Yesterday. It took me way to long to figure out why my mouse wasn't working....
Thanks, dear colleagues!

😐

I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure out why this image wasn't aligning properly until, after 20 minutes, I figured out that it was actually aligned perfectly, my *absolute genius* client just uploaded a picture with a janky white border

Soooo.. Couldn't figure out why the db weren't working..

Our new intern dropped it..

*can't figure out why code doesn't work for hours*
ugh fuck this.
*angrily leaves for bathroom break*
*come running back*
I KNOW HOW TO FIX IT!!!!

The CEO at the company I work at has been telling our partners that our PIA is ready. It took me a week to figure out what the hell a PIA was but he actually meant API

> be me
> last hour in office
> trying to figure out solution
> figured out a plausible solution
> write the code
> power outage before I compile

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Well, on the bright side I committed it locally...

presentation is in 30 minutes time! still cant figure it out so you fake it by doing this..

Me: “I’m gonna rebuild this site from the ground up.”
Also me, 5 minutes into it: “Can’t figure out this stupid CSS thing I need to do. Gonna take a quick break.”
Also also me, looking at it 5 days later:

Whenever you figure out an incredibly simple solution to make your code work after being frustrated by it for hours on end.

Just spent 30 minutes trying to figure out why a function wasn't working when I realized I hadn't called it. This is what happens when I forget my coffee.

Me after 3 days of trying to figure out c++:

"Fuck it I'm using java"

Why do people (Some devs too...) bloody hell think that devs have Hard time fixing the Semi Colon issue, we have a lot of other issues to figure out, like the Structure of Data, Code Fragmentation, API Creation, Invalid Data Handling, Injection Prevention. But no, since we are developers, we are having sleepless nights because of one fucking semicolon? FUCKING NO, it hardly takes 30 seconds to figure out that there is a missing semi-colon. Really People, stop the ; thing!

Once I applied for a Java position and they sent me a a online test, user and password. When I first tried to log in, it gave me an java exception. I lost hours trying to figure out the exception , thinking it was the test :/

Managing a server for a friend. After a while it was a better idea to just reinstall it.

Seriously, just installing software onto it, securing it and tweaking around/trying to figure out things with servers.

I fucking love it!

Let Them figure it out.

When you have to figure out whether it's better to transfer 85GB of data via internet or to load it onto a harddrive and drive it 600 km/ 370 miles in your car.

Does anybody know how to close this bottle? I can't figure it out.

Spent 4 hours trying to figure out what is wrong. Next day, without morning coffee, fixed it & published in 10 mins.

Spent half an hour trying to figure out why the css isn't working only to realise chrome was caching it the whole time

When you write code and forget to comment it, and then you come back and try to figure out why the heck you wrote certain parts of it.

Let this be a lesson for future me.

Looking at code you wrote a long time ago and you can't figure out parts of it...leaves you like:" Damn I was a genius"

Saw a girl from my uni upload a photo of her graduation with the following text:
while(!(succeed = try()));

I'm staring at it for 5 mins and i can't figure out if i'm retarded and should drop out of uni or that statement doesn't make sense.

Sometimes the best solution is the simplest
But sometimes it takes 20 hours of debugging to figure that out
😧

I couldn't figure out what the giant "C" was doing in my screen. It took me way to long to figure this out.

Ok, so I was working with Python, I wanted to make a simple chatbot. I spend hours trying to figure out what was wrong, until it hit me... the prints weren't indented.

Go to Defcon.
Buy Hak5 hacking tools.
Afraid to try them out.

Setup WIFI Pineapple.
Figure out how to use it.
Start seeing everyone hitting my captive portal instead of the hotels captive portal.
Immediately turn it off.
Feel like an asshole.

Why did I buy these?

I'll figure it out...

...eventually

When you code a bunch of stuff while horribly stoned, and the next day it all still works really well, but you cannot for the life of you figure out how or even why it works.

When you just can't figure it out

when your co-worker instead of commenting a piece of old code wraps it in:

if (false) {
...
}

Took me 2 hours to figure out why my changes weren't working.

The feeling when you finally figure something out, make the change, test... and it still doesn't work.

Boss: Are you just nodding your head yes and really have no idea?

