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This is why I never really got into programming. Coding time is sensitively dependent on buggy conditions.
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I've been a software engineer for something like 15 years I've worked in numerous fields I've worked across a number of technologies I have been invited to speak at international conferences Yesterday, I lost several hours to the following typo: "127.0.01"
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yeah, you could look at it that way, but debugging obvious bugs is the most consistent, effective grounding experience. typos, for me, are often a reminder to believe what my eyes are seeing. often I'll look and not really see.
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this is true but I'm not sure I agree with that as "lost", per se. it's hard to explain, but your "lost time" metric is wrongly biased around this imaginary universe where the typo didn't exist.
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Ah I see you think like an eternalist. If you assume you have finite time till you die, lost time is real time. When you have five minutes left to live and both correct and wrong solutions take 3 minutes to try, one order is life of trial and error is life, the other is death.