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CreationSoul
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Romania231 Posts
October 02 2013 19:29 GMT
#1
Very short blog.

I work as a software engineer and I have been working on (very) complicated task for the past month. I was very stressed out because my code was failing in some very weird cases and only on Windows 8. After 1 week of debugging and some conference calls with some Microsoft engineers, it was finally discovered that they have a bug in their API.

This is a new achievement for me: to find bugs in the Windows API.

****
Quitting is the easy way out...
3FFA
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States3931 Posts
October 02 2013 20:22 GMT
#2
Congrats, but could you do us the favor of going into just a little bit more detail as to what the bug was?
"As long as it comes from a pure place and from a honest place, you know, you can write whatever you want."
CecilSunkure
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States2829 Posts
October 02 2013 20:38 GMT
#3
Congrats, also: everything in Windows 8 is broken; not your fault (or so I hear!).
jrkirby
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States1510 Posts
October 02 2013 23:10 GMT
#4
Not too much surprising.
beg
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
991 Posts
October 03 2013 00:28 GMT
#5
sounds awesome.

lovely passion you have there.
ElMeanYo
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1032 Posts
October 03 2013 05:23 GMT
#6
I feel for you because this is so frustrating... having worked with MS products for so long... I've wasted many a day trying to figure out if it was my bug or Microsofts.

I much prefer that they be my bugs because then at least I can do something about them
“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
October 03 2013 07:57 GMT
#7
I can totally relate to this. Sometimes at work I also have to figure out if something is my bug or a bug on Microsoft's side. It turns out they're one in the same.
peacenl
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
550 Posts
October 03 2013 13:37 GMT
#8
I think most the programmers can recall a moment like this, where we start questioning our sanity. Like: "I know this is right, am I losing my mind?". I also vote for more detail.
- One does not simply walk into a bar and start calling the shots.
- Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
LastWish
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
2015 Posts
October 03 2013 13:40 GMT
#9
Microsoft is a trademark for flawed software.
I think that in order to get into the company you need to make at least a few bugs in your code at the interview.

Although they have made some really good programs like Visual Studio, so I'm not really hating them
- It's all just treason - They bring me down with their lies - Don't know the reason - My life is fire and ice -
spinesheath
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Germany8679 Posts
October 03 2013 13:56 GMT
#10
Gee, all the hate. Of course Microsoft products have bugs. All software systems of that size have bugs.

Good job finding one though.
If you have a good reason to disagree with the above, please tell me. Thank you.
adwodon
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United Kingdom592 Posts
October 03 2013 20:33 GMT
#11
I had something similar recently with AMD FirePro cards not displaying one of our dialogues properly, despite working on our cards, nvidia cards and on board.

Was fucking infuriating trying to figure it out, I eventually found a workaround which involved moving a ShowWindow() before a section of code as opposed to after and this seemed to resolve the issue. Exactly what the reason was I have no idea, we were essentially launching a dialogue then loading a DLL which then painted on top of it, with FirePro cards it wouldn't paint over the top, although interestingly, not setting the window as the dialogues parent would cause it paint, just obviously not be attached to the window.

I think the worst part of it all was that 'our' software in this case was written by a 'senior' software engineer who didn't last his 6 month probation period. I graduated a year ago and I write infinitely better, more readable software than this 'senior' engineer.
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