Me: Yes, but I'll figure it out.

When you a Visual learner

Learning Beziér Curve📈📉. I like learning thing visually, it helps me figure something out easily.

Do you too?

Today I had my first decent pull request accepted.

It wasn't the biggest problem, but it made a chrome extension not work, and the author and other users couldn't figure it out.

The author seems very chill and called me 'the man' and offered me a drink.
It felt nice.

Trying to figure out a way to make it a headless Ubuntu server!😅

Just spent 10+ hours refactoring a code, and at the end I've figure it out a one line fix to the problem... just wasted 10 hours of my life.. :)

I used a goto. Couldn't figure out how to solve it with loops, due to nested switch, if, for..

Haha this happened to me once! But it took me a week to figure it out and after re-writing the code and hours upon hours of googling

Coworker: I've got an error, can't figure it out...
Me: Send error
Coworker: NullPointerException
Me: fml

Sr. my balls.

when you're dead tired but can't fall asleep until you figure out this piece of code. then once you figure it out, you're so pumped you can't sleep. fml. catching up on devrant it is then

When you work for a long while in a convoluted piece of code and then compile and it just works...

*wink, wink*

Then you spend another 30 minutes going through the code in disbelief trying to figure out why it didn't break 😵

When you sit down to work on a project and you just can't figure it out. Next thing you know it's 3am, so you clamber into bed. Nodding off, nice and cosy when suddenly: What's that brain? You've figured it out?

Spent an hour trying to figure out what was wrong in my socket disconnect detection code because it was constantly reporting disconnects when it shouldn't have... Only to find it was a pinched cable causing the problem. Meaning it actually did work the entire time.

I'm such a dumb fuck....
It took me fucking 30 mins to figure out that I use a function which relies on a copy of an object that's copied one line after the function call instead of before...

PLEASE KILL ME

When I opened my textbook today it took my brain a second to figure out why it isn't in dark mode.

Today I have spent 2 hours trying o figure out why my code wasn't executing at all.
It was a typo.
"assFields" instead of "addFields".
I need sleep.

Spent 30 fucking minutes today trying to figure out why my grunt build was getting stuck.. The reason? An extra fucking < in a html file, the minifier freaked out over it.

OSX: `brew install package`
Linux: `apt-get install package`
Windows: "took hours to figure out but this is how I did it" - forum c. 2003

Riddle time, it took my brother a whole day to figure it out.... Can you solve this?

PM: We don't need a spec. We'll figure it out as we go.
Me: O_O.... So what do you need the system to do?.....
PM: ( gives vague requirements)

4 weeks later I still no clue what they need.

My mentor at my current internship helped me improve my debugging skills. He's a great dev and has really good debugging skills. He showed me his ways of approaching things and how I should go about solving difficult problems.

I think he never directly helped me when I got stuck. I ask him like 'I have this confusing problem, can you help me out?' and he's like 'well yes, but actually no" and he almost always tells me that I can figure it out myself. And I do figure it out, eventually.

Now, I seldom feel the need to go to him. I guess that's a good improvement. :)

I love my relationship with the front end team:

—Hey, you have a minute? I need help with some of the endpoints you've created.
—Sure, what's up?
—Nevermind I figure it out.

Solving problems without effort. That's what I call efficiency.

Apparently because someone works in IT they can hack an IPad.

Once i figure out the secret of hacking Apple devices i will obviously share it with you.

unpopular opinion: javascript has broken standards, and nobody corrects it. people use these frameworks and shit with 600 dependencies, then can't figure out how to update their application when things go out of date. now people are expecting you to use NPM to make a - - > static <- - website

YOU MEAN TO ACTUALLY FKN TELL ME IT TOOK YOU 3 DAYS TO FIGURE OUT AN "QueryFailedError: null value in column "id" violates not-null constraint" ERROR??? GTFO. These fkn "fullstack" consultants man...

The Dev life is not for me.
I need to figure out exactly what it is I want to do.

