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I don't understand why so many people fight this war of tabs vs spaces. My colleagues elegantly solved the problem just not using indentation at all36
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IF YOU WRITE IN A FORUM ABOUT A PROBLEM AND YOU SOLVED THE PROBLEM, TELL US THE FUCKING SOLUTION YOU MORRON! YOU TOOK THE EFFORT TO JUST WRITE "I SOLVED THE PROBLEM" WITHOUT WRITING A WORD ON HOW THE FUCK YOU DID IT. DO YOU THINK I READ THIS FUCKING TOPIC FOR FUN? I AM ONLY INTERESTED IN THE SOLUTION, I DON'T GIVE A SHIT IF YOU SOLVED IT OR NOT!!!12
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Client: So you want 50 bucks for 5 minutes work pushing some buttons;
Me: Well yes. I didn't just pushed some buttons... I pushed them in the right sequence and solved your problem.8 -
All of the questions I got from my co workers today could were solved by googling their error.
Now I question their ability to even use a computer.
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Client just informed our support that they solved their own forgotten password problem by clicking the "forgot password" button in our app. They say they are now awaiting the email with the password recovery details.
One problem: we don't have a forgot password button in our app.9 -
An intern asked me for help today and I solved it within minutes.
First time I felt like I had evolved from a confused junior developer to something more. So happy.5 -
Just solved a bug I was trying to solve for hours.
Oh, the pleasure of closing 12 tabs at once without wanting to recover them for the next session.
Just priceless!
Gonna have a good night's sleep.3 -
New phone rom doesn't allow bloatware app removal, even at root level.
Root file manager -> /system/app -> remove whole 'uninstallable app's' whole fucking folder -> reboot -> device still works well.
Problem solved.26 -
I sleepy, accessing the server in the middle of the night to resolve a problem.
Problem solved.
shutdown now
'ssh connection closed'
shutdown now
Go back to sleep.
Phone ringing.7 -
"I don't accept this, I demand that this gets solved right now"
It's funny how clients think that demanding that something gets solved "right now" will actually get it solved faster/right that moment.10 -
It's 3:30AM and I'm working.
If you work at night, no one can interrupt you.
If you sleep during the day, you can't attend any zoom meetings.
Also, at night you can work naked, and drink on the job without any judgement.
All problems solved.10 -
My girlfriend lost her hair band at my house. Today I found it and finally solved the problem of tangled cables!
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Got annoyed by hitting f11 instead of f12.
("step into" versus "go to definition").
Solved the problem :)
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Feeling bored? Just break a random component of your OS and spend a few minutes fixing it. If you're lucky these minutes will expand to hours. Problem solved!8
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I actually talked to my duck. He solved my Server 500 error which said "java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: logger". I had to purge the build .class files and recompile the application and low and behold it runs.
Why is my duck a better debugger than most actual debuggers? He didn't even go to college!
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Dammit, I can't even describe how much I hate when I'm researching to fix a problem, find a forum/question and the guy answering it makes a post saying "Forget about it, solved it" but doesn't say how.3
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People who ask a question on the interwebs, solves it by themselves and just say "It's OK. I've solved it" without explaining how should have their Internet removed (maybe some light torture too).2
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Solved a SEGFAULT in a conventionally undebuggable 800k lines C++ project after 10 hours of investigating 🙌14
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Attack problems you've never solved.
Don't fear projects which you're not familiar with the technology.
Read books, blogs, and code.
Refactor every opportunity you have.
Don't always be the smartest developer in the room.
Be flexible. Tools are tools, don't fall in love with any one till and neglect others. -
Spent 6 days, trying to get a navbar to stick in my iOS webapp while scrolling, no way to get it done.
This morning I installed iOS update 11.3, problem solved without changing a single line of CSS...
FUCK YOU APPLE5 -
My biggest personal challenges as a dev are these two:
1. I tend to work too much (by choice), which impacts my personal spare time heavily.
2. I tend to not let loose of a problem until it is solved. This often results in longer work hours or me not taking brakes...4 -
OMFG! YES! I just solved an issue that made build times close to 20 minutes. Not it's only a couple of seconds! YES!!!9
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Coworker asking for my help on a crm framework I have never seen before. She was banging her head on the monitor by 1 hour. I read the stacktrace of the error (Java), and 30 seconds later I solved her problem.
Guess who is going laid tonight?
Not me, because she's engaged.6 -
Feedback from a client
-"It doesn't work! I want this solved immediately! "
- What? Which of the 20 views? Can you be more specific?
