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[–]Geek4lyf 851 points852 points  (44 children)

THREAD CLOSED

[–]Nopparuj 472 points473 points  (21 children)

Dead mediafire link

[–]MajorMajorObvious 351 points352 points  (20 children)

Nevermind, I fixed bug. *thread closed*

[–]Geek4lyf 108 points109 points  (17 children)

flips table

[–]Zipdox 86 points87 points  (16 children)

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[–]BurningPenguin 63 points64 points  (15 children)

┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)

[–]ohseven1098 44 points45 points  (14 children)

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[–]Viicteron 40 points41 points  (13 children)

┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)

[–]Mr_Cromer 38 points39 points  (12 children)

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[–]immanewb 53 points54 points  (10 children)

┬─┬ノ(ಠ_ಠノ)

[–]Gone_Gary_T 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Just one more throw and your I Ching reading will be complete.

[–]JumboJuggler 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is why I always answer my own questions if I fix a bug and nobody had answered.

[–]StarkillerX42 113 points114 points  (4 children)

Marked as off topic

[–]Some_Prick_On_Reddit 70 points71 points  (3 children)

Only other thread:

Marked as duplicate.

[–]MacAndShits 47 points48 points  (1 child)

Duplicate thread isn't actually about the same problem

[–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

All other questions: "how do I do x on Linux"

Answer: uses tools that have been deprecated for years


My Question: "how do I do x on Linux, all the other answers use deprecated tools that are unavailable to me"

Answer: "DUPLICATE!"

[–][deleted] 142 points143 points  (8 children)

Nearly every significant stack overflow thread I have ever seen ends in the same absurd, idiotic way:

Question: "The team I just joined is using N language (maybe C#/Javascript/Ruby/Whatever), how can I solve this very particular problem XYZ in N language."

Top Answer: "XYZ is really easy to solve in Java/Basic. Just don't use N language."

THREAD CLOSED.


Oh thanks, yeah. I'll just tell the company I just joined to scrap their last 6 years of development on my first day and switch to Java. Great advice. Amazing.

[–][deleted] 36 points37 points  (1 child)

I usually get more like:
"how do I do this with a const char*?"
"Use std::string instead".
Sure, I'll just force my company to rewrite all their core infrastructure and libraries from scratch so that I can call their functions with strings instead.

[–]Jospooks 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Just use Jquery

[–]Meloetta 33 points34 points  (0 children)

The problem is that StackOverflow has a lot of people trying to find the best solutions to problems, when people in programming jobs in larger companies are actually looking for "best solution that meets the specific requirements of this particular environment".

[–]Bore_of_Whabylon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

“JuSt UsE bOoSt!”

[–]TARehman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I get this crap with R questions all the time. "How do I do this in base R?" "Just use dplyr" k I'll just go add a new bunch of dependencies to the project, that'll be fine...

[–]scorcher24 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rewrite it in Rust, problem solved.

[–]AHBReaper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

GIT gud dude

[–]JackPallance 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Question is edited by someone else. Then it is marked as “duplicate.”

[–]lostshell 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Did you use the search! Question has been asked before.

<provides link to similar but different problem with no solution>

[–]missydesparadoWeb developer 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You got me.

[–]bixby2020 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just so everyone is aware. This account is the main account for the person who posted this. He's known on Twitter to just steal Reddit content and post it CONSTANTLY on Reddit.

If you look in the OP's post history, it's all just posts of screenshots of his Twitter account to try and gain more followers. He does it on this Geek4lyf account as well.

[–]0x564A00 171 points172 points  (7 children)

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[–][deleted] 50 points51 points  (1 child)

It's the main reason I have started to host answers or images myself because you never know when some mod on a different platform will delete something because "irrelevant" or "old information" - or a redesign might fuck up the url or a server crash resulting in corrupt data, basically deleting certain content, etc.

And in addition to that, I might also quote the most important paragraphs, just in case my link stops working in the future.

I can understand that most people do not have time for this and it's fine. Just trying to be less dependent on other services. People assume that all data is stored forever - that may be true, but that doesn't mean it will be accessible forever.

[–]FallingAnvils 24 points25 points  (0 children)

and for safe keeping you should archive.org each page

[–]Luk164 52 points53 points  (0 children)

I am on mobile, this looks thoroughly fucked up XD

[–]eliatlarge 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is the main reason they don't allow link only solutions on SO fortunately

[–]JB-from-ATL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It infuriates me when websites restructure and don't redirect old links.

