wedrifid comments on Diseased disciplines: the strange case of the inverted chart - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 08 February 2012 06:37:30AM 1 point [-]

You don't know that a bug has been introduced when it was introduced, but once you fix it you can trace back to see when it was introduced.

You can often trace back to see when it was introduced prior to fixing it but after identifying the symptom. That's actually a useful debugging tactic.