... 5 hors later (and lot of wasted time debugging) ...
-"I mean, this button is not aligned."2 -
Support: A customer complained about a nasty bug.
Senior Dev: There are no bugs in our software, just challenges that need to be solved.2 -
If you are tall and experience back problems like me, give one of those balls that you sit on a try. It costs 15 euros and it solved everything for me. If it doesnt... well... throw it of your balcony and let me know how high it bounced4
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Spent the entire day trying to solve a bug yesterday. Came to work today, solved in 5 minutes.
This is why I love and hate my job.1 -
Just solved two huge bugs in a private project without using Stack Overflow... Since when am I even able to do this? What happened to me?2
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Client calls at 3AM, telling me an issue he reported which I told him was already solved in a new update hasn't been solved. He tells me that I'm lying because the issue is still there. The son of a bitch didn't even update the flicking app. Sincerely, fuck you.4
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Spent the whole night stressing over a bug I couldn't fix, only to realise the next morning I had actually solved it the previous night. I'm so sleep deprived I actually forgot that I solved it.1
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Pomodoro technique, and if nothing works take a break from sitting in front of the computer, and focus on something else, it will get solved easily the next time you touch your pc9
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If your issue is not on StackOverflow and you can't find it on the web:
Go another way, you're probably doing something very wrong!
(I have solved many problems remembering this)1 -
Finally solved the mystery, why / and * are together on my keyboard so that there is no problem for me to use single line comment and multi-line comment.
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Had to take a test in C++. 2 questions, 2 hours. Totally messed up the second, then solved it in ~10 minutes after.
They accepted my second solution still. Luck was on my side. -
I just experienced the opposite of rant.
I spent 1 entire day ranting about a algorithm I couldn't write with no issues, it occupied all my mind and got me pissed of.
And today, I rewrote it entirely, and it works perfectly everywhere.
I was like : "No it can't work here. Oh ok", "And here's the bug ! No ? Nice.", "Don't tell me it'll work here. I'm a God".
That's why I love being a dev :D
Thank you, you freaking problem I had !7 -
How to be a successful developer:
1. Identify a problem that you don't know the answer to.
2. Spend 10 minutes searching Google for a solution, trying various keyword combos.
3. Click the link to the solution in Stackoverflow.
4. Find the solution with the most +1's.
5a. If solution looks good, implement the solution in your code.
5b. If solution is not applicable, return to step 2.
6. Test your implementation.
7a. If the problem is solved, bask in the glory of success and return to step 1.
7b. If the problem is not solved, move your hand vigorously through your hair, pulling out several strands. Exhale loudly. Next return to step 2.4 -
Had a problem.
Heard the errorsound a few dozen times too often.
Replaced it with Hitler screaming "NEIN NEIN NEIN".
Solved problem.
Let the sound stay.
Someday it will make a bad situation slightly brighter.2 -
The guy who kept asking for my help... it's not that I have a problem with that, but his problems could be solved with a very simple Google search.6
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When you write something cool but the problem can be solved in an easier way and you have to dump it 😭1
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So, today I asked my senior developer a query he took my laptop and changed the ide theme to black.
My doubts were solved, I am enlightened programmer now.8 -
Companies: “We believe diversity is our strength. We don’t discriminate on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, ……”
*departments hire 90% women and 10% men*
Companies: “See! Diversity solved!”14 -
Is it just me that is addicted to the feeling when you solved a big problem with the code and everything just works afterwards? Its such a nice feeling!!3
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When I solved a machine learning problem using naive Bayes in R for the first time.
I still remember it was 5am. Had been stuck for weeks and when it worked.. I called my teammate at 5am and said.. "I think solving this feels better than having sex".3 -
Today i had a deadline
Decided stuff it im sleeping late
Got a nightmare woke up at 5am instantly solved my problem2 -
I have just solved a problem that had already several days ago: to apply the elimination of a specific color in a photography of animal fabrics.
Thank you SimpleCV <3
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When your friend tells you that he is stuck, that he tried everything which is possible and that you solved the problem on the very first try. xD
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College student.
Had Computer Graphics project to complete with OpenGL and C🙄
Night before submission * eyes are drooping*
How to stop the transition of the character?
Solution: Write an empty function.
😎 Problem solved.7 -
How weird is this?
I was working on a project. I wasn't able to find solution for a particular sub problem. It was late so I thought of sleeping.
