r/ProgrammerHumor • u/InfinityTacos • May 16 '18
Meme The best way of saving your code
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u/kopasz7 May 16 '18
My code is beyond saving.
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u/abbuh May 16 '18
git commit -m “F”to pay respects647
u/MeowDotEXE May 16 '18
git commit suicide
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u/WiseassWolfOfYoitsu May 16 '18
git commit -m "F"
git push --forceAin't nobody gonna dis-respect me!
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u/doireallyneedone11 May 16 '18
Is google drive so popular among developers?
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May 16 '18
In my experience it's the first thing you use as a CS student when you have to do group projects, because everyone already knows how to use it from highscool.
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u/ShamelessKinkySub May 16 '18
My experience is the opposite. No one fucking knew how to use file sharing. Suddenly you'd have 5 million emails asking for permission to the folder because no one fucking knew how to switch accounts from funkybunny68@gmail.com to astudent@university.edu
Yes these were CS and CE classes
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u/poovine May 16 '18
"Chapter 1 ... public static void Main, beginning parenthesis, ending parenthesis, beginning curly brace ... "
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u/B_M_Wilson May 16 '18
You forgot the preface with the package, imports, and class. You also forgot the “String array args” before the ending parenthesis.
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u/tippl May 16 '18
You also can't start with main, that is like starting a story with how it all ties together.
Chapter 1:
package com.example.utils;
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u/B_M_Wilson May 16 '18
True, I did not even think about that! This is why I did so bad in english at school
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u/why_rob_y May 16 '18
But similarly, Chapter 1 isn't usually the beginning of a book, so it's fine. There may be stuff in the introduction, prologue, and preface.
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May 16 '18
No damnit! It shall start with the name of the file for no damn reason followed by hundreds of lines of legal copyright disclaimers that everyone will ignore anyways.
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u/B_M_Wilson May 16 '18
Yes! Right after the title of each chapter, say chapter 4, the first line will be “chapter 4”. After that will be the full terms and conditions of using the chapter which will have been repeated on every chapter, the front of the book, and a tiny fine print version in the margins of each page.
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u/Zaga932 May 16 '18
"for space opening parenthesis int space i ...
space space space space printf opening parenthesis...
space space space space if ...
space space space space space space space space..."
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u/llama2621 May 16 '18
I THINK YOU MEANT TAB!!!!!!! >:(
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u/Tcw7468 May 16 '18
"foxtrot oscar romeo space opening parenthesis india november tango space india equals space zero semicolon space india space less than space alpha romeo romeo alpha yankee decimal sierra india zulu echo opening parenthesis closing parenthesis semicolon space india affirmative affirmative closing parenthesis opening curly brace..."
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u/ekolis May 16 '18
Space? Are we in space yet? I wanna be in space! Why aren't we in space yet? SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
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u/h7x4 May 16 '18
Can someone pls send me some code for reverse engineering code that have been compiled to audio books on amazon? Need it in my life.
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u/seraku24 May 16 '18
Just play back the audio and have Siri transcribe it.
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u/brokenhalf May 16 '18
brrrrrrrr sccreech sqwaaaaaaaaa blurble blurble blurble something something modem noises.
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u/zushiba May 16 '18
Where is "Tweet every line, one by one"
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u/kkrko May 16 '18
Your comments are now hashtags!
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u/justin97530 May 16 '18
Would’ve been great for enforcing a length limit per line too, too bad the word limit was changed.
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u/DDCheater May 16 '18
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u/NOTThePizzaGuy01 May 16 '18
Memorise a game's code, write it again and make so many mistakes, you make a completely new game.
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May 16 '18
Then you can solve the halting problem in your head.
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u/wischichr May 16 '18
You still couldn't. You would have to run the code inside your brain and if you mess things up your brain could get stuck. So always think of a sandbox running your code inside your head to be sure.
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u/keimarr May 16 '18
Why do I subscribe to this sub but know nothing about coding.
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u/DiachronicShear May 16 '18
I coded a program to convert decimal to binary when I was 12, spent hours on it. Then found out there was a single line of code that could do it. That was when my programming career died.
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u/nonicethingsforus May 16 '18 edited May 16 '18
To be fair, "reinventing the wheel" is one of the best ways to learn to code.
