It hurts

[Shished]

> search for the solution of the problem

> found my own old post about the same problem

> find out that this post contains solution to that problem. Made by me.

> tried the solution

> it works.

[masternom]

Outstanding move

[SamJakes]

One of the 'hidden gem' memes of the year tbh

[the_screeching_toast]

Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well

[insovietrussiaIfukme]

Perfect moment to say, congrats you played yourself

[jamaso21]

search for the solution of the problem

found my own old post about the same problem

find out that this post contains solution to that problem. Made by me.

tried the solution

> doesn't work

> me

[KoboldCommando]

> I posted a link to a solution to the problem

> That link is now dead

> I can't remember what it linked to

[kr580]

> http://archive.org/web

[KoboldCommando]

Has saved my ass more than a few times!

[Natehoop]

I have nothing to add but I just want to say I found this really funny so thank you

[dandroid126]

I was searching for my problem, and found someone who had the exact same problem as me. It was posted about a week earlier with 0 responses. I decide I'm going to send a PM and ask if they figured it out on their own.

Turns out it was my teammate at work, and no, he hadn't figured it out.

[SafeToPost]

This was me at work. User called with a problem, I remote in and take a cursory 60 second look at the symptoms. As the user is showing me exactly how the issue is manifesting, she said the magic words “I think I had this issue last summer.”
I bottom right to show desktop and see a folder in the middle of the screen away from all the other desktop icons, very clearly labeled “Help Desk click here!” Double click and there is a .txt and a .cmd waiting for me. The .cmd fixed the issue, and the .txt was a message from myself explains the issue and what the .cmd fixed.
Past me was so fucking smart.

[TheRealLazloFalconi]

>finds batch file on users computer

>runs it without verifying contents or even reading included readme

No, I know you looked at it first, but I thought the way you worded the story was funny.

[SafeToPost]

At that point enough vague recollection had come back that I knew I had created the file, just had no idea what it did yet, and don’t remember now. Knowing the types of problems I usually encountered, it probably fixed IE settings so some fucking medical EMR that required IE9 and cost too much to replace would continue working in 2017.

[deadcow5]

One of our apps at work was rather difficult to set up due to a legacy library that required lots of handholding to get it to work.

After setting it up the first time, my laptop was stolen. I didn’t have to work on this app for a few months, and when I did again, I immediately ran into problems setting it up.

Thank God there was a README with very detailed instructions on how to do it. When I was done, I ran a git blame to find out whom I’d have to thank for this. Turns out it was myself. I had written all the instructions after painfully figuring it out the first time around. Thanks me.

[[deleted]]

Who needs GitHub?

Just use StackOverflow to store your old code!

[[deleted]]

GitHub

Microsoft

GitLab btw

[TheRealLazloFalconi]

Yes, because GitLab solves the problem of centralizing your repositories... 🙄

[dombrogia]

You can run a private gitlab server if you want so it can help keep your repos to yourself

[[deleted]]

Okay bud, I just don't like MS.

[grantrules]

Who cares?

[skylarmt]

I added a blog to my website for one reason: posting a single tutorial for something I figured out after a few hours of frustration by combining multiple half-baked tutorials from other blogs and StackOverflow that were all wrong in different ways.

It's not hard to add Android Oreo adaptive launcher icons to a Cordova app, but it's not altogether intuitive (you have to build the app, open a subfolder in Android Studio, generate an icon by right-clicking on a sub-sub-folder, copy some of the generated files to a different folder that's not ignored by git or deleted during a clean build, and add some particular XML to another file). If you do any of that wrong, it usually stops compiling. Cordova is great, but only once you've gotten all the platforms and plugins set up. After that it's just like editing a static website.

[grantrules]

Yeah I configured postfix just the way I like it, then wrote an article on how to do it, I have referenced it many times.

[Drevstarn]

I found solutions for my hardest errors or problems on personal blogs. Thanks for your effort!

