Pitfalls, Tweaks, Tricks in Research and Development

Waste less time = Gain more time!

Avoid re-doing the same things twice

• Avoid building Buildroot twice by saving its configs
• Avoid developing scripts twice
• Don't use all CPUs when you are using WSL
• Don't delete files randomly

Make sure the servers are running all the time not you.

Other pitfalls

• Sogoupinyin doesn't work on Ubuntu
• ssh -X forwards X11 back to your desktop (qemu gtk initialization failed)
• Don't use git submodules
• Run shellchecker before running any bash/sh script
• Server restarted was due to out of memory
• Server not responding was due to a dead loop
• Don't play with Python's built-in functions and fields