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Advanced Bug Squashing: The Art of Not Being an Idiot

For those of you who have managed to break your own code without even trying, welcome to the Pixelated Pandemonium Bug Squashing Guide.

Technique 1: The "I Give Up" Method

Step 1: Stare at your screen for hours, muttering "Why won't you just work?!"

  1. Step 2: Check the obvious: did you really type that semicolon correctly?
  2. Step 3: Call in a professional (i.e., Google)

Technique 2: The "Sweep and Pray" Method

Step 1: Randomly delete 30% of your code

  1. Step 2: Hope for the best

Technique 3: The "Blind Monkey" Method

Step 1: Copy and paste random snippets of code from Stack Overflow

  1. Step 2: Pray to the Coding Gods

And if all else fails...

Try our patented Beggar Squasher's Last Resort Method, a technique so desperate, it'll make you weep for the souls of your fellow developers.

Discuss the theoretical merits of "The Random Number Generator" in the Bad Idea Theorists Corner