I dreamt about the problem. I solved it in my dream. When I woke up in the morning, I remembered the solution and I solved it.4 -
Oh dear, a scaling problem I solved was replacing some Regex matching with simpler string functions. While I'm a huge fan of Regex, it's unreal how much performance they can suck out of some high-n loops...
I got about 120x out of some critical code thus making a CPU upgrade unnecessary.8 -
Me reading a forum after long hours of debugging and research...
YES THIS IS IT THIS IS MY FUCKING ISSUE!
* Me reading some answers I have tried already *
COME ON GIVE ME THE ANSWER
* Me reading the last answer *
"I was able to resolve the issue thanks for all the answers...
bye"
OP marked problem as solved
FOR FUCKS SAKE GIVE ME THE SOLUTION OF FUCK OFF6 -
"A well defined problem is a problem half solved."
~ Charles Kettering.
Feel like crying on hearing this when the product feature requirements change in so aGiLe way.3 -
been solving a bug for almost 2 hours and i have just solved it by turning the incoming data into string. damn it
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Aha! The problem that you solved after a week long of thinking was already solved in 1800 AD and the code looks 100x better and optimal than yours.5
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Has this shit ever solved any of the issues?
💩💩💩
Comment if yours have been solved....
Mine havent
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So one problem checked off my list today, solved by concluding:
MOTHERFUCKERS DON’T READ WHAT THE CHECKBOX SAYS4 -
Never ever open a computer while breathing...
I got a ticket to fix a computer from the production line that was turning itself off...
When I opened it, a dark dust from hell came right into my lungs... There were more dust in there than I've ever seen in my entire life... Combined...
I'm still sneezing 3 hours later, and a few black spots keep coming out with everything else...4 -
40 minutes to realize that the "Access denied" error was not about the database on the server but about a local file.
And a sudo solved everything2 -
These fucking nitwits who write on a non-stackoverflow site that they "solved it", without giving any clue whatsofuckingever about how they actually solved the problem, can all go take a shower in perchloric acid mixed with 2 days old hobo piss.1
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My code was doing the exact oposite of what I wanted it to do and it took me about 2 hours to find out that strcmp() returns 0 when the strings match, problem solved, fml.4
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Solved a small CSS requirement for my other boss. Feeling awesome. Someone actually looked for the front end guy to solve a CSS issue.
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I remember when I was first learning recursion, i thought whoever thought of it must've been on some kickass drugs because it all sounded like sorcery. Just solved my first problem at work that recursion actually made simpler. Does that make me a wizard?10
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The ability to recognize previously solved problems and integrate a known solution is crucial to programming (and problem solving in general). Us programmers, we call that "Copy and Pasting."
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That moment you solved something without Stack overflow and/or the official Docs... That realisation made my day ☺
Feeling more and more like a medior! (I am a junior) I might even program in my spare time again! It has been a while... I can't wait 😍😍3 -
At my holiday job, I had to call the IT department about a printing issue. They solved it very quickly. Fucking magicians man, how they did it? No fucking clue!3
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So yesterday i solved 7 tickets on my own for this project while the teammate was "testing".
Solved nothing and checked fb or new everytime i took a look at his screen.
Can comeone please fire this guy?1 -
There’s a very small crossover between “programming problems I need solved” and “programming problems ChatGPT can solve”. I’ve tried maybe 10 times and got a good answer possibly once of those ten.10
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Nobody solved this super complicated cryptography puzzle last time. I guess I have created an unsolvable mystery of epic proportions. Anyway, if you wanna give it a try, go ahead:
b417021dc01b409ad0c21b430a508624
Answer is a sentence in plain english. Space is used, but no punctuation. Post answer to comments. Good luck :D20 -
People ranting about xcode, how about stop using Mac and apple products there all dog shit. Or just use another IDE or editor problem solved.8
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my gf visited over the weekend. when she went out to get groceries I kept myself busy looking for a error on a project.
she came back and was like: did you fail to end a sentence with a period.
that solved the problem1 -
I solved a big problem today. It made me feel fuckng amazing. I like my job.
P.S. I'm a QA Engineer3 -
All arguments about tabs and spaces, I just write my code in a non-formatted clusterfuck and then let the IDE format it.6
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I just earned my first experience with a "MacBook Pro"..
1. Started in safe mode (reboot solved that)
2. Safari crashed..
I see what you mean with innovation.. NOT!3 -
i just spent 3 hours on a problem that could have been solved in 12 lines.
i really hate myself sometimes6 -
In a class i attended we learned about advanced image synthesis and had to write OpenGL in the exercises.
