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Once, I implemented a mail client/server in Java long back (around 2002 I think). I found that no mails are being sent. I started putting System.out messages everywhere (No debugging tools back then  Used to use notepad to write code). Finally to find out that the sendMail method was never called. Took around 30 minutes to find that that line was commented by me the previous day to do some fast coding+debugging on UI feature. 
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I did that in a demo to a new client but then quickly thinking on feet savd the day. I loudly yelled "So, this is how we debug, folks... Who wants to have coffee break?"....
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I want a tee-shirt that says that.
(Not sure the Mrs will like it, though)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I do something of the like.
I write functions and spend quite some time making sure it works fine and it won't blow up on me. Then I go to debug the darn thing to see if it works only to find that I didn't even called the function where I should. So I'm just left with a function that isn't called anywhere and wondering why the hell the darn thing doesn't work.
Just last week I did this 3 times in the same day (it was a bad day).
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You're not supposed to click things any more, anyway, not when you've got greasy fingers that can tap.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I used to (and still do) have an issue with semicolons when coding in C/C++. I will get so used to placing them at the end of each line that I will inadvertently put one at the end of an if/while/for statement and then try to figure out why the following code only ran once.
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Yes, and it's the moment where I simply stop working and go to get some coffe and fresh air...
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I spent two weeks in the field once trying to find out why a conveyor would stop working. I rewrote a colleague's code that I thought was too sloppy in handling 8 bits in a 16 bit register and its inverse. Still failed.
Finally back in the office, problem unsolved, one of other programmers offered his help. I pulled up the code and said pointing at the code, "it does this, then it does that, and what the hell is that doing there?"
I had cloned a subroutine and changed all but one reference in it from the original. My eyes had glided over it, I don't know how many times, but it was a lot.
It didn't help that the hardware was operating in a manner not described in the manual. A scale was to report the weight of a package when the package was between photoeyes mounted at 1". The client was trying to sort 1/2" cutting boards and the scale realized it had weight on it without seeing a package from the leading photoeye and would respond immediately instead of last in a chain of events.
The code was written not to care about order, but that one out of place command introduced an implied sequence of order that normal carton flow allowed to exist.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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numerous times I have used = instead of ==
Doh! 
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1. If you need to debug one piece of code more than once, check your hungry/thirsty/wc status. If there is a problem, solve it.
2. If you need to debug more than three times in a row for single module/class/function (depends on language), check what time is it. If it is late night, go to sleep.
3. Don't forget it also seems there is some connection between your health status and the computer programming way of thinking, so check your health status.
If none three of the above apply, don't forget that "code as you think" programming requires you to be exact (machine-like thinking), while human imperfect but resilience to errors thinking model does not follow exactly the rules, so errors occurs, that's ok.
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Happens all the time! 
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Wow, it took 10s staring at the picture to get it. Time to go back home, I guess. 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Delivery Instructions[^]
Should have been a developer, that one!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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The Verge has a live blog[^] for the event.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Oh, that's pretty darned cool. Mewantsonenow.
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"We've revamped the product so you can see the true magnesium of the product coming out."
 Does that mean they've left a hole in it?
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"I'll tell you how it's more sexier, because it is."
Arggh. It's sexier, not more sexier you buffoon. Don't dilute your message into making me want to take one of those lovely new magnesium showing devices and ram it down your throat while repeatedly kicking you. Oh, and please don't use circular reasoning to try and sell this to me - that's not going to work.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Oh, and please don't use circular reasoning to try and sell this to me - that's not going to work.
No, but saying "Look, shiny!" is a sure fire winner.
speramus in juniperus
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Shiny and magnesium? Ooh, ooh! Want!
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You know you want it because you do.
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I'm not impressed, the hardware changes are good and there is improvement, but WinRT is still there... :/
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What a very entertaining stand-up comedian !
"You're better off working and playing, doing them at the same time is call ADD. Don't do it."
"I can't see the cloud, but I know it's there."
Delightful.
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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