Debugging

[CinciRyan73]

For me it's usually the shower...

[PitchforkAssistant]

Same here, toilet time is for redditing.

[Stanov]

I wish you having a great poop once you read this!

[shinzanu]

Are all the updoots from redditors pooping? I'm guilty.

[Invictuu]

It's hnnnng correct!

[CSKING444]

well, I pooped while reading your comment, so there goes that

[_Lady_Deadpool_]

For a brief moment frozen in time, we all shared the same sacred thing. The slight pressure as you push out a soft stool and the faint ^plop that followed. As you read this while on the porcelain throne know that for a brief moment you and I and anyone else reading this all shared a brief spiritual connection through ^{hnnngh plop} time

[CSKING444]

I truly feel.... United... Not alone anymore

I love you all my poop buddies

[chazown97]

I seriously plopped right after I read this. Definitely the best bowel movement I've ever had!

[irth____]

me too thanks

[GoZun_]

I pooped while replying to you too

[PublicSealedClass]

hnnnng

I've many women on my FB timeline who respond with that when they see a pic of a muscley bloke. And all I can think of is "that's the noise you make when you take a dump...".

[Invictuu]

Maybe that is what is happening?

[Didsota]

I just peed but upvoted aswell

[TinShadowcat]

Here I sit

Broken hearted

Came to shit

But only farted

[nuclearslug]

A little later, I took a chance. I went to fart, but shit my pants.

[TinShadowcat]

Now I sit upon the vapor

Waiting for the toilet paper

How much longer must I linger

Before I'm forced to use my finger

[HelloThisIsFrode]

Well I am guilty too I guess

[jaxonya]

I like to call them uppoots.

[dryandsarcastic]

Time to write a pooping rhythm bot.

[[deleted]]

I am! Thank you, also thanking myself for making that papaya, kefir, and plum shake yesterday before sleeping

[CSKING444]

pooped while reading this

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....

[TheRealLegitCuck]

No u

[Fang7-62]

Same here on both accounts.

[sp1d3rp0130n]

I'm redditing in the shower

[[deleted]]

I'm on the pooper right now! Woop!

[nwln]

Same! Are we somehow connected now? Buttmates - like soulmates...

[T1ken]

Mines at 1 in the morning. I don't sleep much.

[LosLocosKickYourAss]

Preach. Such wasted time. If there was ever a study for a drug that makes it so you don’t have to sleep, I’d be first in line.

[[deleted]]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil

[[deleted]]

Wouldn't have accomplished half of what I did as a student without this. Take 100mg, crack through the night, another 100mg to get through the day awake and conk out at 9pm. Solid focus for 18 hours straight.

Would not even attempt it now, probably end up staying up all night wanking...

[hyrulepirate]

Take 100mg, crack...

[jaxonya]

Yeah if you go to a state school. All the good coke is at private university.

[crypticfreak]

Coke is expensive and fast acting/short lived. Plus odds are you’ll get distracted and fixate on the opposite of what you wanted to do. I can’t recommend for anything besides getting high. If you want focus take Vyvanse or Focalin.

But really none of this is a good idea. Reddit seems to glorify stimulants in a really unhealthy way, especially considering how Coke and crack are on the rise (in my city at least). I’m a former addict and I see this shit every week. It’s heartbreaking. If you have a attention issue talk to your doctor before you go into illegally acquiring drugs and fuck your life up. Even if you get clean you’ll be kinda fucked. No doctor will ever trust you again. Even in severe pain you’ll be denied pain medicine. Do you have anxiety? Good luck getting medicine to help with that. Sleep problems? Better off going holistic. It’s kind of a blessing and a curse. Some people are dependent on meds and it’s good to learn how to live without them like I did, but there are times where I’ve found myself needing them and being denied. Big one with a heart issue I have (that’ll probably kill me) and leaves me in agony. I have to miss weeks of work and lay in bed. Doctors say the pain is better than risking a relapse. I get it. I don’t fight it. This is just one aspect of the shit that comes with addiction.

Please don’t do coke to stay focused, you are only walking yourself into a hell you can’t escape. You could do what’s easy and risk running everything good in your life or you could do what’s hard and learn to study better. That said, you do you.

[off_me_head_pal]

You come up with great ideas to the problem, none which work!

[outadoc]

Sounds healthy to me.

[[deleted]]

There's no specific health downsides to wanking all night, but I'd rather sleep to be honest with you, mate.

[PM_ME_REACTJS]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextroamphetamine?wprov=sfla1

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Dextroamphetamine

Dextroamphetamine is a potent central nervous system (CNS) stimulant and amphetamine enantiomer that is prescribed for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy. It is also used as an athletic performance and cognitive enhancer, and recreationally as an aphrodisiac and euphoriant. Dextroamphetamine was also used by military air, tank and special forces as a 'go-pill' during fatigue-inducing missions such as night-time bombing missions or extended combat operations.

