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I have been bitten more than once thinking that my initial assumption was correct, diving deeper and deeper - only to realize I had to ascend and look outside o
by Zolomon 2y ago
I have been bitten more than once thinking that my initial assumption was correct, diving deeper and deeper - only to realize I had to ascend and look outside of the rabbit hole to find the actual issue.
> Assumption is the mother of all screwups.
- sitkack 2y agoThis is how I view debugging, aligning my mental model with how the system actually works. Assumptions are bugs in the mental model. The problem is conflating what is knowledge with what is an assumption.
- astrobe_ 2y agoI've once heard from an RTS game caster (IIRC it was Day9 about Starcraft) "Assuming... Is killing you".
- kmoser 2y agoWhen playing Captain Obvious (i.e. the human rubber duck) with other devs, every time they state something to be true my response is, "prove it!" It's amazing how quickly you find bugs when somebody else is making you question your assumptions.