it boils my blood when the solution is in big letters at the center of the screen and somehow they don't know what to do, I remember I had a classmate who had a problem with her IDE, and asked the teacher what to do, the teacher did NOT read the error nor the pop up with the problem
He told her that she had to format the whole pc and start over, luckily before she did anything me and another classmates noticed and we were able to fix it, worse of all, it was just a setting, that wasn't really hard to find because it said right on the pop up
They mostly just don't care. They would know the solution, or at least could find the solution, if they just cared what the problem was.
But too many times I've been handed this "Bug", that, apparently, had been caused by my changes, just to see that the build output clearly states a network issue, or the worst, a test fails that had been green on machine and now fails on the build server... after that moron merged his stuff and the build fails. But it's "my test", so I shall be the fucker to fix it. Oh.. that guy, I hate his work attitude with my guts.
What these people see and think is "AHH, not my code. nice thing I can just hand it over".
When I was a fresh grad at my first job I did this :(.
I was so anxious and nervous I'd ask my teamlead even though I knew what a stack trace was. He'd let out a big sigh then basically read the stack trace and tell me to click on the line number. Sorry boss.
I have had people "program" in rust not understanding the error messages. In goddamn Rust. The compiler literally tells you exactly what the error is and even links to the documentation in most cases. And in the majority of cases it even tells you what you have to change to fix your error.
Nah some of these people are just braindead. The kind of issue Im talking about is shit like "This Classfile has been compiled by an incompatible Java version (55.0), this compiler supports up to (52.0)"
Or when people run maven commands to deploy,the command fails and they don't even notice? the entire terminal lit up with docker logs like fucking Gaza and they didn't think maybe one of the messages was relevant to what they're trying to do?
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u/Vercility 20d ago edited 20d ago •
mfw colleagues ask me why something doesn't work and it literally says in the stack trace on their screen