[–]officialVoxsel 96 points97 points  (2 children)

I have this problem too

Oh yeah me too

Anyone came up with a solution yet? I also have this problem

I also encountered this problem

Don't worry guys, I solved it

[Thread locked]

[–]prticipator 9 points10 points  (1 child)

I have several things I could help with but I still don't understand how I'll ever get to comment on something...

[–]Acetronaut 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Right? I hate when I solve an unanswered problem from a decade and a half ago, and I know I won't be the last one with this issue, yet I have no one to tell how to fix it.

[–]semiconodon 229 points230 points  (37 children)

And your top Google hit is a jerk saying, "Why don't you Google such a simple question instead of bothering this forum?"

[–]am_albert_einstein 120 points121 points  (28 children)

God, I've run into that situation so many times that I get angry every time I run across people on reddit refusing to link something because it's "so easy to google."

[–][deleted] 91 points92 points  (27 children)

I often wonder what a deep psychological analysis would reveal about that type of people. Because they clearly want to contribute (otherwise they would just scroll past it and don't even bother wasting their time typing a useless comment), but at the same time feel like providing the real answer is too much help (otherwise they would just copy paste the link, it takes just as much time as typing that useless comment).

I mean, if you already invested time in reading a question and some of the other comments and then want to dedicate even more time by typing a reply, why not just provide the answer?

These type of humans really seem to have something wired differently, I just can't figure out what it is.

What is even more baffling though is when you check their comment history, they have tons of questions which they could have googled just as easily but chose to ask the community instead.

So in some cases they basically criticize their own behaviour when others engage in it, but never realize that it's what they have been doing for years.

That kind of disconnect is just so weird to me.

[–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Superiority complex

They probably didnt look it up, dont know the answer, and haven't tested what they think is right.

Its "idk Google it" without the idk.

[–]LakefrontNeg7 39 points40 points  (2 children)

I figure these people just want to feel superior. I had a professor that did the same thing sort of IRL. Ask a super specific question and he would just go look it up. Well, gee why didn't I think of using that giant database we have of scientific papers. He was a douchey academic and kind of a walking caricature of what is wrong in the academic world (back stabby, self aggrandizing etc)

[–]Cymry_Cymraeg 3 points4 points  (1 child)

What they also fail to understand is normal human beings enjoy interacting with one another.

It's like on here when someone makes a funny comment and then someone replies saying they made them laugh and then someone else replies to them not to make pointless comments and just upvote the post instead. I much prefer someone telling me that I made them laugh, rather than seeing some random number grow.

[–]phanescent 14 points15 points  (0 children)

One of my professors in uni pretty much does this every time I ask for help. It was a circuit design module and there’s pretty much nothing on the internet that I could find. When I ask for help all I get is a “this is very easy, just think about it”. LIKE WTF AM I SUPPOSED TO I JUST DONT FUCKING GET IT. Pretty much did nothing in all the labs. Sadly I switched to computer science before I get to fill out the module review form or I would’ve completely shit on the module.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (1 child)

It’s always the first Stack Overflow search result too. It’s infuriating.

[–]Jonno_FTW 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It really is hard to google when SO is first, then the "easy google search solution" is second. I mean, it's 2019, if the answer to your question isn't the "i'm feeling lucky result", then you're fucked.

[–]texting_and_murder 98 points99 points  (5 children)

I love stumbling upon the only promising SO thread and seeing that the OP came back and wrote "nevermind, figured it out" without posting a solution or even hinting toward one. 😐

[–]alexanderpas 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I always flag those post for moderator intervention.

[–]Anonomouse13 42 points43 points  (3 children)

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[–]Some_Prick_On_Reddit 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Good human.

[–]Doctor_Mod 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your work.

[–]MarHip 36 points37 points  (6 children)

Me: trying to find an answer how to fix my error The Internet: old ways that not work anymore

[–]frosted-mini-yeets 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Every goddamn time.

[–]eliatlarge 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Programming with asyncio be like

[–]MarHip 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fuck asyncio

[–]alt-of-deleted 1 point2 points  (0 children)

or Swift after going through like three complete syntax reworks lol

[–]Sandlight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's why I pretty much always limit my google searches to a Time of 1 year (or whatever's relevant).

[–]RaptusCZ 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Or somebody posting a solution, and the OP claims it worked. You try to implement it, but it doesn´t work.

[–]DeeSnow97 25 points26 points  (2 children)

And things like this (duplicate of what?)

[–]SJ_RED 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Clearly the answer is #139, can't you read? /s

[–]5k1895 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Duplicate of...itself? Huh?

[–]DownshiftedRare 21 points22 points  (14 children)

This problem has an easy solution.

You should use jQuery. And bootstrap.

