No Need To Thank Me

Content rscience Posted by uMAC-n-CHZ 3h The more biotech science you know, the less you fear GMO crops, study finds Genetic Literacy Project Psychology ell20 3h The more you understand science, the less you're afraid of the products of science. Who knew. 4 1.2k Reply DeathLeopard 2h With computer software it's the other way around. 4 549

Content Me: Thinks I finished a big project Bug that crashes the whole program: Bonjour

Ah, the sacred tomes of legacy code! A stack of books with the spine message "THESE BOOKS ARE HERE FOR AN ESSENTIAL STRUCTURAL PURPOSE. THEY ARE NOT FOR SALE." is basically the perfect metaphor for that 15-year-old codebase nobody understands but everyone's terrified to touch. Just like these books holding up some mysterious shelf, that spaghetti code written by a developer who left in 2008 is somehow keeping your entire production system from collapsing. Touch it? Refactor it? Don't be ridiculous! It's not meant to be understood—it's meant to be structural . The irony is delicious. We spend years learning clean code principles only to worship at the altar of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" when faced with the ancient scripts. The documentation? Oh, that left with Dave from Engineering years ago.

The eternal paradox of being a programmer: telling people you can't fix their printer, then fixing it anyway because of course you can. It's like saying you're not a doctor while performing open-heart surgery with a Swiss Army knife. The truth is, we've all mastered the arcane ritual of turning it off and on again—a skill mysteriously absent from 90% of the human population. Printers specifically exist in a quantum state of both working and not working until observed by someone with technical knowledge, at which point they suddenly behave perfectly.

Nothing triggers programmer paranoia quite like unsaved code. That single keystroke combination stands between you and digital oblivion. Write three lines of code? Better smash Ctrl+S seventeen times just to be sure. The IDE says it's saved? Don't believe its lies. That little asterisk next to your file name is giving you anxiety. Your fingers have probably worn down the S key more than any other on your keyboard. Trust issues with technology are real - especially when you've been burned by that one time your machine crashed and took your unsaved masterpiece with it. Now you're Tom, frantically beating Jerry (your save button) into submission after every semicolon.

Content Reading documentation in 10 min and then coding the solution Coding first and then debugging it for 10 hours