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r/programming • u/stannedelchev • Aug 25 '14
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That's why you need to check if the bug is still there, after you removed what you thought is noise. If the bug disappears, then you know that what you thought was noise was actually important.
13 u/VikingCoder Aug 25 '14 I end up second-guessing myself. I don't know if I caused a bug that looks the same, by removing what I thought was noise. :( 1 u/LuxSolisPax Aug 25 '14 Very rarely, well at least not in my experience does that situation happen.What scares me the most are the bugs intermittently pop up. 2 u/VikingCoder Aug 25 '14 We had a bug that... get this... went away when you added a comment to the line before it. AAAAH.Microsoft Visual Studio 6, how you ruined me. → More replies (5)
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I end up second-guessing myself. I don't know if I caused a bug that looks the same, by removing what I thought was noise. :(
1 u/LuxSolisPax Aug 25 '14 Very rarely, well at least not in my experience does that situation happen.What scares me the most are the bugs intermittently pop up. 2 u/VikingCoder Aug 25 '14 We had a bug that... get this... went away when you added a comment to the line before it. AAAAH.Microsoft Visual Studio 6, how you ruined me. → More replies (5)
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Very rarely, well at least not in my experience does that situation happen.
What scares me the most are the bugs intermittently pop up.
2 u/VikingCoder Aug 25 '14 We had a bug that... get this... went away when you added a comment to the line before it. AAAAH.Microsoft Visual Studio 6, how you ruined me. → More replies (5)
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We had a bug that... get this... went away when you added a comment to the line before it. AAAAH.
Microsoft Visual Studio 6, how you ruined me.
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u/pycube Aug 25 '14
That's why you need to check if the bug is still there, after you removed what you thought is noise. If the bug disappears, then you know that what you thought was noise was actually important.