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  1. # Best Bug

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  3. my pal and i accidentally introduced a bug in our code that sorta took up a personality of its own, heres the story.

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  5. # the setting

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  7. at university comp sci, me and my buddy entered a programming contest that was run by a health company. it was free, and we thought we might be able to get some of the prizes.

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  9. the goal was to create an engine to play last card, and all the entries would be run against each other and ranked.

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  11. this was in about two hours in one of the uni labs.

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  13. > pretty boring stuff

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  15. it had that yellow glow of the lights as well, because it was getting dark outside.

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  17. # the fun

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  19. we started implementing a pretty basic card counting thing, and to pass the time a bit were talking about our 'ai'

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  21. > its super good at card games, even the basic ones

  22. 

  23. > its like outta yugioh, its kaiba or something

  24. 

  25. > yeah jojos poses every turn, better than the rest

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  27. *etc etc*

  28. 

  29. so we finished up after...

  30. 

  31. ***having to deal with whatever maven is***

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  33. i still dont understand the hundred different package management things, why do they have to keep changing? `/rant over`

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  35. # uh oh

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  37. we ended up placing second, losing to the guy that already worked for the company running the event.

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  39. we lost points because we didnt understand the state format correctly, but i believe we understand it right.

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  41. what theyd done is ~~super gross~~ ~~logically wrong~~ had any collection of cards as the java version of `Maybe Cards` such that rather than an empty list being `[]`, the whole thing was a `Nothing`.

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  43. a collection of cards that has zero cards in it is still a set, and therefore should be represented by `[]` or equivilent. `/rant over`

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  45. the affect of this on ol` kaiba boi (aka kAIba which added to the charm) was that if it was the first player of a game, it would crash, timeout and the game manager would default to a pass.

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  47. # neato bug

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  49. this cemented the persona of this bug to be a kaiba-esque dramatic dickhead, threatening to fall off buildings if he loses, but saying:

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  51. > huh! first player advantage? thats for **noobs**, you take it

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  53. and yeeting the other player first turn.

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  55. # fin

  56. 

  57. memorable bugs are the best kind of bugs, and have a life all of their own. part of the magic of programmation is finding these so you gotta pay attention.

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  59. `:wq`