Today I was working with the Dennis Palmer, trying to figure out why a websocket connection would randomly die, and he threw this out and it fit so perfectly that I had to capture it in a post so I can hereafter reference it:
The longer it takes to find the bug the fewer characters of code that need to change to fix it.
— Dennis Palmer
I imagine every programmer can relate.
EDIT:
The Dennis Himself has given me an update, a slightly more formal restatement (either could be considered to be “Palmer’s Law” as he formulated these himself):
The time it takes to find a bug is inversely proportional to the amount of code required to fix it.
— Dennis Palmer
Another member of the crew, Phuong Van, seeing the conversation, immediately produced a wonderful inspirational poster image, and it has now been set as the feature image for this post:
