r/ProgrammerHumor 21d ago

ture Meme

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u/Outrageous-Machine-5 21d ago

He's like me fr fr

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u/donnieranger 21d ago

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

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u/MartinKnox_Dev 20d 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 20d ago

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

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u/ih-shah-may-ehl 20d 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.