DocBug on Heisenbugs

[mdlbear]

Now that my cow-orker has posted his excellent list of things to avoid in a demo in public, I can link to it. And as he says, "Never one to take the easy route, my current research project contains every one of these features. No matter how many successful trials I run, I never really know whether this time it'll go boom."

And it's true -- it failed again this afternoon, though not as badly as Monday. There are subtle timing problems in there, methinks.

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[finagler.livejournal.com]

It was, indeed, a timing issue. Tests from my desktop to my new fast laptop worked, but the slower transfer between laptops uncovered a bug I'd introduced the previous day.

As for the Monday SNAFU, I can only hope we're right about it being the wireless access point rebooting at the wrong time...