It was incredibly difficult and i put incredible amounts of time into it and solved the tasks and was incredibly happy when it started to work ☺️2 -
I solved this riddle/puzzle. Now my inner completionist split into two and both are arguing what is worse: taking the solved puzzle apart or leaving the 15 remaining possibilities unsolved...
*rips of his face* 💀
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Am I the only one who still look deep in the Code, try to find a better way of solving a problem after it's already been perfectly solved 🤔12
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Anyone that tries to solve my Stackover flow question, gets down voted 😂 What's worst, I got down voted after 20mins. Worst, it can't be solved! Fuck! Guess no sleeps tonight19
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I'm the bone of my project
Steel is my brain and fire is my eye
I have created over a thousand bugs
Unknown to people, Solve by death.
Have withstood pain to create many function
Yet, those bugs will never be solved
So as I pray, Unlimited Hope Works4 -
Oohoo!! Seems like we solved a good problem and helped many others.
Sharing the link to this project if anyone of you is interested.
https://floydimus.prismo.net/Floydi...
Good start to Monday morning it seems.
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Recently covered pointers in class. I know how to use them/Have an understanding of what they do, but why would I need to use a pointer in the first place? What problem would need to be solved through the use of pointers?15
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The mother of my partner sent to us an email complaining that our home is too dirty...
We solved the problem adding a new spam filter.3 -
When a customer question gets escalated all the way to the dev team when it could have easily been solved if those escalating the issue had bothered to use the site themselves
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All I'm saying is that if we want speech completely locked down on all social media platforms, simply hire the StackOverflow mods and the problem is solved. Nobody will be able to post anything unless the mods believe it's worthwhile for everyone to read and respond to.
That's it. That's the rant.4 -
I hate when I'm getting in my flow and everything starts clicking, but I have to stop to go do something else. It sucks having something almost completely solved but not having enough time to finish it.1
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My life as a web developer changed forever when I realized that 80% of my layout problems can be solved by adding "display: flex;" to literally everything in sight.1
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Fuck me ... Redesigned my website ( www.whatkeptmefrom.com ) within the day and solved a bug with the date pagination while I was at it 😄 time for a beer 😍5
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When I think "the fundamental problem", the closest thing that comes to my mind is "unsolvable problem". P =/!= NP is a fundamental problem, the theory of everything is a fundamental problem.
But we actually solved at least one such problem – the fundamental problem of cryptography.
The problem was "how to establish a secure connection over a non-secure channel?" Like you can't exchange the key, it'll be exposed by definition.
We solved it with a simple yet brilliant solution of asymmetrical cypher, that thing with public and private keys.
It's fascinating to think that people died in WW2 over this, there were special operations to deliver fresh deciphering keys securely and now SSH and HTTPS are no-brainers that literally everyone use.10 -
Just solved this riddle hidden in my friend's agency homepage. www.webfactory.ie. I am not looking for a job myself, but the riddle was fun anyways (despite short).
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Solved a problem while maintaining backward compatibility using reflection... Then i had to spend half an hour to justify using reflection.
Reflection is your friend (just don't overuse it)3 -
Solved one great issue today, one that was holding back the launching of my newest project. Laughed pretty hard when I did it, but the most special about solving it was when my dad saw the result and said "congrats son, it's perfect!"
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That big lie we tell others.. "Let me just finish something here..." (4 bugs solved, 10 new ones and 2h later) "shit!!! I'll be right there!!! Let me just...."1
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I posted on StackOverflow, it didn’t get downvoted or marked as duplicate, and I received a useful answer that solved my problem. Am I dreaming?5
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My manager believes every bug can be solved by adding a thousand printf(s) and checking which part of the code isn't being hit. How do I politely tell him to get his shit straight? 😂😂😂8
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That bad feeling when you leave a project aside for a few weeks and then when you finally decide to continue it you don't understand the code you wrote...
I'm searching a solution for something I already solved once again. FUCK!5 -
Tech interview prep on leetCode... I solved this but wanted to read the optimal solution. I check the Solution page..... 😟 🙁 ☹️ 😣 😖 😖 😫 😩 😩 😦 😧 😮 😬 😬 😵
https://leetcode.com/problems/...
The way I solved it, basically just did a merge of the 2 lists as is iterates thru them...
Ialright i need a break after i try to understand this...
btw, tech/CS workers, when you approach a real problem do you think like this? Solve the problems in Big O and math symbols?
