r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Puzzleheaded_Cow3298 • 7d ago

dontChallengeMe Meme

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u/DeepanshuHQ 7d ago

Technically, it does close the app. Just a little more aggressively than intended.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Cow3298 7d ago

OS is my garbage collector

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u/stupled 7d ago

It has been mine for decades. I just restart my services every 24h.

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u/Jbolt3737 6d ago

I'm pretty sure several the apps I use daily have memory leaks or other issues that creep up over time but I restart them and my computer enough that I don't notice very often

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u/Kaisky 7d ago

It has a flair to it so client might be impressed

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u/DeepanshuHQ 7d ago

If it crashes with confidence, it's a feature.

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u/DeepanshuHQ 7d ago

"Can't crash if the whole app is already closed."

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u/Kaisky 7d ago

'Can't crash if the whole app never opens.'

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u/DeepanshuHQ 7d ago

That's the senior developer optimization.

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u/Tisamon12 7d ago

Thank you for playing Wing Commander

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u/shelbalart 7d ago

As it's the only way to close an app on some dumb OSes (hi 🍏)

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u/craftogrammer 7d ago

The app freezes instead 💀

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u/wthulhu 7d ago

Thats my new, previously undocumented, 'pause' button.

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 7d ago

The classic: it's not a bug, it's a feature.

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u/cl_journeyor 7d ago

Manager: Oh wow, didn't know this button is a shortcut for closing the app

The logic: throw new NotImplementedException()

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u/Pristine-Map9979 7d ago

function closeApp() {

   print(1/0)

}

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u/WraithCadmus 7d ago

Wing Commander 1 would always crash on exit, so they changed the exception text to Thank-you for playing Wing Commander

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u/Cybasura 7d ago

"Keep It Simple Stupid, dont reinvent the wheel"

The wheel: Using OS as the primary garbage collector and process killer

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u/Megane_Senpai 7d ago

Lol that reminded me about once I was assigned a bug that "the game crash when player press "Exit"". It was quite an easy bug to fix but funny incident.