Saying the right things.

The eternal programming adventure - you start coding with hope and optimism, then inevitably hit a bizarre bug. After hours of frustration, you find that exact bug described in a dusty StackOverflow thread from 2013. The question has 47 upvotes, 12 people commenting "I HAVE THIS EXACT PROBLEM!!!"... and zero answers. Just a tumbleweed rolling by and the original poster's final comment: "Nevermind, fixed it" with no explanation. The digital equivalent of finding an ancient treasure map with the actual treasure location torn off.

Content Coworker: so how did you solve the bug? Me: Ostrich algorithm From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In computer science, the ostrich algorithm is a strategy of ignoring potential problems on the basis that they may be exceedingly rare. It is named for the ostrich effect which is defined as "to stick one's head in the sand and pretend there is no problem". It is used when it is more cost-effective to allow the problem to occur than to attempt its prevention.

Content Yeah, so we have a memory leak 12:13 12:13 well that looks easy to fix at least every tick check the memory when its about to crash, spawn an unkillable boss ez 12:14 player dies before the game crashes 12:15 Sent Via Skype v Als Messages: Off

Content "UGH.I CAN'T GET ANY WORK DONE UNTIL FIX THIS BUG 5 MiNUTES SIR LATER AWE OGIKED THE BUG. LOOKS LIKE UM DONE COB THE DAY ProgrammerHumor.

Content WHEN YOU FINALLY FIN THE BUG AND YOU GET TO CLOSE 20 GOOGLE SEARCH TABS

Content 8:19 AM builds seem to be failing https:jenkins due to this test https:githubl lest.lava I believe its failing due to daylight savings ending. The test assumes a day 86400 seconds, but that is not true for yesterday? LOL 3 Proaran