„Couldn‘t figure out how to detect the end of a case, forced every developer to end a case with a break; so it doesn‘t go through all cases“

- the guy who invented switch case

You can measure how hard something is to figure out in how many tabs you had open when you got it

When I get stuck I usually try a variant of the duck method. I find someone not involved the project and explain my problem to them. I always figure it out before I finish explaining

I'm having a DAY.

it's like I'm trying to "2+2=4" and hitting "unknown operator =", figure that out, get "22" back, fix that, then math service is down, redeploy math service, wait 30 minutes, that's up, get "out of numbers" exception, turns out a dependency updated and now I have to register what "2" means, fix that, FINALLY get 2+2 to evaluate, I get 5. Figure that out, get 4! 4!!! FINALLY. Push it. Get 55 on the server. Gets 4 on my machine, getting some random 55 from the server.

The laziest habit is just switching between different tabs on the IDE in the morning to figure out where to start. It can take from anywhere between 15 minutes to an hour.

for the final fucking time

i'm the one who did the 8 hour garbage take home challenge and submitted it

i shouldn't be the one who has to reach out two weeks later to figure out what the status of my application is

oh and you ignore me on whatsapp

fuck you

fuck.
I think when you need 20 minutes to figure out that you tried to use (0) to acces array values instead of [0] in Java it is time to go to bed.

How do you usually learn a new language?
My way is to start a project, then figure it out as I go.

I find that books and tutorials are usually better reserved for learning concepts or frameworks.

Figure it out on your own but do it exactly like I want it.

That moment when you couldn't figure out where your JS code went wrong,just because it doesn't show you any clue about the error :'(

Teacher didn't know Java 8 had been released; couldn't figure out how to install it when I told her.

Ugggg FUCK YOU if you are one of these people who says “My goal is simple” and then you proceed to ramble on about some elaborate and poorly defined goal! Just go figure it out! FFS.

Somebody created a new database field of type varchar(10) and then filled it with the string 'NULL' for every row. Now, everybody is having to figure out for themselves that these aren't actual NULL values when running scripts.

Big company issues: Try access something "access denied". Spend rest of day trying to figure out who can provide access to that page and what manager that needs to approve it :(

When I realized that people that talk about doing stuff ("entrepreneurs") make the big bucks, while people that figure out how to actually make it happen, make only peanuts.

People who complain about wordpress have probably never tried working with Magento.

I've been going through their documentation for about 3 hours now, trying to figure out how this entire system works. And I'm no where close to understanding it...

I just bought hitgub.co
Honestly have no regerts about it.
Idk what to do with it, but I'll figure it out.

I spent 2 hours last night trying to figure out how to rotate an image in Java without clipping it. I was all in with a pencil and paper sketching everything out to make sure my math was right.

Turns out I was calculating the new image size correctly, but I used to wrong variables to define the new dimensions...

Sigh.

You finding bug whole 2 hours and when you figure out it was just browser cache problem

Spent half day trying to figure out why internet stopped working in he office.

Somehow, the tangle of wires behind computer created some kind of Faraday cage that was blocking / interfering with the signal.

Just the most insane IT problem ever.

Tried to figure out why my computer was being slow and lagging earlier. Thought it may have been a bad update to the kernel I recently did, or an update to a package.

No, it was chrome and its horrible memory usage.

Yay 1week vacation starts now... 1 week of "not my problem, go figure out and fix it urself"

Though I can't guarantee I won't see a bigger burning pile of crap when I get back...

I can't figure out how to get in contact with Firefox to figure out why every time i log into a website i need for work on Nightly, it states that my username or password aren't on record, and i have to change my password (even when switching browsers). Only started after their last update today, and now that I'm testing other sites, it's multiple sites, but not all.

Ideas? help?

I love that feeling when I'm about to post the question on SO, and in the last minute I figure it out by myself. Now I don't have to worry about getting dowvotes or asshole mods.

Just love when I wake up with answers. I was trying to do this (Rant text loads -> Image place holder -> Image loads -> Image replaces placeholder) for hours last night but couldn't figure it out. Today, I did it over lunch.

this client couldn't figure out pagination.

and whenever items moved to next page

he could not find it.

He would create a new one.

UX: we need to add a close button to the filter menu.
Dev: wtf, why?
UX: the users cannot figure out how to close it.

Just got my raspberry pi, installed lubuntu, openssh and sshed into it.
Adjusting to command line only and ubuntu is hard.

I dont know where everything is located and how to get stuff done.

