Divide by zero Memes

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It Does Raise An Exception

Programming Python Debugging Testing

10 days ago 125.5K views 0 shares

It Does Raise An Exception

The evolution of error handling, as told by Pooh: First panel: Regular Pooh with raise Exception("An error occured.") - the coding equivalent of saying "something broke" and walking away. Second panel: Fancy Pooh with raise ValueError("Invalid use...") - now we're being specific, like wearing a tuxedo to tell someone they screwed up. Third panel: Demonic Pooh with 1/0 - the chaotic evil approach. Why throw an exception when you can just divide by zero and watch the world burn? Pure malevolence disguised as code. The kind of thing that makes senior devs wake up in cold sweats.

Dividing By Almost Zero: A Mathematical Loophole

Math Algorithms Programming Debugging

20 days ago 149.0K views 0 shares

Dividing By Almost Zero: A Mathematical Loophole

When you can't divide by zero, but 0.0000000000000001 is basically the same thing, right? This dev is like "I'm not breaking math, I'm just... bending it a little." The classic programmer solution: if the rules say you can't do something, just find the closest loophole. It's the computational equivalent of "I'm not touching you" but with numbers that would make mathematicians wake up in cold sweats. And the best part? It probably works... until it doesn't, and then you get to spend three days debugging why your rotation calculations are off by exactly one pixel in very specific scenarios.