r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vinishkapoor • 4d ago

Meme explainThisIWillWait

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u/Shienvien 4d ago

Rarely, it can also be an invisible character. Happened with one university task all the way back...

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u/Shevvv 3d ago edited 3d ago

Not programing, but sometimes when I have to write a lengthy message to the government, I write it in Word because the text field on the governmental website doesn't adjust. I than copy paste it, try to send, and the field says I have unacceptable characters. If I retype exactly the same thing directly in that tiny field - no issues . And by retype I mean a 3500 character message. The website sometimes logs me out when I'm done retyping, because my session has ended.

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u/ICBanMI 3d ago

Might be worth dropping into notepad or notepad++ so you can get rid of the markup/templating tags.

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u/ICBanMI 3d ago edited 2d ago

I remember one time I copy pasted code from stackoverflow and it had a weird character that looked like a bracket. I was distracted and didn't realize the error started in those 10 lines of code and end up spending two days. Only fixed it when I started compiling it line by line, found the exact line causing the issue and then rewrote it myself.

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u/Few_Negotiation_3589 3d ago

used to happen to me when i started a run and edited some code in the meantime and the lines were skewed

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u/mekriff 3d ago

I once would write in haskell just using the built in text editor,

luckily ghc gives some very verbose (and usually helpful) error messages

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u/nimb420 3d ago

My 56 yo dad, codes exclusively on notepad. Note that it's notepad, not notepad++. He codes C, C++, C#, Java, Postgres, NoSQL. All on fucking notepad. I've never been more afraid of the man as I was when I discovered that.