The Man Bugs Love

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Am I a bad person? I don't think so.

So why do I keep running into every edge case in every software product that I use? Take a look at this problem, it took me quite some time to figure out what the problem is, since I just couldn't believe what was happening. And I still don't know the why. I think that I'm going to have to start Reflecting over the ASP.Net assemblies, just to figure out what is going on there.

Why me? I'm just interested is showing a silly form, and I run into those things. I know that there are people who build systems with multi million lines of code that never run into the bugs that I run just by opening the IDE and typing "Hello World"*. I'm not sure if it's that I'm not using the tools/product properly, or that I've an evil genie really hates me.

That bug had me raving and cursing in no time at all, and as usual, it appeared out of nowhere, just when I was trying to finish writing a page and extract duplication. Now I got both the duplication and the bug to deal with, argh.

* True story: It took me 5 hours to get my first C# program to work.