But I will keep on trucking till I figure it out!!

Just spent the *entire* afternoon trying to figure out why the hell my code runs fine locally, but doesn't when our CI server builds & deploys it on AWS.

...and I've now, finally, figured out it was all because I forgot to check a damn file into Git 🤦‍♂️

I'm simultaneously relieved, annoyed & embarassed.

I hate knowing that there are ton of ways doing something but cant just figure it out which is the best and then having to come back and change it. I know it is part of learning and becoming experienced but still...

A lot of people either love vim, or can't figure out how to exit it.

As a junior developer it's frustrating to not have the skill yet of mentally mapping data models in your head, so that you can figure out bugs.

I see senior developers being able to quickly solve bugs because they can translate code into data models and they can figure out what's wrong.

Me on the other hand, I spend hours and days with my hands in my hair trying to figure out why my algorithm isn't giving me back what I expect it to.

It'll take experience.. I only have 1 year experience..

When I get mad I purposefully just throw css at the bottom of the last css file references and declare everything with !important.

Sorry future self..figure it out next time.

Don't you just hate it when your code works but you have no idea why, so you spend 30 minutes trying to figure out why it works?

No documentation....yeah....just figuring it out! 🤔😲

I want to be the CTO in ten years. I'm 25 now, and think it's possible. My former boss was the CTO and he inspired the hell out of me to work hard and invest in myself. I have a lot to learn but I'm eager to figure it out.

It took me 30min to figure out why jenkins couldn't connect to my repo even though i was sure i got the configuration right this time. As it turned out fail2ban blocked my ip and made all subsequent attempts fail...

What I can figure out:
You give me a large application with multiple projects/classes/files/functions that is tens of thousands of lines long, I can debug it. I can picture the multi-dimensional data structures, objects that contain lists of other objects, all in my I head.

What I can't figure out:
Should I or should I not look at the person sitting at their desk when I walk back to my desk from the bathroom.

could never figure out how to configure ssl because of google clouds insanely complicated documentation.

today i found a digital ocean guide that explains its a simple installation of certbot, run it once and set it to auto renew....

fuck you google

spent over 20 minutes trying to figure out why this wasn't working.
then I realized what I put it under :v
" if (Windows.System.Profile.AnalyticsInfo.VersionInfo.DeviceFamily == "Windows.Mobile")
"
//testing on a PC

I was working on a bug in a legacy application and I was the first person to open the project in 10 years.. Found all the variables named with swears.. It was hilariously difficult to figure out what was happening lmao..

Forget about a missing semicolon. I was forwarding Neo4j to port 4747 and calling it in Asp.Net with port 7474 in Docker containers. It took me 6 hours to figure that one out. Lol, It's time for the weekend.

It took me a while to figure out why my systemd timer wasn't working

Ir was missing a line break at the end of the file :(

Not a rant!

Reaction when a person responds your joke with " I will go home, figure it out, laugh and will text you!!!!"

#priceless :/

Seems like Bitbucket's pushes go through like this...

Took me a while to figure out what it was.

Initially I thought Google had acquired BitBucket's, then it hit me...

>Adds new feature
>New feature works fine on dev
>New feature works fine on staging
>New feature doesn't work on live
>You can't easily figure out what is wrong because you need to wait an hour for it each time :|

Habit I'm trying to fix?
Doing it all myself. I've been timeboxing my problems and forcing myself to ask instead of forcing myself to just figure it out myself. Communication isn't my strong point.

Spends whole day trying to figure out a strange build error in Android Studio.

Just updating the studio fixed it!

Finally moved over to Sublime Text.
Now I just need to figure out how to make it my default text editor.

Run this command in your friend's terminal and watch the show...

echo "exit" >> ~/.bashrc

See how long it takes then to figure out what's going on.

Had a job interview. Think I crushed it. Now to figure out if the company is a sweatshop.

Had a bug that I just couldn't figure out. How did I solve it? Had to think like a user. Just started clicking options over and over. Not giving it time. Found my issue.

I was pulling my hair wondering why the DataFrame was not merging. Took my 1 hour and a half to figure it out.

