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theslugger | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Weirdest hack that you ever saw in production?

First job out of university and I had to fix a terrible crash that happens to our prod application every few hours running on Windows NT boxes. After lots of debugging and asking all the “senior” devs, no one knew a solution since it was all super old code. What I did notice, though, was the apps that I was debugging didn’t crash until I stopped debugging it.

Turns out that it was a memory issue and every time I minimized and maximized the app, part of the memory got cleaned up. So as a temporary fix, I just wrote a script to auto minimize/maximize the apps on all boxes until we found the memory leak.

Note: we never found the leak.

theslugger | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's the single best piece of advice you've ever heard?

Let it not be said you never got what you wanted because you never asked.

theslugger | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)

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