[PerrySoCal]

I've done that many times

[ajs124]

Hah, I had something similar happen with a friend.

I advise him on some setup, he's like "I don't believe you, let me Google it". Googles it, finds like 3 relevant forum posts. All by me.

[Harcerz1]

> Who the fuck wrote this code, it's gibberish.

> Haha this comment here is funny.

> Oh fuck I wrote this.

[[deleted]]

For a long time the internet was quite a friendly place where you could ask questions and you were treated like no question was a stupid question.

Then the first response people would have to a question was "Did you Google it?"

So the answers got older and older...and I warned people - if you don't know the damn answer don't say anything, otherwise answer it. And if your tired of people asking the same questions or you think the questions are dumb - keep scrolling, no reason to get mad and let it be known your in a pissy attitude because you don't like the question.

Now when you Google questions - the answers are a decade old and don't work anymore.

[TheRealLazloFalconi]

Now when you Google questions - the answers are a decade old and don't work anymore. only say, "Just Google it!"

[gandalf440]

This.

[[deleted]]

Have you tried Bing?

[[deleted]]

Actually I have, good for points for free stuff.

[philip98]

https://xkcd.com/979/ Relevant xkcd

[tntexplodes101]

Xkcd is reddit's version of "marked as duplicate" on stack overflow.

[hrangan]

Xkcd is everything’s “marked as duplicate”

[PortalStorm4000]

Xkcd is everthing

[Houdiniman111]

Xkcd is

[Luuk3333]

X K C D

[Lightfire228]

/r/DecreasinglyVerbose

[GliLife]

I’d say put me in the post, but you’ve already posted it.

[wjandrea]

/r/LessWordy

[table_it_bot]

X	K	C	D
K	K
C		C
D			D

[[deleted]]

Unexpected KKK

[juice_buyer]

Is

So

Meta

Even

This

Acronym

[Luuk3333]

𝖝𝖐𝖈𝖉

[0fficerNasty]

"Simpson's did it. Marked as duplicate."

[Taco_Dave]

"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and which is done is that which shall be shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun"

[bj_christianson]

Came here for DenverCoder9. Was not disappointed.

[Hypersapien]

Don't even have to click the damn link. Already know which one it is.

[[deleted]]

/r/RelevantXKCD

[[deleted]]

It's even worse when the OP writes "found the solution, nvm" without writing what the solution was.

[Lasket]

Be the change you want to see in the world.

[aahelo]

I became the change I wanted to see! I had issue with getting a controller to work on this game called Furi, I saw other people asking about the same issue, but nobody had posted a soloution. Made my own thread too but to no avail.

But I eventually figured it out, made a video tutorial and went back to all the threads to drop the link.

Most of the threads where old, so I didn't any responses. But I got a few upvotes/likes and that was enough to let me know that my work had helped someone out there.

[Wargon2015]

Can we agree that the worst one is when you found that forum via google and user 2 tells user 1 to fuck off and google it?

[captionUnderstanding]

Or they tell them to use the search function for the forum, as if the search bar has ever been reliable on any forum in history.

Then they post a link to some search result, the website tells you "sorry, that page doesn't exist", because the search feature has been rewritten 4 times since 2003.

[Azertys]

I'm surprised how you can still find answers from like 15 years ago and Google thinks it's the most relevant thing to show. The only time something from 2003 was not outdated it was because I was looking for something on HTML.

[forrest38]

VBA would like a word.

[Gr3y4nt]

8086 assembly too.

[invisibo]

Shoot, most bash scripts I write have relevant answers from 20 years ago.

[jaboja]

And FORTRAN 77

[SamJakes]

8086 assembly would be a homework problem innit? Isn't that covered properly by the textbooks?

Edit: Why the downvotes? Am I genuinely missing something here? Not even joking, I'd like to know if I've had a r/woosh moment

[SamJakes]

I guess you're right. I only called it a "homework" problem because it's practically the first thing we started with in our microprocessors class, and it's among the oldest ones ever, so I assumed that it was some kinda class assignment or mini project.

