How To Catch A Programmer

THE AUDACITY of this confession is sending me into orbit! 💀 Fake it till you make it? More like fake it till they PROMOTE you for it! The sheer DRAMA of frantically Googling "how to fix syntax errors" while maintaining a poker face deserves an Oscar! And that promotion? HONEY, they're literally paying extra for the theatrical performance of you spewing technical word salad while internally screaming! The true masterpiece is mastering the art of confidently nodding while having absolutely no idea what's happening. We're not developers - we're PROFESSIONAL PANIC CONCEALERS with a side gig in Stack Overflow plagiarism!

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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

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The ultimate developer hack: weaponizing the internet's obsession with being right. Need help with your code? Forget Stack Overflow's proper channels—just post something wildly wrong and watch the corrections flood in with terrifying speed and precision. It's like summoning a horde of keyboard warriors who'd rather die than let incorrect code exist in the universe. The best part? The more egregiously wrong your "solution," the more detailed the corrections you'll get. Cunningham's Law in its purest form: the fastest way to get the right answer isn't to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.