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megamind5005 · Jun 3rd, 2006, 8:46 PM

Booze: Hey, at least you didn't try to use a private variable in a global context :eek:

DaWei · Jun 3rd, 2006, 8:55 PM

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...just decided to disregard it. The program still works to this day...

You know they say God looks after idjits....

lectricpharaoh · Jun 4th, 2006, 2:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Harakim

I was writing a program that used recv() and send(). Anyway, recv always returned -1 for some reason. I spent several days conducting all kinds of test and then just decided to disregard it. The program still works to this day and probably recv() still returns -1. I don't know why!!

This reminds me of my mom. Some years back, she had a car that she refused to take care of. When the 'change oil' light came on, she ignored it until the problem 'went away', meaning the light no longer came on. I guess she failed to consider that it was a case of the bulb expiring, rather than magical elves changing the oil in the middle of the night.

King · Jun 4th, 2006, 2:34 AM

I have spent days and days trying to figure out some errors when I was first learning sockets... very frustrating

Jessehk · Jun 4th, 2006, 10:56 AM

Well, I can't remember an instance of a single bug, but when I was writing my first big program (to me, at least. It was ~800 lines) in C++, I must have spent about 8 hours debugging and fixing logic after I had initialy written it.

Sane · Jun 4th, 2006, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by lectricpharaoh

This reminds me of my mom. Some years back, she had a car that she refused to take care of. When the 'change oil' light came on, she ignored it until the problem 'went away', meaning the light no longer came on. I guess she failed to consider that it was a case of the bulb expiring, rather than magical elves changing the oil in the middle of the night.

ROFL!!!

Mad_guy · Jun 4th, 2006, 5:37 PM

Many days I'll spend lots of time analyzing and debugging programs that aren't mine in an effort to just try and understand how they work (sometimes even Windows itself.) Does that count?

Sane · Jun 4th, 2006, 7:09 PM

For the last hour I've been trying to figure out why converting something from console to GUI messes up how the API is reacting to a certain command. No success in my debugging efforts yet.

Ooble · Jun 5th, 2006, 8:22 AM

A few weeks ago, I spent a day trying to figure out why MySQLConnector/NET wouldn't let me open a friggin' MySqlCommand - kept saying I already had one open. After going through the application line by line about five hundred and thirty-seven and a half times, and correcting a few bugs that cropped up, I found the problem: I had to move the line closing the previous MySqlCommand a few lines up.

Prm753 · Jun 5th, 2006, 1:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Ooble

A few weeks ago, I spent a day trying to figure out why MySQLConnector/NET wouldn't let me open a friggin' MySqlCommand - kept saying I already had one open. After going through the application line by line about five hundred and thirty-seven and a half times, and correcting a few bugs that cropped up, I found the problem: I had to move the line closing the previous MySqlCommand a few lines up.

Heh. Sounds like a bug that I would manage to create. Right now, I am fighting SHFileOperation() and it's strange behaviour

with taking a char* as an argument in pTo. Unhappy about it am I.

Jun 3rd, 2006, 8:46 PM	#11
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Jun 4th, 2006, 2:34 AM	#14
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Jun 4th, 2006, 10:56 AM	#15
Jessehk The Oblivious One Join Date: May 2005 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 646 Rep Power: 4	Well, I can't remember an instance of a single bug, but when I was writing my first big program (to me, at least. It was ~800 lines) in C++, I must have spent about 8 hours debugging and fixing logic after I had initialy written it. __________________ Dr. Zoidberg: [ecstatic] I'm going to a movie... with FRIENDS!

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Mad_guy Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Sandstorm, Techno Club Posts: 239 Rep Power: 5	Many days I'll spend lots of time analyzing and debugging programs that aren't mine in an effort to just try and understand how they work (sometimes even Windows itself.) Does that count? __________________ os: mac os 10.5.4 revision control: git editor: emacs site

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Ooble I eat cake for breakfast. Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: In my box. Posts: 4,434 Rep Power: 9	A few weeks ago, I spent a day trying to figure out why MySQLConnector/NET wouldn't let me open a friggin' MySqlCommand - kept saying I already had one open. After going through the application line by line about five hundred and thirty-seven and a half times, and correcting a few bugs that cropped up, I found the problem: I had to move the line closing the previous MySqlCommand a few lines up. __________________ Me :: You :: Them

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Sane Programming Guru Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Ontario Posts: 2,013 Rep Power: 6	For the last hour I've been trying to figure out why converting something from console to GUI messes up how the API is reacting to a certain command. No success in my debugging efforts yet.

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Oh yeahh.. debugging!!