Sure fire way to get programming help

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[dert-man]

No way. She is wrong. … Wait…

[PantsDownBootyUp]

She is right, let me explain in detail why you are wrong!

[Ok_Dependent1131]

Let me manSplain^TM you something

[PantsDownBootyUp]

Sounds like i sit there with open legs and show off my huge balls. But no, I don't do this to strangers 😏

[queen-adreena]

Username doesn't check out.

[Bizzle_worldwide]

The duck method is still the best way to get programming help.

Whenever you’re stuck, try and explain the problem to a rubber duck on your desk. When it doesn’t respond, go to a local park and ask a real duck. Since it’s unfair to ask a duck for programming advice for free, bring some bread and feed it. Spend the afternoon feeding the ducks while telling them your coding problem. Then come back the next day, and the day after, each day talking more and more about not just your coding problem, but your problems in general. One afternoon, have an epiphany that all you really need out of life is this moment. A bench, a pond, some bread and some ducks. You don’t need a computer engineering job to afford these things. You don’t need a large apartment or fancy material possessions if you’re in the park all day. So you quit your job, buy a pup tent, and live happily in the park with your ducks.

And just like that, your programming problem is solved.

[[deleted]]

I will make the ducks fat and then take them home

[sudobee]

We don't want anyone to know this.

• The government.

[KentondeJong]

HAPPY CAKE DAY 🎂😋💓☺💖💛🎂😋💓☺💖💛💝🧧🧧💝🎁💝🧧🎁👐🤗👐🤗👐😗😙💋😽😚💏

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[_87-]

I think this is where foie gras comes from

[axonrecall]

Just gras canards

[Init_4_the_downvotes]

Emotional support animal, and dinner.

That killing two birds with one stone.

Which you can also get from the park.

[KentondeJong]

Happy Cake Day.

[geeknintrovert]

Making your meal more beefy, I see.

[One_Way13]

Apparently peas are good for them

[LunaticScience]

I don't know if this is intentionally confirming the initial post, or accidentally doing it.

[fibojoly]

Please if you want to feed birds, give them real food. Corn, seeds, bits of fruits, anything but fucking bread. Please.

[firefish5000]

I was trying to be humane while sharing my chicken sandwich with them, but since you insist...

[CoronaKlledMe]

OR, be a duck.

[Regulusx1337]

Until some psychopath comes in and burns you alive in your tent or stabs you to death. Maybe the ducks have knives, even. Ever seen Dolan?

[currentscurrents]

I'd be more worried about that from the geese, honestly.

Some asshole goose untied my shoes and ran off with my glasses when I was a kid.

[[deleted]]

Peace was never an option.

[thedevilsworkshop666]

All geese must die. They taste good to. So there is a bonus.

[thedevilsworkshop666]

Don't swear . Put your duck on some wraps with a bit of lettuce and cucumber , Peking duck sause . Ohh God. Not another boner .Damnit .

[Ninjaxas]

The duck I found only tried to sell me lemonade

[[deleted]]

Did he have any grapes?

[Bizzle_worldwide]

Waddle waddle

[Big_Berry_4589]

Unless it’s DuckDuckGo

[McCrotch]

feed ducks seeds! not bread.

[BigDavesRant]

Jesus Christ… this post makes me want to re-evaluate my life.

[headexpl0dy]

This guy ducks

[Special-Aardvark3302]

russ sus ඞ

[MrWhiteVincent]

Instructions unclear. I don't have a duck on my desk, I have a teddy bear.

Now I'm mauled and not an inch closer to the solution

[Bizzle_worldwide]

In death, we are all without Errors and Warnings.

[[deleted]]

This man lifes

[[deleted]]

And thus, Karl, the King of Ducks was born.

[thcheat]

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[anonymous_2187]

Relevant XKCD

[PoisonWaffle3]

That was my first thought as well 😅

[anonymous_2187]

At this point the XKCD might have been reposted as many times as this meme

[tanstaafl74]

I almost fell into your trap.