Not sure if this has been posted here already but if you want to troll someone, replace all the semicolons in their code with the Greek question mark ( ; ) and see how long it takes them to figure out the problem

So my teacher doesnt like us sharing code with eachother cause: "Y'all learn it better when you figure it out yourself."
FFS if ya dont figure it out yourself, you'll end up having learnt nothing. So I ended up uploading every library and exercise solution I wrote to a github repo and shared it with my classmates. Prolly gonna get into some trouble for dis if my teacher finds out. But I dont care. I've written it so I can do with it whatever I want!

Spent 4 hours trying to figure out why my expressjs application wasn't working in my environment but DevOps loads it just fine. Turns out there's a difference between ^ and ~ on dependency version requirements. I was loading latest versions of nunjucks and NodeJs instead of stable.

What is life.

It only took me a day to figure out how to get an overflow button on Android to show up. Can you tell I'm new?

When your boss and his pet employee start rambling business speak about some feature they expect you to figure out even though they don't understand it.

It's even harder when you use eclipse and you can't figure out what it is trying to tell you...

If it weren't for poor documentation I'd be retired by now.

We didn't all write your library. In fact, only you did. So, some helpful documentation would really help us all out. Can't believe the number of times I need to read source code to figure out what the hell you are doing.

Interprocess communication with MemoryMappedFiles.
It took a while to figure out how interprocess communication works.

It's a real nice feeling when you figure out the answer to your own stackoverflow question as you're typing it out.
Not gonna make myself look like an idiot this time! No-sir-ee.

The ::before and ::after pseudo elements. I’ve spent an hour sometimes trying to figure out how to get some element to do something and not realizing it was because of those.

Started working on the adding posts page of my cms project. Been running into issues, but I know I'll figure it out :)

Here's a little challenge for you!

I will buy a devduck for the first person to figure out the password to this account before april 16th.

If you figure it out, simply log in to this account and @mention yourself to prove that you did it.

Here are some clues to help you out:

57 85 22 15
14 3 47 10
34 18 98 45
12 52 50 6

&

TUVMRU5DT0xJQSAx

Was trying to figure out why the code coverage tool always reports 0% on my android tests. Turns out that is specific to newer samsung phones and it reports the coverage correctly on other phones.
Good old samsung, annoying devs since 2009!

make dumbass solution duplicating code because you can't figure out how to do it correctly

nobody corrects you on code review

later somebody on another team has their stuff broken because of you and kindly offers to hopefully fix and not break what you got out of it

Is it because of Monday, or am I just depressed? I can't figure it out.

So annoying when you get 80% of the way through a project then figure out a more elegant way of solving it, but can't change it now because of time constraints

Spent like 24h trying to figure out why the system does not work. It turns out I forgot to put ternary operator into parentheses. :///

Awkward, but the only possible way.
Either I didnt figure it out or shame at Apple, this is not a good way to handle this.

no one taught me how to host anything web, i had to figure out how to get things live by myself. it was awful, documentation on that stuff sucks, but i got through it knowing far more than when i started.

A week ago I raised an issue claiming I couldn't ping service x and that it was blocked

Today I figure out ping is blocked on firewall level and http requests work fine

Guess that's my big blunder this internship

Cool. I've installed a time paradox! All that's left is to figure out how to leverage it to my benefit...

Fuck me sideways, it took me so long to figure out what caused a certain bug. Thanks python
>>> list = [[0] * 2] * 2
>>> list
[[0, 0], [0, 0]]
>>> list[0][0] = 1
>>> list
[[1, 0], [1, 0]]

Right now. It's happening. I'm sitting on one of those seemingly impossible issues. I'm reading the exception and can't fathom how it can be true. I mean, the evidence is right there! The error message must be wrong! But that's the thing, it never is. It's always something stupid and obvious. After you figure it out, you shake your head and laugh at yourself for not seeing it. It's all shits and giggles after you figure it out, but that's not where I'm at right now. Right now I'm being laughed at by this stack trace. It's mocking me even!
Jokes on you though, because I'm coming for you!!

Kotlin shortcut things a lot it gave me headache when I'm trying to figure out what's happening but I don't know why I still love that language

I'm a fucking IMBECIL
Was working on some phalcon stuff and I just couldn't figure out why the fucking router wasn't working. Been looking for at least an hour and then it turns out I rewrote the URL to index.php?uri=.. instead of index.php?_url=...

