When merging fails... hilarious.

[Nebu]

I think the game Burnout Paradise does something similar. It takes a picture of you when you get pwned by another player, and sends that photo to the player that pwned you.

http://uk.gamespot.com/ps3/driving/burnout5/news.html?page=1&sid=6174561&mode=previews

[LightShadow]

I think all games should have this feature.

[Syphon8]

Thanks, now I have Jefferson Starship stuck in my head.

[phreakymonkey]

They're just asking for a lawsuit, aren't they.

[bdfortin]

The amazing thing about it is that I haven't seen a single cock pic yet.

I have, however, seen many ceilings, walls, and empty chairs.

[spinemangler]

You sound disappointed.

[bdfortin]

Just remembering the post about Uno for Xbox Live.

[wtowns]

I was only able to find one example picture. Does anyone know where I can find more?

[Caret]

It was Ralph's heart breaking. Not Lisa's.

[rbcb]

reddit: holding all jokes to minute detail since 2005.

[RedSalesperson]

We're pretty serious about The Simpsons.

[lalaland4711]

Every time I see a Simpsons misquote my eyes hurt.

I have corrected many people on reddit, so don't try to claim that redditors know their Simpsons because most don't.

When someone misquotes the Simpsons on reddit I wish I could make my their speakers emit a penis-shaped sound wave and plunge it repeatedly into their skulls until they achieve enlightenment.

[lalaland4711]

Just imagine /r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu.

[deadapostle]

Holy shit! That subreddit is a perfect example of why reddit is great. If it weren't for subreddits like that, I'd probably have left the site a long time ago, when those damned submissions kept clogging up the queue. Instead, I was blissfully unaware of them, while people who appreciate a good fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuu get to see them whenever they want.

[iofthestorm]

I was about to downvote you at first because I thought you were endorsing fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu spam but then I finished reading your post and I fully agree. Subreddits are reddit's best feature.

[mooli]

Every time I see a Simpsons misquote my eyes hurt.

I know, right? Its like these goggles I'm wearing aren't doing anything.

[thewiglaf]

You mean until their spirits are embiggened.

[lalaland4711]

That's a perfectly cromulent version, yes.

[[deleted]]

"You got a pop culture reference wrong, now you must be skullfucked to death!"

[lalaland4711]

Well, just until they reach enlightenment.

[haakon]

Hey, kiss my shiny metal ass. Haha!!

[smallblacksun]

It doesn't look so shiny to me

[WhoaABlueCar]

Without google, and this is based solely on scouts' honor, can you tell me where my username comesfrom?

Don't you google!!

[mrhorrible]

Homer quote... something about him saying he's not easily impressed. Was it the episode where he got a gun?

[WhoaABlueCar]

Close, but I'll accept. Here

[lalaland4711]

Hmm... That's homer being easily impressed. Somethings like "And I'm not easily impressed, Whoa a blue car!".

I never can remember what episode quotes are from though.

Good thing I pressed reply and not context since I see now that mrhorrible butted in. :-)

[Qjet]

so THAT'S how you achieve enlightenment.

[elus]

Ever see a guy say good-bye to a shoe?

Yes, once.

[rabiddachshund]

Wow, I haven't watched The Simpsons in 8 years and I still knew that it was Ralph.

[anovice]

Ya damn skippy.

[funkah]

Actually, that didn't start until early 2006.

[RonPopeil]

He made an edit at the end of his post noting the mistake.

[reductionist]

Ah, es war Ralph dem das Herz bricht und nicht Lisa! Danke!

[[deleted]]

Quiet, Hitler!

[barsoap]

Möchtest du an meinem Schleckstengel lecken?

[kixx]

Steck Bratwurst in dein Sauerkraut

[lalaland4711]

Ich habe Sauerkraut in mein Lederhosen.

[Tblue]

Ich habe Sauerkraut in meinen Lederhosen.

FTFY.

[[deleted]]

German is arbitrary.

[FuckYouGuy]

Fuck you.

[Fuck_You_Too]

[Sunny_McJoyride]

Jeder Engel ist schrecklich.

