Robert Roskam on Nostr: I wish more software engineers knew about my favorite debugging method, bisection. I ...
I wish more software engineers knew about my favorite debugging method, bisection.
I usually call it the "cut it in half" approach. As an aside, I seem to recall learning it when in college and using it as a method to identify shorts in an electrical circuit.
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