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Original Post: The first rule of debugging
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If the bug isn't where you're looking, you're probably looking in the wrong place Seems pretty obvious, but I get nailed by it all the time: I get some preconcieved notion of where the problem is, and then I focus there to the exclusion of looking at other possibilities.
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