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Spent 6 months chasing a software bug that was just a missing semicolon
I work as a junior dev at a small agency in Austin, and I had this weird bug where a form would crash every third submission. I spent like 6 months on and off debugging it, rewriting chunks of the code, even blaming the database. Turns out it was just a missing semicolon in a conditional statement. Has anyone else had a dumb simple fix take way longer than it should have?
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simon_chen27d ago
6 months on one missing semicolon sounds like you might have been overcomplicating things or not using your debugger right. I've been coding for a while and most simple bugs like that show up quick if you step through the code line by line. Could be a learning experience though, just make sure you have proper linting set up next time.
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