Keith Devens .com - Weblog: Entry 1688

Thursday, March 21, 2002

Entry 1688

We really need to come up with a name for those "Day-killer bugs". A bug so obscure you spend at least a big chunk of your day hunting it down. One of those bugs that only happens some of the time because of the interaction of a bunch of pieces of software, only on certain hardware and only on April 1st.

Here we go... a mandelbug is close to what I'm talking about. Although, now that I think about it, all the definitions of bugs in the jargon file kind of miss what I'm getting at. They all describe the bug in terms of its underlying causes... I want to describe it in terms of its effects on my productivity

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Adam Vandenberg wrote:

I thought they were "POM bugs", for "Phase of the Moon".

∴ Adam Vandenberg | 21-Mar-2002 8:10pm est | #134

Hmm, thanks. I looked that up (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/phase-of-the-moon.html) and I don't know if that's quite what I mean. A POM bug seems to happen rarely under certain circumstances. The kind of bug I'm talking about happens all the time, but I can't figure out for the life of me why it's happening. I don't like the term either... it doesn't sound vicious enough

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