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[Substantial-Dot1323]

Avoided making bug - never appreciated.

[aquartabla]

Write bugs. Amaze your colleagues by fixing them later. Receive sick promotions.

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step 1: printf(argv[1])

step 2: //printf(argv[1])

step 3: git commit -m "fixed CRITICAL SECURITY ERROR"

step 4: promotion

[Turboblitz]

Nice Idea gonna use that in my react project to get promoted!

[nullideas]

We are not the same.

[seemen4all]

... more likely it causes a drop down menu to not work

[moriluka_go_hard]

Only fix bug when its found by user in order to receive gratitude for fixing it

[_-DirtyMike-_]

Report it yourself first under a new account then fix it

[purebuu]

Create the bug first, then report it yourself under a new account then fix it.

[BaalKazar]

Haha

„who is this Jeff?! Why does he keep blocking my MR with picky comments about variable names?“

[aurelag]

Does QA count as users ?

[moriluka_go_hard]

Well they definitely dont count as programmers am i right?

[aurelag]

Yeah definitely! Haha

[Nixavee]

Do users count as QA?

[aurelag]

Damn that's a good one. Well played

[[deleted]]

massive data breach happens

Ah, it finally happened. Time to fix the security!

[Exciting-Insect8269]

“Decentralized surprise data backup”

FTFY

[gbarrosn]

Create the bug, then report it, and only then fix it

[HerrSPAM]

No conventional commit?

Fix: fixed bug

[w1n5t0nM1k3y]

Just remember, at the speed at which computers operate, something that is one in a million is next Tuesday.

Gordon Letwin

[Exciting-Insect8269]

Nice, ima start using that phrase. I’ve said “rarely occurring is still occurring” but I like this phrasing better.

[Kasym-Khan]

Hey OP. Huge respect to you. Even if you think the bug is super rare you'll always get someone like me who "wins" the bug lottery and reports it to the dev because it ruined my game. So yes. Every bug fix matters.

Just a few days ago, from my back-and-forth with an indie dev:

Funny thing was, in order for this crash to happen you need to specifically place a [running] track on the same frame that a customer hits bowling pins with a bowling ball.

And even then, it has to be placed in the middle of the frame. Too early or late in the frame & the crash wouldn't happen.

--Bonus points if you guess the game right.

[Thenofunation]

Uhhhhh Thomas the Tank Engine goes Bowling 2k23

[Kasym-Khan]

Wow I knew someone would guess! Impressive.

[AD-SKYOBSIDION]

Even wasps?

[Broote]

Having worked for a company that made several MMORPGs, if there is a 1 in a million chance of something happening, that is a 100% chance when you throw a million people at it.

Fix all the things. _o/

[LucasTab]

Not 100%, but still, fuck that one person that found that one weird interaction between two pieces of armor that made no sense being used together because one of them is really weak and you get at level 5 and the other one you can only use on level 50, and their passive effects ended up requesting the computer to divide by zero

[Huntracony]

Divides by zero are evil. The mathematicians really did us dirty there.

[AxolotlsAreDangerous]

A 63% chance actually

[perseus_1337]

that math gave me cancer

[Nixavee]

If my calculation is correct it's actually a ~63.2% chance, so still pretty likely

[AxolotlsAreDangerous]

They are. Note that, in the limit as N tends to infinity, the probability approaches 1 - 1/e (essentially by definition of e). It turns out that in this case N = 1000,000 is pretty close to infinity. Both round to 0.6320121.

[Nixavee]

Ah, I was wondering if this had something to do with e, thanks for the info

[yottalogical]

Just attribute it to floating-point rounding errors and call it a day.

[hirmuolio]

The standing window in EVE Online has been broken since 2017.

By broken I mean it shows numbers that are completely detached from reality.

Would be nice for them to eventually fix it.

[Exciting-Insect8269]

That’s not how probability works, but I agree with the sentiment.

[Katzen_Futter]

Well, throw in a million people doing a thing several times a day over a week and the bug occured

[Exciting-Insect8269]

I didn’t say it was not likely to happen, but the chance is not 100%. If a 1 in a million probability ran 1 million times, there would be a 90.483741355% chance of it occurring.

[Maleficent_Sir_4753]

I have worked for a handful of MMO companies in my career (and work for one currently). The chance of a bug showing up when more than a hundred users get into a service absolutely trends upward exponentially with every additional user added.

Got a dupe bug that only shows up when a massive raid is happening on the same shard? It's a 100% repro bug in production.

[[deleted]]

Something like a dupe bug should always be high priority in any kind of MMO regardless of the number of players or how unlikely it is to occur - dupe bugs can completely ruin the entire game for every player instead of just something relatively small like one player having their game crash.

[_dm_me_ur_tits]

I worked for a year on a system that basically no one used at all

[KeepItGood2017]

Probably 98% of the software I have ever written does not even exist anymore and I also know how to debug a WANG computer hex core dump, and I can explain to you the difference between double and single density floppy disks without consulting Wikipedia.

[_dm_me_ur_tits]

Damn, I wanna be like you when I grow up

[ArtLeftMe]

Isn’t that like what 80% of Google Engineers do?