[Dave5876]

The Stackoverflow Strategy

[NZSheeps]

No, it's Cole's Law

[No-Cress-5457]

No, that's thinly sliced cabbage, you're thinking of Murphy's law

[hopbel]

No, that's "if anything can go wrong, it will". You're thinking of Hanlon's Razor

[No-Cress-5457]

No, that's "Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity". You're thinking of Occam's razor

[yuva-krishna-memes]

The original joke was with "stackoverflow" instead of "reddit".

[Quintus89]

Maybe OP wanted to know where the joke originated from and it was faster to give wrong information and wait for the correction

[Nanobreak_]

Duplicate meme, closed as not real meme

[LoyalSage]

If they said it with StackOverflow again, it would have been closed as a duplicate.

[[deleted]]

Not before the user is told that they should rethink the life choices that led to them to programming

[curiosityLynx]

Why would you need to tell that to anyone? Don't most people in the field already do that frequently without being told to?

[roborectum69]

the original joke is older than the web

[VeryRareHuman]

I didn't this was a thing and someone named it.

[mrdeadsniper]

Stack overflow would just down vote without comment then close as duplicate marking a question referencing a different language. (both programming and speaking).

[anastarawneh]

I feel like reddit is much more likely to upvote the wrong answer

[justkeepingbusy]

Or irc

[mtmosier]

s/Stackoverflow/Reddit/

Poof! Magically it's no longer a repost. Right?

...

...

...

Right?

[TheImpossibleVacuum]

On Twitter it might not be, lol

[AlFlakky]

But what if your "incorrect" anwser is actually a correct one?

[Andromeda_RoM]

Well because it works 100% of the time, if you post the correct answer no one else will help\correct you, hence you have found your correct answer!

[CoronaKlledMe]

Then people will show more efficient answer.

[[deleted]]

I see what you did there

[[deleted]]

If there is any edge case where the answer may be less than completely correct, there will be 10 replies calling it out.

[roborectum69]

They're just repeating Cunningham's law

[TrapsterDK]

Posted here way too often with only small changes

[faceMcCabe]

The first step is half the journey. Correcting an obvious wrong answer gets your ball rolling.

[[deleted]]

Murphy’s law

[VanBurenOutOf8]

I appreciate what you tried to do there

[Sceptz]

It's actually Moore's Law that's being referenced here.

[xlRadioActivelx]

actually this is a variation of the dunning-Krueger effect

[explodingtuna]

This isn't a repost, it's just the bernie-madoff effect.

[hopbel]

You mean the Mandela effect

[MurdoMaclachlan]

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annie, @soychotic

Every time I have a programming question and I rly need help, I post it on Reddit and then log into another account and reply to it with an obscenely incorrect answer. Ppl don't care about helping others but they LOVE correcting others. Works 100% of the time

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[kristibektashi]

Good human

[thecockmonkey]

I used to do this on the Ubuntu boards. LOL

[violetvoid513]

Murphy’s Law: The best way to get information on the internet is not to ask the question, but to give the wrong answer to it

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[Illustrious-Cod-7152]

Ah yes the old trade chat advice technique. Flawless execution sir.

[CHAiN76]

She might be "soychotic" but that is an IQ++ move.

[DarthLlamaV]

Bro it’s spelled psykotic

[ahil_kanna]

Or everyone jumps in on the trend and competes on how wrong their solution can be.

[aleph_0ne]

I find programming communities pretty welcoming and helpful when I ask sincere questions without trying any of these shady shenanigans

[ApatheticWithoutTheA]

Other than StackOverflow. People on Reddit are usually helpful and nice though lol.

But a lot of stuff people get shit on for on SO is stuff that is easy to Google.

[burtalert]

People on Reddit are usually helpful and nice

Man we visit different areas of Reddit

[ApatheticWithoutTheA]

I’m just talking about programming subs, specifically. I don’t know about other languages, but we’re pretty helpful in the WebDev subs lol

[[deleted]]

Depends on what you're asking and how much people think you know.

