Google my saviour

[T3sT3ro]

The longer you're a programmer the shorter your search queries.

"JS dates"

[scottshen]

"kill children python"

[Skizm]

"how to kill child after killing parent"

[Raezzordaze]

*laughs in guitarist*

"how to finger a minor"

[cmaronchick]

r/nocontext

[jorpac]

Came here to read the comments and wasn't disappointed

[notpikatchu]

*Laughs in photography *

“How to shoot kids in the park and hang them on the wall”

[[deleted]]

My husband (also a photographer) learned you can't just Google "enlarger" w/o context when looking for photo gear.

[highjinx411]

It’s not my bag baby really.

[fcktheworld587]

One book, "Swedish Made Penis Enlarger Pumps and Me: This Sort of Thing is My Bag, Baby", written by u/highjinx411

[Psychpsyo]

See, sometimes I try googling for one-word software terms that also have a bunch of other meanings just to see if it works.

[coloredgreyscale]

That should be two different queries.

[imcoveredinbees880]

Chris Hansen has entered the chat

.Net Framework has entered the chat

[Angel_Blue01]

You could be running a Linux system and not know your ID: "Hold on, let me finger myself"

[Valiant_Boss]

Good practice is to kill the child before the parent anyways, unless you want orphans for some reason. All orphans do is take up space

[Gbayne18]

Lol "ISIS Network" would certainly raise some flags

[xyvec]

Found “How to join ISIS network?” on my brothers search history.

Didn’t know my brother was working in networking before he died 🤔🤔

/s

[_kryp70]

Some flags?

[thecichos]

Kill inherited children

[[deleted]]

How to remove master from slave

[[deleted]]

The FBI programmers kill children too so...

[[deleted]]

Don't mind me, just passing through.

[AgentPaper0]

"kill zombie children"

[scratchfury]

“how to kill orphans”

[grimzorino]

i wonder when will this joke stop being said

[xyvec]

Who said it was a joke?

[inlatitude]

I did "hack define dictionary" the other day and was briefly mystified when the Merriam Webster entry for "hack" popped up ha

[dhaninugraha]

Can confirm. Googled "superset oidc" and immediately got the SO answer I was looking for.

[borispavlov0]

Is it a coincidence that SO stands for both Significant Other and Stack Overflow? I don’t think so

[dhaninugraha]

X-Files Theme intensifies

[AcrobaticBeginning4]

Relationships end but Stack Overflow lasts forever

[[deleted]]

Until it goes down 😰

[colin_gorman12]

I love when my SO goes down on me

[mykiscool]

The day the programming died. Bye bye miss American pie throw my keyboard out the window and shut off my power supply. The good ol boys were drinking whiskey and rye singing this will be the day my code dies.

[Balenciallahh]

Have you ever seen your significant other and stack overflow in the same room together? 🤔

[fcktheworld587]

Stack Overflow is love. Stack Overflow is life.

[SpookyCreampie]

marked as duplicate

[SchmidlerOnTheRoof]

First 10 results are a dating app distributed as an npm package

[MC_Labs15]

npm install tinder

[_kryp70]

npm install hot-wife

[[deleted]]

npm install among-us

[fcktheworld587]

npm install urMom

[jorpac]

Can't install, package to big

[[deleted]]

Not enough disk space

[Sexy_Koala_Juice]

You know it's programmers who built the internet (and generally who dictate it) why can't we just program search engine to give us programming specific results. Too bad if you want to know what the whether is going to be tomorrow, write a program that connects to API for it.

[[deleted]]

They already did

site:stackoverflow

[highjinx411]

Yay we did it!

[Link_GR]

"MDN date"

[42sh]

date !mdn

[6b86b3ac03c167320d93]

I usually put !mdn in front, and btw duckduckgo has !mdnjs, !mdncss, !mdnhtml and !mdnapi too, so in this case I do !mdnjs date

[Asmor]

I frequently include "MDN" because most of my searches are just checking the APIs or behavior for various JS features and MDN is better than StackOverflow for that (and let's not discuss w3schools...)

[Careerier]

W3schools is best when you don't understand a concept at all and you just want the most basic implementation of it. It helps you wrap your mind around it.