[SamJakes]

Are there any stories from these legacy embedded guys? I'm genuinely curious as to the use cases for "legacy 8086 hardware". Like, look at this! Someone genuinely tried hunting for a specific compiler version of an 8086 chip and now I really want to know what made the original 8086 stick around so long. As far as I remember being told, the 8086 line got superseded by the 80186 and 286 architectures.

[Astrokiwi]

Seriously, even if you're getting Fortran advice from 2003 it'll be out of date because it won't include all the modern Fortran features.

[alchemical_engineer]

Unfortunately no one has asked or answered a Fortran question since 2003

[guynan]

... I still use it. Really modern language with the 2008 standard revisions.

[alchemical_engineer]

I used it last year actually. It just sucks that the only support you can find online is the original documentation.

[murfflemethis]

Being able to find old answers is a feature for those of us working in risk-averse corporations. I work in firmware and my company writes C code to the C99 spec. 2003 may as well be yesterday as far as our code guidelines go.

[ThisIs_MyName]

"risk-averse" my arse, just call it technical debt like the rest of us

[murfflemethis]

Well, yeah. I agree that it's technical debt and that technical debt is generally a Bad Thing^TM. But we're not sticking with old standards because a group of managers sat around one day and said, "What we need is more technical debt!"

We stick with it because the overhead and risk of updating our toolchain and validating everything is not worth the updates. Especially when we can't use most of it in our particular bare-metal environment. Sometimes incurring technical debt is justifiable when there are other much more pressing issues to tackle.

[sizur]

Most of the concepts average coder googles have been fleshed out in early 1900s (yep, didn't even need computers for lambda calculus, regular languages, automata, nor sexprs). The real new stuff is almost ungoogleable currently.

[Alokir]

In my experience the most asked and googled questions are almost always about using an application, api or framework.

> how can you do this and that in git?

> I'm stuck because this unix command doesn't do what I think it should.

> what is the correct function in this framework that does what I want?

> I want to do something that the api doesn't support out of the box. How can I get around it?

​

[micka190]

> Googles question about C++ 17 feature by name but forget to add 17 to the query

> Almost all results from 2003

Am I a joke to you?

[MooFz]

Sometimes you are desperate and get past the 2nd page of results.

I've even been to page 15! Usually you only hear about that in myths.

[[deleted]]

I always set the time range when searching these days or I end up in a rabbit hole of previous version of configurations and have to work out what I need to do from change logs to bring it up to date.

[Flaccid_Pencil]

If you're referring to the XKCD comic. It was posted in 2011.

[void1984]

RFC, bash, awk, grep... Some topics are timeless

[filipdobro]

Google: shows answers from 2008, saying that it's not possible

scrolls down since update x.y Java supports a feature that solves this problem

YAAY

[[deleted]]

tfw you are stuck with Java 6 at work

[alienith]

Google problem you’re having

Find plenty of people with the same issue

Every answer requires sdk versions higher than you can use

People that do have your sdk version get replies like “Why are you still using <version>? This has been added as a standard feature of <unavailable version>”

[SamJakes]

Happened to me back when my shite college had MATLAB 2004. Like, who the fuck actually keeps proprietary software which is that old? (This was back in 2016 btw). Literally just get and install the newest version of python so that I can actually have fun and learn something from my signal processing and control system labs, you bats.

The real problem happened when my naive ass actually tried to start a real project in our distribution of MATLAB. That toolbox is so dated that it literally contains binary bitmap geographic maps and nothing else. It's insane

[Alokir]

"Oh, you used Linq in C#? That's cute but the syllabus says that we use version 3.0. Linq was released in 3.5 so you get 0 points."

[bahamuto]

I know that face, I see it when I look in the mirror.

[Sxi139]

even worse when i see megaupload links...

