Reasons to ignore bugs

Posted May 3, 2007 8:25 UTC (Thu) by dark (✭ supporter ✭, #8483) [Link]

Well, people enjoy different aspects of programming. For you it's probably the satisfaction of making something that works well. For xma it might be the thrill of tackling hard problems, with a corresponding lack of interest in polishing the solutions afterward. Or it might just be the joy of making things that move.

I happen to enjoy tracking down and fixing bugs, but on the other hand, when I write new code I go very slowly because I want to make sure it's perfect. I'd probably work well in a team with xma :)

To people who are in it for the hard problems, I'd say that bugs are a sign that you didn't get the solution exactly right, and sometimes the 100% solution is ten times as hard as the 99% solution. As an example, you can see that clearly in the efforts to make a kernel scheduler that works well in all cases.