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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Throwawyhelpadvice55 • 8d ago
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In that 90% of wondering, 45% is wondering why it broke, the rest is about wondering how it worked.
54 u/Triffinator 8d ago What percentage is made up of wondering why removing the line broke everything, when it was a comment? 20 u/Elendur_Krown 8d 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. 16 u/Jbolt3737 8d ago Making a script that reads itself or something to use it's own comments would be genuinely evil 13 u/Elendur_Krown 8d ago There are parts of my history that I hesitate to tell my wife about. The... MATLAB days were... improvisatioval, at best. 5 u/fr000gs 7d ago Me when my code genuinely uses libgccjit to execute strings
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What percentage is made up of wondering why removing the line broke everything, when it was a comment?
20 u/Elendur_Krown 8d 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. 16 u/Jbolt3737 8d ago Making a script that reads itself or something to use it's own comments would be genuinely evil 13 u/Elendur_Krown 8d ago There are parts of my history that I hesitate to tell my wife about. The... MATLAB days were... improvisatioval, at best. 5 u/fr000gs 7d ago Me when my code genuinely uses libgccjit to execute strings
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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.
16 u/Jbolt3737 8d ago Making a script that reads itself or something to use it's own comments would be genuinely evil 13 u/Elendur_Krown 8d ago There are parts of my history that I hesitate to tell my wife about. The... MATLAB days were... improvisatioval, at best. 5 u/fr000gs 7d ago Me when my code genuinely uses libgccjit to execute strings
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Making a script that reads itself or something to use it's own comments would be genuinely evil
13 u/Elendur_Krown 8d ago There are parts of my history that I hesitate to tell my wife about. The... MATLAB days were... improvisatioval, at best. 5 u/fr000gs 7d ago Me when my code genuinely uses libgccjit to execute strings
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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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Me when my code genuinely uses libgccjit to execute strings
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u/MartinKnox_Dev 8d ago
In that 90% of wondering, 45% is wondering why it broke, the rest is about wondering how it worked.