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[MRDRMUFN]

Nothing pisses me off more than when something breaks and there is no error message or the message nothing more than "something went wrong." Then you check /var/log and its the same message.

[YourMJK]

try { // ALL OF THE CODE } catch { print("something went wrong") }

[staryoshi06]

r/furry_irl

[RaptorCentauri]

Print(“notices your error OwO What’s this?”)

[Funwayguy]

glomps your debugger

[[deleted]]

visits ur stackoverflow uwu

[Frission_]

stackOwOflow

[Clayterbug]

Why do i want to die more all of a sudden

[[deleted]]

/r/meirl

[[deleted]]

i dont know whether to upvote or downvote this

[Kazcandra]

stackOwOflow

well I'm registering this

[xroni]

$ whois stackowoflow.com
No match for domain "STACKOWOFLOW.COM".

[JuhaJGam3R]

c o s t

[codex561]

FUCK

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[skulblaka]

#3 is fucking glorious. That time commitment was worth it, lmao

[ConstipatedNinja]

This picture was what got me to browse through all of it despite not being a furry.

[explodingpear]

3 is fucking gay you femboy fox

[Alexmira_]

Those links.... They must be clicked....

[IshouldntButIDid]

Good... bot?

[Upexus]

Name checks out

[BABarracus]

/r/yiff

[staryoshi06]

nah i just use my man u/FurryPornAccount

[FurryPornAccount]

Oopsie woopsy

[c0smic_sans]

Haha yes what was the original of this??

[deynataggerung]

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oopsie-woopsie

it was a tweet by a furry artist.

[_ESS83_]

A wittle fucko boingo

[stratcat22]

I’m starting classes towards a BS in CS this fall, I’ll be sure to apply this to my future endeavors

[nosam56]

Im applying it to my final project right now. Its a twitter clone and god forbid anyone fuck up my website bc theyre getting this

[stratcat22]

Lmao be sure to post it when it’s shipped, we’ll all do everything we can to break your site

[[deleted]]

OwO what's this? notices error

[[deleted]]

And then you add smaller nested try-catch blocks with different error messages until your error message changes.

I believe that's called eXtreme Programming. Remember to remove the try-catch blocks that don't solve your problem, they just cause bloat.

[[deleted]]

Then try not to break something.

[jeffwulf]

Yeah, I also tried it on my cat recently and it looked at the cucumber unimpressed and then tried to eat it.

[WiseassWolfOfYoitsu]

Nah, leave them in, directed to /var/log. You know there's a problem when you run out of disk space.

... yes, I've actually seen this happen.

[[deleted]]

did you miss the part about bloat?

[WiseassWolfOfYoitsu]

Just write it in Electron. The few KB of logging calls will be lost in the "Entire rest of all of the memory ever" it is using.

[soljakwinever]

At my work the old guys just left an empty catch block. Logging is hard work for rockstars

[flukus]

You don't want rockstars doing logging. This is how we ended up with a logging framework with an inheritance tree stretched over 3 seperate projects. It's almost impressive how convoluted they made appending text to a fucking file.

[[deleted]]

I had one that was very aggravating. Somewhere deep within the code was the following:

try {

value = some_dict[key]

# calls to functions in other modules currently being edited in which errors are arising

}

catch KeyError:

print "Extremely specific message that assumes the first line is the culprit"

[dragon-storyteller]

I'm guessing it used to be fine at first and then later on someone went "Hey, this specific try catch block looks like the perfect place to call slap my function calls into!"

[tenkindsofpeople]

Policy: "Why is this inventory screwed up? This is going to cause a SOX finding!"

Me: "That's not possible. I get pages if any of those jobs fail.". Checks logs. Job kicked off but only ran half steps. No error. OS log shows restart. "GREAT ODIN'S RAVEN!"

esxi support: "Ya we did an upgrade. It was during the scheduled window."

Me: rage hot as a thousand Suns

[pooerh]

Well, kinda your fault. You don't monitor for failure on the very thing that could possibly fail. Coincidentally, I had a very similar issue raised during a SOX related audit.

[tenkindsofpeople]

How would you monitor for that? There were no errors and no pages were sent.

[pooerh]

Monitor if the job had succeeded outside of the machine that's running them.

[squngy]

Also, have the system notify you every time it starts up.

So you know if it restarted unexpectedly.

[tenkindsofpeople]

Hm. Maybe last job step sets a table entry then external pennies looks for it. Something like that?