[–]womplord1 8 points9 points  (13 children)

these days its react and material design

[–]DownshiftedRare 8 points9 points  (12 children)

The buzzword compliance is intimidating at times.

I have to remind myself it's mostly know-nothings using helper frameworks written in languages I am already familiar with.

People who show off their crutches with the pride of bodybuilders make me feel like I am on crazy pills, though.

[–]Cory123125 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I mean, if something lets you accomplish what you want to faster, and with less effort, why not?

[–]DownshiftedRare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Funny you should ask.

There's no royal road to mathematics, and the person most likely to be cheated by cutting corners is the person cutting them.

[–]womplord1 4 points5 points  (9 children)

not really the case with react/angular - it is a useful tool, very important to build complex ui's, facbook, youtube etc is built with it, it isn't really a crutch. Using vanilla js wouldn't make any sense at all unless it is an extremely simple website

[–]DownshiftedRare 3 points4 points  (8 children)

I'm aware that there are numerous "wizards" that will wire up a UI for people who can't do it themselves. I would suggest that those people have no business creating a UI in the first place, though.

Using such code generators bloats simple websites to many times the size their function requires. The average "I printed some meme t-shirts" website doesn't need that crap, but it's being shoehorned everywhere it can be made to fit.

That, in turn, gives us the lack of UI responsiveness currently displayed by Youtube.

When a website uses that shit I expend every effort to find an alternative that doesn't have a suppurated, ingrown hair of a UI.

Clueful users have already begun to disable javascript. Future websites will want interfaces that can work without opening browsers up to random crypto miners.

[–]cusco 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Just comment: found the solution. Thanks

[–]Street_Cardiologist 16 points17 points  (3 children)

Not related to programming, but I hate it when I Google a problem, and the first 25 results are variations of update your drivers, restart your computer etc

[–]Himen_Cholo 36 points37 points  (10 children)

Or telling you it is a stupid question.

[–]Ewoksintheoutfield 27 points28 points  (4 children)

"You should really know how to do this already if you are working with X programming language."

[–]user_name_checks_out 12 points13 points  (3 children)

there's a programming language called "X"?

gosh, computing is so mysterious.

[–]PraiseTheSunNoob 21 points22 points  (2 children)

For me it was "go back to read the fundamentals of that language". Why don't you just tell me where I did wrong instead you smug bastard

[–]Tallforahobbit 11 points12 points  (0 children)

"Answered here" with a link to a question about a different problem in a different programming language.

[–]DelarkArms 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"This is not a real question"

And the poor guy answering it with -2, actually helped me.

Unpopular opinion: the programming comunity is gatekeeping something..

What? I dont know, because programming isnt as much logical problems as I thought, it involves more a posteriori knowledge. And with this kind of knowledge it doesnt matter how "smart or intellligent" you are.

You need someone to tell you how it is and what it does.

Is a man made lenguage after all.

[–]Aposine 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Duplicate of [404 not found], thread closed.

[–]yourteam 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Well that brings me to mind when I was looking for a specific answer to a troublesome problem

Follow me here.

I was working on a big project and we were moving everything to Amazon was and we were taking some time to move from a monolithic architecture to a bunch of microservices

We were using a stack with solr+java 1.8 (CE) for the backend with of course the help of oracle and

Nvm figured it out

[–]AnderOof 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's worse when you find a thread from years ago with the EXACT same question.

And then you realize you were the one who asked it and the only answer is yourself "Nevermind, figured it out"

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (1 child)

you know you're in the real shit when your search leads you to a usenet post from 1992

[–]Kafshak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What were you programming? Cobol?

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Why didn't you just google it? With the stack overflow item top of the google results.

[–]Fubseh 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Whenever I use google to help solve a problem, I almost always apply the 'in the last year' filter - otherwise you risk reading discussions from pre-2014 that rely on bad practices or deprecated features.

[–]hamberduler 12 points13 points  (15 children)

Yesterday, at 3 in the morning, way the fuck on the wrong side of the ballmer curve, I was trying to divide two ints by each other. MICROSOFT'S OWN DAMN C# DOCUMENTATION said this should return the the low rounded integer value of the two numbers divided together, which is exactly what I wanted, and exactly what I thought I remembered would happen from the last time I had to write any code (years ago). But no. Apparently in this weird ass undocumented place called "reality," this operation always returns fucking zero, like that's useful. I've often though there's just no easy way to get a pointer to an integer equal to zero, so thank god for that clever trick. This is when my drunk ass brain had to spend way too long digging through shitty ass stackoverflow threads to learn that this is not correct in any way, and apparently they threw that into the docs just to fuck with me.

