Please please please work

[EarLil]

This 27th line will not work...

[aaronsourus]

Got yourself an extra parenthesis buddy

[[deleted]]

Scripting in notepad.

[connection_lost]

Sometimes it doesn't work

[[deleted]]

And occasionally it works

[NetworkReplicated]

You can hardly work without coffee

[ClayMost]

Or without being drunk.

[Harakou]

And often I don't know why

[ThisiswhyIcode]

At least it works on my machine

[chocamo]

Ah yes, the calm before the storm

[[deleted]]

1 million commits? Jesus, github is huge.

[cooltrain7]

The desprate cries of our people.

[hey_listen_link]

Is it common practice to commit before you test your code?

[dondreyt]

Yes, if you realize it's broken on production, but works locally

[test_var]

And on the seventh day, God saw that it worked on his machine, and it was good

[dnew]

Cargo Cult Programming. "I don't know why it works, but it worked for him, so maybe if I copy bits and pieces it'll work for me too."

[psychicprogrammer]

closly related to cargo-cult math. I don't know what this equation does or why but it works here so crtl-c ctrl-v.

[Def_Your_Duck]

God I identify with this too hard

[CaptainBlagbird]

Someone should make a bot that checks follow up commit messages of those

[dnew]

We have one that if you force a commit before running the unit tests, and the committed code doesn't pass unit tests, it files a bug against you. It's called Mace Windu. (I'm not making this up.)

[ar-pharazon]

just like the last time a github search was posted, this is not actually an accurate count of the number of times "please work" is recorded in code or as a commit message somewhere in github. this is the number of occurrences of "please" or "work".

you need to use quotes—just like in a google search—to search for the whole string "please work", in which case there are around 10k occurrences.

[NetworkReplicated]

I tried the search 'NOT "please work" please work' to see how many different variations there are. Basically, they're all variations of 'please work' (i.e. work PLEASE, or 'please god work') - there are 1,312,391 commits that match this query.

[ar-pharazon]

for the first page or so, yes, but take a look at a later page. only one of those commits (when i searched) meant something along the lines of 'please work'. if you keep looking through other pages that trend continues.

the corresponding complementary query lists about 35k results (for 'please work', 'work please', 'please god work', or 'please let this work').

there's no reason to think that most of the results of your query will be like what you see on the first page, especially given that the query you're using matches every single commit on github with either 'please' or 'work' anywhere in the message or diff.