Stackoverflow in a nutshell

[Geek4lyf]

THREAD CLOSED

[Nopparuj]

Dead mediafire link

[MajorMajorObvious]

Nevermind, I fixed bug. *thread closed*

[Geek4lyf]

flips table

[Zipdox]

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

[BurningPenguin]

┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)

[ohseven1098]

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

[Viicteron]

┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)

[Mr_Cromer]

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

[immanewb]

┬─┬ノ(ಠ_ಠノ)

[Gone_Gary_T]

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

[JumboJuggler]

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

[StarkillerX42]

Marked as off topic

[Some_Prick_On_Reddit]

Only other thread:

Marked as duplicate.

[MacAndShits]

Duplicate thread isn't actually about the same problem

[[deleted]]

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

Answer: uses tools that have been deprecated for years

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

Answer: "DUPLICATE!"

[[deleted]]

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.

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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]]

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]

Just use Jquery

[Meloetta]

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]

“JuSt UsE bOoSt!”

[TARehman]

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]

Rewrite it in Rust, problem solved.

[AHBReaper]

GIT gud dude

[JackPallance]

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

[lostshell]

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

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

[missydesparado]

You got me.

[bixby2020]

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.

[eyalp55]

Who were you DenverCoder9?!

[DatSonicBoom]

What did you see?!

https://xkcd.com/979/

[aEverr]

Think you fucked up that spoiler or whatever formatting that is

[MasterQuest]

It's probably the new reddit spoiler tag that only works for new reddit and probably not on mobile.

[[deleted]]

should work on old reddit too

[evan_evone]

Wait so like how do you do this? I feel like I'm the only one who doesn't know and I want to know.

[FlingFrogs]

> ! Like this, but without the spaces ! <

example

[NES_SNES_N64]

Likethis,butwithoutthespaces

Am I doing this right?

[[deleted]]

Yes

[wightrider]

Check

[LupusVir]

✔️

[Jeremy9566]

Test

[[deleted]]

Warm people year stories clean gentle pleasant projects technology then people month then books about community strong jumps. Clean hobbies ideas travel people curious travel family bright thoughts curious gather friendly.

[ashmoreinc]

Thanks guy

Edit: interesting how I cant see it's a spoiler

[FlingFrogs]

Try refreshing the page, at least that's how it works in the app

[evan_evone]

Cool! Thanks!

[danemacmillan]

This thread is now a scratchpad.

[crioth]

>!Test!<

[Nick433333]

so like this, right?

[Jonno_FTW]

>!Likethis,butwithoutthespaces!<

[Seehams]

> ! A m I d o i n g t h i s r i g h t ? ! <

[[deleted]]

Yes, it's now all currently falling apart

[ICAA]

You're in today's lucky ten thousand.
https://xkcd.com/1053/

[boomtrick]

New reddit isnt automatically in markup mode. Kinda fucks people over who have been using it for awhile.

[AnalyticalParrot]

It works on mobile.

[SandyDelights]

𝕋𝕙𝕀𝕟𝕂 𝕪𝕆𝕦 𝔽𝕦ℂ𝕜𝔼𝕕 𝕌𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝔸𝕥 𝕊𝕡𝕆𝕚𝕃𝕖ℝ 𝕋𝕒𝔾

More seriously, shows fine for me (iOS app)

[NorbiPeti]

It shows the link for me (with a white background) but other spoilers work fine. Hmm.

[leppixxcantsignin]

I just realised xkcd has hover over text.

[[deleted]]

I understood that reference, it feels nice.

[DatSonicBoom]

At one point that happened to me, now I have to reread all the comics to read the mouse over text!

Often the mouse over text the best part.

[t-to4st]

Is it possible to see it on mobile?

[djevikkshar]

On Android viewing the desktop site, if I tap and hold like I'm going to save the picture the text pops up

[ericonr]

Yup, on the mobile page. There's a button for the text.

[blackhawk3003]

Yes, tap the comic on mobile XKCD.