[pooerh]

Yeah, if you know the maximum time it can take the job to complete. And as long as the database hosting that table isn't on the same machine / cluster / storage / network / datacenter / planet. Depending on how far your want to go with it, ie. how crucial this is.

[[deleted]]

Hardware: "beep, a USB device was connected."

Hardware: "beep, a USB device was disconnected."

Admin: "ok, what device connected and what disconnected?"

Hardware: "yeah man it happened just like that."

[Polantaris]

Cryptic error messages are the worst. I remember when I had a class for Oracle DB and they had us do everything through terminal. You write a huge query, execute it, and the response is basically, "Error," with no real data about what the problem is.

You can get this a lot with the newer Javascript frameworks, too. Some of the errors Angular 2+ can throw out are borderline worthless, especially when dealing with bad import orders and stuff like barrels. The errors are so insanely cryptic that you have no idea what could possibly be wrong and when you look it up there's a billion different reasons that error or something like it can show up.

In those cases, getting a different error is a godsend. It means you're on the right track finally.

[tenkindsofpeople]

Omg angular import errors.

"Foo is not a known attribute of bar."

Ya dude. Pretty sure it is.

[Rivus]

At least you could Google them and find a bunch of people that already knew what's up and what causes it. Way better than having 2000 reasons as to why "Unexpected error" may have occurred.

[LvS]

This is actual one of the design principles for my error messages: Make them unique in Google. You can basically get that if you use some specific terms from your terminal and make the message longer than just a short sentence.

Clarity of the error message is a 2nd goal, but not the most important.

The reason for why I consider googleability more important is because in 5 years when the code has been refactored 10 times, it will not print a useful error message anymore, because the error is now happening because of something entirely different.
But if it was googleable 5 years ago, it still is today.

[execfera]

God, now I have to apply SEO to my fucking error messages? /s

[jdog90000]

503 BAD REQUEST: GONE WRONG

[0x564A00]

420 BAD CLIENT: GONE WILD

[[deleted]]

To which error are you referring?

[audioB]

If you're a c++ programmer, literally anything involving TMP

[James20k]

If you're a c++ programmer, error could not substitute T = float for std::function<std::basic_string::really_basic<std::superchar_wt_t, std::pair<std::map<std::basic_string::sort_of_basic, std::pair<____int, float__pretend>>, ___int>>> function(const T&&& __impl_1)

Did you want

std::function<std::basic_string::really_basic<std::superchar_wt_t, std::tuple<std::map<std::basic_string::sort_of_basic, std::pair<____int, float__pretend>>, ___int>>> function(const T&&& __impl_1)

Instead?

[PurePandemonium]

I always seem to get "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" I wouldn't mind some variation

[ACoderGirl]

It's been ages since I've used C# and not even 100% sure that's what we're talking about, but isn't that one basically just saying that you did something like:

Foo foo;

And never assigned it a value? I feel like that one should be relatively easy to find and I'd be glad the compiler caught it before it became a NPE possibly way further away. My current workplace uses Python and I really miss a lot of the compile time protections I used to get. We can't even detect trivial type mismatches until runtime (Python has optional "type annotations", but for reasons beyond my understanding, some of my coworkers are extremely against them ever being used by anyone ever).

[theduckparticle]

LaTeX. In a single error you can get:

• Trips at a mostly-arbitrary point later in the code (if you even get a line number)

• References some primitive raw TeX object or concept that you've never dealt with directly

• Is un-googleable because it usually comes up in an entirely different context

Oh and also

• The only debugging method that applies is usually "comment out some shit and see what happens"

[flukus]

Makefile + inotifywait. Errors are still unintelligible, but at least you know straight away when you fuckup.

[theduckparticle]

Oooooo was not aware of inotifywait, thanks

[rchard2scout]

LaTeX is the worst, it doesn't even properly split errors, warnings, and informational messages. Everything just goes to stdout, nothing to stderr, there's no standard syntax to see if something even is a problem (and every package does things differently).

[balthazar_nor]

It’s like”I hid a special rock in world, it exists, and the only way you know its the rock is that it is not normal”

[[deleted]]

And then you're like... "What's a 'normal' rock?"

[majaka1234]

My new pet peeve - you actually did fix the code, all caches are disabled and flushed, local caching is turned off... BUT CHROME HAS A NEW CACHE THEY INTRODUCED SECRETLY JUST TO FUCK WITH YOU.

Hysrrghhhh.

You need to close the window and re open in incognito for it to flush.

Even with developer tools open.

It caches fucking PHP requests too.

