By introspection. I study the program for so long and poke at it more or less systematically for so long that I have sufficient understanding to provide an educated guess where the bug is. Testing is something else, and so is design to
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“That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“We invented a way of solving problems by simply making it the other guy’s problem. It’s called specialization of labor, and it’s as simple as that. That’s how the humans differ from chimpanzees: they never invented that.”
― Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages
― Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages
“Eich and the other researchers devised a method to determine people’s mood simply by asking them a neutral question. The underlying assumption they relied upon was that people will react to a neutral question in a way that reflects how they feel. The answer isn’t important; it’s about whether people answer in a non-neutral way.”
― The Science of Likability: 27 Studies to Master Charisma, Attract Friends, Captivate People, and Take Advantage of Human Psychology
― The Science of Likability: 27 Studies to Master Charisma, Attract Friends, Captivate People, and Take Advantage of Human Psychology
“She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies right away.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
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