The Ostrich Algorithm: A Time-Honored Debugging Tradition

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The Ostrich Algorithm: A Time-Honored Debugging Tradition

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When asked how I fixed that critical production bug, I simply implemented the industry-standard "Ostrich Algorithm" - the elegant practice of burying your head in the sand and hoping the problem is rare enough that nobody notices. It's not laziness, it's resource optimization. The documentation even backs me up. Why waste precious dev hours on something that might happen once every 10,000 executions when you could be creating exciting new bugs instead?

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