That moment when after spending hours debugging something and trying to figure out how it's crashing without any of the error logging/catch handlers being triggered, and finally realise it's because that bit of code is actually working just fine and it's the line afterwards.
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Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishing -
That moment in 1987 when, after single stepping through over 300 lines of 8086 assembly language to get to the point where you know a pointer has been corrupted, you find it's the instruction immediately before that point that's been writing a 16 bit word to a variable defined as a byte, because the boss reckoned a free assembler that didn't do any size checking was more than adequate for professional use.
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FTFYOriginally posted by d000hg View PostThat moment when after spending hours debugging something and trying to figure out how it's crashing without any of the error logging/catch handlers being triggered, and finally realise I'm not very good at my job.I'm a smug bastard.Comment
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That moment when after spending hours trying to make your timesheet add up to the correct hours after spending most of the week on CUK, you realise that there's a cost code for BAU/AOB/Misc/Uncategorised/Other.
I fank you.
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That moment when you spend a week writing some VBA guff, then you find a module that someone already wrote to do the same thing :/Comment
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FTFY.Originally posted by Pherlopolus View PostThat moment when you spend a week writing some VBA guff, then you find VBA was obsolete 25 years agoWill work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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