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Content The one true JavaScript exception handler. ;) try something catch(e) window.location.href "http:stackoverflow.comsearch?qjs" e.message;

The most truthful breakdown of a developer's workday ever created. Only 1% actual coding? Sounds about right. The other 99% is just the supporting cast for those rare moments when you actually write a line of code that works. That 5% StackOverflow figure is suspiciously low though. Either the author is a genius or they're counting it as part of "googling errors" to hide their shame. And let's be honest, that 9% of synchronized screen-staring with colleagues is just the modern version of a tribal rain dance hoping the bug will magically disappear. The real propaganda here is that coffee only gets 15%. In reality, the entire pie chart should be floating in a sea of caffeine.

Developers trying to share Stack Overflow solutions be like: HTTP 301 - PERMANENTLY REDIRECTED to some random X post with 47 popup ads and a paywall. Remember when Twitter links actually worked? Now our code reviews look like archaeological digs through API deprecation notices just to find that one regex snippet someone shared in 2019. The ultimate 404 of productivity.

The eternal mystery of copy-paste programming: you copied it exactly the same, yet somehow it refuses to work. Is it invisible whitespace? A missing semicolon? Or perhaps the teacher deliberately included a subtle trap to catch the copy-cats? That confused cat stare perfectly captures the existential crisis of staring at identical code that somehow produces different results. The digital equivalent of copying someone's test answers only to discover you've both failed but in completely different ways.

Content 2 Answers Active Oldest Votes Use shuf with the -n option as shown below, to get N random lines: 541 shuf -n N input output share improve this answer follow edited Jun 16 '16 at 20:48 DomainsFeatured 1,234 0 1 0 18 29 answered Feb 25 '13 at 11:03 dogbane 226k 69 351 388 35 This should be the accepted answer. Wow, shuf is sooo fast. - picking 10000 random lines from a textile with 40000 lines is instant. Trying to use 'sort -R' took so long I just CTRL-C it - carpii Jul 3 '15 at 20:10 2 If you just need a random set of lines, not in a random order, then shuf is very inefficient (for big file): better is to do reservoir sampling, as in this answer. - petrelharp Sep 6 '15 at 23:24 4 neither shuf nor sort -R are available for mac OSX. any suggestions? - Tom Smith Oct 6 '15 at 10:06 33 TomSmith On Mac OSX, if you are using Homebrew, you can get shuf or GNU sort by installing coreutils . More info here: apple.stackexchange.comquestions142860install-shuf-on-os-x - nofinator Oct 8 '15 at 13:11 7 shuf is fantastic. I tried in on a 78 Billion line text file and it did the job in less than 1 minute. - Ash Jan 19 '16 at 812 7 shuf is fantastic. I tried in on a 78 Billion line text file and it did the job in less than 1 minute. - Ash Jan 19 '16 at 8:13 78 Billion line text file The WHAT

The classic interview trap: "Can you work under pressure?" Sure, you say with a smile, blissfully unaware of the apocalyptic codebase awaiting you. Fast-forward three months and you're a shell of your former self, surviving on caffeine and Stack Overflow prayers, debugging legacy code written by someone who clearly hated humanity. The transformation from optimistic candidate to battle-scarred veteran is complete. Your IDE has seen things no debugger should ever witness.