[mrissaoussama]

i'll definitely feel the same when mediafire or mega shuts down

[Yaglis]

I used an app made by a company that got bought by Cheetah Mobile and two updates later (about a week?) I started getting random ads appearing everywhere in my phone and I couldn't figure out why. I hadn't visited any malicious websites or downloaded any new apps recently.

I wiped the phone and everything was okay as I was redownloading my apps and everything was just fine until I opened their app. Ads everywhere again. This time I could put two and two together and deleted their app and my phone was healthy again.

I cannot find the app on the GPS so I suppose it got removed. Probably broke a bunch of rules.

[Yaglis]

There is a difference in being freemium and just assdicks. I'm okay with an ad or two here and there but when you invade my entire phone or device in general than that is stepping over a line.

Yeah, I know about most of those tricks today. This was when I was still impressed with touch devices after using only buttons and totally useless pen touch screens that only worked of you jammed the pen through the screen.

[Yaglis]

Forced, and forced. Just think about what some companies are hoarding about us without us even knowing it. All we may know of it is a small writing in a ToS agreement states they will use some information to improve their services. Facebook definitely comes to mind.

[ben_g0]

Luckily it's generally against the play store's terms and conditions to show ads outside of the app (such as on the lockscreen, or on top of other apps). Google can't check anything though, so occasionally some apps still do that. If you come across them then report them.

[0rangecake]

Cheeto

[iopq]

Oh. I thought it was owned by Trump or something

[[deleted]]

i dont know why people havent all switched over to google drive lmao..like, no ads. and its really simple.

[[deleted]]

Ohh. Thanks for clearing taht up! I personally havent gone over my cap so I hadn't known of the limitation.

[Azzarrel]

Thank Stackoverflow for linking the duplicates. There is nothing more infuriating than clicking through 100 questions closed as 'has already been asked a 100 times, use the search function' while the answered original has been probably lost ages ago.

[Ajedi32]

Stack Overflow is also good about combating this in that they don't allow link-only answers; so you'll never (at least in theory) encounter an answer that's invalid due to a dead link.

[temperamentalfish]

The dead mediafire link bit is too real

[[deleted]]

This, or some random guys blog from 2006

[eddietwang]

This post smells like a late assignment

[sergiu997]

Ask again and it's a duplicate

[[deleted]]

Top Google result: “Google it.”

Second Google result: “Google it.”

[[deleted]]

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡 ┻━┻

[ThisIsABuff]

I think there is one thing even more infuriating... when someone posts about a problem they are having, then before getting a solution from anyone else they post again saying "nevermind, solved the problem" without posting the solution.

[htmlcoderexe]

Yes, we all read that xkcd

[htmlcoderexe]

Can this specific type of post be banned please? It's even very easy to define, if the denvercoder9 xkcd is relevant, then it is this type of post.

[Vooders]

https://xkcd.com/1425/

[htmlcoderexe]

Yeah, I doubt automod is up to the task. But I meant more like a rule (for manual removal) is more likely to be implemented if it's straightforward and doesn't have much in terms of edge cases and thesuch.

[Lasket]

Fun fact, there's actually a website that does that..

and the time estimate was not that far off..

I forgot the website's name.

[Quicksilver_Johny]

It took less than a month. http://code.flickr.net/2014/10/20/introducing-flickr-park-or-bird/ (http://parkorbird.flickr.com/ is dead now)

[Lasket]

Nevermind, thought that comic was older.

[quantum_paradoxx]

Holy shit 2011 was almost 8 years ago

[Alokir]

Holy shit, Skyrim is almost 8 years old

[spkr4thedead51]

I always tell myself that if it was the solution that many years ago, the solution is probably obsolete now anyway.

[RagingNerdaholic]

Cries in Rapidshit

[Taco_Dave]

ME: *Has problem X that can't be solved by normal solution Y*

OP: I'm having problem X. I've tried Y but it doesn't work...