ARGRGGHHGHHG

After 30 minutes of trying to figure out why a guid is empty, I realize it's because it is initialized, but not assigned.

I'm not ready for Monday.

!$rant

So I kept running into permission problems last night when trying to use move_uploaded_file() in php to upload images to my virtual server. Maybe today I'll finally figure it out.

I can feel myself becoming more intolerant of people wasting my time and I'm in half a mind to do nothing about it.

Maybe they won't bother me if I'm not my perky self 🔪😱

when you spend half a day trying to figure out why your aws api calls aren't working and it turns out you're using a deprecated package

I hate it when suddenly one app icon is missing on the home screen and I cannot even figure out what app I'm missing.

Why is it some people can't figure out a queue/line? It's like all these fucking people are standing in series just for their fucking health.

Have you ever thought "I'll listen to X playlist/album/song, but first I'll figure out this Y project related thing", but ended up working without any music for way longer than expected without even realizing it?

Just spent 15 mins trying to figure out how to close the copilot chat window in vscode, to close it you have to slide it until the width reaches 0.

Talk about shitty user experience

It took me at least half an hour to figure that one out. :(
These kind of bugs are the most depressing.

I've been doing alot in eclipse recently and the keyboard shortcut for the intellisense window is ctrl + space. Suddenly I was asked to update some documentation; 10 minutes it took me to figure out word doesn't have intellisense!

Let's have a meeting to find out why something isn't working, when we're already trying to figure out why it isn't working.

Some user requirements are completely unnecessary that you can lie about them and no one will figure it out ever

It took me an entire hour to figure out why my https gave me a Connection Refused error in my browser. Apparently I had configured port 433 to be published instead of 443, another hour wasted.

Spent an hour trying to figure out why Chrome wouldn't work at all. Even IE was working on my laptop.
Restarted the whole thing.
Now it works.....and I already lost most of my motivation to code. Just great...

Today I found github student developer pack thing. It was the golden chance to sharpen my git skills at least I thought so.. 2 hours tried to figure out how does "merge" works in gitkraken and now I'm depressed..

Had Arduino for months, couldn't get MPU6050 working, because of a lack of time and other stuff. (Need it for long term college project, data logging blah blah)
Gave it to project teammate to figure it out, who hates even touching hardware, BTW.

He figures it out in an hour (adjusting baud rate for supply voltage)
I feel like a complete idiot.
🙁

Someone please tell me why react sees if(x = y) as valid js. That typo basically broke my app for 3 weeks and I didn't figure it out untill now. It set all my states to the same value. Fuck me 😑

Alright i make jokes alot of times for fist over ip but damn there's just so fucking many people that it could be useful on. Somebody needs to figure this shit out where i can go dark side and just choke a dumbass no class asshole out.

It's so frustrating when libraries just give you a hello world example and you have to figure out what the fuck it does. No comments, no nothing. Then you go read the documentation, and find out they have topics for everything, but nothing explaining how it all comes together. They give you a hello world and then you have to figure out how the damn thing works.
Now I have to watch YouTube tutorials which will probably all use fucking Spring Boot and extra libraries. I just wanted a barebones example, is that too fucking hard?

EDIT: maybe I should take a break from this thing

I feel so fucking proud after finally finishing what i started coding

I delayed so many days and procrastinated because it seemed way too fucking hard to code it

But i sat down and forced myself to do it despite it being hard

Yes i broke my fucking head trying to figure it out but i somehow figured it out

And it is finally fucking done

Fucking good Lord thank you

I feel fucking proud of myself.

I spent the better part of three days trying to figure out how to compile source code on Linux using ./configure and stuff and best place to put the compiled source after running make and it all works. It's such a small thing but seeing as I've been tarnished with Windows this is a great accomplishment to me.

Also because I wasted days figuring this out, jumping to multiple topics, progressing deeper and deeper into different topics to figure it out... abstraction would've been nice...

What would've taken the whole night to figure out, had i continued last evening to pursue it, was figured out in less than an hour this morning.

Resonates the fact that sleeping over something helps and that when fucked up take a walk/sleep.

I read the other day here about people not reading the error messages shown by the IDE and thought "there can't be people this dumb..."

