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[–] fsr1967 133 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Interviewer: Tell me an interesting debugging story

Interviewee: ...

[–] sudo42 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Heh. Years ago during an interview I was explaining how important it is to verify a system before putting it into orbit. If one found problems in orbit, you usually can’t fix it. My interviewer said, “Why not just send up the space shuttle to fix it?”

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