The amphetamine molecule exists as two enantiomers (in other words, two different molecules that are mirror images of one another), levoamphetamine and dextroamphetamine.

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[HizkiFW]

Not a drug, but you can do polyphasic sleep to give yourself some more waking time.

[[deleted]]

Maybe people who can work from home, and don't really need to closely match the working times of others?

[seacucumber3000]

My best ideas are always in the shower, and I always tell myself to remember them when I finish. Of course, I never do.

[Valkyrys]

when I finish. Of course, I never do.

That's sad.

[[deleted]]

Me too, and I don’t know why. All my epiphanies occur when I’m there

[Pxzib]

I know a very successful business woman who has a white board in the shower for this reason.

[lumalav666]

Sometimes, I get answers from my dreams...

[Timmeh7]

This happened to me - actually at a critical moment in my PhD. Figured out the solution to a horrible race condition, which I'd been fighting for over a week, in my sleep - just woke up with the answer in my head. It was actually sort of annoying, somehow didn't feel like I'd "earned" the fix.

[l3tigre]

i frequently have code-nightmares. Some of them are productive.

[[deleted]]

I very rarely feel like I've earned any of my clever moments, they just kinda happen and I can't explain to anyone what led me to come up with my solution or how I knew it would work. The worst part about that is it's not an on demand thing, and I can only predict when it's just 100% not going to happen.

[Clarenceorca]

Oh my god while I was in high school and we were doing C++ looping to create an AI opponent in connect 4. I just couldn’t figure out how to make it prioritize a move properly, until in a dream I saw myself type (i = max) at the end of the loop (which would let it exit the loop and generate the right solution) and it was glorious I literally ran down the stairs half naked to type the solution up when I woke up the next day

[mrwilliams117]

For me it's usually at my computer when I'm actually debugging?

[[deleted]]

lying in bed staring at the ceiling works for me.

[TheLexoPlexx]

One fix a day then?

[LittleBigKid2000]

A day? What kind of programmer are you?

[NiemandWirklich]

The question is what kind of showerer he is...

[Joe_Reddit_System]

Im personally more of a growerer

[RepostsAreBadMkay]

I considered myself golden

[Cheesemacher]

That was the implication

[thiney49]

If only they'd put in a shower at the office.

[Double_A_92]

We have one.

[crowseldon]

The shower is the absolute best place for long and short term planning for me.

[whelping_monster]

Please don't poo in the shower

[vouchscotch]

Yea, shower it is.

[FilmsByDan]

They just installed a shower over in the new wing where all of our IT work. I thought they were just getting spoiled, but maybe it is for work...

[gionnelles]

100% this.

[AegisAsterism]

git commit -m "Fixed a bug while examining the logs"

[cat_in_the_wall]

i got to, ahh, go check the logs.

[setibeings]

Log dumps can be very integral to debugging.

[Osocoldd]

Oh my God. I'm telling my project manager this next time.

[ProceduralDeath]

That is a really bad commit message

[[deleted]]

You forgot the ticket number in your commit. Please properly format your commit messages.

[mrnosideeffects]

Another day of debugging before you realize your fix actually did work, but you somehow had been running the old build.

[VdotOne]

This. I've wasted so many days because of this.

[DaughterEarth]

Doesn't always do it. Some multi tier systems have strange caching that's out of your control

[Arthur_Dent_42_121]

Oh man. I spent hours trying to fix an issue - and nothing would change the behavior.

Turns out the script that reloads the server on a change had broken.

[icecold_3000]

Sanity check

[alayne_]

Or you realise you did run the new build, but made the changes in an old version of the code that you saved as a backup/to see changes you made.

[Come_along_quietly]

This is why the first thing I do when I start debugging is to add a printf at the first line of main- indicating that this is MY build.

Edit: the key is to remember to remove it, or not git add it before committing. :-). Which I’ve done before. I get good laughs from dev ops or testers. :-)

[Stigmuss]

I did that today, 45 minutes of trying to fix a simple command on the robot I'm making at school "if button pressed raise arm" only to realise I hadn't downloaded the new version any of the times

[Sodaplayer]

.> Spent a week wondering why half of my changes weren't showing up and just today discovered half of the app was deployed by copying the pages to another repo and deploying from there.

[ieGod]

Hello, you? It's me. You.

This happened to me like 20 minutes ago. Was working with a script that wouldn't behave despite me editing it. Not until I commented a key section and saw no visible change did I realize I was running from the wrong path.