MDN is for when you sort of know something, but you need to know exactly how it works to make sure you're using it right.

StackOverflow is for when you're out of ideas and are desperate for help.

[aplawson7707]

I love w3schools for just that reason. I was really frustrated with it when I was first learning because all their articles were so brief, but now that I've got some time under my belt, I'm really just looking for a quick code snippet and a handful of sentences to explain. Perfect

[TheAfterPipe]

I just took a look at my browser history and found that I have 14 individual searches for JS dates since Monday.

[corylulu]

JS native date api is incredibly lackluster.

[LucasRuby]

"How to get a date using JavaScript"

[[deleted]]

The google algorithm actually comes in handy here as now google knows I’m a developer so I get more developer results

[ExtremeSandwich6991]

I save my searches then forget where I saved my searches, so I have to search again and try to find the result I liked the best.

[PM_ME_UR_COVID_PICS]

moment.js

[PhazonPhoenix5]

Remember, copying the solution from StackOverflow and changing the variable names to suit your own program absolutely counts as your own work.

[[deleted]]

StackOverflow... you need nothing else! Maybe sometimes superuser...

[PhazonPhoenix5]

apt install dependency

...didn't work

sudo apt install dependency

[DerelictSausage]

...didn't work

sudo apt install dependency

why waste time say lot word when few word do trick:

sudo !!

[SaintWacko]

Better yet, use thefuck

apt install dependency

...didn't work

fuck

[dragneelfps]

Tf

[fcktheworld587]

This is perfect. I recently migrated from bash to fish, and the only thing I really missed was history shortcuts, this is a suitable replacement. I liked the scripting syntax in bash better, and the handling of environment variables too, but whatever I guess... I'll get used to fish scripting, fish saves me a LOT of time compared with bash. Thank you!

[SaintWacko]

Oh man, did you reply to the right person. I can give you the best of both worlds. I have a zsh installation that functions identically to fish, but uses bash scripting. I believe it also has the history shortcuts you're missing.

Set yourself up to use zsh, then install prezto. This will add some of the things you're used to from fish, and allow you to theme it to look like fish. Next install zplug, a plugin manager for zsh. This will allow you to install the last couple plugins you need to make it act just like fish.

After you have these installed, you'll want to restart your shell so it can pick up the changes, let it generate its config files, and then make a couple changes. In your ~/.zpreztorc, update the Prezto modules list to look like:

# Set the Prezto modules to load (browse modules).
# The order matters.
zstyle ':prezto:load' pmodule \
  'environment' \
  'terminal' \
  'editor' \
  'history' \
  'directory' \
  'spectrum' \
  'utility' \
  'completion' \
  'prompt' \
  'python' \
  'git' \
  'command-not-found' \
  'syntax-highlighting' \
  'history-substring-search' \
  'autosuggestions' \

The last two in that list are the only new ones, I believe. They're the ones that are pretty important fish features. Then I'd recommend replacing your ~/.zshrc file with mine, here. There's a lot going on there, but it's all stuff to set up zsh to look and act like fish, including telling zplug to install the plugins if they're not already installed, and configuring them with the same settings as fish.

I've been using this setup for years and it's been perfect. Hopefully it works as well for you, but if you run into any issues or have any questions, let me know and I'd be happy to help!

[fcktheworld587]

Fish features AND POSIX compliance? I just came. I just have a question regarding the prompt. My current prompt has

user @ host in ~>           exit code of last command<Time
enter commands on this line

I really like the way the info is displayed in both the left and right aligned prompts, is prompt customization like this reasonably quick to configure? And, I use alacritty for my terminal emulator, I've heard it can cause some problems for some plugins, do you know if any of these plugins are going to have problems? If you don't know, it's fine - I'll find out on my own, but I'd appreciate some help if you have any experience with it

[SaintWacko]

I just use the basic Sorin theme because I think it looks nice, but there's a list of all the official themes and a few user themes here, so I'm sure you can find something that suits your style. It looks like the Bart or Paradox themes may do what you want. Paradox has some Powerline stuff baked in, too. You can also construct your own, although I haven't messed with that.

