Kickin' the Darkness: Coding War Story - Sometimes You Just Have to be Facing the Right Direction

Kickin' the Darkness: Coding War Story - Sometimes You Just Have to be Facing the Right Direction: "Y'know, if I hadn't happened to be facing in the general direction of the monitor when that crash happened I might never have noticed it. It would've been easy for me to have an updated build ready to test, and so simply blindly terminated the current run without even noticing its state before doing so. But one little flicker of movement seen out of the corner of my eye caught my attention, and years of experience with the language and its RTE guided me right down the path to tracing it to a vendor bug, and instituting a work-around before it ever came near to being deployed."