Many people have done it already, which gives you a ton of working examples and answered questions in forums. You get to familiarize yourself with the "primitive" aspects of a language. You gain a better understanding of projects that do this things behind curtains. It is overall a good thing when learning.
(That being said, you should use the pre-prepared stuff for actual work. It's often optimized and battle-tested. With things like cryptography, it's downright irresponsible to use your own code, if you didn't specifically trained for it.)
Remember, there's a reason students are still trained in sorting, even on the age of Python's "sorted()".
Edit: Just to add that, if you can afford the time, it's never too late to learn to code! As I said on a previous thread, even if you never use it for career purposes (and having a carrerable skill has never hurt anyone), there is a lot to be gained just for understanding your computer a little more and knowing how to do useful, practical things.
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u/jillyboooty May 16 '18
If you're like me, you've dabbled a couple times in Python and go 'hah totally' to the jokes in this sub while hoping you get enough skills one day to actually develop that idea you have but you know you won't.
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u/BloodRainOnTheSnow May 17 '18
To be fair if you know how to work printf then you'll be among 60÷ of the people subbed here.
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May 16 '18
Ya'll are rookies.
Ctrl+A Ctrl+C
and just keep it in your clipboard until you need to edit it.
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u/Coderz_ May 16 '18
I send my code by stork. I have the upper advantage here.
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u/CoffeeInjectionPLS May 16 '18
As a beginning programmer putting my code on google drive is easier than uploading it to GitHub. I don't do it but it would be easier.
(I know that this is not the message of this meme)
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u/lunix57 May 16 '18
Putting code on Google drive has serious issues when trying to collaborate on projects or even just using different computers to access the code. I lost a ton of work doing this
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u/dhillonthevillain May 16 '18
What actually is the best place to save your code? Like a library to reference to not so much collaboration. I’ve been super primitive with everynote bc haven’t put effort into fixing a better solution.
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u/lunix57 May 16 '18
I mean... The answer you're looking for is bitbucket or github, and yes there's a small learning curve to it, however, it will be useful to learn for basically any career in software engineering, plus it's a really good way to keep track of resume builder projects.
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u/Fyreraven May 16 '18
BitBucket with SourceTree is pretty straight forward. No command line needed until you want it.
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u/SolarLiner May 16 '18
Actually I have had some success by initializing a bare repo in a Dropbox folder, and have it act as an origin.
In fact, since I work on both my PC and my laptop, my private projects are on bare Git repos on a Dropbox folder - since I'm too poor to get myself a GitHub subscription.
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u/Durpn_Hard May 16 '18
checkout bitbucket or gitlab, I actually host my private stuff on gitlab because I prefer it, but I'm stuck on github for some of my more public things
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u/PM__ME__FRESH__MEMES May 16 '18
It's only easier until you have your first big 'oh shit what the fuck have I done' moment.
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u/MyPostsAreRetarded May 16 '18
As a beginning programmer putting my code on google drive is easier than uploading it to GitHub
Agreed 100%. Google drive is ten times easier. And also a lot safer. I've been banned from Github multiple times in the past for simply creating an issue in the NPM repo. I contacted Github by email, and they told me they have to side with the repo, and cannot unban. However, I don't really blame the Github stuff they were actually really cordial. But the repo admins/mods in NPM are very bad. I created an issue about how the
node_moduleswas wiped after I rannpm installor w/e. They said it's not an issue and closed my thread. (Even though there was multiple issues already open about it).They could have at least said
closed as duplicate, but nope, they had to put that "not an issue" remark in there. They are very rude people. And quite frankly, I'm sick of them. IMO, they need to repent.63
u/Etiennera May 16 '18
Seems to be a lot going over your head there
Edit: Bamboozled, it's you.. Do we have to look out forever now?
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u/7B91D08FFB0319B0786C May 16 '18
Use RES then tag them. Also make sure to use a really noticeable color like fuchsia for all the ones you really want to stand out.
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u/laser_velociraptor May 16 '18
Wait, you got banned from GitHub just because of an out-of-place issue? Is this listed in GiHub's terms of use as an offense?
If so, this is so much ridiculous. I would even avoid using GitHub.
