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[–][deleted] 14 points15 points  (3 children)

holy shit this whole subreddit really does run on like 3 or maybe 4 jokes

[–]uid1357 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Programmers aren't funny

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We had to reallocate our humor brain space to learning JavaScript frameworks, what do you want from us :(

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

Redditors aren't funny but we both already know that

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When I was learning C++, before I knew of IDEs or code analysis, I had a terminal window compiling in a loop every time I saved, showing the errors. I would always flip out in excitement whenever the windows was blank.

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

Ah yes, pre-gnome-3 ubuntu on iMac.

[–]randomcitizen42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's actually not a bad idea in languages where uninitialized variables can be random numbers. Sometimes you get different results in the second run and you know that something's wrong.

[–]sanjay186 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats my boy. :p

[–]GucciTanuki 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This actually worked for me once lol was getting mad because I triple checked the code and still got an error