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Sunday, 1 March 2009

Word of the Day: Hubris

Hubris: Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance

In Poker Copilot's custom charts, if you try to add "Hands Played" to the chart, performance becomes abysmal. The whole app freezes up while rendering the graph. The more hands you have, the worse this problem.

I presumed that my code wasn't the source of the problem. For weeks I displayed overbearing pride and never sought the problem in my own code. Finally I started dissecting the third-party charting component's source code, where my arrogance told myself the problem must lie.

I was wrong and am somewhat humbled. A stray "i++" in my Java source code was at fault. Expect a fix in the next Poker Copilot update.

1 comments:

Sohail Somani said...

This reminds me of my two rules for programming:
1) It's you
2) See rule 1

 

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