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Programmer Humor
Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)
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Ten years into casual programming and I still don’t know how to use a debugger.
I believe in a conspiracy theory that nobody uses debuggers.
I have used them occasionally. It's sometimes easier to use logging because you can dump an enormous amount of information and quickly then look through it if you already know what kind of information you want to look at. Debuggers are better when you have no idea what the hell is going wrong and need to get a little bit of info from everything instead of a lot of info from one thing.
I work with 20 year old legacy spaghetti code, the debugger has become one of my most treasured tools.
It’s easy, you just step, step, step, step in, or wait, over, or, oops.
Watch a Video or read something because it really is an invaluable tool. But here's a crash course:
Debuggers, or IDEs, let you step through your code in slo-mo so you can see what is happening.
- Set a breakpoint - Click to the left of a line of code so a red dot appears. Run your program, and the IDE will execute to that line, then pause.
- Look at variables' values - While the execution is paused you can hover over variables before that line to see their value.
- Step through the code - See what happens next in slo-mo.
- Use "Step Into" to enter into a function and see what that code does.
- Use "Step Over" to not go into a function and continue in the current spot after the function has done its business.
- Use "Step Out" to exit a function and pick up the execution after it has run. Use this when you're in too deep and the code stops making sense.
- See whats in the heap - The heap will list all the functions that you're currently inside of. You can jump to any of those points by clicking them.
- Set a watch - Keep a variable in the watch so you can see what its value is at all times.
- Set a condition on the breakpoint - If the breakpoint is inside a big loop, you can right-click on the red dot to create a conditional breakpoint, so you write something like x===3 and it will only pause when x is 3.
There are many other things an IDE can do to help you, so def look into it more if you want to save yourself a lot of insanity. But this is a good starting point.
If you're developing for the web use F12 to open web tools, and when an error happens, click the file/line number to see that point in the Sources tab, and you can debug there.
Good my colleagues think I am Hackerman that can hack through time!
Kung Fury will never not be amazing
That image goes so incredibly hard
I have seen this meme at least 471 times, it's still as funby as the first time.
Samir is mad op, those indian youtubers know everything
What I want to know is who taught the original Indian YouTube tutor. Was he born with the knowledge?
I was going to say. That's a way more terrifying flex than everything else here.
OMG, of all the memes I read all day long, this had to be the one to actually make laugh hard.
Father, I want to see the face of VBA god
Set Forms!frmFaceOfGod!OLECustomControl.Picture = LoadPicture("\\linux-nfs.local\nullshare\%*!!.bmp")
Ok, so, I thought I was crazy when I said "debug it" and my coworkers were like "you can read that shit?"
My colleague literally once said to me "i can't read bleep bloops"
Heck I remember when you had to read "bleep bloops". POST codes came in beeps, and that's how you knew why the computer wouldn't start.
Sometimes I miss em, wish it gave those in addition to the modern indicators. Then I could just tell without even looking.
I can really emphasise with Samir. Working in healthcare I’m basically limited to just the Office applications. However in the past few years I’ve been able to cook up solutions by reading / writing to file based databases, and using VBA to generate and bind to HTML contents on the fly for the built in IE11 instance. It’s as close to getting to some kind of web-stack within the confines of IT Sec in healthcare.
Just a heads up, I think the word you're looking for is empathize.
I identify with Samir, but without all of his vast knowledge.
"Samir.... you're breaking the car!"
I'm Samir, I can code kernel drivers in vba
Please don't.
I can but then I have to call IT to start Excel with elevated privileges so I don't
I have worked with most of these people at one point or another. I used to sit next to an old architect like walters. He had so many patents the company only recognize him on every 10th one.
"Can reveal the face of God using VBA"
This one got me good. I became a VBA king being in one of those locked down environments.
As someone with ADHD I am a mix of hackerman and tharg. Unfortunately the Adderall just makes me barely function and Ive never actually hacked anything
Also that one guy with their home country set to The Vatican.
Oh, so that's why I can't land a job this year. lol
I'm halfway between ~mfhwalters and Tharg
I am Samir
Having participated in CTF competitions this is very accurate.
Only noobs reveal their cards at competitions. 😈
It's still fun to enter competition even if these OP people are in it.
this is gold lmao