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Once upon a time, when <Ciro Santilli> had a job, he had a programming problem.

A senior developer came over, and rather than trying to run and modify the code like an idiot, which is what <Ciro Santilli> usually does (see also experimentalism remarks at <Ciro Santilli's bad old event memory>{full}), he just stared at the code for about 10 minutes.

We knew that the problem was likely in a particular function, but it was really hard to see why things were going wrong.

After the 10 minutes of examining every line in minute detail, he said:
> I think this function call has such or such weird edge case
and truly, that was the cause.

And so, <the correlation between software engineers and Buddhism>[Ciro was enlightened].


Sometimes you can debug software by staring at the code for long enough

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