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Content When you finally caught that sneaky bug during testing, which escaped last 4 deployment cycles.. Me yuva.krishna.memes Bug

Content Be like a Programmer John is a programmer John has 3 bugs to resolve, 2 funtionalities to implement, and needs to attend a meeting John decides to sleep ProdrammerHumor.

Content I've interviewed a lot of people over the last year (Java), and my favorite test is to throw a Stack Trace at them and ask them to figure out what the problem is. The answer is actually quite clear, however. Half of them don't know it's called a stack trace. Some don't know what they're looking at (BYE!). Several focus on the wrong section of proprietary code. Some ask to "open a debugger". however the answer is right there in plain english if you just read the method names. Many don't realize the line numbers are RIGHT THERE, and then start focusing on the lines ending with "Compiled Code". Then there are the ones who work their way up from the bottom, starting with the application container code, and lose their minds. Some who figure out what is happening don't have a solution to prevent it from happening. No, I'm not sharing the trace; suffice to say it's been reviewed by more than 5 of my peers and they all passed. Like Reply 1h Edited I mean, it isn't hard to eliminate people with a coding question. Do you find it impossible to teach people how to read text stack traces, or is this a skill without which they will be unable to do anything of use, or do you just not want to hire anyone? 1 am serious. 1 can come up with dozens of useful programming skills I can test a candidate on that most perfectly skilled programmers would fail. Start with eliminating people who can't code at all. Then find out what they can do that could be useful. If I have 5 people who can already take a printed out stack crash dump, I probably don't need another, and if I do, a qualified candidate can be taught that skill by someone who knows it in under a week. Then again, maybe you work for Stack Trace Inc, and your entire job is looking at stack traces. If so, by bad. Like Reply 22m

Content Write code The tests fail Write more tests to narrow down the problem Write tests The tests fail Those tests pass The bug was in the test

Content Egg, Inc. 2 Days Ago - hopefully addresses instability on iOS 15.4 Version 1.22.7 89.3 MB

Even ancient philosophers can't escape syntax errors! Poor guy is sitting there contemplating the universe when his real problem is just a typo. He declared "ovid" instead of "void" and now his existential crisis is actually just a compiler error. The statue's deep contemplative pose really sells it - like he's been debugging for 2000 years and still hasn't spotted the missing 'v'. Classical debugging at its finest!