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Just solved a bug that was plaguing me for a week straight. Turns out I re-instantiated an Arraylist after adding all the elements to it. For no apparent reason. Face fucking palm1
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Idea for weekly if you need some:
What's the most interesting problem you encountered/solved?
❤ @dfox7 -
Since learning how to program, I have started to see the world in a different way. The algorithmic and Mathematical way of approaching computing problems I have adapted to approach all of my problems. Everything is just a problem that can be solved by taking a logical approach!
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Hi Guys,
Has anyone used websockets in their projects?
Want to know what problem did it solved and what kind of project it was ?16 -
Why is fucking Chrome still not able to auto-hyphenate on Windows desktop?! Yeah I know the dictionaries, OS integration yadda yadda, BUT:
1) TeX did this 40 years ago, this is a solved problem in CS!
2) Firefox is a 3rd party application in Windows, just like Chrome, and can auto-hyphenate!2 -
Solved my first sizeable bug ever.. The Euphoria is priceless .. I better enjoy this till team mates say this is another normal bug..
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Your "feature" just became my problem. Your "great idea" is now my migraine. What you did in 300 lines, another team was already doing in 5.
The next time you `brew install...` on your laptop, you should fucking think that the infra team has to install those dependencies, on every server, too.
In less time than it took you to create your code, I could have given you several functions to call. I could have saved all of us weeks of work. Fucking ask cross-team before you cowboy code your next big idea please.
Got a problem you need to be solved, somebody else probably solved it, just fucking ask.6 -
Just had a big breakthrough on my personal project, solved a problem I've been working on and off on for the past year or two.
Feels good man! No other way I'd want to be spending my Friday night :)
Anyone else get that good feeling from solving a hard problem you're stuck on?4 -
Why does the image compression on here suck so bad? It's especially bad if you try to post text. Just go and buy pied piper and your problems are solved.4
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Yesterday we were four developers working together on a bug. What do you call it? Quad programming?
Anyway, we solved it!4 -
Well, i solved a pretty hard problem I had today with Firebase and a pretty tricky data model, so I guess I am pretty excited to have solved that problem right now!
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!rant
Just learned a new thing today. This was on the Gophers Slack Channel
Every problem in software development can be solved with another layer of abstraction
Corollary: for every layer of abstraction, you create n! more problems.
Reference: https://gophers.slack.com/archives/... -
Way too much stuff is having a Y2K type date error in 2020! So frustrating that people did not even think 10 years ahead. All this stuff is solved already and not implementing it well is just lazy.6
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Think I finally figured out a clean way to get the data I need out of the system. The data format has it's origins in what was practical for computers in the 1960s. TGIF - I'll enjoy believing I've solved it all the way until monday.
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When you're working on a project and and face a task you solved like 1000 times before so you decide to bring some fresh wind and implement a fancy design pattern... and it works with the first compile!! *badass meme* ( someone send me one I dont have)1
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I took half an afternoon to realize that the complex problem I was facing could be solved just by changing a variable's name for another one that would do the trick.
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My favorite thing is searching a problem on Stack Overflow, and the only example you find was solved by fixing a simple syntax error.
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I need ideas for a 10 hour hackathon I'm about to have on this flight guys! What problem can be solved without the internet?4
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Build this as a monolith, microservices are to complicated..
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I just solved (high level with a bit of POC) a problem that has been an issue for my team for over a year...
Not sure how I should feel...2 -
I get so high on the feeling of relief when I find out that a problem with my program could be solved so easily.
Right now I am high.1 -
How to become the favourite client among your app devs in two simple steps
1 - raise a support ticket, stating that it really needs to be solved, the sooner the better, but omit any ids/names in the description.
2 - leave for a vacation, without any way to contact you.1 -
I jumped in to help a colleague, thinking that he's unable to solve it and that I'm a little superman. He solved it before me, more concise and better.
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!rant
For the first time, I solved a pretty serious optimisation problem in our codebase without any external input. It's a little thing, but small victories like this are part of what makes the job so much fun for me.
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So there's one guy working on a Linux machine (everyone else is on a Mac) and it always caused problems because it kept freezing/crashing.
now he's going to get a Mac
turned out there was no swap assigned
Swap - Used: 0 Free: 0 Total: 0
At least the mystery has been solved5 -
Feeling like a boss! 😎
Long story short:
Solved a formating issue in a program at work by using ancii code 32.
Even my team lead didn't think of that solution!4 -
today:
Committed my code for Code review
solved 23 Merged Conflicts
Fixed 65 Load project Error.
Fixed another 8 Compiler errors because of mistake made in Merge conflict.