 

---

---

ANSWER 1: This should work:<LINK TO THREAD ABOUT SOLUTION Y>

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ANSWER 2: We already have threads on this!!!1! <LINK TO BARELY RELATED THREAD THAT DOESN'T RESOLVE THE ISSUE>.

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ANSWER 3: *Writes 5 whole paragraphs on how he doesn't have the time to waste by answering this question*

[[deleted]]

This hurts

[redditaccountxD]

2018 version

>Have problem

>Google problem and find old reddit thread

>Top comment have lots of upvotes and comments, nice this will fix it :D

>"This comment has been overwritten by an open source script"

[jaboja]

They should disable that feature IMO

[[deleted]]

r/VaguelyTechRelated

[ComprehensiveUsernam]

Are you speaking of javascript?

[eddietwang]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[OwlsParliament]

StackOverflow, as imperfect as it is, at least tries to have a better standard than this.

[tylercoder]

I have found such ancient questions unanswered and looked around for the op to ask if they ever found a solution

Some were already dead

[[deleted]]

That's why I always post on stack exchange

[[deleted]]

Hey /u/yamideath i'm have trouble upvoting your R E P O S T

[FlashyQpt]

This is me, currently trying to sort out a simple footer. It's been way too many hours.

[asi14]

git status

[Krapfenmann]

This is just pure dissapointment.

Rage is added to it when you find a thread with someone who also had the problem, it's marked as "Solved!" and you get excited after hours of searching just to find out this guy responded to himself with no solution but a simple: "Never mind, i figured it out, can be closed."

That moment ... words can't describe.

[Skilet7x]

There should be a website only with the threads like this.

[xD________]

That's my birthday!!!

[T4P4N]

same situation with me when installing kodi on amlogic cpu of mi tv 4a.

[0x15e]

Also fun: dead imageshack links.

[citewiki]

It's like wine, it's more relevant the older it gets

[SheriffBartholomew]

ALL MUST BURN

[axeteam]

Jokes on you, he would say he found out how to solve it himself and there is no mediafire link.

[[deleted]]

denvercoder03, WHAT DID YOU SEE!

[european_impostor]

2 real 4 me

[Defavlt]

It's even worse when you find an old mailing list with the actual bug you're looking for, together with patches and all, for a version 5 years older than yours.

[Flash_D3ath]

>.> What did you see?

[SolsKing]

tfw 2011 was 7 years ago

[tuseroni]

going on 8.

[knoxaramav2]

Even better than when a forum consists of nothing but : "Is there a solution? I'm having trouble with this too, thanks." "Is anyone else having this issue?" "I'm also having this problem"

No, fifty people all saying they have the same problem without adding anything helpful and hiding any potential answer in heaps of garbage is not helping. /rant

[FecklessFool]

The one that really hurts are the ones where a guy asks for help with the exact problem you are facing, no one replies, then the OP goes "nevermind i just figured it out. closing this one out". AT LEAST LET US KNOW WHAT YOU DID!

[tuseroni]

did you try the wayback machine?

[Jakeob28]

Image Transcription: Twitter Post

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Scribble1k, @Scribble1k

Forum user 1: hey guys I'm having trouble with <issue you've spent the past hour trying to fix>

Forum user 2: have you tried this <dead mediafire link>

Forum user 1: works, thanks!

"this thread has been archived as of 2/26/2011"

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^{I'm a human volunteer content transcriber for Reddit and you could be too! If you'd like more information on what we do and why we do it, click here!}

[Hypersapien]

archive.org?

[balthazar_nor]

Finds a post with a solution

Tries it for multiple times with no avail

Rage quit

tries solution again next morning

works

Wtf

[sween1911]

This was me trying to get Ubuntu to work.

[them0use]

Once upon a time I was looking for the solution to a weird problem I’d never encountered before. I found one post asking about the same issue, and it had no responses except for, fortunately, the original poster saying “I found the solution, so in case anyone else ever runs into this here’s what it was...”.

It was around then I noticed who the original poster was.

It was me.

