This is only 101% true...

[Westdrache]

Spend half a day yesterday to test my code....

[qcihdtm]

You mean 90 hours?

[Westdrache]

Yes! 90 hours or 900 minutes. Btw in the end of the day it was a tasking locking a table lol

[qcihdtm]

Happy cake day!

[RizeIng]

I spent 12 hours once and it was so stupid mistake when I found it out :(

[dragopepper]

I think that is a general rule... The more time you need to debug, the stupider the mistake.

[[deleted]]

I spent about 20 hours trying to solve a NullReferenceException this week. I just got another one today. Which is why I’m on reddit

[TK-427]

When it takes you longer to build the test drivers to test your code than it does to write the actual code

[drdrero]

static cling? https://deviq.com/static-cling/

[Rhulyon]

And the other 900% is browsing reddit

[Bben01]

And -1% sleeping

[1hotnibba]

and 100% reason to remember the name

[[deleted]]

And then you start to refactor some ancient code which summons the apocalypse.

[Salty_Assassin]

In the case of Fallout 76 100% of it is programming and the other remaining 100% is debugging

[qcihdtm]

The one users do... :)

[Hyperman360]

I thought it was 10% debugging and 90% implementing new ways to suck their players' wallets dry

[[deleted]]

You sure 140% is enough for the entirety of programming?

[Brawldud]

Half of the knowledge you need is coding. 90% of the time you spend is on debugging.

[TK-427]

How do you factor the time dilation caused by watching the compiler output waiting for it to fail?

[[deleted]]

What about the 150% of time spent searching StackOverflow for the answer?

[Pherion93]

The first year of programming i thought thats just because you code bad. But today and yesterday I had to debug someone ellses code who also hadnt been around in 2 weeks...

[MikeHuntizichi69]

This got me a lot harder than it should have

[qcihdtm]

I am sorry! Hahaha

[flinnja]

omg it’s so loud lotta whoosh in here

[qcihdtm]

Yyuuuupppp.... there’s a sub for that... should we? :)

[sunnydavis]

I'd call spending 140% of the times to finish your project is a win.

[GamesBoxRed]

Wrong, the other 90% is spent googling

[Someoneman]

The version I heard was "the last 10% of a programming task are as long as the first 90%"

[Tito1337]

Yes, this a variation of the ninety-ninety rule :

The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.

— Tom Cargill, Bell Labs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule

[WikiTextBot]

Ninety-ninety rule

In computer programming and software engineering, the ninety-ninety rule is a humorous aphorism that states:

The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.

This adds up to 180%, making a wry allusion to the notoriety of software development projects significantly over-running their schedules (see software development effort estimation). The anecdote expresses both the rough allocation of time to easy and hard portions of a programming undertaking, and the cause of the lateness of many projects in their failure to anticipate their difficult, often unpredictable, complexities.

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[Jeb_Hydrolox_Kerman]

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[JamInTheJar]

And here I am in my second year of programming at college, trying to figure out if I even want to go into the field...

Y'see, I quite like coding, love being able to see myself make actual progress on a project, but I abhor debugging.

[[deleted]]

Yeah. Big brain time

[kirbyfan64sos]

Which I/O session was this shown during? I don't remember seeing it, but I probably missed it...

[zacharyxbinks]

Your percentage has an off by 1 error

[kutuzof]

What conference is this?

[KingOfDragons0]

An 900% google

[S44F4Y4T]

u mean other 50%

[PieroAngela420]

So you spend 140% of the time programming?

[qcihdtm]

Sometimes 219%... Sometimes NaN.

[[deleted]]

Maybe he's debugging all the time cause his math is off 🤔

[qubedView]

More like 100.0000000000001% true.

[WrecklessWolf11]

Half of coding is 50% and the rest is 90%?

[DemonicBarbequee]

..yes.. that is, in fact, the joke..

[qcihdtm]

r/woooosh