I wanted to do coding today... I really do..2 -
I’ve had meetings specifically for team A’s problems. Team B gets invited to assist. Within ten minutes the meeting was all about team B and none of team A’s problems were solved. “Team B” is notorious for hijacking meetings. I’m not a psychologist. I don’t feel qualified to speculate about WHY they do this...2
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People rant about missing semicolon which can be easily solved by switching to a better IDE. And here I am working on a language in which statement terminates with Dot(.) Which is so easy to miss. And worst part is that I can't change IDE.1
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So I asked a question on Stackoverflow. I got my answer and solved my problem, it improved my reputation to 15 (can upvote and post comments). But I have also got a question ban now as my questions were not good enough 🤷🏻♂️2
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What are the common problems need to be solved by devs during full stack web development?
My problem is optimisation. -
Dividing currency values across new invoices results in ball aching rounding issues.
Finally solved it and there's no one around to high five.3 -
Finally solved the most elusive bug I have ever encountered.
It only occurred in chrome and the reason I could never recreate it is because it didn't happen when developer tools was open WTF!
Try solving an apparent JS bug without your console - I've never been this happy/relieved!2 -
As👏F-ing👏Usual👏...
I have wasted a whole day of productivity to an issue that was solved with 1 keypress7 -
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.1 -
Someone at my work actually got a rubber duck and him talking to this duck (himself) is really annoying at one point someone got over there and solved problem for him lol seriously, who actually says it out loud?3
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I've solved hard problems before, and used languages other than Java, but for some reason I don't know how to start using SQL. I couldn't find a SQL IDE. Any suggestions on how to start working with SQL on a Linux computer?6
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Anyone doing any VR/AR work for their company and can share (without mentioning the company) what they are doing with it---i.e. business problem being solved and how it's being solved?
Feels like there's a lot of hype here and the few niche applications of it (which are great) are getting the press.
But, maybe there's worthy work going on in the trenches that I'm unfamiliar with.12 -
Not the most exciting bug i solved but i was very happy when i solved it!
we were working on a java game for a school project. Te game itself consists of a maze so we used a double array maze[][] to store all the Tiles of the maze. to move players around we used x and y coordinates. When we started playing we couldn't figure out why we could move through walls and go in weird directions. and finally it hit me,
java uses [y][x] , and mathematics uses (x,y)2 -
This low-level computer problems, that can only be solved by your cat walking over your keyboard while either finding the solution or blowing up everything.
How do you non-cat-owning guys solve such a problem?1 -
That moment when you've been investigating one particular bug, then stumble upon the cause and fix for another bug from 6 months ago that had left your vendor stumped...
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I bought lots of books for writing old syntax on systems that no longer exists that solved problems that will never be in scope again.
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In a Computer Systems class, we had a project to debug and buffer-overflow a program written in x86 Assembly. There were 2 mandatory problems we had to figure out, but the teacher told us there were 6 in total that can be solved. Not only did I complete all 6 on the next day (the project was due 2 weeks from then), I also noticed something looked weird in the code, so I investigated and found a hidden 7th problem and solved that too. Only one in the class to do so, and the teacher said I was the best student in any of her classes this year.
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User: "help pls! Cant login! Works on my notebook but not on the clients"
Me: "Sure. Have you tried entering your username and password?"
*finally resets password. Problem solved*
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I have the impression that my BTRFS is freezing sometimes. Let me look for the technical reason...
[...searching and reading...]
I found! It was made by Oracle. Mystery solved.2 -
I have used a lot of different languages and built solutions or solved problems that others can't. I am to be able to pick up new things quickly and start using them.
Does that make me a generalist or a specialist (in problem solving)?6 -
Team had to solve a ticket from QA...we had no idea how long it would take so we estimated 6 man-days to fix it (being optimistic). After 2 days we had found the issue which had already been solved on another branch... time well spent and thank you for merging!!! Fuck you!3
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I realised that I need to buy a rubber duckie as most of my problems were solved after talking with myself.
Devrant's duck are not pimpish enough. Post pictures of the pimpiest ducks you have seen so I'll have an idea what to search for.3 -
This happened today !
Mom : Son, there is a python sleeping at the door, I need some help.
Me : Don't worry mom, I have anaconda, type conda activate and then python run. Matter is solved.
