The Three Perspectives Of Programming Reality

Content Yansh yansh Replying to benawad Make a VSCode extension where you can roast other people's code. 8:51 AM Dec 17, 2020 Twitter Web App 1 Quote Tweet 2 Likes 17 Ben Awad benawad 1m Replying to yansh StackOverflow already exists 9 1 4 000 000

Let's be honest, we've all been there. You need a regex pattern, so you open your editor with the confidence of someone who definitely knows what they're doing. Five minutes later, you're staring at a keyboard smash of special characters that somehow works. The beauty of regex is that the most efficient way to create one is apparently to let your cat walk across the keyboard. Random slashes, brackets, and character classes? Congrats, you've matched exactly what you needed... and also 47 edge cases you didn't consider. Ten years of programming experience and I still copy-paste from Stack Overflow. The cat method might actually be more reliable.

The ultimate dad joke of debugging in one meme. Patient reports a symptom, and instead of investigating the actual problem, the doctor jumps to the most literal and useless conclusion possible: "I have the same hardware and mine works fine, so it must be YOUR fault." This is basically every Stack Overflow answer where someone reports a bug and the response is "Works on my machine™" — the universal programmer's deflection technique that has solved exactly zero problems in the history of computing.

Content A WELL WRITTEN DOCUMENTATION IS BETTER THAN ANY ONLINE COURSE TO LEARN A FRAMEWORK, TECH STACK, LIBRARY, ETC CHANGE MY MIND

The four stages of debugging grief: denial, anger, bargaining, and finally... enlightenment. You spend hours staring at your code, repeatedly asking "Why?" with increasing desperation until you finally paste it into Stack Overflow. Then— magically —the solution becomes blindingly obvious the exact moment someone else looks at it. Your brain suddenly decides to function properly, making you feel like the world's most competent idiot. It's like your code is deliberately gaslighting you until it has an audience.

Content When you're on your third page of Google and none of the stack overflow links have been able to solve your problem made with man This will be the end of my job