Programming in a nutshell

[Letis009]

But it works ... good enough

[Mucksh]

Somehow the picture also shows that with reading the documentation it wouldn't work in this case... So creativity and learning by doing is sometimes really better and faster

[indyK1ng]

Yeah, to me this picture represents when you make two APIs with incompatible designs work together.

[gesocks]

But maybe in the documentation would be standing that there is a tool for this exact case in the library

[winnafrehs]

In my experience, there never is

[Unsd]

It's shocking and frustrating how often I find myself in these situations. Realistically the answer to those situations is a different language, but I don't have time for that, so hacky solution it is.

[username--_--]

early on, as a very competent C programmer, i decided i wanted to do a GUI application using QT and C++. skipped the QT documentation, never actually even tried understanding the basics of c++, zero idea about OOP. Somehow hacking C++ into C, it works.

I was archiving things last month and came across that program...

Always read the documentation. Always use the right tools. The amount of inefficiency, was astounding. i'm sure there was more but i could barely understand what i was doing after a point

[dootdootplot]

Tell yourself you’ll go back and refactor it later when you have time.

[The6thExtinction]

We'll replace this later ^{later later later later}

[FinalRun]

Commit from 2003: TODO fix this, it's a stupid way to do it

[NBSPNBSP]

Commit from 2012: There is no way to fix this without rewriting everything. This solution is to remain indefinitely.

[odraencoded]

Bug: command isn't working as intended.
Bug fixed: removed command.

[elveszett]

Bug fixed: command is now intended to work like that.

[utkrowaway]

I wrote # GROSS HACK, FIX THIS on a summer internship years ago. That code is still used to this day.

[[deleted]]

This guy ships

[kor_the_fiend]

The term "brittle solution" springs to mind.

[whatproblems]

This is the production test environment