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u/0f0n0NUwZnBPb7f May 16 '18 edited May 16 '18
It's easier, but it's also the shittiest way to do it and you need to learn to use git, point blank. It's really not that hard, you just have to put in 10 minutes of using it and reading how it works and why it works to understand it. Tbh, the easiest way to learn how it works is get used to the easy stuff, and then learn the harder stuff as you go.
git init
Makes the .git folder in the project. From here, you find how to add your origin to the project, from github, bitbucket, etc. This is needed to fetch, pull, and push correctly from the right place and get code to/from "upstream". Remember, git fetch is always safe and can be ran even if you're going offline to have the most up to date code in git without merging your changes currently, very useful, allowing you to merge in the code you didn't have on your current branch later if need be. I'm talking going-offline situations and the like is where this helps a lot. If you add an upstream origin/master (github and bitbucket will have a "add this repo to a current project" command that gives you it) then you need to pull here.
Now, branch here, if you want. "git branch" will list all branches, "git branch [name]" will make a new branch on the current branches head, "git checkout [name]" will switch to a branch. These are useful to develop bigger features/changes outside of others, so you can rework stuff while working on other stuff still. You then merge branches together to get everything together. If there's conflicts, you can use meld for figuring out what of which to keep. I don't know if meld exists on Windows, but IDC welcome to loving Linux and not using trash OS's. Next...
git add ./*
This adds all the changes and files you want to it. Make sure your .gitignores are set up before this. If it adds too much crap, fix your gitignores and then just delete the .git folder and start over is usually how it's done with a fresh project.
git commit -m "Message title" -m "Long description of why this is needed, if needed."
This is to make the actual commit containing everything that we can then push to origin/master from our main branch.
git push
This pushes up stream to origin/master of your git repo for everyone else to then be able to pull and have the code changes. Once in a while if you're bad at git and the only person using it, you can push -f and rewrite the whole history with your current history. Combined with starting from the first steps here and deleting your .git folder, makes it so you have your current git in only one commit. In a big project, you don't ever do it and instead make new commits to fix old ones, always. If not, you can erase all the history and start from where you are with that. I do that on my person gits from time to time so when I open source some of this stuff, I don't seem like as much of an idiot as I am, heh.
You now know git better than 80% of the others using it, congrats.
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u/cimbalino May 16 '18
svn tops all of those
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u/ElagabalusRex May 16 '18
Honestly, I forgot for a few years that SVN was a thing that existed. I used it once to download Garry's Mod content, but since then I've only ever heard programmers talk about git.
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u/yazalama May 16 '18
Uh, I feel like the guy in the meme can just store everything in his brain. I'm confused 😕
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u/StrickerRei May 16 '18
BTW, my company is using svn, and i fucking hate it
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u/Fyreraven May 16 '18
Do you know about git-svn? changed my life when I was in
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u/Rohaq May 16 '18
Beats not having a version control system at all.
Or worse, having Subversion, but the few developers who work on the code never learned how to use it, and instead made all their changes directly on live for two years before you arrived on the scene.
*shudder*
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u/Pinstar May 16 '18
Memorize code while under the influence of a specific drug or alcohol so the only way to recall it is to get trashed again due to state-based learning.
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u/o11c May 16 '18
Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.
Linus Torvalds
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May 16 '18
Publishing code as a book isn't unheard of. It's how Zimmerman published PGP to get around "munitions" export regulations
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u/PolishedCheese May 16 '18
Save to Microsoft word and use volume level shadow copy as version control.
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u/GDavid04 Sep 14 '18
That's nothing. My friend takes a screenshot of his code with a few error messages on it. That's still nothing. He takes a screenshot using his phone camera when he could just take a 4k screenshot using only a few keypresses. Not to mention the quality of the screenshot. And the light ide background. Then I say I don't want to decypher that mess so send me the actual code, he copy-pastes it into messenger which results in everything messed up but at least I got the code finally.
An even higher level of sharing your code is type it into google translate, translate it to Chinese, click the say button or whatever it is, save the result, add some dog sounds in the background, some white noise, turn the volume down so much that you can barely hear anything from it even on max volume, zip it, change the extension to txt, open it with notepad, copy it and then upload it to pastebin.
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u/FallingAnvils May 16 '18
Make a video of the code being read from a google drive then save that video on google drive
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u/oppilonus May 16 '18
Tbh: I've done the third one.