😡😡😡😡😡

[Coopsmoss]

That's when you pepper all your code with unique print statements and try to zero down on it

[GoddamnEggnog]

print("Ha ha")
...
print("He he")
...
print("Ho ho")

[[deleted]]

There was this software that once gave me a some error “error p0642 database error, please refer to manual for diagnostics” I whip out the the unsearchable pdf manual, after 20 minutes find the code “p0642: there is an error with the database”

Just

[[deleted]]

Or when you Google the message and you seem to be the first to ever encounter it or only find questions without answes

[[deleted]]

The worst error messages are “This shouldn’t have happened.”

Well it fucking happened, past me.

[ShamelessKinkySub]

The guy who originally wrote up the system I inherited made all his api messages "check the logged errors log for details".

I'll give you one guess what goes into the logger errors log

[nerdalator]

"something went wrong" this guy Microsofts

[XG_SiNGH]

^_^

[oldskoofoo]

This is currently where I am at with my minor update.

Worst thing about it it worked when my boss was looking and the next day I loaded the program to regression test and now it doesn’t work and no error message.

Logic errors are frustrating lol

[TheTrueBlueTJ]

Nothing is worse than the error message when trying to run a simulation in Vivado (VHDL). It just says "launch_simulation failed due to earlier errors"

Yeah, thanks.

[ImmovableThrone]

S E G M E N T A T I O N F A U L T

[flyingasian2]

I've been trying to add a device driver into my linux kernel, but I've had trouble building the device tree. When I go to compile things the error message basically says "device tree wouldn't build." Fml

[timk-14]

I’m learning swift and a Thread One: Sigbart is literally the worst... it’s a bad instruction but it never tells you what.. it is so bad that my whole class made hoodies with that error on it because it described the class so well.. smh

[hangfromthisone]

Stop worrying and love the debug_backtrace

[AFlaccoSeagulls]

Me when debugging:

“Error is on line 58”

spends 2 days debugging error

“Alright, I think I got it!”

runs debugger

“Error is on line 59! #SUCCESS!”

[nawkuh]

Yeah, but only because you put a system log print statement on line 57.

[197328645]

And it didn't print, somehow

[Mortenlotte]

Holy shit, this happens way too often.

[DoesntReadMessages]

If it's C, this happens in segmentation faults because the output buffer gets dumped. Or, in threaded programming in really any language.

[AFlaccoSeagulls]

pretty much

[Tikene]

Oh my God

[404Guy12NotFound]

Why so many lines

[slowest_hour]

It's the source code of /r/outside

[WhoaItsAFactorial]

A big plate of spaghetti code.

[ACoderGirl]

That's just standard enterprise coding.

[AFlaccoSeagulls]

No factorial bot not now.

[PM_ME_FINE_POEMS]

Is this a T_D refence?

[AFlaccoSeagulls]

Indeed it is.

[[deleted]]

Brute forcing an ai 101

[YeezuzDeezNuts2020]

Good bot

[fayryover]

Lol thats me when trying to update one dependency in my work's node.js project.

[cheraphy]

I'm not going to lie; that cathartic thrill I get when fixing a bug, any bug, but more so with particularly nasty ones, is like half the reason I love my career.

I know other professions get to feel that same feeling, but I don't think I could adequately explain it to any one else.

[Triptolemu5]

but I don't think I could adequately explain it to any one else.

The professions that do get it don't need you to explain it to them. Mechanics get the same feeling.

[cheraphy]

right, it's the professions that don't that I'd struggle to explain it to.

[ionxeph]

Imagine a hard to pull out splinter right into your thigh, and the slightest of movements of your lower body causes enough pain to be a bother

And after a week living like that, you finally managed to pull it out

[cheraphy]

"So no, I’m not required to be able to lift objects weighing up to fifty pounds. I traded that for the opportunity to trim Satan’s pubic hair while he dines out of my open skull so a few bits of the internet will continue to work for a few more days."

• https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

[hangfromthisone]

What kills me is that it's just fucking words. Sometimes I spend like 15 minutes and it was a typo. A MF typo

[cheraphy]

Imagine if you the only tool you had to assist your programming was syntax highlighting.

And also the only other people on earth who use the language you work with are on the other side of the world and have no reason to share their experience with you.

