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Coding Copy Paste 101

StackOverflow Webdev Programming Debugging

2 days ago 68.7K views 0 shares

Coding Copy Paste 101

OH. MY. GOD. That vintage car with CHANDELIERS for headlights is the MOST DRAMATIC representation of our coding lives! 💅 You spend 6 hours writing a gorgeous algorithm only for it to crash spectacularly, so what do you do? Slap some random Stack Overflow solution on it that has NO BUSINESS working but somehow DOES?! The coding equivalent of attaching fancy chandeliers to a Cadillac and driving away like it's TOTALLY NORMAL. Your code might look ridiculous, but honey, if it passes QA, it SHIPS! Just don't look at the commit history... that's where the REAL horror show lives.

Why Can't It Convert Automatically?

Csharp Programming Debugging

1 month ago 68.1K views 0 shares

Why Can't It Convert Automatically?

C# compiler: "You can't convert char to string." Me, reaching for my trusty .ToString() method like it's a hall pass: "Not to worry. I have a permit." The permit? Just the same damn method I've been slapping on every object since 2002. Six years of software architecture experience and I'm still solving problems by mindlessly appending .ToString() like it's duct tape for code. Works every time until it doesn't.