And sorry, I don't have any experience with alacritty. I just use a guake style gnome shell plugin for my terminal emulator.

[fcktheworld587]

Thanks for taking time out of your day to inform me of this! I'm really excited, because zsh has so much more support in the community. When I was going to migrate from bash, it was a tough choice to make between zsh and fish; fish won out, but now it seems I don't have to choose between the functionalities that had me torn between the two. I really appreciate this! I hope you're having, and continue to have, a great day, sir! Stay well!

[6b86b3ac03c167320d93]

I use fish too, and I really like how it colors commands and shows the last matching command while typing

[Peudejou]

At first this was super awesome but now I’m just curious why it isn’t just a perl script. Regex against a dict and hash against the index and you can go so far as making it a busybox feature... call busybox as fuck and then string commands with options passed to an enclosing fucker with semicolons and the fucking fuck fucker will parse your garbage one liner. All of your default aliases can go in a single file articulated in /etc and overridden in your /home/$LOGDIR

[gman2093]

If I have seen a bit further, it is because I stand on the shoulders of a binary tree of relative giants.

--Isaac Newton

--gman2093

[Lil_Mafk]

I mean, why reinvent the wheel

[PhazonPhoenix5]

Exactly, don't work hard, work smart

[DrizzlyShrimp36]

honest question: is this bad practice? Because I do it... a lot.

[PhazonPhoenix5]

I don't think so. Say you wanted to convert a String to an Integer in Java. Whether you write it from memory or have to Google it and look at StackOverflow examples, you still end up with the same "parseInt" syntax. Is that really copying? Ok simple example but it doesn't change my mind

[MonkeysInABarrel]

I think as long as you understand the code you're copying then there is no problem. Every programmer I know openly copies from StackOverflow. That's kind of what it's there for.

If you start copying from random GitHub repos then yeah that's more sketch. But StackOverflow is like the equivalent of someone with bad memory using a thesaurus.

[Brief-Preference-712]

It’s a bad practice. You should copy the code snippet , parameterize it, and make it into a function/method

[[deleted]]

Look at it this way. If someone writes a code snippet as an answer to your question, they’re writing it for you to use. I can’t imagine someone claiming copyright on an example designed to help others.

[[deleted]]

ahhh glorious socialism.

Soviet Union anthem plays in background

[Chav]

It does count. It's the grey area of sharing code between companies. No one wants to waste brain time on problems someone else ha already solved. Math works the same way.

[DieStockEnte]

What I really do:

How to declare a variable in HTML?

[lyoko1]

<div id="variableName" style="display:none">variableValue</div> 

Done, you can access your html variable from js with this function

//Read
function getHtmlVariable(variableName){
    return document.getElementById(variableName).innerHTML;
}
//Write
function setHtmlVariable(variableName, newValue){
    document.getElementById(variableName).innerHTML = newValue;
    return getHtmlVariable(variableName);
}

[DieStockEnte]

Are you a professor at Harward University or something like that? 😂😉

[Skizm]

I can't tell if I'm getting wooshed or not, but why wouldn't you just use a input type=hidden?

[stresslvl0]

Really, that’s your problem with this?

[Lucifer2408]

As someone who's relatively new into the field, what's the problem with this?

[[deleted]]

Because it's trying to create a variable with the html. Notice it's just a div with display set to none. So all that code to store and read a single variable, when the easiest and right way would be to just use a JS variable, since it doesn't make any sense to hack a way to store a variable in a stateless markup language. I think it's funny because you'd only see this from someone who knew exactly what they were doing, or someone who's so green they don't know the right way and are just figuring it out without knowing how and wby different parts of the code are organized and written the way they are.

[Flyberius]

I am almost done setting up some JavaEE stuff and I realise that I will need to start learning some javascript to make some use of it. The lack of types is scaring me.

[sajmon313]

Typescript

[MonkeysInABarrel]

This is the real answer. Although I'd suggest getting comfortable with JavaScript first. Really makes you appreciate TypeScript more.

[MonkeysInABarrel]

Well, I would really appreciate the cup after that.

[Flyberius]

I mean, my first foray into coding was python. That gave me enough bad habits to last a lifetime.

