Aaron White's Tumblog: debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in... - Aaron White
Dick
· 3 months ago
Corollary: if the cleverest coder on the team writes code as cleverly as possible, the rest of the team is in really deep shit.
aaronwhite
· 3 months ago
Don't worry, I've seen all of our code, we're not at risk.
Aaron
· 2 months ago
If you ever write code so smart that you can't debug it, do what I do. Think of a guy who's smarter than you, think of how he would debug it, then do that. Works for me all the time.
Ironically, I was searching for me and found you. I happen to do a little bit of programming so figured I'd chime in quickly with a great suggestion.
aaronwhite
· 2 months ago
Haha, I dig it. There's just a sticky edge-case; what if you're already the smartest guy out there? Tough life to live, I bet.
Happy to meet another Aaron White! If there's one thing Google & Facebook are succeeding at, it's making me feel less unique every day :)
Aaron
· 2 months ago
Ahhhh. I would say the smartest guy out there doesn't write code... he tells other people how to do it. However, if he did write code... I would say he would have to re-write whatever program it was because he clearly couldn't debug it. If he couldn't debug it, no one could, if he's the smartest guy.
If those rules apply, I hope I'm never the smartest coder because I need to be able to debug my stuff. In realted news; the universe has officially ended.
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Ironically, I was searching for me and found you. I happen to do a little bit of programming so figured I'd chime in quickly with a great suggestion.
Happy to meet another Aaron White! If there's one thing Google & Facebook are succeeding at, it's making me feel less unique every day :)
If those rules apply, I hope I'm never the smartest coder because I need to be able to debug my stuff. In realted news; the universe has officially ended.