Well, today I was helping a friend out with his java project and he was trying to figure out an error for at least 10 min so I told him, read the error message, he goes like nah, that won't help, I kept repeating it till he did it and guess what? The explanation was there and helped him figure out the problem.
His excuse? He didn't have the patience to read the message, it was 2 lines long...

How can you be so stupid to the point where your first thought isn't checking out the damn message the IDE gives you? It's there for a fucking reason.

GraphQL and RestAPI are so different and GraphQL is too easy.

It took me 2 hours to figure out everything about githibAPI in REST. 😕😑😑😑😑😑

just got off work,... ANOTHER DAY SPEND TRYING TO FIGURE SOMEONE ELSES PROD ISSUE....

Doesn't help when my PM's like did you figure it out yet, did you figure it out yet?

Why am I cleaning up other people's shit....

Going to long trying to figure it out myself before asking for help.

Spent 4 hours debugging to figure out I needed to hit the enter key smh.

In my defense 3 other software engineers looked at the problem and couldn’t figure it out.

In my offense I only solved this problem by talking to the engineer who made it.

I love it when I’m right, I just hate it that it takes you so freaking long to figure it out.

ticket sized small: figure out why this thing is failing, get the old MR to work, test it

month old MR, over 8000 lines of code changes

FML

"Just try it on production"
- a coworker DBA shortly before he desperately had to figure out how to restore to the latest backup.

Finished writing an ETL job in dev and scheduled it right before I left.
About an hour later I get an email it failed, now I get to wait till Monday to figure out why.

Heck yeah!

That awesome feeling when you figure out a coding logic to get the intended result.

I've been stuck on this issue past few days. But always had an instinct I could figure it out the way I want and since it was always in the back of my mind, things started making more sense like finding pieces of a puzzle.

Finally it all came together.

Uni nowadays be like:

Lecturer says everyone should come up with an idea, find out how much it costs, figure out the competition, write a business plan, find out the development costs and indicate your value proposition. Best idea gets an A.

This is more like trading an A for a potential billion dollar idea.

void encrypt(...) {
[...]
output.Write(iv);
output.Write(salt);
[...]
}

void decrypt(...) {
[...]
input.Read(salt);
input.Read(iv);
[...]
}

Took me 2 hours to figure out why it kept giving me decryption errors :/

How do you know when it is time for a break?

transition: color 0.5em linear;

When you cannot figure out what is wrong with this transition...

Have you ever built something that works, but then you had to spend the next two hours trying figure out how the hell it works?

Normal people spend their holiday weekend with friends and family. I spent it bisecting RetroArch to figure out exactly when a Wii U crash bug started happening.

(I exaggerate. There was plenty of friends and family time)

Just got out of a meeting in which the client was suffering from the classic case of not knowing how their business works. Ugh, now I gotta figure it out for them.

Was trying to figure out why my fix had created a performance issue in our app. Tried loads of different things. Turned out it was because I was iterating over a ~300 item array, and then iterating over another ~300 item array within that loop 😂

300 iterations * 300 = unhappy iPad

Installed i3 on my laptop. Like it so far.. I just need to get used to it, and figure out how to style it easily.. Any tips?

One of these days my Windows 10 system will actually figure out how to obtain an IPv6 address without needing me to manually run ipconfig /renew6 or disable/reenable the network adapter... For now, static IPv6 it is

Just debugged and patched a broken loveseat. I looked at the components on the working part and compared it to the components on the broken part. Could not figure out what the actual problem was, so I hammered out a makeshift solution that has things temporarily working.

Sounds like my job.

That moment when you want to sleep but still busy with a bug in your head to figure it out.

C# can be great and all but sometimes it just makes me want to put a bullet in my head because i can't figure out HOW TO FUCKING USE A GOD DARN FORM ITEM IN A FUNCTION OR THREAD!

Who cares to guess what caused this error and why it took me 6 hours to figure it out?

Connecting rooms by determining which rooms are closest. Some rooms connections cross other rooms. Found out how to eliminate those. Picture as first comment. It stills suffers of hub rooms have way too many connections. So I will have to figure out how to cull connections of rooms that have too many.

Just walk away, you will figure it out when you least expect it.