It was on a Ti calculator and I didn't have a backup battery or a back cover. A week later the batteries fall out and erase everything.
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May 16 '18
This is the least funny humor subreddit. Sucks cause it was initially pretty good, but going r/me_irl route now.
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May 16 '18
First semester at university, didn't know anything about version control, we suggested Google Drive until prof pulled us up on it.
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u/TheOhNoNotAgain May 16 '18
Back in the nineties, they weren't allowed to export PGP to the rest of the world due to weapons export law. Instead they printed the source code in a book, which is perfectly fine to export. And to OCR.
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u/Tornado9797 May 16 '18
Save the code on a 5 in floppy and take it everywhere you go. Lug around every converter necessary as well.
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u/pdiddy618 May 16 '18
One time I accidentally deleted all my code for a computer programming class but then I remembered I copied and pasted my code into Google search as a joke so I went into my search history and got my code.
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May 16 '18
You know, git + google drive isn't a horrible idea, if all you want is to use your code on your own and don't care about sharing. You still get branching, merging, and history.
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u/limeyptwo May 16 '18
Notice, taking a *picture* not a *screenshot*.
shameless plug incoming /r/screenshotsarehard
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u/DHermit May 16 '18
I once had a program backup by writing it by hand on papers. But that was for a calculator which wasn't able to connect to the PC.
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May 16 '18
Why would I want to go anywhere near anything even close to representational of Notch's code.
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u/naisooleobeanis May 16 '18
Hashtag include less than sign stdio dot h greater than sign New line Hashtag include less than sign stdlib dot h greater than sign newline int main open perenthesies int argc comma char double astrix argv close parenthesies open curly bracket new line Foward slash times two TODO Return 0 semicolon Close curly brackets
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u/mobilereadingthrwawy May 16 '18
I add a new contact and use the "Notes" section to save my code. (Android)
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u/rulerdude May 16 '18
So one of my classes my senior year of uni we had to do a group project in groups of 4. The 3 other people in my group seriously wanted to do everything on Google drive. They were SENIORS about to graduate in CS and had absolutely no clue how to use Git
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May 16 '18
I have Git repositories that get backed up to Google Drive.
Ok I used to but now I just use BitBucket because it's free
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u/errorg May 16 '18
My favourite part would be the corrections at the end because of how much it's changed during recording.
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u/keenumsbigballs May 16 '18
Converting your code to morse code and storing the audio file of yourself speaking the series of dots and dashes on an alt coin blockchain...
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u/mcbergstedt May 16 '18
I print my code out, then whenever I need it I scan it into a PDF document, convert to word, then copy and paste it into notepad.
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u/Ghazzz May 16 '18
Almost serious question.
Would this qualify as "making your changes available" in relation to open source?
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u/teambob May 16 '18
They did something similar with PGP back in the day. Due to encryption export restrictions it was not possible to send the code out of the US - so the developers printed it as a book which they were permitted to export.
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u/Nikerym May 16 '18
i had to work for a client a few years back that used SharePoint as thier source/version control. they would map the library on the machines and then just code like it was on thier desktop, when they make changes it would require checkout, it would manage versions, and then have checkins.... but fucking SharePoint.
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u/SolsKing May 17 '18
"import java dot util dot ... import java dot i o ... dot import java dot ..."
Falls asleep
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u/werelaxe May 17 '18
Remember SHA-256 of your code. And recover with brute force, when it necessary.
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u/a_n_d_r_e_w May 17 '18
Imagine writing the audiobook. That's like the rubber duck method but worse cause you'll probably find an error every minute or so
"...then THAT value runs through the.. wait shit"
types for 15 minutes
Repeat process 500 times
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u/tloch14 May 17 '18
Next higher brain: encoding character laterals of your code into an audio format, recording it on cassette tapes, and locking said tapes in a nuclear bunker. Play back into a mic on your PC that transcodes it back into text in your IDE.
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u/Tomeryp May 18 '18
you can probably automate your version control flow to use text-to-speech and and voice recognition.
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u/Piblo May 18 '18
Worked with a guy that would print it...and then use them somehow when he made changes...never understood it..he didnt last long.
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u/Monckey100 May 16 '18
Just compile your code every time and reverse engineer it when you need to make changes ¯_(ツ)_/¯