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Mountain Biking Helps Squash Bugs

Posted by timothy on from the so-do-big-grins dept.

Dr.Milius writes "Henning Brauer of the OpenBSD project recently made an interesting post to the openbsd-tech mailing list about how a mountain bike ride helped him relate two baffling bugs in their new BGP and NTP daemons. It turns out they were both off-by-one errors that were easy to fix but notoriously difficult to spot. Always great when the experts show us how it's done."

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  1. Bake Cookies! by maskedbishounen · · Score: 4, Interesting

    On the food aspect, whenever I run into coding problems, I go bake cookies. Helps if you have a near by oven and supply of dough, of course, but it gives you a good 30 minutes to stop and focus on something else. I usually end up pacing around while they bake, looking out the windows, looking around the kitchen, and more oft than not have a viable solution in addition to some fresh cookies when I go back to coding.

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    "An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program."