[Timothee]

I can certainly enjoy figuring out what's wrong sometimes (and unravel the whole string of events: "oh now that makes sense: this was happening which made this and that behave that way") and I the satisfaction you're referring to; but other times, it's just so far removed from the real task at hand that it's not even funny.

A recent example would be when I was trying to set up my local environment with virtualenv, whose whole purpose is to make that easy. Everything seems fine but pip (Python package manager) was throwing errors. The culprit was that virtualenv creates Python scripts in the local directory with a hashbang for a local version of Python. The thing, it turned out, is that hashbangs don't work when there's a space in the path. And there was a space in my path because I wanted to use Box's sync folder which (stupidly I must say) is called "Box Documents". Now I know.

Long story short, the point is that I wasn't trying to debug virtualenv but had to dig deeper than I wanted into it just to get started on the problems I created. :)

Though you're right: just recalling this, I have a feeling of victory over the problem.