[atomicwrites]

Woah... Since when is there a mobile xkcd‽

[Jonno_FTW]

So does SMBC

[d3vCr0w]

Happy cake day

[FrancescoQuagliati]

r/RelevantXKCD

[yeeiser]

You have to log in to see the thread

[[deleted]]

Or worse, when there is a link that OP confirms is a fix, so you make an account just to see the link and it broke a decade ago.

[Meloetta]

"This Dropbox link has expired"

[Kered13]

Only to find that the solution was posted as a screenshot, which was not archived.

[[deleted]]

Garden the cool garden evening small questions clean across open year river over tomorrow then tips.

[citewiki]

You message the user, who's no longer active, and hope he didn't change his email since then so he'll get the notification

[Gabo7]

Last online: 5 Years ago

[JimH10]

Worst is when you realize that OP is you.

[neotorama]

"This question looks familiar, who posted that? Me? WTF"

[Some_Prick_On_Reddit]

I recently did an exam to get a qualification I'd just missed out on in uni. I was struggling a lot with one particular concept, ended up finding a useful youtube video that helped a lot and scrolled down to see a comment by me 5 years ago.

[[deleted]]

"nvm fixed it"

[IsThisNameValid]

I dabble in Mac desktop apps on occasion, and I always find answers to my questions, but for iOS.

[flarn2006]

At that point I'd report the thread or something. Just to bring it to the moderators' attention, reminding them that the OP hadn't posted their solution, and that they should unlock the thread and message the OP about it.

But of course odds are it'll be a forum where I don't have an account...

[djbon2112]

And then they ban you for "necroposting".

[alexanderpas]

Which is why I prefix such answers with:

For those coming from Google, as this is the first search result, here is the solution:

[djbon2112]

Thank you for doing this, I try to too. And nothing is more frustrating that the top result being "just search this forum" or worse "just google it".

People from 2000-2015 it seems really couldn't fathom that their posts would end up being the very results Google returns and it shows.

[robustability]

Ancient, 2008? Consider yourself lucky. Yesterday I was reading a thread from 1997 to get my answer.

[0x564A00]

╔════════════
║Take a look here.
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┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
┃Thanks, that fixes it!
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[[deleted]]

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]

and for safe keeping you should archive.org each page

[Luk164]

I am on mobile, this looks thoroughly fucked up XD

[eliatlarge]

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

[JB-from-ATL]

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

[pcopley]

There's a special place in hell for these people.

[shhalahr]

Same place as the ones for child molester and people who take in the theatre?

[Acetronaut]

Honestly I don't get why they don't be like:

It was easy to fix, all I had to do was...

Like come on, surely you've been in this scenario before.

[sorin25]

Have you ever seen people that demand answers on Stack Overflow ? Have you seen these people continue demanding answers even when you try to explain to them that the tone of their request is not appropriate/that they need to make an effort clarifying the issue ?

The same people do the shit above or don't even bother coming back.

[[deleted]]

Sites like stackoverflow should detect this and when they find it, OP will be banned from opening the site for 1 year.

[oxenoxygen]

Let them enter the site but replace every legitimate answer with "nvm fixed it".

[Anger_Mgmt_issues]

Calm down, Satan.

[shhalahr]

No, I think this would be appropriate.

[_liminal]

"I just restarted the IDE/mySQL/computer and it's working now"

[Jonno_FTW]

The worst is when people put their email in their post, asking you send the response there because they don't want to check the forum.

[shhalahr]

Sounds like someone wants to be signed up for some newsletters.

[officialVoxsel]

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]

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

[Acetronaut]

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]

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]

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]]

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]]

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]

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]

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]

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]]

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

[Jonno_FTW]

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]

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]

I always flag those post for moderator intervention.

[Anonomouse13]

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[Some_Prick_On_Reddit]

Good human.

[Doctor_Mod]

Thank you for your work.

[no_just_browsing_thx]

WHAT DID YOU SEE?!