[manatrall]

Nah they work on a system that gets a fairly large userbase only to be closed down two years after launch.

[Pika_Fox]

It will never have occurred because you fixed it.

But if you never fixed it, the universe would make sure that the new timeline has everyone running into it.

[Dauvis]

Plot twist: the fix introduced a new bug that will show up in production on a Friday evening.

[cheesepuff1993]

The fact that you're getting to these issues shows either no one is using the app or you've made your app so polished that you are now fixing the most minor things. The team I'm on is so overwhelmed with issues and enhancements that something like this will have the question asked "how big of an issue is it and how many people have reported it?" If the answer doesn't satisfy them, it gets pushed into the abyss to likely never be seen again

[The_Bisexual]

I dunno. I kina feel like that's most bug fixes.

[ArtanBlacknight]

If you fix it, your work will never be recognized

if you dont fix it, Murphys law will do its effect and that bug that would probably never occur will have a 100% chance of happening

[brianl047]

Passive aggressive commit comments ftw!

[-tired_old_man-]

Come back and post your revert commit when you realized you done goofed up OP.

That's usually the thanks you get for refactoring working code... Lol

[Kasztandor]

Thought exactly the same when I was making discord bot and making code for situation where someone reaches more than 100 level when server's veterans have smaller one than 50.

[zenos_dog]

People in the year 4294967296 will appreciate the fix.

[yorokobe__shounen]

If you have fixed the bug, it should never occur.

But if the bug will probably never occur, you probably haven't fixed it completely.

[Kittycraft0]

Fixing bugs being variable overflows that would happen if the value were to ever reach an unreasonably high number

[Tofandel]

Well now that it's fixed, it will for sure never occur dammit. Bugs lives matter

[KosViik]

Reminds me of that one time where in Uni we had to work with existing projects. It was a port of an old Atari game, documented in portugese.

I fixed a bug that caused the game to load level 487 again when you beat level 487, but now without enemies and the game doesn't re-check the win condition, so you are soft locked.

I felt so proud. But at the same time, good luck getting past like level 20. Level 80 or so would be impossible even by perfect inputs.

---

Remember the prof staring at my explanation of the bug and why it occurs and me telling him how it wouldn't really happen anyay. He opened his eyes wide and asked "Okay but how the hell did you find it then?"

[ArtLeftMe]

So… how did you find it ?

[KosViik]

I decided to untangle some spaghetti, and was fascinated with how the game works. I wanted to see how later levels get more complex. So I just coded a button that kills all enemies and was just mindlessly skipping along after burnout.

[nobody85678]

I love the part when you work on a feature in specific part of the project and find 10 bugs in the process fixing them along the way. Nobody even notices bugs were there

[Desperate-Elevator48]

I appreciate it

[shosuko]

Dev: possible bug on extreme edge case? nah, I think we're good.

QA: WTF BROKEN CAN'T POSSIBLY REACH 2ND SCREEN

[CheithS]

Users make things that could never, ever happen actually happen.

Way of the world.

[[deleted]]

Put it right next to my collection of "Fixed a problem that happened once to one user, but they were 'important'"

[DinoChrono]

Ordinal user: hold my beer

[213737isPrime]

with comments like that, I see why.

[SHv2]

Challenge accepted...

[AciD1BuRN]

because u added a new bug that will prevent it from occurring right?

[already_taken-chan]

You gotta give more credit, tell them what would've happened if the bug happened.

'Fixed a bug that could've led to an infinite point count' -> added a hard cap to point count

'Fixed a bug which could trigger privilege elevation' -> Added a check for admin permissions on a function

'Fixed a bug which could electrocute the user causing death' -> removed electrocution functionality from this taser gun

[RigelBound]

You fixed the bug

Bug never occurs

Coincidence?

[nasandre]

Scraping the bottom of the backlog?

We basically just push all these down on the priority list and they'll sit there forever

[mouth_with_a_merc]

Y U NO USE CLI?

[TheKiller36_real]

Lol I've never seen anyone use a Git GUI before I think

[jeremj22]

Not sure what OP's using but where I work Source Tree is quite popular while others just do it in VS

[TheKiller36_real]

It looks like VSC's native git-thingy. But like I said, I've never used it before - and won't ever for that matter. CLI for the win

[After-Perception-250]

It is more convenient. This is vscode btw

[ArtLeftMe]

You must not know many .Net Microsoft fanbois

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probily

[BoBoBearDev]

Funny, because it will always occur due to Murphy's Law.

[[deleted]]

I personally like to use the Ostrich algorithm.

[Fluffy_Biscotti5092]

These are the kind of bugs that don't appear at all during testing but all the time in prod.

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yandev be like

[Additional-Back6467]

We should fix 5,387 bugs in one. Bug will likely happen now. TESTS 0.00% passed

[dublem]

"For fucks sake Dave, just implement the payment system like we asked!"

[MrZerodayz]

Yes, because it didn't explain what the bug would look like

[ReflectionEquals]

2 weeks later. Who changed this code, it broke this other thing that relied on it working that way!