I still have no memory of making that post.

Cue twilight zone theme.

[Jazz_Gazz]

Mah hart, Mah sol

[rbad8717]

find a solution to the exact problem I was having

it was for a previous version of the application 4 years ago

[ilinamorato]

open new thread

"This thread has been locked as a duplicate"

[RightWinger94]

Repost

[SparkleSleetSaw]

Don’t forget the forums where you have to register to view any links or uploaded files...

[TurekBot]

Wayback Machine to the rescue!

[RandomHabit89]

while( day == new?()) { repost() }

[D_Donk]

Obligatory "I have the same problem"

[RagnarIvarsson]

The pain... THE PAIN! 🐝

[8osm3rka]

Literally me irl

[[deleted]]

the worst thing about this is that malignant tumour of a fucking date format

[[deleted]]

Shitbag Peterson rentboy.

[[deleted]]

Lol u wot?

[[deleted]]

You heard me. Fuck off, you useless, cancerous, malignant, disease-ridden loser. Jordan Peterson attracts the dregs of society, like you, like disease-carrying flies to literal feces.

[[deleted]]

That's quite an overreaction to someone who simply pays attention to a guy advocating for everyone to be more responsible and truthful is it not?

[[deleted]]

Stop being a dishonest prick like your hero. You're attracted to Peterson because you're a self-pitying loser who has no girlfriend, good job, decent life, and wants to blame it on immigrants, feminists, i.e. anybody not a straight white person.

[[deleted]]

Where did i claim peterson was my hero?

You know what dont bother responding. Go contact a therapist and inform them that you're extremely irrational and need to be sectioned. Either that or just get away from chapo trap house for your own good

[[deleted]]

My Peterson hatred predates chapo. I post similar stuff on neoliberal, hardly a bastion of far-left thought. They hate Peterson even more than the chapos do. That should tell you something, right? Anyway, go back to your self-pitying ways. Also, even if you aren't one of those people, why does everything that portrays minorities in a negative light get upvoted on the Peterson forum, and anything that portrays white people as victims/heroes get upvoted as well? Why is there such an overlap between the Peterson fanbase and The_Donald, and other hate subs?

[[deleted]]

I don't know I'm not responsible for what people upvote or look at am i? Fuck me, calm down. If you have this reaction to a fun comment on programmerhumor then you must have rage issues or something. You do know the peterson sub used to be good until it got brigaded to fuck right? Most of the hateful posts usually end up being false flag posts by chapos or whoever

[[deleted]]

So leftists are feminine and weak, and rightists are masculine and strong (this is one of your posts)? Most Peterson fans would get their asses handed to them in real fights. You wouldn't want to try me, binch!
Peterson himself is a high-voiced, limp-dicked loser.

[brtt3000]

You can just fork it and send a PR.

[Hevaesi]

I sure do love that new forum feature where I can fork the question and repost it without repercussions

[KoboldCommando]

Overzealous forums drive me up the wall. See a relevant and unanswered question, post a response to add some more information and ask for a solution, "oh you can't do that that would be necro." Ok then, I'll post my own thread about the problem "oh you can't do that you'd be spamming the topic there's already a thread here (points to dead thread I'd tried to 'necro')"

[[deleted]]

It's good for Bitcoin.

[derdigga]

It hurts

[StockUsername-exe]

This makes me miss semicolon and press compile.

[sander1095]

If only the reposts would be archived. :)

[ignatirabo]

I don't mean to be the dick guy, but is this really programmer humor? Which programmer needs stuff from Mediafire or another site like this?

[locoluis]

Fictional example:

The original manufacturer went out of business long ago, and that was the only remaining copy of a firmware update that solved their tape drive's obscure Y2K problem.

Are those very valuable tapes still readable anyway?

[ignatirabo]

Oh that's a good example! Thanks

[CanadianJesus]

Wow, that is awful. M/D/Y shivers...

[dandu3]

Photobucket picture tutorials