The Throne Of Debugging

The classic "let me solve this with threads" syndrome that haunts our industry. It's like watching someone try to untangle Christmas lights by adding more Christmas lights to the mix. Multithreading: the only programming solution that multiplies your problems with mathematical precision. One problem becomes two, then four, then eight—exponential regret growth! The worst part? That smug "I know!" moment before everything falls apart. It's the computational equivalent of saying "hold my beer" right before attempting a backflip off a roof.

The ultimate developer fitness plan doesn't exi— Imagine turning your coding incompetence into physical excellence. One pushup per error? Six months later you're basically a Greek god while your code is still a dumpster fire. The best part? The more terrible you are at programming, the better your gains. Finally, a workout routine that rewards failure! Junior devs would be bench pressing cars while senior devs remain scrawny because they actually know what they're doing. The ultimate irony of software development.

Whoever made this deserves a promotion and a pay cut simultaneously. It's a visual pun on programming control structures that's painfully accurate: The top left shows a bunch of Ethernet cables daisy-chained together - just like how if/else if/else if/else chains create a messy sequence of conditions. The top right is an actual USB switch - a perfect representation of a switch statement that elegantly handles multiple cases. And that power strip at the bottom? It's looped back on itself, creating an infinite power loop - exactly what happens with while(true) - an infinite loop that will keep running until your CPU begs for mercy or someone trips over the cord. I've written this bug at least 17 times in my career. My CPU still hasn't forgiven me.

The MGM lion is the perfect mascot for web development. On the frontend, you've got this majestic, polished beast roaring confidently at users. Flip to the backend and it's just some poor exhausted dev sprawled across a table with their code running upside down and backwards. The backend is where dreams and clean architecture go to die, but hey—at least the users get to see a pretty lion! Ten years in the industry and I still can't tell if I'm the lion or the guy face-planted on the keyboard. Probably depends on the sprint.

Ah, the pinnacle of frontend design! Nothing says "we care about user experience" quite like a date picker that requires you to assemble your birthday like a ransom note cut from different magazines. The month selector is having an existential crisis with "j", "nov", and "febr" trying to coexist with "octo", "em", and "uly". Meanwhile, the day field defaulted to zero because apparently being born on the 0th day of the month is totally a thing now. And let's not forget the year 1900 - perfect for all those 124-year-old users filling out your form. This is what happens when you tell the intern "just make it work" without code review.

Content 57 This likely has to do with the issue addressed here: CSS overflow-x: visible; and overflow-: hidden; causing scrollbar issue In short, when using visible for either overflow-x or overflow-y and something other than visible for the other, the visible value is interpreted as auto. Share Edit Follow edited May 23, 2017 at 10:29 Community Bot 1 01 answered Jun 10, 2013 at 9:02 Sprintstar 8.058 06 39 51 48 is this a bug that browser vendors should fix or spec by W3C? Because it's awful... - ProblemsOfSumit Oct 4, 2013 at 10:17 26 2.5 years later and this bug still exists - Daniel Kobe Apr 16, 2016 at 8:06 FF 52 and this still happens. add one more year... - Sebastianb Jul 31, 2017 at 19:22 5 FF 57, here too - fedetibaldo Nov 30, 2017 at 18:10 19 Guess which issue still exists at the end of 2018... facepalm - Vitalii Romaniv Dec 12, 2018 at 9:54 5 This bug is still haunting my projects - ApplePearPerson May 22, 2019 at 14:18 4 Still a bug.... FF72 can't believe they haven't fixed that one yet! - benitek Feb 2, 2020 at 16:05 26 2020 still the same... - Eduard Fedoruk Mar 30, 2020 at 15:31 24 2021 and this hits harder than covid - Sasa Sijak Jan 14, 2021 at 8:55 13 I'm from the future. It's 2045, the issue still exists - Roudy Tarabay Apr 15, 2021 at 10:10 12 2022 just knocked in and the issue still exists.: - Deepak Yadav Dec 31, 2021 at 19:10 2 This is legit unacceptable! - Ben Racicot Sep 19, 2022 at 14:26 5 10 days till 2023 and still: I lost almost a full day trying to figure out why my CSS does not work as expected... - BlaM Dec 21, 2022 at 16:42 BlaM Glad to still be helping, ten years later :) - Sprintstar Dec 22, 2022 at 16:30 2 The cvcle continues. . - Nicholas Aponte May 3, 2023 at 17:15 2 September 2023 and we still have this behavior - Dayron Gallardo Sep 12, 2023 at 15:42 2 I'm from 2024 and we still have it - Jiren Jan 30 at 16:04