When your
Makefileis so fucked up that you have to run it multiple times to get everything to build and link properly.Just making sure that the write buffer was flushed or something.
Code doesn’t work; don’t know why.
Code works; don’t know why.
Cargo Cult Programming is bad.
xkcd 242 obviously
Me playing point and click games
I feel called out. I’m not sure which way I’d go.
Get somebody else to pull it.
For science.
You jest but “wait and retry” is such a powerful tool in my DevOps toolbox. First thing I tell junior engineers when they run across anything weird
But sometimes it works, or throws a different error …
Actually tru. Damn preprocessors.
And a different error means progress!
A different error each time?
I refer to @floofloof@lemmy.ca comment.
When it does a different crazy thing every time and you have no idea why, it means you’re a genius and have created life.
The usual for me is that I flip back over to my editor and hit ctrl+save, cause heaven forbid I ever remember to do that before running.
I have no regrets from setting my editor to save-on-blur
Computer needs practice to get program right.
The first one is to warm up the engine. Like getting your car ignition to kick over in the winter
and sometimes that’s exactly what’s needed. Services wake up, connections get established and then when you try again things are up and it works.
Running the code again is fast and requires no thinking. Finding the problem is slow and requires a lot of thinking.
It’s worth looking under the light-post in case your keys somehow rolled there. Just not for long.
You know, youve gotta give your computer some warmup.
Not sure which is worse. When you know you changed nothing and it inexplicably starts|stops working compared to yesterday
Far worse, and this applies to more than programming. If something is broken, I want it to be consistent. Don’t fix yourself, or sort of work but have a different effect. Break, and give me something to figure out, damn it.
gotta rule out cosimc rays flipping a bit or two
And run it with the debugger.
This would be more mockable if it didn’t often WORK.
