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You haven't seen the same kind of bugs I have, I guess.

This kind of thing takes more than 2 days to fix, unless you're really good.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=217637

Or this one

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/104845/dhe-rsa-...

I can find more of these that I've run into if I look. I've had tricky bugs in my team's code too, but those don't result in public artifacts, and I'm responsible for all the code that runs on my server, regardless of who wrote it... And I also can't crash client code, regardless of who wrote it, even if my code just follows the RFC.



That's what I'm saying. Nothing takes 2 days to fix meaning it takes more time


Oh. Well, I've done easy fixes too. There's plenty of things that just need a couple minutes, like a copy error somewhere.

Or just an hour or two. I can't find it anymore, but I've run into libraries where simple things with months didn't work, because like May only has three letters or July and June both start with Ju. That can turn into a big deal, but often it's easy, once someone notices it.


If your goal is to fill green github squares then fine




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