When the stars align, and when they don't
Tim Hockin · ;login:: the magazine of USENIX & SAGE · 2014
I got my first real bug assignment in 1999, at the beginning of my first job out of undergrad. Over a period of weeks, I went through iterations of code-reading, instrumentation, compiling, and testing, with the bug disappearing and reappearing. In the end, the problem turned out to be a subtle misalignment, something I would never have guessed when I started out.