Mom : Anaconda ?? 🙄
Meaanwhile Me : Ohh shit, I need to rest 🤣2 -
I've recently managed to install Linux on my laptop (after endless GPU-related errors solved by a BIOS update) and have been using it since (kept Windows only for gaming). Booting into Windows after one month feels like it's gonna make my laptop explode slowly2
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The 20 minute rule:
If you are unsure about a problem, you MUST spend 20 minutes trying to solve it yourself. If you havent solved it in those 20 minutes, you MUST ask someone for help.
Never tried this in practice but it sounds decent in theory. 2 heads are usually better than 12 -
Cleaning the white board after a problem is solved is still the 2nd most satisfying thing. Closing chrome tabs is still 1st2
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Does anyone else miss the days when just jQuery solved all of our problems? Pretty sure the internet forgot what simplicity was.5
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When during the holidays you're working from home and take a break to take part to a heavy Italian family lunch and drink so much that suddenly all bugs get solved by themselves... magic handmade wine! Cheers!3
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2X Tickets solved by rebooting the server after .Net Installation.
Client Default answer to: "Did you turn it off and on again?"
Always silence until you force the reboot after an server check and analysis.2 -
The mini heart attack when I touched my external hdd and didn't feel any vibrations as usual and then couldn't ssh into the pi it was connected to. I was ready for the worst, but a restart solved it4
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Best tip for getting unstuck? If it's after your usual leaving time, GO HOME.
So many times I solved the problem right away the next morning. Only wish I followed my own advice more often... -
Learning Angular 2 through the tutorial in the official documentation. The white background of the website really fucked up my eyes. Solved it by writing custom css but I wonder how people use light color in their editors. It's really tiring.2
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import classNames from "classnames";
imagine installing, importing, and using a package that is solved quite literally by built in parts of the language
yawn
i grow weary7 -
!rant
That feeling you get when you solve one quirky bug and it happens to also solve a different one that's plagued you for days.2 -
I recently solved a ticket: 'make buttons on mobile more mobile-like'
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I think my PM is happy when he doesnt see me, because I only come to him when we have a problem cant be solved by coding "a few" lines.
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[on any forum hosting the very question that keeps you awake at night] I'll come back to explain how it was solved!
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Got a colleague here who is very competitive. If I say that "I've got 90% test coverage", he'd say he's got 95. If I solve something and share it to him, he'd go to the boss and tell that he's the one who solved it. 😳2
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Solved django recruitment tests. Rejected because they seek someone who know django and I said I don’t know django cause I was using raw python, sql and writing async apps.
What I can say ? Thanks, lol3 -
Yesterday I wasted 2 hours because a bug in EF Core (https://devrant.com/rants/2323794/...)
Today I wasted another 2 hours because of a bug in Android Studio 3.5.2, which had a report only available in AS 3.6-alpha channel.
Dev life is wonderful huh?
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Ok, for what I saw here, many issues with management can be solved the most bureaucratic, ass-covering way possible – get that in writing and mention it when resulting issues come afloat.1
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One QA guy ... I solved one ticket out of two. He doesn't want to pass it because the other one is still unfixed.
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Just do something else. I can only rack my brain on the same problem for so long before it's pointless. As one of my professors often says "I've solved more coding problems in the shower than I ever have in front of a computer.1
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Today I made some tests with flutter, I really liked it :)
What I didn't like was the time that Android studio takes to load, the memory it uses, and the time of gradle builds. I'll be using nvim, so, half of the problems are solved.2 -
I had network problems.. and you know.. no shit.. the problem solve thing which might actually be just a for loop solved it.2
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To keep the search results of a self build webshop after browsing and returning after searching, my client had "the solution" to make the product page picture-in-picture. He's a self acclaimed tech and seo expert.
In the end I solved it with pushstates1 -
TGIF... And once again solved another issue brought up by another dev by just reading the javadocs on the problematic Spring annotation
How senior do you need to be to finally learn the first step to solving most problems is to RTFM....1 -
Damn I left work on Friday afternoon with an unsolved problem. I actually solved it on my way home but forgot to make a note so this is now the only thing I can think of. What a beautiful weekend.
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It is not a good morning if the project leader comes saying "good morning". The PL greeting is the omen of a problem (which, as always, need to be solved ASAP)
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Is anybody else bothered by Slack? The way they handle account management and channels bothers me. It solved a problem that didn't exist, and now it has become this ecosystem so many people/organizations are over reliant on.
I feel like AIM had better features in the early 00's.1 -
I just got a necromancer badge for an answer to my own question on SO.
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yesterday i tried prayer to remove the bug, after 10 hours i was lead to the path which solved it
might your time 😁1 -
QA. Could you please help me solve this issue?
