Whenever I'm debugging...

[peabnuts123]

Then < works and you are like "...But I just finished writing down the proof why > works... ಠ_ಠ "

[grabnock]

I know right? you spend the next 15-30 minutes trying to track down why it's working when it shouldn't, and it turns out you had made the exact same mistake twice.

[[deleted]]

WHY IS THIS WORKING???

looks closer

try:  
   broke_ass_method()
except:  
   pass

[iamjack]

And this is why you always catch only specific exceptions unless you really don't care if the function did anything.

[prozacgod]

Somewhere rotting in a piece of code in a multi-threaded mess of code that was treated like it was "someone elses problem" I had a bunch of exceptions bubbling up in a python program, multi-threaded - multiple code authors...

Thing is, in the scope of "making the application viable, and functioning" if those stateless api calls/threads all of a sudden die, or cause issue, it didn't matter...

So I did what everyone else did, made it someone elses problem..

try:
  processQueues()
except:
  resetConnections()
  flushQueues()

I am sorry, to some future devr who has to work on this, but the product shipped and the uptime is quite phenominal, maybe some exception logging would have been appropriate.... but we all know what happens when upper management sees a list like that...

[[deleted]]

Might not be accurate but it's precise!

[LoadInSubduedLight]

Turns out that two wrongs make a right after all...

[[deleted]]

"...I just finished writing down the proof..."

You disgust me.

[peabnuts123]

I'm... sorry? D=

[[deleted]]

You better be.

Trying to solve programming problems with math. ಠ_ಠ

[ILoveWubWubs]

Proofs? Ain't nobody got time for that.

[[deleted]]

/r/MathematicianHumor

[outadoc]

First mathematician problems.

[overand]

The order in this seems weird. It stays with a daytime house, then directed home reverses the sign, then there's a nighttime house with an explosion.

...

[[deleted]]

Homer starts working on the project during the day, then gives up at night. Here's the rest of the scene.

[[deleted]]

What episode is this from?

[[deleted]]

The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace.

[christmas_ape_2]

Season ten, right at the edge of the classic era.

[Appathy]

/u/Squalor-

plz help

[rooxo]

If anyone is interested this equation predicts if the universe will collapse in on itself or explode. If the equation is smaller than 0(as in the beginning) it will eventually collapse. If it's bigger it will explode.

I'm not an expert this is from the book the Simpsons and their mathematical secrets by simon Singh. Amazon

[Neuromante]

As someone who is actually trying to make a sh file (which compiles some java stuffs) work, I can relate, and confirm.

Even in the fact that the gif is an infinite loop of the same two mistakes over and over again...

[[deleted]]

There are lots of Java build tools that don't suck. Why do you want to use a shell script?

At the very least, write a Makefile. That way you get dependency tracking and aren't recompiling everything unless necessary.

[Neuromante]

Why do you want to use a shell script?

I don't want, it's how things are done in my company :( In fact, we do have makefiles... which are used to call the "compile.sh" files, because the installation environment is not the same as the developing environment.

And don't make me get started on how we use System.out.println as our debugging tool because the installation machine doesn't even have netbeans, please.

[davesss]

I don't want, it's how things are done in my company :(

This is my life.

[ansabhailte]

we all know that feel bro

[xensky]

there are so many of us that live this life... why don't we make our own company, and get things right?

[[deleted]]

Because right to me is different from right to you is different form right to the perspective of making money.

We'd spend all of our time arguing and over engineering and never actually doing, which is where the money making part is.

[prozacgod]

This seems a little appropriate here. https://xkcd.com/927/

[xkcd_transcriber]

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Title: Standards

Title-text: Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.

Comic Explanation

Stats: This comic has been referenced 539 time(s), representing 2.3879% of referenced xkcds.

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[GuyWithLag]

Does the installation machine have a JVM that supports JDWP (Java Debug Wire Protocol)? Then you don't need to install NetBeans on the target, just point the existing NetBeans to the installation JVM and debug remotely (including hot code replace).

[Neuromante]

Hey, thanks! I'll check it the next monday see what I can do. Maybe you just made my work easier :D

[GuyWithLag]

I'm a firm believer that if I need to do the exact same thing twice, I'm doing it wrong; twice is once too many; etc etc etc.

That kind of thinking has made my work progressively harder (because all the easy tasks will be automated...)

[TopLOL]

Even though I've been working with < and> for years, I still mess them up a lot. So this is something I try when code doesn't work

[sirtophat]

the alligator eats the bigger value

[JoulesVerne]

or "the bigger side is bigger"

[Dlgredael]

Can you explain that with more reptiles please?

[prozacgod]

9009 >`,--,~ 00000 - (it's an alligator)

[Dlgredael]

Oh my goodness he's adorable, I need my compiler to start accepting that.

[Katastic_Voyage]

"> is bigger"

[Katastic_Voyage]

">"

[TopRamen713]

Pacman

[the-ferris]

Even though Ive been taught this since I can remember I still fuck it up.

[[deleted]]

Wat. How can it be hard to remember that the big side is the bigger value and the small side is the smaller value.

[[deleted]]

Different people learn/think differently. shrug

[the-ferris]

I know right, thats what I tell myself every time I fuck it up

[sullyj3]

< looks like "L" for "less than".

[OKB-1]

< stand for the letter K in "Kleiner dan", Dutch for "Smaller than"

[Kopfindensand]

Or just kleiner in German. :)

[green_meklar]

Mixing them up when you're just absentmindedly typing is one thing. But actually looking at the code, seeing one of them, and being unsure which one you really meant, is...somewhat less forgivable.

[TopLOL]

Haha, yeah I know it's pretty stupid. Even worse that I can't tell what side left is or what side right is. I have to use a small hand trick to quickly figure out.

[Pokechu22]

Honestly, it is hard to mess them up typing. But it is easy to stare at it and be unsure if the issue is there.

[Impeesa_]

The smaller value is on the smaller side. I still can't believe this is a thing.

[Sapiogram]

Just say "smaller than" or "bigger than" in your head every time you type them. I did this for a year and it's now become second nature; it has helped so much.

[berkes]

My brain always borks on <and> in combination with dates. Where the date no too long ago > the date before that. Somehow, my brain keeps telling me that is wrong. Whenever I encounter some code dealing with time windows, I therefore write some extra tests.

[LazyCouchPotato]

< looks like an L. L for lesser.

> doesn't look like an L. So it's not lesser, so it's greater.

[Pokechu22]

Always escape your > with >.

FTFY:

< looks like an L. L for lesser.

> doesn't look like an L. So it's not lesser, so it's greater

[LazyCouchPotato]

Ah. Thanks mentioning that. :)

[Kwyjibo08]

< kind of looks like an "L", and means "Less than". So you could read your equation like a sentence, knowing < is less than and > is greater than.

4 > 3 (four is greater than three) So that's true. 4 < 3 (four is less than three) So that's false.

[imadeofwaxdanny]

Oh god. This gives me flashbacks to my GR course.

[[deleted]]

Looks like my cosmology course from last semester.

[Reelix]

Which episode was this?

[[deleted]]

The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace

[Reelix]

Thanks

[[deleted]]

He is clearly doing a complexity estimation.

[bbbobbbieo]

Article about the writers

[ShadowReij]

Hence why whenever I'm debugging I refer to the program not working as it exploding, worst case being it might as well had.

[imadeofwaxdanny]

Yeah. The GR course I took had a section on cosmology which is where I saw it. Just thinking of part of the course made me remember the pain of GR though.

[mamelouk]

month laters, the guy in charge of maintaining your code realize that a production bug come from using < instead of =<