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efnx on March 2, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Snap for Beginners: Haskell Web Development

Today I learned that a bug of which you can only know either its position or its velocity but not both to any significant degree, is a heisenbug.

dllthomas on March 2, 2014 [–]

I'm not sure if you're joking, but Heisenbug is used to mean "bug that changes when you try to observe it".

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