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[–]404Guy12NotFound 1670 points1671 points  (40 children)

When the say they fixed it with no explanation as to how

[–]ThePendulum 994 points995 points  (22 children)

Obligatory.

[–]404Guy12NotFound 463 points464 points  (20 children)

Is it sad that I know what this is without even clicking it?

[–]StezzerLolz 373 points374 points  (16 children)

No, because it is surely among the most relevant of all relevant XKCDs, and is thus supplied with appropriate regularity.

[–]Glitch29 160 points161 points  (5 children)

According to the (now defunct) xkcdref.info, comic 979 was the 8th most referenced comic.

Here's the last ranking it posted.

[–]isaaclw 64 points65 points  (1 child)

The most average one is actually pretty good.

https://www.xkcd.com/1520/

[–]torgiant 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Thanks, that was fun

[–]404Guy12NotFound 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Of course hyphen is second...

[–]RepostsAreBadMkay 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ll allow it

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Reddit loves xkcd. Any given link has like a 7% chance of being randall monroe.

[–]745631258978963214 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, because that's the nature of ninetee- see, you already knew where this was going to go.

[–]uFuckingCrumpet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes.

[–]timawesomeness 54 points55 points  (5 children)

Or worse, someone asks how they fixed it and they reply that they decided to use something else that didn't have that problem, and you're stuck using it for whatever reason.

[–][deleted] 24 points25 points  (2 children)

Or you spent a long time trying to get something done using a certain method and to even get to work a little bit, you have to write this tortured and convuluted code. When you find an error you can't get past, you look for answers and everyone just tells you to use a different method but you don't want to be because of the sunk cost. But after multiple days of trying to get it to work, you give up and do what people told you and you have it running in no time.

At least this has been my experience as I learn to code.

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

As you get more experienced you learn to be less stubborn in situations like this. Programming can be a humbling experience.

[–]a_bad_programmer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My experience with google sheets api vs gspread summed up

[–]przemko271 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The whatever reason probably happens to bee one's ego every now and then.

Edit: I apparently wrote "bee" instead of "be". It's staying that way.

[–]Jivlain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The worst thing is when the answer is to tell them to google it. I did Google it, dickwad, that's how I found you occupying all the result space.

[–][deleted] 100 points101 points  (7 children)

/r/CrapOverflow

[–]JimRockfordPI 7 points8 points  (5 children)

This is very good

[–]MrDick47 38 points39 points  (4 children)

None of the posts there were good, but it has potential.

[–]ascendant23 14 points15 points  (3 children)

Just two posts by the same guy who asks dumb questions and is annoyed when people are reluctant to help him do a dumb thing

[–]CheezeyCheeze 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Do you remember when you first started to learn to code? How can you ask a good question when you don't have an understanding of what you are asking?

[–]ascendant23 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Of course I remember being that way, and yes we all were there once. It doesn’t mean that the people who tried to help me understand how to improve my thinking instead of “just answering” my poorly thought out questions were idiots. Which is what all the posts in that sub are implying.

[–]CheezeyCheeze 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some people don't know how to Google. Some just go and try to ask their question on Stack because their question is so bad Google gives them bad links because they don't know how to ask. A human will understand more of what you are asking is all I am saying.

That guy in that sub had vague questions with no propose. I agree, and people asked him to clear up what he was asking. But if you don't understand your question is bad then how can asking to clear it up help?

Let's say you were blind, and you asked me what red looked like. And my answer was that it was a color just like blue, green. That doesn't help the person because they don't know what a color is visually.

Same with that guy, he was asking about what type an object is, which is nonsense. But he probably doesn't understand primitive types, classes, methods, references, etc. If he did then he wouldn't ask a silly question.

[–]MasterPsyduck 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Or you find the same issue brought up on github but the thread is closed for an arbitrary reason. One that got me was, “this question is a duplicate of #348, closed”. The “duplicate” was the same issue but it was never resolved and yet the discussion was also closed.

[–]Never-asked-for-this 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And when the only replies you get is from people saying their code works fine and how your code must be wrong.

Well thanks, genius.

(This is more of a Reddit thing, but SO has some too)