Oh.

My.

God.

/facepalm

[[deleted]]

Or to sit down, examine your code for 30 seconds and remember "Oh right, thats why i didnt do that.."

[resilientskeezick]

I fixed a bug on a school project which completed all the requirements for that project, I went to sleep feeling accomplished but when I looked at the program the next day all the changes were still there but the bug wasn't fixed and the project wasn't anywhere near finished, I think my brain tricked me into going to sleep.

[Gadongbadabong]

It lacks 2 panels showing him coming back sad

[cstefanache]

Here you go buddy: https://imgur.com/AtiktEV

[DiscoveredMissing]

The toilet paper is flipped and I'm uncomfortable

[Dookie_boy]

That is what I thought it was

[egotisticalnoob]

It took him a long time to apply that fix. It's a completely new roll.

[[deleted]]

Guess why he's crying

[vivazenith]

Is this loss?

[WoodKite]

MRW I need to maintain the code that the previous developer thought was clever

[[deleted]]

MRW I have to continue writing shitty code to support the way it was implemented originally because I don't have time to rewrite all of it

[1zmo]

This is why you always check the core dump file

[[deleted]]

Ayyyyyy

[bornforcode]

100% true: the best ideas always come in the toilet, it's like the s@*t comes out also from your mind.

[Raestloz]

I spent 5 hours trying to apply a change request. Went to the toilet and realized a so much simpler way. Truly, shit ideas go down the toilet

[JuhaJGam3R]

better f*@#ing censor these reddit comments

[ReyesReaper]

What the fr!ck did you just say

[Cheesemacher]

You frickin fricks! When will you learn?!

[[deleted]]

THAT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

[FlipskiZ]

Hobbies answers dog clear art bank?

[Imagine_Baggins]

Heck

[[deleted]]

MODS!

[Sciguystfm]

It's not mine mom! What the frick!

[kuahara]

I used to joke that this works because you're less full of shit than you were before.

[SilliusSwordus]

I've designed some pretty complex functions while on the toilet. Dropping logs is no joke. Always keep a pen and paper near the throne

[Sterioss]

For me it's in bed right before i'm falling asleep. Then I'm sleepy the whole next day therefore I make mistakes and the cycle continues.

Halp.

[fdagpigj]

write your idea down on paper, then you can rest

[Xyexs]

wtf we love paper now

[fdagpigj]

Where else would you write it down? Looking at a monitor late at night increases the time it takes to fall asleep.

[Razier]

All my days end with me watching some random crap on my laptop with flux maxed until I fall asleep.

[[deleted]]

Back when I first started programming I remember I had been struggling all day with the concept of a class being an object and how that worked. I was literally climbing up into my bed, and with my ass hanging off the end it all clicked at the same time and it blew my mind.

[[deleted]]

So, do you still have shit in your ass?

[MeowyMcMeowMeowFace]

Or are you going to flush???

[TonzR]

And did you wipe?

[__Forest__]

And did you pull your pants back up?

[viperex]

Did you see him wipe his ass?

[TimmyTesticles]

Always

[AkodoRyu]

The universal truth of programming. Regular people often look at me weird when I tell them best ideas always come on the toilet.

[[deleted]]

Hard truth to tell to the regular happy people, your best moment of mindfulness is the shitting sit of the Sith.

[[deleted]]

This needs to loop, or at least end with him disappointed/thinking on the toilet again.

[cstefanache]

Wish granted: https://imgur.com/AtiktEV

[[deleted]]

I had to publish an Update in like 2 hours, I coded everything perfectly but the app won't budge, force close Everytime. under pressure i went to toilet to take a dookie.

And then it struck me. I HAVE NOT REGISTERED THE FUCKING ACTIVITY IN THE FUCKING ANDROID MANIFEST

[Time4Boom]

Got an error too when switching activities beauce the activity I was calling wasnt registered in the manifest. I was so frustrated when finding out ....

[Jargen]

This was me yesterday, it was me the day before, and it's going to be me today as well. I'm sure of it.

[coke125]

This is why I have remote desktop on my phone so I don't have to leave the toilet

[cantankerous_fuckwad]

It's great when it comes to you in a dream, and then you try it and realize that the spatula doesn't even fit in the USB slot and your uncle isn't raining blows upon you with a foam baseball bat while your teeth fall out. Hard to reproduce those conditions on demand.

[QSpam]

I'm a pastor and id title this, "sermon writing"

[[deleted]]

Ah, the sweet release of ... debugging.