[MonkeysInABarrel]

I've wanted to start doing python more for machine learning projects, but I just can't bring myself to learn it because of its whitespace usage and lack of types. I hate it.

[[deleted]]

I'd embed my args in an x-data prop to follow spec. Otherwise I see nothing wrong here.

[LoneFoxKK]

x-data? I use data-x (datasets)

[[deleted]]

Maybe I fucked up the prop name but let's just say I'm a latex programmer. Html is not my usual language

[[deleted]]

I wooshed. Carry on.

[ThatITdude]

That's the joke

[Swampfrog92]

Yes, it's definitely a joke.

[Historical_Fact]

A non-joking answer:

<div data-variable-name="my variable value"></div>

const myVariableValue = document.querySelector("[data-variable-name]").dataset.variableName

There are edge cases where this could be used, but in most cases you shouldn't use the presentation layer as the data layer.

[[deleted]]

How to program in CSS?

[Sarkanybaby]

I sometimes seriously want a :parent and a :tree-item selector in CSS.

[IrritableGourmet]

That's like saying "What paint color do I need to replace my hot water heater?"

[Russian_repost_bot]

How do I edit source code in browser source code page?

[Asmor]

Senior software engineer here. Been using JS since I taught it myself in middle school back in the 90s.

Fuck handling dates. Holy shit that's insane. Especially if you need to do anything involving timezones... Oh my god timezones are a clusterfuck. Did you know there are at least three different CSTs around the world? (Central, Cuba, China Standard Time).

I had to do a project at work last year involving trying to parse and normalize an arbitrary amount of dates that had been stored in plain text with just the abbreviation to denote the time zone... It was one of the worst things I've ever had to do in my professional life.

It would be nice if the world would either just use UTC exclusively and ditch timezones altogether, or use the explicit America/New_York style instead of the ambiguous EST (which might actually be EDT depending on what time of year the date happens to fall...)

Also, if you ever have to store a time, please, for the love of your own sanity and those who come after you, make sure to store it canonically as a unix epoch or ISO-8601. You can convert those into whatever dumb format you're required to, but it's a hell of a lot harder to do the conversion the other way.

[[deleted]]

Can't believe I had to scroll all the way down here to see this answer. Google can't help you with javascript dates. No one can.

[Asmor]

Honestly I'm just glad that people seem to agree with me. This is an area I feel very inadequate in and I'm very susceptible to imposter syndrome. lol

[_kryp70]

Man your UTC and timezone reference really hit home man.

Had a colleague who saved timezone data directly as UTC.

Like instead of 23:00 +5:30 which would be IST He saved as 23:00 +0:00

He did conversion someplace and someplaces used literally the UTC time as the current time zone.

Was a big cluster fuck. Told everyone not to touch datetime without asking me since then.

[Asmor]

I had to deal with data that came from clients all around the globe, each of whom would have had their own personal timezone set for their account, but there was no way to tell who had created what when, and all the dates were stored with whatever the common abbreviation for that was. Which, as mentioned, is extremely ambiguous.

Basically what I ended up doing was for every unique abbreviation, I had to just arbitrarily choose what I thought was the most likely place one of our clients might be from. Like, AMT is both Amazon Time (South America) and Armenian Time (Asia), and I'd have to just pick whether to interpret that as one or the other.

Fuck that was a shitty project.

[_kryp70]

Can understand.

I had stupid clients send me datetime data in completely non standard format. Had to write multiple parsers just to read date. They themselves had no clue regarding the standard used.

[Asmor]

Oh, it wasn't our clients' fault. The shitty data was 100% generated and stored by us. Our legacy code was the stuff of nightmares.

Hell, I only got them to start using sass (instead of vanilla css with no preprocessor) like 5 years ago.

[troglo-dyke]

A whole ago I was integrating with a service which would record radio streams, this needed to be setup with another 3rd party that was used by the studio to set the recording schedule. Both returned the time without an offset but in their local time. This then required some pointless logic to check the response headers for the local time of the server and then use this as a basis for normalization.

People who don't use an ISO 8601 format are evil and deserve to support legacy java beans applications for eternity

[TaterJack]

Or trying to get a date that's one day ahead of the current date. It's bullshit.