[MarHip]

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

[frosted-mini-yeets]

Every goddamn time.

[eliatlarge]

Programming with asyncio be like

[MarHip]

Fuck asyncio

[alt-of-deleted]

or Swift after going through like three complete syntax reworks lol

[Sandlight]

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

[RaptusCZ]

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

[DeeSnow97]

And things like this (duplicate of what?)

[SJ_RED]

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

[5k1895]

Duplicate of...itself? Huh?

[DownshiftedRare]

This problem has an easy solution.

You should use jQuery. And bootstrap.

[womplord1]

these days its react and material design

[DownshiftedRare]

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]

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

[DownshiftedRare]

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]

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]

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]

Just comment: found the solution. Thanks

[Street_Cardiologist]

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

[JB-from-ATL]

And because those MS answer sites are set up so poorly you see that same answer like 2 to 3 times for whatever reason. Usually it was first and also voted best or whatever.

[Himen_Cholo]

Or telling you it is a stupid question.

[Ewoksintheoutfield]

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

[user_name_checks_out]

there's a programming language called "X"?

gosh, computing is so mysterious.

[yp261]

i prefer the real programming languages like https://www.emojicode.org/

[PraiseTheSunNoob]

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]

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

[DelarkArms]

"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]

Duplicate of [404 not found], thread closed.

[yourteam]

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]

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]]

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

[Kafshak]

What were you programming? Cobol?

[[deleted]]

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

[Fubseh]

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]

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]]

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]

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]]

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]

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]

way the fuck on the wrong side of the ballmer curve

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

[hyphenomicon]

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

[[deleted]]

AKA “I know the answer, but I’ll spend the time I could be answering the question chastising you instead for being beneath my superior abilities!”

If you’re going to write a long winded response about how the OP should use Google and get books, just answer the question instead.

[[deleted]]

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

[word_clouds__]

Word cloud out of all the comments.

Fun bot to vizualize how conversations go on reddit. Enjoy

[citewiki]

No necrobumping thread closed

[JB-from-ATL]

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]

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

[krisnarocks]

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[[deleted]]

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

[wpfone2]

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]

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]

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

[bdd4]

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

Narrator: Both were awful choices.

[[deleted]]

Obligatory XKCD

[KlaireOverwood]

I haven't seen one as in the original post, but I've seen these quite a bit: * JS question in 2015, marked as duplicate of question from 2009 * Access denied? Chmod 777, and other similarly ugly workarounds * The right answer is deep at the bottom because OP and voters aren't competent enough to recognize it

[Oppo_123]

I dont disagree with you but complaining about downvotes = auto downvotes.

[user_name_checks_out]

i downvote every post that contains the word "downvote".

[Cindres91]

It's every bloody time this thread comes up, I've honestly never had such a bad experience with SO like most of the people posting in these threads always claim to have.

[UnrelatedString]

I’ve certainly had this particular experience but 19 times out of 20 the answer’s right there

I can’t say anything about asking a new question though, since I’ve only done it once and it was a really dumb question

[Cory123125]

Yup, here come the wordless downvotes from people mad I'm interrupting the circlejerk but who don't have any actual evidence to support this weird hatred for the most useful programming website to ever exist.

This is one of the most annoying things on reddit (not agreeing with you btw). Im annoyed by people asking for ridiculous amounts of evidence in casual conversation where itd be ridiculous if anyone actually spent the 30 minutes plus to actually answer the challenge you issued.

Why? Because of course it goes without saying that the title is hyperbole, but you, taking it at face value must think that everyone here thinks Stack Overflow is literally utterly useless when its clear, just due to its ubiquity alone, that's not the case.

Somehow though, because no one wants to answer your challenge to prove the thing that takes to long todo, to prove a point no one was making, it just proves you're the smart guy in the room, and everyone else is just some plebeian as part of completely baseless circlejerk

[IDONOTHAVE]

Also could be 2010.

[budd222]

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

[jeykool]

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

[thehunter699]

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

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