It’s always fun working on some code, finding a problem, and realizing – after a couple hours of work – that your company’s core product, the one that’s currently in the field with customers, should never have run correctly in the first place. It’s like watching The Sixth Sense. Or driving your car to the grocery store only to have it stall – then getting out, looking under the hood, and realizing that it’s never had an engine at all, and is powered by a large wheel of cheese connected to the radiator. Fixing the problem may be straightforward – it’s obvious what’s wrong – but you’re struck by a sense of wonder. “How,” you ask yourself, “Did I drive around town for TWO YEARS in a cheese-based automobile?”
Some mysteries are too much for me to comprehend.