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The ENTIRE TRAGIC EXISTENCE of a programmer summed up in one image! 😭 We start as innocent babes, then BOOM—middle age hits and we're screaming "I DON'T KNOW WHY THIS CODE ISN'T WORKING!" while pulling our hair out. Then the ULTIMATE BETRAYAL happens! Just when we finally get our code working, we have absolutely NO IDEA why it's working! And then we DIE. That's it. That's the whole programmer lifecycle. No glory, no understanding—just confusion from cradle to grave! The yellow line of despair just keeps plummeting downward like our will to live during a production outage!

Compiler warnings? What compiler warnings? The code runs, doesn't it? That's the unspoken mantra of developers pushing to production. The painful truth is that most of us treat "0 errors : 5678 warnings" exactly the same as "0 errors : 0 warnings" — ship it and let future-you deal with the technical debt! Why fix what technically isn't broken? The compiler is clearly being dramatic.

Content Cycles in family tree software Asked 12 years, 7 months ago Modified 8 years, 5 months ago Viewed 286k times 1590 votes Locked. This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions. I am the developer of some family tree software (written in C and Qt). I had no problems until one of my customers mailed me a bug report. The problem is that the customer has two children with their own daughter, and, as a result, he can't use my software because of errors. Those errors are the result of my various assertions and invariants about the family graph being processed (for example, after walking a cycle, the program states that X can't be both father and grandfather of Y). How can I resolve those errors without removing all data assertions? C graph cycle assertions family-tree

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