Quotes
These are my selected thoughts I posted previously on Facebook, Twitter, and where appropriate, on LinkedIn.
- Fiction is for Diagnostics. Science Fiction is for Prognostics.
- History is an exception. History starts with diagnostics.
- You cannot fit a gigabyte into one byte, but you can stream through it.
- Modern software traces require engineers to activate their neural networks.
- Crash dump analysis No. 18643. “See crash dump analysis No. 14120”.
- A desire to bomb comes from the suppression of certain instincts during childhood.
- A too perfect program is most likely malware. (After reading “The Discovered Country” by Ian MacLeod).
- If it rains for too long, it may be a simulation.
- Again German language helps to understand the essence of software. Hang (in German) - tendency.
- After an hour of code come many hours of analysis.
- A software support practitioner is a diplomat who brings peace to both sides: a user and a developer.
- Win-Dbg is a situation you frequently discover when working with Windows. Neither Win-Win nor Win-Lose.
- If I were a Unixoid, I would have moved to Windows because of WinDbg (WinningDbg).
- A dump analysis job is in some way similar to an accountant job - examining records of some company.
- “Terminal error” has two meanings: soft and hard.
- When you write defect-laden code, you need to follow coding standards otherwise you end up with defects inside defects and start debugging to make your defects correct. (From the forthcoming “Software Defect Construction: Simulation and Modeling of Software Bugs”).
- You only discover new patterns when you work slowly.
- I am a diagnostician. I only see problems. You have a problem. Your computer system is healthy.
- Intuition: pattern recall from internalized pattern catalogues. Therefore, pattern-oriented software diagnostics help increase your problem-solving intuition by diagnosing the right problem.
- Inaccessible Data Analysis is the next big thing.
- A good trace is one that has an answer when you search for “reason”.