Look at the Old Code!

As I type this, I’m processing data on NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer for work. I just spent the past 3 days (today being Saturday) engaged in a test of my patience and drive to succeed. I found a bug in my programs which led me on a wild goose chase of sorts to find the right answer. Stackoverflow, code documentation, and Google were scoured by me in an attempt to solve my problem. Yet, it was not until today that I realized that 90% of my solution could be found in previous iterations of this code that I had written. A few copy, pastes, and subsequent error debugging over the span of an hour paid off with the correct answer. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, my old code proved itself to be useable after all! The moral here is, don’t forget to consult yourself when solving a problem!