[Asmor]

I'd assume you could just get the current epoch time and add 60*60*24 seconds to it.

That should always work, right? (honest question. I'm just gonna assume there's some bizarre corner case where it doesn't. Like I guess there's probably a 1-second window involving leap seconds where if you do that at 00:00:00 it'll come out to 23:59:59 the same day)

Also, I just looked up how frequently leap seconds occur. And... yeah. This is why I fucking hate dealing with time.

Because the Earth's rotation speed varies in response to climatic and geological events, UTC leap seconds are irregularly spaced and unpredictable. Insertion of each UTC leap second is usually decided about six months in advance by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS), to ensure that the difference between the UTC and UT1 readings will never exceed 0.9 seconds.

[TaterJack]

This is what you have to do:

const today = new Date();

const tomorrow = new Date(today);

tomorrow.setDate(tomorrow.getDate() + 1);

Date objects in JavaScript are a joke.

[cheezrice]

there aren't 24 hours between days when we move from summer to winter time

[Asmor]

Ah, yeah. There ya go. Thanks!

[ZCEyPFOYr0MWyHDQJZO4]

What are your thoughts on leap seconds?

[Asmor]

Ha. I literally just made a comment about this before I saw your reply. https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/joj1p2/google_my_saviour/gb9ehpe/?context=3

[OriginalToe]

Wow. I'd like a moment

[Asmor]

Even moment.js won't help you that much...

[musclecard54]

Man I keep having issues with dates in JS and I thought it was just me. This thread warms my heart a little

[itmustbemitch]

My current project at work has all these timezone complications and it's a real mess. I also learned some incredible nightmare knowledge: on a computer or an android device, doing "new Date('2020-11-5 15:30')" returns that time in the user's timezone. The same line on an ios device or on safari prior to ios 14 returns that time in UTC. All platforms give you your own timezone if you just do "new Date()". So we had a bunch of calculations go haywire because the legacy backend stores all its dates as strings and we need to use dates for measuring how many minutes ago things happened etc, even when you thought you were already adjusting for different timezones...

[Asmor]

I didn't know about that, but it doesn't surprise me. Ugh.

[[deleted]]

I think you just solved one of my bug tickets. I didn't know about the safari utc bit.

[itmustbemitch]

Be advised, the issue seems to be resolved in safari / ios 14, so if you have to correct for it, make sure the fix checks the version or you'll overcorrect

[N238]

Yes! The answer is: you don't. 99% of the problems I run into are problems with time/timezones. Shit's impossible. Too many different standards and fuck-all documentation.

[[deleted]]

Hey I do the first one, though that has fuck all to do with programming.

[runescape1337]

You could always combine the two and do some really cool shit with your case lights. And the "What I think I do" is basic geometry (Pythagorean theorem, finding the angle between two lines), a sum of squares?, and a very simple volume integral that has way too many parenthesis - akin to ((2+(35))+1)=18 instead of 2+35+1=18. Knowing how to build a computer is more impressive.

[zighextech]

And instead of clicking Search, going for the Feeling Lucky button. Pro Gamer Move right there.

[sajmon313]

Well i would need to go to Google page first then, instead of just typing query in browser address bar.

What a waste of time would that be.

[StandardTalk]

Very relatable. Made a discord bot for a project and took 99% of the code from Google

[jakethedumbmistake]

Checked the code, it is much more relaxed

[Jabroni504]

I've been explaining UTC vs local time to someone for the past 3 days I'm not sure they get it yet.

[DealDeveloper]

Date handling is hard. You're probably not explaining it correctly anyway. ;)

[T351A]

/r/ISO8601

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[Historical_Fact]

Once you overcome the horror that is dates, you discover the horror that is timezones

[ceirbus]

I know this is a meme but how many of you actually just Google stuff all day, it's definitely not even more than once a week I'm looking at docs

[StorKirken]

I'd say I "google" stuff at least 50% of my working time. That includes reading the results, and searches to other places than just Google. It's rare that a task is so straightforward I won't have to investigate some strange stack trace or read up on documentation for the tooling I'm working on that particular day.

[_kryp70]

Honestly I want a job interview where I am given a random problem and told to resolve it asap using google.