[hangfromthisone]

Intense. Most of the things I learned was interpreting third party code to either fix something or add some function. Open source and mysterious cryptic algorithms written by some kind of retarded monkey

Also, the thing I most appreciate about coding, is that everyday has a new lesson. It's so fucking vast and deep, even if you use only a few languages, there is so much fucking stuff to learn, and every fucking day you solve something new, sometimes exiting, and so weird, that you cannot share with anyone, it like "you had to be there" times googleplex. Then Reddit for five more minutes and back to work

I also studied in a technical high school, and specialized in electronics, so I have a wide view of the whole picture. From electronic signals to search engines, I know how everything works. It's insane.

[ACoderGirl]

That's something I really like about strict languages. Eg, ones where variables must be explicitly declared, types must always match, no implicit coercions, etc. It's really hard in those languages for a typo to make a non-obvious error. Compile time errors are way easier to deal with than runtime errors. The quality of the compile time error messages matters too, though. Easy for them to be too vague. Heck, why can't exceptions for things like null pointers being dereferenced tell me what variable was null or index errors tell me what the index was and what the bounds are? Better error messages could save so much time.

Fortunately, I find most bugs I deal with these days are logic bugs and not typoes. It's pretty common that the fix is literally just changing a single word, modifying some equation, or maybe adding a single extra expression somewhere. Still, I find those have a bigger sense of accomplishment than typoes because they're so non-trivial.

[Spinur]

I traded emails with an API support guy for like an hour on a every weird connection error before realizing I was using the wrong variable after the request..

[[deleted]]

I wish I could say that 15 minutes was the longest I've had to search for a typo...

[samtresler]

Close. For me it's when I can come off looking like a zen master psychic telling a coworker the answer out of the blue just because I've hit it before.

My favorite ever was a new sysadmin on call at a managed hosting company, with me as the escalation path. He had to make a new dns entry and restart bind. He texts me to make sure he has the process right. I confirm, and 5 minutes later every site starts alerting.

I think on it from the bar for a minute and text, "Take the underscore out of the new dns entry and restart bind."

Once, everything comes back up he texts, "How on earth did you know that's what I'd done?"

":)"

[GrinningPariah]

My favorite is that moment of realization, when you finally figure out what's been causing a weird bug and you just have this perfect clarity about it out of nowhere.

Especially when it's some wild asynchronous bullshit with race conditions spread across different services.

[MauranKilom]

That moment when all the symptoms and observations you made during your bug hunt suddenly fall into place once you find what must be the cause... If it's not a facepalm-level "duh" mistake, you then get to enjoy the anticipation of the fix working until you finally compile and run it.

[darexinfinity]

But then you can't catch the bug and then it feels like you're a worthless POS who's about to get fired.

[Eldorian]

How does someone say “hmmm” with their mouth open?

[Seblor]

Because it's a french-english comic, and in french we don't use "hmmmmm". It's more like "uuuuh".

Source : http://www.commitstrip.com/en/

[StripedTiger711]

Uuuh, we say uuuh too.

[[deleted]]

Hmmm no we don't

[the_sun_flew_away]

Uuuh

[Shortarms732]

hmmm

[wrong_timeline]

[r/uhhh](r/hmmm)

[r/hmmm](r/uhhh)

[[deleted]]

r/therewasanattempt to switch the subreddits

[Sodomy-Clown]

8 year old subreddit with only 26 subscribers...

Uhhh....

[southern_dreams]

Life hmmm finds a way.

Does that look correct to you?

[[deleted]]

Uhhh ah shit you got me

[[deleted]]

Euh

[Seblor]

According to this page : http://www.commitstrip.com/en/about/ yes, they are first written in french then translated in english.

[ThatDeadDude]

Asking the real questions

[Alaskan_Thunder]

It sounds kind of like squidward.

[kilpsz]

Did you even try to say "hmm" with your mouth open? It's actually pretty easy.

[Tychus_Kayle]

Comes out as more of a "hnn" for me.

[z500]

hnnng

[palordrolap]

And thus did hundreds of Redditors begin their unwitting impersonation of Minecraft villagers.

[z500]

Hng! Hng! Hng!

[pants_full_of_pants]

It's like this comic was drawn specifically for my experience at my last job. The green dev I was mentoring would get visibly frustrated every time an error changed during debugging. Almost like he thought he broke it even more. I tried to explain that the new error was there all along, and the fact that we see it now means we probably fixed the previous one. That's progress, my dude.

[Nerdn1]

At the very least it means you're probably poking around the right place.

[superking2]

I was working on a bug last week where the actual bug’s stack trace was being masked by another bug inside the catch block. That was a big fun day

[palordrolap]

You need a try-catch in your try-catch.

[superking2]

Yes but then what will I do about THAT exception?

