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Six hours of debugging can save you five minutes of reading documentation.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Who has time to read?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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That's because they're too busy debugging!
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This applies to anything where assembly is required. I've learned to RTFM! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Judging by QA, most developers can't use a debugger either ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Debuggers are elephanting useless. They cant tell me why my code wont compile!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Admit it, you got that from QA didn't you?
Keep Calm and Carry On
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Who? Me??
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Speaking as one that wears all 3 hats, (not at the same time mind you, I would look rather silly), as a developer, the primary focus is to not create bugs when adding new features and certainly now when fixing features. Yes that can be easier said than done, especially as spaghetti code is often at the root cause of many bugs, and debuggers are critical tools needed to help find and fix things. But that is only part of the story, QA and users do unexpected things which developers should for tell and protect against.
As a QA lead it is a challenge to break code other developers create, and sometimes its the role of the customer to find the really obscure issues.
As a documenter the clarity of what gets written is as important as the accuracy of what is written. I say this after inheriting documentation from two predecessors who claimed to write good English and keep the changes made up to date, (yes that was a laugh).
So to summarise, the whole lifecycle can be a real pain, we simply have to do the best we can with the resources to hand, unless anyone has a time machine or working crystal ball.
Bobby Dazzler
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Documentation is for lovers or those with special needs.
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Let's keep this KSS, please!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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spoken like a true programmer
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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But debugging is such fun! Right? Right? Right? 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I spent a couple of years doing it for entertainment.
0) Head to some shareware repository
1) Select and download target
2) Run & alter in debugger
3) save patch to disk or write keygen
There's a field of programming challenges known as crackme and another known as keygenme. The latter are infinitely more fun. 
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Whenever I write anything I run it through the debugger - I remember when debuggers were either non existent or not very sophisticated, you had to add lots of print statements to see what was going on. The VS debugger is superb.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Six hours of debugging can explain why that documentation you took five minutes to read is completely wrong. FIFY.
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What documentation? Haven't seen that in years!
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If you went bald would you keep your comb, because you just couldn't part with it?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I was tempted to brush this one aside, but this post has some teeth to it.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I like this so much I'm going to pocket it.
/ravi
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Good to have that straightened out, I wouldn't want to be stranded without one.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Toupé!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Parting a-side, that's not what I hair. Some might bristle with anger over that type of comb-ment.
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