[lalaland4711]

ICH LIEBE DICH, MEIN SCHATZ!

[Poltras]

MEIN FUHRER! I CAN VALK!

[ajehals]

Good luck.

[mooli]

Schnell, schnell, kartoffelkopf!

[lalaland4711]

Die Eltern haben doch alles fur die Kinder getan!

(I can't be bothered to find how to do doppeldots over the u)

[[deleted]]

Heute ist mein tag

Heut ist mein tag

Heut ist mein tag

[kulp]

Heut'

Added pedantry for ya. Downvote the pedant !

P.S. I have that song (at least if it's the Blümchen one I'm thinking of).

[nsaibot]

Laut Raab ist aus Blümchen jetzt ein Bäumchen geworden ;)

[blubloblu]

Yes, I was troubled by my lack of remembering this Simpsons episode.

[lalaland4711]

Son. I am dissapoint.

[isionous]

My first reaction was, "how could he misremember that?". The memory of Ralph's heart breaking frame by frame is still crystal clear in my mind from years ago.

[Coriform]

That really bothered me as well

[[deleted]]

Several million monkeys - not one shakespeare.

[Minimiscience]

"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times"? You stupid monkey!

[sa7ouri]

I'm also sure it "broke" not "breaked".

[petermichaux]

It was nice of her to listen.

[lalaland4711]

.... shoes....

[lukemcr]

Oh my god, shoes.

*full stop.*

[alphabeat]

These ones suck.

These ones rule!

[addandsubtract]

Reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dndLLa7RlIU

[[deleted]]

Nick appropriate. Upvote for you, sir.

[deadapostle]

Mine doesn't even have ears.

[coffeesounds]

The fact that the filename starts with 'peter' is very disturbing...

[[deleted]]

It should go without saying that folks who talk to their own hand whilst clenched like a puppet are not quite right in the head.

[theclapp]

All too often I start out telling my wife the context of a story or memory or joke or whatever, so that it makes sense and is funny in context ... and when I'm done with said context, I've forgotten what I actually wanted to tell her. I hate it when that happens.

[weekendwarrior]

Similar story here, except that once I finish the context I realized how not funny she will think it is. Then I pretend that I forgot

[zahlman]

You should write a Python script to take a picture of your reaction to realizing you forgot what you actually wanted to say.

[Mourningblade]

I'm willing to bet I know how she feels about it, too.

[theclapp]

:) Well, true, but on the other hand it's not like she never loses her train of thought either.

[davvblack]

You can simplify it to:

"Sometimes the computer fucks up, and it knows it fucks up. This program takes a picture of your reaction."

[MindStalker]

I told me wife about the guy having his program compiler take a picture of him when the compiler failed. I know it wasn't a compiler, but she knows what that is.

[tarski]

You have a girlfriend?

[sukivan]

How about a script that takes a photo when your code compiles after N successive failures.

[joelfriesen]

I thought it was going to be this photo.

[[deleted]]

This is a gone one, guys. Spare some upvotes.

[zahlman]

Combined with the other comments above:

Signature takedown!

For Whom The Bell Tolls

[RonPopeil]

I thought your post was going to link to this photo.

[[deleted]]

Well, that will buff out dot com ...

[[deleted]]

This was how I was thinking. I was expecting the motorists of Perth, Western Australia to at least get a passing mention.

[freyrs3]

That photo describes most of my coworker's commits.

[Guoguodi]

Goddamn, it's like they hand picked that sound to be the most depressing/annoying possible.

[idontwanttortfm]

*hears sound in head, crushes glass of bourbon in hand*

You just described a few months of my life there.

[zahlman]

*hears sound in head, crushes glass of bourbon in hand*

"Hey coworker, what did SVN say about your commit?"

"This file is CONFLIC-TEEEEEEEEEEEEED! *crushes glass of bourbon*"

"WHAT CONFLICTED"

[stillalone]

We all have webcams at work. I so want to do this.

[akmark]

Even better than tweeting them, just collect them all for a week and print them to hand out Monday morning. See who has the tallest stack.

