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by path411 1691 days ago
Can't imagine the pain to even discover this problem. It normally takes me a long time to be like, "maybe I didn't make a mistake, and I have a third party bug?". Third party bugs are always the most annoying to me, usually the longest to diagnose and then ultimately I have to just tell my boss I can't do anything to fix it, but hopefully I can find a way to avoid it.
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isolli 1691 days ago
Imagine having to diagnose a bug in the processor!

http://gallium.inria.fr/blog/intel-skylake-bug/

"More experienced programmers know very well that the bug is generally in their code: occasionally in third-party libraries; very rarely in system libraries; exceedingly rarely in the compiler; and never in the processor."

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Aeolun 1691 days ago
Fork and fix? I’ve personally been pleasantly surprised by how fast maintainers will merge a PR I submit.

If it causes an issue with our own systems it also gives me a very good justification for doing it.

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eatonphil 1691 days ago
In Oracle's proprietary system?
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throwanem 1691 days ago
Oracle doesn't appear to maintain the DBD::Oracle Perl client module.
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path411 1689 days ago
Sometimes I've had a pr merged. Sometimes I've had stubborn maintainers that think that their project should not follow common domain standards for /shrug reasons.

And then many other times I honestly don't have the knowledge to be able to contribute into large third party systems and it seems very rare to get an issue resolved without submitting a pr.

And lastly sometimes it's hard to judge if unexpected behavior is really a 'bug'. Similar to the last point, it can honestly be hard to tell the difference sometimes.

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