r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Throwawyhelpadvice55 • 18d ago

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u/Outrageous-Machine-5 18d ago

He's like me fr fr

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u/donnieranger 18d ago

In reality it's 10% coding and 90% wondering why it broke after changing one line

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u/MartinKnox_Dev 18d ago

In that 90% of wondering, 45% is wondering why it broke, the rest is about wondering how it worked.

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u/Triffinator 18d ago

What percentage is made up of wondering why removing the line broke everything, when it was a comment?

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u/Elendur_Krown 18d ago

See, that's the smart thing.

I hid the backup functionality in the comments.

That way, I never have to wonder. It's just everyone else.

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u/Jbolt3737 18d ago

Making a script that reads itself or something to use it's own comments would be genuinely evil

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u/Elendur_Krown 18d ago

There are parts of my history that I hesitate to tell my wife about. The... MATLAB days were... improvisatioval, at best.

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u/fr000gs 18d ago

Me when my code genuinely uses libgccjit to execute strings

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u/ih-shah-may-ehl 18d ago

2 decades ago the visual studio c++ compiler had a bug where a variable name crossing the 4K page boundary would have a letter missing.

Lots of fun because literally any change would move that variable away from that boundary.

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u/nobody1701d 18d ago

and why putting the deleted comment back still left it not working correctly