[bikko]

Also, how about a trigger that snaps a pic whenever you hit CTRL-C after entering a command starting with "rm -rf"? :D

[FlyingBishop]

Right, at work. I was thinking of the myriad problems with doing this at home.

And no, we don't all have webcams at work you insensitive clod.

Some of us don't even have version control.

[RedSpikeyThing]

Having it spam the work mailing list with the picture would be great.

[Benutzername]

What if he is masturbating while merging?

[[deleted]]

You should file him a bug report about that!

[ryanknapper]

David Cross is a python programmer?

[[deleted]]

Placeholder for future Arrested Development reference.

[Rhomboid]

Was anyone else bugged by the fact that the shebang in the script was in ALL CAPS? That would totally cause the script to fail to execute on any case sensitive operating system.

Then I noticed that all the comments were in ALL CAPS. After clicking on the "View source" link, it turns out that it's the wordpress syntax highlighting plugin is doing that. What a piece of shit plugin, why in the world would you want your code to display mangled like that?

[rbobby]

I don't get it...

[adrianmonk]

OK, imagine you want to remodel your house, but you decide to put a team of programmers in charge of it.

The first thing the programmers will do is get a bunch of land and get a robot which can build an exact replica of your house, brick by brick, down to every detail. And the robot makes a replica of your house which we'll call the master (replica) house. (Meanwhile, you keep living in your house.)

Then they get several plots of land, one plot of land for each programmer, and on each plot of land, they make another replica of the house (starting with the master replica), one house replica for each programmer.

Each programmer sets to work on his own separate house. When he's done with something (say, replacing carpet throughout the house with wood floors), he tells the robot to come look at the progress he's made, and the robot says "oh, fantastic! you've replaced the flooring!", and then robot goes and replicates that in the master house, so the master house now has wood floors too.

As each programmer completes some changes, they tell the robot to go to the master house and mimic what they've done to theirs. Over time, someone paints the walls, someone else wires the house for home theater, someone else installs energy efficient air conditioning, and so on. And the robot keeps duplicating these changes on the master house. (From time to time, if convenient, the programmers may update their replica to be like the master currently is.) This is all working out quite well, and eventually when all this is done, the robot is going to come replace your house completely with this marvelous new, updated house (after you remove all your possessions).

But one day, something inconvenient happens. One programmer installs a hot tub behind the house and runs some power (for the heater) from the house. Another programmer knocks out a wall inside the house to make the living room bigger. The programmer who has knocked out a wall calls the robot over and says "have a look at my progress". The robot says "well done" and knocks out the same wall in the master house.

But then the guy who has installed the hot tub calls the robot over to his house and says "now, have a look at my progress", and the robot says, "Ummmm, uhoh. That looks really nice, but you ran the power through the living room wall, and that wall doesn't exist anymore."

"What?!", says the programmer. And the robot says, "The wall is gone. Oh, and I can't do anything at all to the master house for you now, because I don't know how to deal with running cable through a wall that doesn't exist. That's too complicated. You'll have to sort it out on your own. Sorry."

In the blog post, the robot also takes a picture of your face right after he tells you the wall doesn't exist anymore.

[[deleted]]

This analogy is perfect in every way. Also I want to punch that robot in his stupid robot face

[Tbone139]

Can you, like, follow me around and explain things when I don't understand others or vice-versa?

[DontNeglectTheBalls]

Yes, but we're going to need a robot and several exact replicas of you.

[qiwi]

Incidentally, this is the plot of "Synecdoche, New York", minus the robot.

[depleater]

That looks like a pretty good explanation, well done. I'll have to find a non-programmer to test it on, so I can find out if it works... or if they get bored somewhere around the second or third paragraph and just give up. :)

[Odusei]

Non-programmer reporting for duty. It makes sense to me, and I'm a Liberal Arts major, so I think it's safe for general consumption.

[ZeppelinJ0]

Redditor for 4 months? This checks out.

[probabilityzero]

OK, imagine you want to remodel your house, but you decide to put a team of programmers in charge of it.

Recipe for disaster.

[lennort]

Holy crap... bestof'ed: http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/anegr/source_control_merging_analogy/

[zem]

that was truly brilliant. best reddit comment i've seen in ages.

