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George Porter
@georgemporter
Computer Science Professor at @UCSD, focusing on networking and systems.
Jan 17, 2019 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
Busy is bad (a thread) Busy means that important details get overlooked
Aug 29, 2018 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
A quick story about the hardest bug I ever debugged. My first job in high school was working at a Houston-based ISP called NeoSoft. I was writing a multi-platform web server in Tcl/Tk (w/ OTcl) called NeoWebScript 1/ I noticed that the server was crashing, and the stack trace was really unhelpful (an exception but no actual error or error message). After debugging for several hours, I showed it to my coworkers and it magically started working! Hurray! But wait... 2/