Reasons to ignore bugs

Reasons to ignore bugs

Posted May 3, 2007 8:25 UTC (Thu) by dark (✭ supporter ✭, #8483)
In reply to: Reasons to ignore bugs by tuxchick
Parent article: Job opening: kernel bug manager

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.

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