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Comment by firebot

12 hours ago

> If coding is easy, why is software so damn buggy?

Debugging is hard.

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anonzzzies  12 hours ago

And people are very lazy; test one ideal path, works, done.

  • Ekaros  12 hours ago

    It is usually forgetting that everything can fail and will fail. And I mean everything. If it shouldn't fail it will at some point. And you should take that into account. And we usually don't until third or so time...

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