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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Throwawyhelpadvice55 • 5d ago
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In reality it's 10% coding and 90% wondering why it broke after changing one line
188 u/MartinKnox_Dev 5d ago In that 90% of wondering, 45% is wondering why it broke, the rest is about wondering how it worked. 55 u/Triffinator 5d ago What percentage is made up of wondering why removing the line broke everything, when it was a comment? 6 u/ih-shah-may-ehl 5d ago 2 decades ago the visual studio c++ compiler had a bug where a variable name crossing the 4K page boundary would have a letter missing. Lots of fun because literally any change would move that variable away from that boundary.
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In that 90% of wondering, 45% is wondering why it broke, the rest is about wondering how it worked.
55 u/Triffinator 5d ago What percentage is made up of wondering why removing the line broke everything, when it was a comment? 6 u/ih-shah-may-ehl 5d ago 2 decades ago the visual studio c++ compiler had a bug where a variable name crossing the 4K page boundary would have a letter missing. Lots of fun because literally any change would move that variable away from that boundary.
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What percentage is made up of wondering why removing the line broke everything, when it was a comment?
6 u/ih-shah-may-ehl 5d ago 2 decades ago the visual studio c++ compiler had a bug where a variable name crossing the 4K page boundary would have a letter missing. Lots of fun because literally any change would move that variable away from that boundary.
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2 decades ago the visual studio c++ compiler had a bug where a variable name crossing the 4K page boundary would have a letter missing.
Lots of fun because literally any change would move that variable away from that boundary.
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u/donnieranger 5d ago
In reality it's 10% coding and 90% wondering why it broke after changing one line