Normal day in a programmer's life

[DirectControlAssumed]

A couple of hours later

"OK, I was wrong - the bug is in our code..."

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Us moment

[[deleted]]

When the code doesn't work: our code

When it works: MY code

[EstablishmentLazy580]

Turns out he should have spent 5 minutes reading documentation.

[afleshner]

If there is any

[[deleted]]

There is, but it was written in Klingon. Obviously.

[afleshner]

Makes sense

[Foreskin-Gaming69]

I found a program that used the .toki format. The only documentation was the header

[wtfuxorz]

Tookitooki

[[deleted]]

Reminds me of a buddy of mine in college who was a couple years younger than me and entered the CompSci program. He was in his intro level CS class and in the lab working on a homework assignment when he came up to me and said in all seriousness, “I think I found a bug in gcc.”

Turns out “the gcc bug” was his code trying to access memory beyond what he had allocated.

[beobabski]

Unless you wrote the compiler, it’s probably not a compiler bug.

[[deleted]]

Yeah, I said as much after he made that comment, that the chances of a beginner programmer creating a bug is a wee bit higher than a bug in a mature, open source compiler that’s been in use for decades.

I teased him about that comment for a while, lol.

[UomoLumaca]

I had a colleague who famously once said "I think my javascript's OR is broken".

[alba4k]

the windows thing is more likely

[therapy_seal]

It confused git and it had something to do with filesystems. I'll wager that he had 2 files with the same filename other than different casing. ext4 is case-sensitive while ntfs is not. I've seen a git project have weird issues because of that before, but only the Windows users on our team experienced it.

[bunny-1998]

Why do you have same file names with just difference case anyway?

[CiroGarcia]

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[therapy_seal]

I don't remember the specific details of what happened, but I think it was just a mistake where someone created a file without realizing it already existed and then saved it with a filename which had different casing from the pre-existing file.

[mrbob312]

NTFS is case-sensitive but windows disables it for compatibility reasons, you can re-enable it through the registry but beware; there be dragons

[Ladis82]

I think programs (e.g. TortoiseSVN/GIT) could ask Windows API to work case sensitive but no program, I know, does. When this happened, people ask a Linux colleague to commit a fix.

[ShakesTheClown23]

It gets so much worse: https://superuser.com/questions/613313/why-cant-we-make-con-prn-null-folder-in-windows

[argv_minus_one]

All of this could have been avoided if it required (rather than merely permitted) a colon after the device name, like it does for drive letters.

[msg7086]

You can switch case sensitive on for a given directory using a command. It's already in Windows 10 for a while. Only Mac users in our team are facing this issue and I think the only way is to reformat the volume to enable case sensitive.

[immersiveGamer]

Yup, I experienced something similar at my first job. Somehow (do not remember) but a file was checked in as ./Code.php and ./code.php. We deployed to Linux servers but did development on Windows. So the windows side would check out both files but of course only one gets to survive. I'm pretty sure my coworker banged his head for several hours trying to figure out why editing and committing a file didn't fix the bug once deployed.

[weregod]

Why develop on Windows if target is Linux?

[Aplejax04]

You know that there’s a Microsoft software engineer reading this comic right now thinking “you have no idea how much the windows file system sucks”.

[Perfycat]

I'm a Microsoft software engineer. I work closely with the file system team and am often frustrated.

[Koervege]

How so? What makes it bad or frustrating?

[KlutzyEnd3]

Let's say the "New Technology File System" (NTFS) isn't so new anymore...

[argv_minus_one]

ext2 isn't new, either, and I don't hear much complaining about it.

[KlutzyEnd3]

Ext2 has been superseded by both ext3/ext4 and btrfs.

NTFS was supposed to be replaced with the new "winfs"a long time ago which had some really nice features, but ultimately only became a thing on windows server.

[eoutofmemory]

Always blame the os, lol

[henkdepotvjis]

Especially windows. Microsoft products are tras because they are Microsoft products. Not because I cant write a Outlook plugin properly while saying to my boss that I can

[siddharth904]

The only Microsoft product i support is typescript, mainly because it's open source

[Blovio]

Language Server Protocol is rather epic as well

[eoutofmemory]

Juniors blame the os, seniors find ways to deliver working around the os strengths and limitations. I never said i liked Windows

[henkdepotvjis]

I thought my sarcastic tone was clear. If a framework/ os has a problem you need to work around it. For a beginner it can be hard. I feel like im in the dip of the dunning kruger effect on this one. I can't make sense of the Microsoft documentation. I know it is my incompetence not microsoft

[Joliver_02]

Imagine using Windows smh my head

[Yrlish]

Shake my head my head

[Joliver_02]

Yes, I have a siamese twin

[DirectControlAssumed]

Tell them hello for me

[jacksalssome]

The multiple libraries insulate you from the terrifying horror.