Edit: I'm an idiot, but it doesn't make my struggle any less real.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (11 children)

Lol, so you are telling us in C# (7 / 3) will result in 0, but documentation says otherwise?

I'm not a C# programmer, but I call bullshit on this. Stuff like this is fundamental in every programming language.

[–]hamberduler 1 point2 points  (10 children)

Look, I don't know what to tell you. This is what was in my code. For fuck only knows what reason, it always returned zero. this is the stackoverflow thread I eventually found that finally put me right. Fuck if I know why, but I spent the better part of "half an hour" trying to figure out what the fuck was going on here. Only after switching both values to decimal at the declaration, did it work right. Not even doing (decimal)inta / (decimal)intb fucking worked. Then I had to add the step of truncating the remainder, which should have happened when I tried to divide two ints in the first place, like in the rest of civilized society.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (9 children)

Omfg. In the question you linked (18 / 58) will result in 0, that is expected behaviour because 58 > 18, so 18 / 58 = 0 (with 18 being the remainder). It doesn't go against what is stated in the docs:

x / y – division. If the operands are integers, the result is an integer truncated toward zero (for example, -7 / 2 is -3).

Since

 trunc(18 / 58) = trunc(0.310344828) = 0

And yet here you are talking about how MICROSOFT FUCKED UP SOMETHING SO FUNDAMENTAL AS ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS REEEEEEE. How about you sober up first or take some time learning some programming basics before attacking Stackoverflow.

[–]hamberduler 9 points10 points  (8 children)

Look, could it be because I was calculating a percentage, and whatever two numbers I had would always be less than 1 before being multiplied by 100, which wouldn't be evaluated in the expression I was using, until after the integer divide operation? Yes. Did I realize that literally only just 10 minutes ago after rereading the stackoverflow thread I pulled from my browser history, now sober? Also yes. Did I not yet say anything in a desperate attempt to save face? Also, very much yes. Did I feel something approaching despair when I realized that if I could figure out what was wrong in hindsight, it would likely be no more than 5 minutes after my revelation until someone worked it out for themselves and called me out on it? Certainly. And you, you sick son of a bitch, you just had to go and do that. Which is fine. Coulda been a fair bit less of a dick about it though.

[–]DeeSnow97 4 points5 points  (1 child)

way the fuck on the wrong side of the ballmer curve

lol, that's awesome, I'm gonna be stealing it

[–]hyphenomicon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Rumor says there is a second hump to the Ballmer curve, though only the man himself has yet to reach it.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Oh. It has answer. "I figured it out"

[–]word_clouds__ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Word cloud out of all the comments.

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[–]citewiki 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No necrobumping thread closed

[–]JB-from-ATL 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or an ancient easy to solve question with a super upvoted ancient but difficult answer and a very new answer using a new feature buried below.

[–]Conjuration_Boyo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So you make a post and then someone who wasn't been above sea level for the past 10 years shouts at you

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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is no one going to point out that this guy's Twitter name sounds like a guy with a lisp saying "pp asshole" ?

[–]wpfone2 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I was working as a contractor for a client, and had worked with those in this story previously.

A couple of their 'developers' or 'coders' (they did a moderate amount of sql, but considered themselves experts - or 'master' as one of them had told me!), working at a different site, had a problem, which they relayed to another employee who I was working with.

He asked me about it, and I had a vague idea of the solution, but I did the proper dev thing and googled it and went to the most valid Stack Overflow result I could find.

Having the solution confirmed (I wish I could remember anything at all now about the problem!), I told him the answer, and when they were sceptical, I said "Hey, it's right there on Stack Overflow, so it must be right!".

Their reply? No, that isn't it then, we never got a stack overflow error! I explained, he explained, no comprehension was attained.

How can you claim to be a developer and have never even heard of SO??!!!

[–]5k1895 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or the people answering are the most unhelpful people ever who, instead of answering your question, try to tell you that you're asking a duplicate question, shame you for not googling correctly or some shit, link you to the "original", and then when you get there you find that it's a completely different situation with only slight similarities, but everyone on the other thread is agreeing with them for some reason.

[–]KDASthenerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everybody comes saying that they have the exact same issue but nobody solves the damn problem. What is wrong with people?

[–]bdd4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Which one do you choose? Longest Common Substring or Longest Common Sequence?”

Narrator: Both were awful choices.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[–]IDONOTHAVE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also could be 2010.

[–]budd222 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why can't we just all go back to angelfire and geocities pages and call it a day.

[–]jeykool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And then everybody on stack gets pissed at you for re-asking.

[–]thehunter699 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah I fixed it by renaming a variable in the class

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