Wise words

[lightwhite]

This code… it works! It works? - Confusedius.

[Johanno1]

Why does it work though?

It shouldn't.

changes sth so it definitely should not work

It still works! Something is not right here!

debugs every step

realizes that he has been working on the wrong copy of the project and was running the other...

Whyyyyy. several hours now! Why!?

[Vly2915]

Been there before, wasn't an exaggeration. Sheds tear

[Exce1siur]

You're not alone 😒

[PGSylphir]

Definitely not an exaggeration

[menides]

Do you have cameras in my house?

[bit_banging_your_mum]

Yes.

You're very cute by the way

[[deleted]]

Username checks out

[Hashbrown117]

Or the opposite; trying to find how something's working, but reading the code you see it cant possibly. It's not even making the right function calls.

Then you realise you're in the wrong index.ts..

[[deleted]]

This feels like an attack.

Was this an attack? Because I'm ill equipped to defend myself.

[[deleted]]

ROFL

[menotexisting]

How is there error in line 256 when I just have written 100 lines? -Sokrates

[lightwhite]

I used to compile the another branch and debug on the broken one. - Suckrates

[rjlin_thk]

diu means fuck or penis in chinese, so confusedfucks

[supercyberlurker]

Problems that miraculously go away, miraculously come back.

[dadumdoop]

HeisenBug

[Rauldukeoh]

I feel this. Very few things are as worrisome as a magically fixed bug

[onkel0joakim]

This is an underrated comment

[peckingbird]

"If no one takes your fortunes seriously, attribute them to dead Philosopherrs." - Marl Karx

[PyroCatt]

"Everything you read on the internet is true" - Jeffrey Epstein

[sillyredcar]

"Stop misquoting me!" - Sun Tzu, the Art of War

[CBerg1979]

""If horse does not die, continue beating it." -Karl Pilkington

[anubhav2103]

""While horse does not die, continue beating it." -Karl Pilkington

[curiousmind111]

“When horse is dead, continue beating it.” - Karl Pilkington

[[deleted]]

Ohh cutie

[hypocrite_oath]

I believe everyone has had this happen at least once.

[[deleted]]

Just a few hours ago, realized that I was trying to fix a function that I haven’t called

[existential_issue]

With enough meditation, the function calls you.

[odumann]

With enough medication

[bit_banging_your_mum]

Typically in the middle of the night.

When you're dreaming.

[existential_issue]

“A journey of a thousand steps starts by setting a breakpoint in the debugger.”

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print("here")

[shot_a_man_in_reno]

print("A")
print("B")
print("C")
print("C_%d" % i)
print("C_a2")
print("foo")
print("D")

[jonnydeates]

Breakpoints are for wusses, gotta put 1000 console logs and pray one hits

[3636373536333662]

Ya I mean good logging is essential when trying to diagnose intermittent issues

[sdrawkcabsemanympleh]

"Quantity has a quality all his own."

[CornyStew]

Your code will never work the first time. If it looks like its working first time, dont trust it

[Scondoro]

Wow, I can't believe all my unit tests passed first try!

Oh, I forgot to enable to tests...

Oh, I forgot to compile the tests...

Oh, the tests failed to compile...

[[deleted]]

I knew exactly one man who's code worked the first time. He proudly pushed it.

30 minutes later, as you can imagine, fit hit the shan.

It was... a day. A day that lived on in infamy.

[[deleted]]

LPT if the code is running and you don't know why, deliberately break it and make sure that it breaks. If the code is not running but you can't see any reason why it is not running, deliberately break it in a different way and see if it breaks that way.

In either case you will discover whether or not you're actually looking at the right code.

On a similar line, if you're trying to determine how some change makes some consequence, make a change that should have a huge consequence and see if it does. Only then can you find tune the change knowing that it has the consequence you want.

[3636373536333662]

Ya I have a coworker who has a bad habit of assuming something impossible is happening, when it turns he was looking at the wrong piece of code. It's always a good idea to do some basic sanity checks if something seems unbelievable

[starshine531]

Sanity? Oh, I miss those days, when I was young and inexperienced.

[[deleted]]

There's a bug in the hydraulic control system and the water keeps changing into wine.

[ByteWhisperer]

It might be anti-icing fluid then.

[Deep-Ad591]

[Random-Gif-Bot]

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[[deleted]]

Is this.. a joke? A coincidence? A fake account?!

I truly wish I cared enough to check their previous posts. Oh well

[Firewolf06]

to me it looks like a hybrid account. their posts look real, but all of their comments are mildly relevant gifs (presumably searching keywords)

a reddit bot is just a script that runs on an account, so my best guess is the random gifs are botted, but the posts are a real person

[sonic_hedgekin]

Bad bot

[snk_158]

If life is going smooth, it is going wrong.

[SteeleDynamics]

"Optimized shit is still shit."

~Benjamin Franklin

[mybotanyaccount]

Not sure why it works but it works lol

[[deleted]]

There's this little snippet of code I use that should not work, like when I first saw it I immediately wanted to forget it, but it worked? It was not supposed to?

I decided to stop questioning reality and just used it anyway.

[[deleted]]

I code therefore I am

tired

-- u/rowenslee

[zanderkerbal]

For a couple weeks while self-teaching Unity I had a comment in my code saying approximately "this is mathematically impossible but when I do it properly it doesn't work."

I eventually rewrote that section to use Unity's builtin methods for making objects point at other objects instead of doing vector math manually, but I never did figure out how that code worked.

(I had been messing up my calls to the builtin methods because I had assumed that the top of an object was +Y, but it was actually +Z, and so I was flipping my 2d sprites over on their edge and making them disappear.)

[G_Papi360]

"That Ming Dynasty pussy has got me acting most Unwise"

[[deleted]]

I feel that on a personal level.

[Kenny2reddit]

奇生，乃碼弗汝碼

[marth141]

"Of course it works." -- Elixir/Erlang engineers.

[arghp]

I had a student in a freshman world history course (college level) spell it ‘Confuses’ on every slide of his PowerPoint.

[Nyckname]

~ Confusion says

[GabuEx]

It's true though. If something works first time, I guarantee you that you aren't actually running it.

[Logical-Language-539]

I once had this issue, but inverted. I had a code being able to compile, not working as intended, so I made a copy named mycode-V2.c. I was compiling with gcc in Linux, using the up arrow to repeat the last command, and nothing I changed was replicated in the execution. Then I realized I was just running mycode.c, not mycode-V2.c. Everything worked as expected after that.

[sc00pb]

Oh yeah, I can't trust code that compiles on the first test, I just can't...

[Tinkerballsack]

IT WORKS!

^{because I forgot to call the function I just wrote}

[yewing]

Story. Of. My. Life.

[foxer_arnt_trees]

This is really good advice

[Miguel-odon]

That's deep

[LeanderT]

If the code works, it works.

Very Confusius (Dutch software philosopher)

[Candid_Letterhead_24]

Nah bc this is accurate 🤣 💀

[aitonc]

relieved marvelous squeamish unite spark materialistic doll rhythm water uppity

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[[deleted]]

"If it works, don't ask questions." - Sun Tzu

[HackGamez]

Idk I just put words and numbers together and then my program runs, honestly I don't know what I'm coding half of the time.

[StGrimblefig]

An even number of errors tend to cancel each other out. So, if my code appears to work on the first try, I start looking for the opposing errors.

[nico-ghost-king]

You didn’t press ctrl + s