{"id":28183,"date":"2007-02-02T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/02\/02\/the-ironic-thing-about-fixing-a-bug\/"},"modified":"2007-02-02T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T10:00:09","slug":"the-ironic-thing-about-fixing-a-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070202-09\/?p=28183","title":{"rendered":"The ironic thing about fixing a bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ironic thing about fixing a bug, or at least once I mention on this web site that I fixed a particular bug, is that people immediately <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/09\/10\/227860.aspx#229238\"> complain that<\/a> I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/09\/19\/762058.aspx#765775\"> didn&#8217;t fix<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2005\/12\/21\/506336.aspx#507315\"> some other bug<\/a>. One school of complaint believes that cosmetic bugs should be fixed first: &#8220;You suck. I mean, look at these egregious cosmetic bugs. If you can&#8217;t get even those right, then obviously you can&#8217;t get the other stuff right either.&#8221; The opposite school believes that cosmetic bugs should be fixed last: &#8220;You suck. I mean, why are you fixing cosmetic bugs when there are these other bugs!&#8221;\n But at least both camps agree on one thing: I suck.<\/p>\n<p> I think I&#8217;d be better off if I said I didn&#8217;t fix any bugs at all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ironic thing about fixing a bug, or at least once I mention on this web site that I fixed a particular bug, is that people immediately complain that I didn&#8217;t fix some other bug. One school of complaint believes that cosmetic bugs should be fixed first: &#8220;You suck. I mean, look at these egregious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-28183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The ironic thing about fixing a bug, or at least once I mention on this web site that I fixed a particular bug, is that people immediately complain that I didn&#8217;t fix some other bug. One school of complaint believes that cosmetic bugs should be fixed first: &#8220;You suck. I mean, look at these egregious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}