~2 years ago I started a project, but hit a snag after only a couple evenings. Since then, every 4-5 months I'd pick it up and see if I could debug it. Finally today (after another 16 hours this week thrown at the problem) I found the issue and of course it was in some random part of the code I'd never thought to look in before!
So I think that wins my longest-bug-hunt award.....
2 years ago · 👍 skyjake, digbat
8 months · 2 years ago
8 months every day for 8 months. Fortran Common Data Area (shared global memory - I reinitialised it). 8 months, split up with my girlf, failed my PhD, 8 months. Now you know why I am an Erlang programmer, no shared memory, proper variables THAT DONT VARY. If I say A=2 it stays 2 dammit, and if someone trys to change its value it won't damn compile. · 2 years ago
I sank hundreds of hours into it... and it ended up being a one line change. · 2 years ago