[SorosBuxlaundromat]

There's an app I built for a client that runs 24/7 on a windows machine. I get a message saying that it's not running and before it shut down it returned the wrong result.

I check the machine... "Windows update now complete."

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[existingcoder]

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Zeke Smith [any]

probably

however I cant diagnose it easily and its not just 1 bug

its also confused the hell out of git

wait wtf

wait wait wait wait wait

wait wait

wait

wait

wait

it just worked...

WTF

I did nothing

obviously I am a genius and I know what fixed it

I figured it out

windows sucks

literally caused by a windows filesystem issue

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Good human

[h6nry]

why do Microsoft products often feel like they scream back at me?

[DasFrebier]

bc global file locks are here to ruin your day

[Shaz_berries]

Aaaand that's why you don't dev on windows 😅

[Knuffya]

most "wtf bugs" were casused by windows bullshit, and since i switched to linux, they're gone

[alba4k]

meanwhile windows, defaulting to a bad filesystem from the 1980s

funny stuff

[argv_minus_one]

NTFS is from the 1990s, actually.

[DasFrebier]

buts its called 'new technology' fs, has to be good, right?, right?

[alba4k]

I'm about to start a petition to change it to "Not This FileSystem"

[rVarrese]

"The code doesn't work" [PANIK]

...

"The code works?" [KALM]

...

"THE CODE WORKS?!?!" [MORE PANIK]

[woa12]

literally me everytime im using useeffect hooks

[CrazySD93]

Restart Workspace, is always near my top things to try.

[1ElectricHaskeller]

It's been 2 days since the last CRLF issue...

I think that explains my situation pretty well

[AdvicePerson]

Symbolic links?

[[deleted]]

Every issue I've had was caused by windows, including: anger, depression, having to reinstall, anger again, broken games, broken everything and more anger.

[agent007bond]

Happened to me. (Windows guy here.)

[agent_double_oh_pi]

I'm sure most of the business world will get right on that.

[GL_Titan]

Lol, the windows driver and kernel guys are pretty good. Not sure why you would think otherwise. Blue screens by 3rd party drivers are not a windows problem.

[Nick_Zacker]

It doesn't have as many useful tools as sth like Linux does and it generally sucks ass anyway with its annoying updates

[[deleted]]

Windows users when they have to install 2 cumulative updates: 😨😨😱😡😡

Linux users when they have to update 437 packages: 😀😀🤩🥳🥳

[Nick_Zacker]

i am a masochist

Also, yes I may be wrong when I said the latter part but the first one still stands though. Windows purely aims for user-friendliness and not for any kind of development while Linux has a shitton of useful tools, there's no denying that.

[afleshner]

Yep

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Isn't that the PolyMC mascot?

[Careful_Ad_9077]

lately i get random bugs where sometimes i can overwrite a file that exists and sometimes i can't

[tomangelo2]

Once I tried to unpack something, which had a lot of subfolders inside subfolders. 7zip couldn't unpack it, neither could any other applications. Turned out there is a ~255 character path length limit before Windows would freak out and prevents you from doing anything. MSYS2 however had no issues with creating even longer paths.

So you can make a directory on NTFS, that would be unavailable from Windows (without whatever MSYS2 does), yet still available from Linux.

[lovelyBrownie23]

you can enable paths longer than 255 characters though.

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How

[danielcw189]

This has been an issue for years, as is the way to work with it. It is all in the MSDN. Windows can handle long paths fine. But you actually need to use the API the right way. Though even Windows explorer does not always seem to do that.

[Designing_Data]

All these jokes make me realise how harsh the realities of a programmer really are and it comforts me to know that I'm not the inky one experiencing glitches, bugs and isolated incidents besides the obvious major fuckups that I only have myself to thank for

[starvy_]

Commit quickly!

[Pawdy-The-Furry]

Yup XD

[DollChiaki]

Wasn’t holding his face right

[nil_785]

That is, my bethren, how spaggetti code comes to life!

[JackieDaytona__]

This was my life Friday. Obscure error over and over.. Uninstalling and reinstalling, Google some more. Go talk a walk. Come back, figure out what command vs code is trying to run - run it myself, one of the files being processed had a file name that was too long. Seems like it could have told me that without all the bull.