can break a” bug “in two.”
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Bugtation No.86
Saturday, April 25th, 2009“It is easier to know” programming “in general than to understand one” program “in particular.”
François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
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Bugtation No.85
Saturday, February 28th, 2009A contribution to Software Resistentialism:
Software objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don’t work, those that crash and those that hang.
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Bugtation No.84
Friday, February 27th, 2009“Don’t” guess “it, get a larger” dump.
Anthony’s Law of Force
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Bugtation No.83
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009“Some” tester, “I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of” a bug, “but in the search for it.”
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Bugtation No.82
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009Not exactly about bugs:
“It is a terrible thing for” an engineer “to find out suddenly that all his life he has been” writing “nothing but the” code.
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Bugtation No.81
Thursday, January 8th, 2009“One must look for one” bug “only, to find many.”
Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950
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Bugtation No.80
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009Originally I paid attention to “Paper is patient” in Social Sciences as Sorcery book. It merits its own bugtation:
Crash dump “is patient.”
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Bugtation No.79
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009“Everything is in a state of” memory.
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Bugtation No.78
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009“For it is not enough to have a good” debugger: “one must use it well.”
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Bugtation No.77
Thursday, January 1st, 2009“Look for” a bug “in everything and you will find it.”
Pierre-Jules Renard, Journal
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Bugtation No.76
Monday, December 29th, 2008“Where are you” debugging “tonight?”
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh, The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie
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Bugtation No.75
Saturday, December 27th, 2008Bugs “are useful to attract attention to” programs.
Mandell Creighton, Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton by Louise Creighton
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Bugtation No.74
Sunday, December 21st, 2008A bug “is part of this” computation “and not of the next.”
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