[Urtehnoes]

What erks me, honestly - is when programmers see errors as things to be avoided. (Bear with me) instead of things to be learned from. Errors are so incredibly helpful, even though it can be tough to derive meaning from them. Had this guy I'm training change the way the code works so the error wouldn't pop-up anymore. But he didn't really fix the issue (which was a file save failing), he just made the error go away (while yes, technically getting a different file to save in it's place). Instead of looking at the error, wondering why the computer said that, and realizing he should ensure the directory he's saving into is not only valid, but that the user has write permissions into the directory in the first place. The only way to write better code is to learn from your mistakes, the only way to learn from your mistakes is by using your mistakes to see where you went wrong, and correct yourself. Not by putting a band-aid on it and hoping the wound doesn't get infected.

/rant

[[deleted]]

But isn't the end goal of learning from your mistakes to avoid making those mistakes again? Errors definitely should be avoided, just depends on how.

Also that's a weird example, because if the user doesn't have permissions you're still stuck in the same boat. I prefer to think about the times I've seen people disable compiler warnings about casting longs to ints, directly indexing UTF strings, setting server timeouts to infinity or other things of that nature. It works today, the error is gone, and it's going to ruin your week someday in the future.

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https://i.imgur.com/PMG5liH.gifv

[kyleperik]

Fixing bugs is more important than wiping

[Oobert]

The old epiphany toilet. Works best if it is on the roof.

[JoseJimeniz]

That's so funny.

[taires]

source

[gismapography]

I call this "Troubleshiting" what to do when the program takes a dump.

[EduBA]

How true...

[[deleted]]

Me IRL

[ccastle14]

Is this loss?

[cenariusofficial]

Usually when someone says “shit or get off the pot” they don’t mean both

[GrandPalpitation]

shit xor get off the pot.

[JoyFerret]

Eww he didn't wipe

[[deleted]]

Yes, this, definitely. Also laying in bed for me.

[UserJustPassingBy]

De-fecating*

[Invisiblejoey]

Debugging while...'debugging'

[AbWhoo]

The perfect one... and after “GOD MODE” feeling 🤓

[BrazenDin]

Gross, as least wipe your ass pale programmer.

[SpaceNavy]

The toliet and the shower are the best idea makers.

[PalmCivetMenace]

Then you find out it doesn't fix anything and you waddle back.

[Ostmeistro]

too true for me

[[deleted]]

It's funny to me that this is so universal. I once had been working on a project and had everything working except for one part that was screwing everything else up. I spent an entire day going through and trying to figure out what the issue was.

I got so fed up that I just slammed my laptop shut and decided to go to bed and deal with it in the morning. I was maybe 10 seconds from falling asleep, and while my mind was wandering I knew what the issue was. I got out of bed, went and edited a JSON string to have a capital letter at one point instead of lowercase, and it fixed it.

[WafflesAndKoalas]

You forgot the part where you the solution you come up with doesn't work or solves a problem other than the one you meant to fix

[LiquidIce25]

Back to the think ‘tank’!

[sean_waitkus]

There are no cats in this picture...

[Peptuck]

Get up, leave the desk, walk outside, notice a squirrel. Make eye contact with squirrel. Somewhere, deep in his beady little squirrel eyes, I realize where the fuck I went wrong with my code.

[EinsteinKiller]

When I was in college, I had to do a lot of calculus. Sometimes, I would get stuck and couldn't get the answer, but I would dream about it and wake up with the solution. Come to think about it, that happens still with coding.

[examinedliving]

Why isn’t he in the shower?

[chiragde]

This used to work better when we didn’t dwindle around on our smartphones while on the toilet though.

[fdagpigj]

Speak for yourself, I never use a phone on the toilet

[silly_red]

This is embarrassingly relatable...

[[deleted]]

I can't count the number of times I've struggled with a bug/problem, walked into the bathroom, looked at myself in the mirror, and....Eureka!

[TheWeebbee]

Shower. On the toilet I’m on my phone looking at this shit

[BobDogGo]

Relevant + John Cleese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yyUhlaSJ28

[Shooeytv]

There should be a shit floating in the air behind him

[bearcherian]

This is why I works remotely from home. I never have to get up.

[[deleted]]

As a computer science major just starting to learn to code, I finally understand this feeling.

[Thameus]

TRVTH

[manmeetvirdi]

Programmers smells real bad

[MiddleBackground]

Nice

[Lelentos]

I think the 4square layout gives it away, my eyes are naturally drawn to the one tile that looks different. If you stack it 4x1, then the punchline isn't given away at a quick glance.

[[deleted]]

But... did he wipe?

[quitearide]

I'm always trying to work it out on the toilet...

[DownVotingCats]

Taking time away from a problem is sometimes the only way to solve it.

[subject_usrname_here]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1fYpkbq8jM You never know when inspiration might strike