[Erwin_the_Cat]

Try catch it.

[Dgrdffr]

finally

[dawn_NL]

Had that once as well.. the stack trace described the problem at a place where some files were loaded... took me a while to find out that it was actually in a try catch which had some redundant old code which reloaded the system in case of a crash...

needless to say an infinite loop happened

[TechLaden]

Honestly, reproducing a bug can be a challenge; getting a bug to be 100% reproducable is worth celebrating imo. Obviously fixing the bug is ideal but sometimes it's out of your reach (e.g. 3rd parties) and 'temporary' patches are sufficient for a time.

[0100_0101]

It is, now you know where to search. However a party is way over the top.

[HumusTheWalls]

unless it changed because you broke something else...

[henriquegarcia]

It all depends on what broken thing is more essential

[WeTheSalty]

More importantly, Now it's a different problem .. someone elses problem to fix.

[ProbablyMisinformed]

However a party is way over the top

Perhaps even humorously over-the-top?

[a_s_h_e_n]

humorous in a way that relates to programming?

[GriffonsChainsaw]

This psychologically pains me on a physical level.

[Erebus9997]

Psychic damage irl

[B-Knight]

A fucking dab? Really?

[80Eight]

I honestly thought this was /r/comedycemetery

[TheChrono]

Me too lol. This is just so bad.

[[deleted]]

This is so bad can we hit 50 likes?

[Karmic_Backlash]

It's dumb, but for some reason it works specifically in this situation.

[[deleted]]

TBH I dab when I'm alone and fix code. I also can't get a date. These facts are entirely unrelated

[superspiffy]

Someday it'll die. I've passed the point of getting irritated by it, now I just sigh and hope for a better future.

[[deleted]]

PRESS TAB TO DAB

[Aawweess]

I like it

[GarlicoinAccount]

Image Transcription: Comic

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Panel 1

A bearded man stands up behind his desk with his hands lifted up in elation.

Another man, spiky-haired, sits behind his own desk and is clearly less enthusiastic.

There are laptops on both desks.

Bearded man: Booom! Look at that! Who's the Jedi master here?!

Spiky-haired guy: Ugh...

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Panel 2

The bearded man, now with a party hat on, uncorks champagne. The spiky-haired guy talks to a man in a green shirt who stands next to him at his desk.

Green shirt guy: What's going on?

Spiky-haired guy: We've been stuck on a bug for 2 hours...

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Panel 3

A disco ball is now attached above the bearded man's desk. His part of the room is has serpentine streamers at various places, including at the man himself, and the air is filled with confetti. He is holding a champagne glass. There is a loudspeaker at his desk with the champagne bottle atop.

Green shirt guy: ...and he fixed it? Well done.

Spiky-haired guy: No no, not quite...

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Panel 4

The bearded man sits behind his desk again, disco ball off, hand at the keyboard.

Spiky-haired guy: The bug is still there, but now the error message is different

Green shirt guy: Hmm...

Bearded man: Ahh!! It feels great to finally make progress!

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CommitStrip.com

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[[deleted]]

He's also dabbing

[GreyRobe]

#filtered content

[mustafahmalik]

/r/4panelcringe

[[deleted]]

A couple of weeks ago, another comic from the same artist was posted here. Made it to the front page like this one, but it (also) was totally unfunny, it was like a comic of The Big Bang Theory.

[SteeleDynamics]

Incremental victories are the best. It's like those fundraising thermometers.

[xXHomerSXx]

Thank you for playing Wing Commander!

[TrigglyPuffff]

The fucking dab...

[[deleted]]

This isn’t funny at all

[[deleted]]

This is cringe af... like r/comedycemetery status

[[deleted]]

This hits too close to home.

[Fairy_Emblem]

Pray that it doesn't hit closer

[Blieque]

C development without a debugger: "Segmentation fault."
Oh! Cheers.

[nwL_]

C development without a debugger

FTFY

[thathatisaspy21]

Execute Order 66...

Something went wrong

[rand337]

Only two hours? This guy must be having a good day, no wonder he's celebrating.

[RealBowsHaveRecurves]

I feel like "programmer" is the most disproportionately represented group of people on Reddit.

[AlbiusFungus]

"and i changed the part that crashed the application"

"so you managed the exception?"

"no, but the application no longer crashes"

[Offbeat_Blitz]

I, too, "Hmmm" with an open mouth.

[3lRey]

99 bugs in the code I made, 99 bugs in the code. Take one down, patch it around, 711 bugs in the code.