Trying to figure out why your code won't work after you fixed it, only to find that the offshore team completely fucked everything back up again 😵

Me vs. Code Moocher:

CM: Hey, did you do the Chapter 6 homework?

Me: Did You...?

CM: Yes... (with confidence but an odd pause) But it doesn't work.

Me: Sorry I'm not done with it either I can help you.

I hate people like this. He could've asked me for my help or waited to ask the Prof.

But he outright asked for my work. It wouldn't be the first time.

FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF MOTHERFUCKER!!!

we've to figure out a way to deal with the re-posts. -.- I really feel bad for downvoting a re-post because the user had no idea about it.(even though it's funny)

What is the longest time any of you have been debugging one problem?
For me it was at my first internship where I was creating a multithreaded qt application. I had a problem that took me two weeks to figure out. I was trying to call a function from a qt thread when it wasn't the main thread. Took me two weeks to figure that out since it was my first time doing multithreaded applications, and the fix was dead simple.
Any similar stories?

Spent about 5 hours trying to figure out why php-fpm 7.2 was sending a timeout to nginx inside a CentOS 7 container. In the end I couldn't figure it out, downgraded to PHP 7.1 and then everything start working fine. I really hate using CentOS for containers since it also requires privileged mode to be able to start services. Hopefully I can move away from using CentOS for containers soon since the base image is also quite fat.

Blindly copy pasted and executed commands from tutorial.
Just because it was faster to reformat sd card in the worst case ( raspberry pi ) than figure out what each one did.

"Back when I was starting on this position I was the only developer in the team so there was NOONE to teach me anything - you'll figure it out on your own" 😂

Spent like two hours trying to figure out why my react native app is showing a TransformError... Went to stackoverflow.. Github issues.. You name it.. None helped...
Turns out I had missed a fucking comma when importing stuff from react-native

Me: Why can't we use WCF according to standards (even though my team has been using it anyway?

Him: Because we could not figure out how to implement it. o_O

Help me please!

omg, Doxygen is amazing (when you figure out how it works) 😀

When you're trying to figure it out what a code does and you find a line comment "A line off code to rule them all"
cheers Frodo!

When you spend an hour trying to figure out why your rsync command isn't working, then you realise it's because Raspbian doesn't have rsync in it by default 😒

Theres a method for speeding up diffusion generation (things like stablediffusion) by several orders of magnitude. It's related to particle physics simulations.

I'm just waiting for the researchers to figure it out for themselves.

it's like watching kids break toys.

Fml
Why can't I still figure this shit out?
This is supposed to be easy!
Its a freaking USB communication!
It IS easy.
So why am I stuck?
Fcuk me.
I got shit ton of stuff to figure out and this is where I'm stuck?
Ugghhhhh!

I used to have problems installing rails on PC and it took me 2 weeks to figure out that I just needed to install Node.js... I want 2 weeks of my life back :/

Haven't pushed anything to my github repos for over a year. Tried it today and it took me FOURTY FUCKING MINUTES to figure out this Personal Access Token HORSESHIT.

FUCK YOU GITHUB, why must every aspect of software development become spoiled by PARANOID FUCKING FUCKWEASELS?

I was struggling to figure out why my Django template render wasn't working.was looking at code for hours.
Until I found that ,at the end of my render there was a comma making it a tuple.thats why it didn't damn work.

I can't really figure out how I grew from learning_syntax -> remembering_function_names -> following_patterns -> developing_a_personal_style -> reading_the_doc -> getting_the_source.

Well I have a long memory problem, so I guess it happened overnight!

Wait, did the doctor say it was a memory problem? Hell no!

I've got 2 questions.

1. Are there any laptops better than a maxed out Dell XPS 15 for a similar price?
2. Once I buy my new laptop I want to experiment with Linux (never used it before). Is there some really good tutorial out there to help me get it working and figure out how it works and what the best way to use it is?

Spent a couple of hours trying to figure out why my flexbox css wasn't rendering as suspected. Finally discovered that the html tag I tried to apply it to didn't support display: flex;

Gah.

Why is AWS so opaque? Every time I run into a new awkwardly name service I have to parse some redundant management speak to figure out what it does. Does it really matter to anyone that their services have special names with words like "Simple"?