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[–] Anahkiasen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 117 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't forget the programming socks trans girl programmer

[–] FeatherConstrictor@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I thought that's what the second last one was gonna be

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[–] Crow@lemmy.world 98 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Ten years into casual programming and I still don’t know how to use a debugger.

[–] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I believe in a conspiracy theory that nobody uses debuggers.

[–] AeroSoap@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] pm_me_your_happiness@lemmy.one 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I work with 20 year old legacy spaghetti code, the debugger has become one of my most treasured tools.

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[–] HairHeel@programming.dev 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

console.log counts as “a debugger”, right?

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It does for me!

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[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use them daily. It makes it so much easier to work with an existing code base

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[–] Atiran@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

It’s easy, you just step, step, step, step in, or wait, over, or, oops.

[–] erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

  1. 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.
  2. Look at variables' values - While the execution is paused you can hover over variables before that line to see their value.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Set a watch - Keep a variable in the watch so you can see what its value is at all times.
  6. 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.

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[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 71 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Good my colleagues think I am Hackerman that can hack through time!

[–] Marxine@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Kung Fury will never not be amazing

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

That image goes so incredibly hard

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[–] LiquorFan@pathfinder.social 59 points 1 year ago

I have seen this meme at least 471 times, it's still as funby as the first time.

[–] gk98s@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Samir is mad op, those indian youtubers know everything

[–] Duckef@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What I want to know is who taught the original Indian YouTube tutor. Was he born with the knowledge?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)
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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago

I was going to say. That's a way more terrifying flex than everything else here.

[–] Shugzaurus@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

OMG, of all the memes I read all day long, this had to be the one to actually make laugh hard.

[–] codyofficial@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Father, I want to see the face of VBA god

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago
Set Forms!frmFaceOfGod!OLECustomControl.Picture = LoadPicture("\\linux-nfs.local\nullshare\%*!!.bmp")
[–] bagfatnick@kulupu.duckdns.org 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, so, I thought I was crazy when I said "debug it" and my coworkers were like "you can read that shit?"

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My colleague literally once said to me "i can't read bleep bloops"

[–] catshit_dogfart@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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.

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[–] Marxine@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I identify with Samir, but without all of his vast knowledge.

[–] MavTheHack@lemmy.fmhy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

"Samir.... you're breaking the car!"

[–] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm in this picture and I like it. I'm wjhbr.

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm Samir, I can code kernel drivers in vba

[–] Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.ml 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

I can but then I have to call IT to start Excel with elevated privileges so I don't

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Atiran@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] couragethebravedog@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

"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.

[–] MooseBoys@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Also that one guy with their home country set to The Vatican.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.one 17 points 1 year ago

Oh, so that's why I can't land a job this year. lol

[–] fugepe@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Having participated in CTF competitions this is very accurate.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I'm halfway between ~mfhwalters and Tharg

[–] Filipdaflippa@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for unlocking my account everytime I forget my password!

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[–] Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Only noobs reveal their cards at competitions. 😈

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

It's still fun to enter competition even if these OP people are in it.

[–] astrobound@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

this is gold lmao

[–] rapethereddit69@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What with Chinese with their near-impossible feats?

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

Lesson learned: aim for the manager spot to order those folks around

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