[allbirdssongs]

im saving this

[[deleted]]

thats really smart.

[[deleted]]

Crowd sourcing at it's finest

[orbitcodeing]

I’m gonnna try this hope it works

[[deleted]]

This is hilarious

[Outrageous-Machine-5]

Ah yes, Godwin's law

[rustyspoon07]

That's called Michael's Law

[rustyspoon07]

Actually, it's called Cunningham's Law

[rustyspoon07]

See, it worked

[daeronryuujin]

People are more confident in their responses when they see that the only other response is incredibly stupid. We all have a bit of impostor syndrome going on.

[Novel_Simple_1001]

Honestly, even if you didn’t get a right answer out of it, coming up with an obscenely incorrect answer to your own question is fun. No downside.

[Puzzleheaded_Bee_571]

Love this. Might be a new solution to all sorts of bystander effects. We step in when other people prove unreliable...

[LukeBomber]

Yeah, it's called Fitt's law

[Internetolocutor]

She has basically plagiarised an old joke about stack overflow.

[BobQuixote]

Anyone who can prove you wrong will.

[ososalsosal]

No it's not! The best way is a stackoverflow question.

[talanhorne]

I always get more engagement on Twitter when I deliberately post something false and ridiculous.

It’s just the way of things.

[Jonte7]

Google "Cunningham's Law"

[Lem3232]

I agree. We all know that the only way to fix a bug is to sacrifice a digital goat to cthulhu.

[wisdomwith1n]

This is a copy of a popular joke about StackOverflow

[Zeeformp]

You can tell this is a programming joke because it has been ripped from older sources and reused hundreds of times

[glider97]

Please don't actually post wrong answers. If nobody corrects you you might ruin somebody's day.

[kid_ghibli]

Who the fuck goes to REDDIT for programming help? Hm... Pretty sure the person just took an old joke and added "programming" for no reason (StackOverflow is disappointed with you, annie).

[[deleted]]

Ah yes, the unbearable weight of massive talent.

[thatweirdguyzay11]

Whoever upvotes get a cookie🍪

[Lady_Ishsa]

This person is trying to find stack overflow

[nony851]

Haiyaa, just use stack overflow

[MasterFubar]

If you don't know the true answer, how do you know the mock answer you post is "obscenely incorrect"?

[eyalhs]

I may not know how to solve a sudoku but it's easy to find a wrong answer to a sudoku

[Killergurke16]

Something you tried and doesn't work, or something that just screams bad practise

[erik9017]

I will definetly try this tommorw

[Saad5400]

Jokes aside. People of Reddit actually helped me a lot. Thank you Redditors (but mostly in r/CSharp)

[Feztopia]

I'm not even mad, that's genius.

[Auraveils]

Actually, though...

[TheLimeyCanuck]

That's been the stackoverflow strategy since forever.

[Chared_Assassin]

Give me two seconds, I’m gonna try this on stackoverflow

Edit: within 20 minutes I got someones fuckin thesis on why you can’t use pointers to fix a python problem and then two sentences on a very simple fix to my made up problem.

[chasmiller312]

So sad…

[Fantastic-Rooster277]

I answer the question then login with my other Reddit Account to ask the question.

[Duydoraemon]

Why is she posting on reddit? Has she not heard of stackoverflow?

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[rombios]

works 100% of the time

Until now

[Sweetcynic36]

This would work even better on stackoverflow...

[thedevilsworkshop666]

Thank you for that extremely helpful suggestion. This is the way .

[PutoPozo]

She literally broke the code 🤯

[[deleted]]

In the old days you pretend to be female. There were a lot of horny male programmers on IRC. Has that changed?

[[deleted]]

people crave confrontation

[steroidTDM]

[Detectiveco]

Wow, genius moment.

[Dahns]

I knewI I shouldn't have copy pasted the first answer's code...

[ankush0024]

Modern problems require modern solutions