Look what I started. And All That Clever Code ...

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by
definition, not smart enough to debug it.

        — Brian W. Kernighan <http://genius.cat-v.org/brian-kernighan/> and
P. J. Plauger in *The Elements of Programming Style*
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 9:19 PM, Ingo Krabbe <ikrabbe.ask@gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually not all bugs are fixed, some are introduced as a feature
>
> http://intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/games/credits/space.html#hawk
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>
> > On 24 July 2015 at 04:54, Prof Brucee <prof.brucee@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> has Linux with the release of 4.0 finally jumped the shark.
> >
> >
> > Since it's called "Hurr Durr I'ma Sheep", I thought I'd ask a celebrity
> > what he thought of it.
> > The response was much as I'd expected: http://goo.gl/ZefDFV
> > Others simply said that "it was baaad".
> >
> > I'm amused that as usual, dynamic patching of kernel source, like
> replacing
> > dynamic libraries, is presented uniformly as a way to fix bugs everywhere
> > quickly, because we all know that bugs always are fixed and never
> > introduced, and being able to capture a kernel without rebooting is never
> > of practical interest.
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