Dev. That's Server side, nothing to do with me! *proceeds to signal issue as 'solved'* -
When your third party IIS application evaluates the X Y coordinates from an input type of image and IE10+ make them as floats where every other browsers just does int. Hours of debugging lost. Solved by using a meta tag to emulate IE9.1
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Why did it take the JS community so long to understand that they are ultimately coding UI apps; and did not follow existing, solved GUI patterns (game loop style, one way data binding etc.) until recently? Any thoughts?
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Today I'm really happy!! Solved a problem I was stuck with for past two days and I had almost believed there's no way I'll be able to solve it any time soon.
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Last year we had a meeting to discuss lessening the frequency of meetings and let people work more of the day. After a three hours, it was decided that nothing was getting solved, resulting in three more meetings to be added to the calendar to follow up.
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Man, at the rate I'm going, I'll have to put a bug I found back in April on my new years resolution list...
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Going to ruin your day ,like my boss did with mine.
What does the journal say after the script ended.
SHELLlock solved the Case -
I asked a question on StackOverflow for the first time since none of the previous answers solved my issue. Nobody is answering. Should I be scared?4
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How to grow in a start up as a developer?
For sure, the scale is low. Product is easy to understand. How to grow so that I can proudly say that I solved this business problem or at least sound like I solved something good?2 -
I kinda hate that I don't get any use out regex at work (I work with integrations). Gotta love that feeling when something that would have taken 10+ lines to solve without regex can be solved on 1 line with.3
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Sweet merciful crab. Solved. Now I must never ever touch the code again because I barely understand what I did to fix it...1
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I'm developing an add-on to management a real estate and I was almost 2 months trying to solve how to reconciliate accountant accounts depending on the owner, which tax resolution could be variant, after many nights and tears today I've solved it in less than 2 hours. 😒🤯1
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When C output questions to an Interview seem like an infinite loop,
But end up simply getting solved on the nth iteration.
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I've been struggling with the network I set up for my bachelor thesis for weeks. Today I figured out it was all caused by STP which disabled connections that I tried to use. Disabling STP solved all my problems.
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I wonder how programmers who wrote Google (the search engine) solved errors in code without Google (again, the search engine)5
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When you change three lines in a PR with 100 changes that breaks the whole functionality, and it starts working flawlessly 😕 seems like testing PR before merge could have solved the doomsday
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It's about time we speak of enlightenment. Abide by it and all your problems will be solved--except your FUCKING code.2
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Linux needs a KBI. That driver recompilation thing when upgrading a minor kernel version is so annoying. Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, BSDs had already solved this in the early 2000s.2
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Building custom software for a State project and there's nothing better than dealing with the bureaucracy of emailing 1500 people only for them to email 1200 people when if you could just sit down with one of their programmers the issue would be solved in 20 minutes.
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Yesterday when I came into the office my laptop (in a workstation) could not connect to the internet because of bad ip config. The auto configuration just didn't work...
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Solved a seeder issue this morning that has been plaguing me since Sunday. Glad to know I just hadn't refreshed composer, and my code was functional 😥
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Anyone ever get to the point where they solved the same problem before
Know that plugging at it will see the problem fixed but it's such an infrequent problem and one that should have had a permanent fix so long ago that they just don't want to ?2 -
debian:jessie has lot many old libraries that cause memory leaks, which gets solved in future releases of these libraries. Yet, debian fails to accommodate these new releases. They do this to make jessie 'stable' they say. I am quite curious if these instabilities faced is what they call stability. Example: glib
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Had to do something with Xcode for a while now. After 2 hours my tolerance for strange errors, which are solved with cleaning build folder or closing/re-opening the IDE, is used up for the next 10 years...
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Working on an automated deployment process as an aged programmer is tough! So I go outside feed the pigs, have a chat with them.
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A guy asked me today why his code wont run and it didnt even have a single ; or endl; i straight up ignored the guy later he was all hyped he told me that the huge bug had beeb not using ; this noob literally taught he solved some huge bug....4
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Friday afternoon.
Close to finish a Task that took quite some time and research.
Loose connection to Server.Try some stuff.. Eh, okay restart.
Can't login. Windows account is banned. WTF?
Now I have to spend the whole weekend with this close to be solved problem in my head.. -
TL;DR
Sticky notification icon on Xiaomi MIUI 12 Android 11 is soooooo annoying.
https://xiaomi.eu/community/...
I made a video, hope that's also ok:
https://youtu.be/eEaJ3TjMZHk2
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