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@tailrec is not always your friend
Jan. 13th, 2016 01:48 pm[For the programmers -- this is a pretty technical intermediate-level "mistakes to avoid" lesson. Likely useful to folks who are learning programming, and ruefully amusing in a headdesk way to the experienced programmers.]
Today's fire-drill for Querki was a bug report (from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alexx_kay, who has my deepest thanks for pointing it out) that, under certain circumstances, his browser window was hanging. Not showing an error, not popping up alerts -- just becoming completely unresponsive. There was a 30 minute hunt to figure out what the heck was going on, and a quick release to get the fix out. Here's what happened, and the lesson to learn from it.
( Click for the sad details )
Today's fire-drill for Querki was a bug report (from
alexx_kay, who has my deepest thanks for pointing it out) that, under certain circumstances, his browser window was hanging. Not showing an error, not popping up alerts -- just becoming completely unresponsive. There was a 30 minute hunt to figure out what the heck was going on, and a quick release to get the fix out. Here's what happened, and the lesson to learn from it.( Click for the sad details )