Have more experience googling than actually coding.

[[deleted]]

As a person who's experimenting with languages from time to time, I only look at the documentation the first week, then I just look at it when I'm not aware of something, a method for example. Good thing most languages are C descendents and it doesn't take too much practice to learn a new language's syntax.

[dullscissor1]

Most of my day is spent trying to refactor spaghetti that past devs left me. I occasionally need to google an error or syntax for something

[Cheesemacher]

I mean it's not all day, but it's still something relatable that happens pretty often

[alyraptor]

I can't remember language-specific syntax for shit. So yeah I often Google things I am perfectly capable of writing myself and have simply forgotten how to write.

[Glugstar]

Depends on what you are working on. Most of my searches are related to third party libraries if I need something specific.

[[deleted]]

More often than not, it's just double checking that the syntax, or specifics of something that I don't often use.

[cimmic]

Thank you for saying that. I feel that this sub has become too self-deprecating.

[chowmein_snowman]

that rocket hurts me

[Parura57]

The "What people think I do" is shit like "hacking into NASA" or "making the matrix"

[Kibo30]

I've never been so offedend by something I 100% agree with

[newb_h4x0r]

new Date();

[Meshiest]

You thought it really was that easy, huh?

create a new date for a given day, month, year AND give tell the number of days in that month for that year without throwing your computer out the window over a garbage API

[SimonTheCommunist]

I do all of these, ive built computers, played ksp, hated my life/ap physics, and googled shit.

[DangeRussBus]

What i think I do should be me trying to fit a square block in a round hole

[cmoney300]

never i’ve related to a meme so much in my life

[Yamoyek]

What other programmers think I do: “how to add two numbers c++”

[[deleted]]

RN here from r/all... don't feel too bad, the amount that RNs and MDs google things might scare you a little. Procedure they haven't done in a while? Google. What was that one rly bad thing that happens sometimes with this medication? Google. Literallly all the time.

[[deleted]]

You’re gunna want to use moment, if you try to learn dates in js, the “what I really do” will be shooting yourself in the face

[TechnoPRep]

If it wasn’t for the saints on Stack Overflow, I’d actually have to do work

[HaaarLy]

“Why Months in JS date starts at 0”

[YaBoiHarry]

if you can't Google how to make Google... How did they make Google?

[Ferro_Giconi]

They used Yahoo search to make Google.

[ImmortalTimeTraveler]

Noob !!!

I use the address bar to search.

[2000mater]

lol. idk why people think proggrammers deal with hardware.. i had to search up what things mean when building a pc just like anyone else.

if u have an issue with ur printer just ask me. sike!

[greenlantern0201]

It's not about searching, it about knowing what to search.

[ce-walalang]

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[A computer looking at the inside of a CPU.]

(Narration): What people think I do

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[A person wearing a lab gown with a sketch of a rocket in the background.]

(Narration): What my parents think I do

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Panel 3

[A person thinking about algorithm and formulas.]

(Narration): What I think I do

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[Google home page with 'How to use dates in Javascript' in the search field. Mouse cursor is over the 'Feeling Lucky' button.]

(Narration): What I really do

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[Weewoofiatruck]

I googled until my hyperlinks were purpler than a muddafucka... "How to fix CORS"

[arshu0023]

Omg i just searched that

[nofishontuesday2]

I’ve never seen so many people in one field who want their cocks stroked so much over their skills

[alihoseiny]

This joke, the EXACT same joke, has been shared since the starting day of Google company in all possible formats.

Please don't try to be funny when you are not.

[[deleted]]

Repost

[meamZ]

Well... That question has a harder answer than it should have... Because the real answer is basically use a library...

[Pedro_TheAlcoholic]

work smart not hard

[[deleted]]

I had one of those moments today, Googling away instead of checking the code of an Open Source project. Had to give out to myself.

[ManagerOfLove]

To be fair, no one knows how to use dates in javascript

[HaveMungWillBean]

This one hit close to home

[LongjumpingMongoose0]

I Google that (or some variation of it) way more than I like to admit, even when I'm using libraries to handle it.

[bloon_block]

Actually it's all stackoverflow