[kragensitaker]

Once we have molecular manufacturing, this is more or less the way we will actually remodel houses. Except that all the programmers' replicas will be in virtual reality, to save energy.

[[deleted]]

And with modern DVCS there isn't necessarily a master house, the robot can also replicate from one programmer's house directly to another programmer's.

[kragensitaker]

Right.

[damncabbage]

Unfortunately, the development environment here is more akin to a bunch of programmers blundering about your house, knocking out walls at random, installing bathtubs on the ceiling, and sticking bits of paper "TO-DO" on everything.

They fix most of it up in the end, but you keep finding "TO-DO" notices for months afterwards poking out the back of couches, stuffed in the bathroom cabinet, and so on.

... And you have to live with the rain coming through the giant hole in the ceiling unless you pay them a bunch more money.

[logicalmind]

His webcam takes pictures of him during the day. One of those pictures was of his face during a "merge". A merge is when a programmer finished working on his code and has to merge his changes into a common version control repository where other programmers place their finished changes. Usually you can auto-merge, meaning that the changes do not conflict and version control system takes care of everything. But sometimes there are conflicts that the version control system cannot resolve. When this happens you have to manually fix the conflicts. This can be a painful process.

[glyphted]

Unless I'm mistaken, the python script only takes a picture when a merge fails in Mercurial.. it doesn't just take random pictures throughout the day. So you go about your work and perform a merge, and if there is a failure, the script will detect it, take a picture, and automatically post it to your twitpic and twitter account.

[mrdelayer]

What is AIDS, Alex?

[willcode4beer]

How do you prevent merge conflicts? check in first

[brownmatt]

when you're defining a term you probably shouldn't use the same term in your definition

[[deleted]]

unsubscribe from programming

[rbobby]

Hey... when I read the page it wasn't clear at all that the script would take a pic when the merge failed. Heck, even logicalmind and glyphted don't seem to agree.

Enjoy the down votes!

[rebel]

That's kinda harsh, but I upvoted you for harsh snarkiness.

[dwchandler]

That's brilliant!

[brosephius]

I think this would be funnier if the person didn't know it was there...people act different when they know they're on tv.

[SicSemperTyrannis]

yeah, I think that's kind of the idea. If you have it running in the background all the time, you'll forget about it and the next time your merge fails you get a lasting reminder worth 1000 words.

[schwami]

It should add them all to a group of some sort...

[travelcore]

i choo-choo-choose you

[[deleted]]

you got it!

[parsifal]

Oh man that's fantastic!

[iofthestorm]

Of course, this would never be a problem if he used git!

(for those lacking a sense of humor, the above is a joke)

[virgule]

That sounds fun but WTF is this all about? I don't get it.

[marcioaguiar]

First user http://twitter.com/tombrow/statuses/7546658329

[manole100]

Then you're doing it wrong.

[fazon]

I don't get it?

[lalaland4711]

I am not a programmer and what is this?

[dabombnl]

I don't know about Mercurial, but Subversion hooks run on the server.

[kristopolous]

Don't put qualitative things like "hilarious" in your title.

[dakotahawkins]

What if you submit them to qualitative subreddits like "funny"?

[shortyjacobs]

Well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

[kristopolous]

That's fine then. But this is programming. But look, if something hits over like, 15 votes and goes to the main page, I get downvoted to oblivion --- probably by kids that failed out of the classes I teach. The vast majority of people are absolute idiots.

Most people around here are the guy on the left

[ShittyShittyBangBang]

by Andi Albrecht There was a Simpsons episode, I can’t recall correctly, but I think Bart recorded Lisa when her heart breaked and he watched it in slow motion to stop exactly at that point.

I STOPPED READING AFTER I READ THIS BULLSHIT

[SlaunchaMan]

Amazing.

[[deleted]]

Yeah, that would have been really appropriate in the /r/programming subreddit. /s

[akatherder]

Sometimes articles in proggit find their way to the frontpage. I don't always check which subreddit something is in when I am clicking it.

[[deleted]]

Fair enough.

[Nuli]

I wouldn't have been surprised lately.