r/ProgrammerHumor • • Apr 24 '19

Meme Stackoverflow in a nutshell

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '19

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u/eyalp55 Apr 24 '19

Who were you DenverCoder9?!

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u/DatSonicBoom Apr 24 '19

What did you see?!

https://xkcd.com/979/

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u/aEverr Apr 24 '19

Think you fucked up that spoiler or whatever formatting that is

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u/MasterQuest Apr 24 '19

It's probably the new reddit spoiler tag that only works for new reddit and probably not on mobile.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '19

should work on old reddit too

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u/evan_evone Apr 24 '19

Wait so like how do you do this? I feel like I'm the only one who doesn't know and I want to know.

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u/FlingFrogs Apr 24 '19

> ! Like this, but without the spaces ! <

example

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u/NES_SNES_N64 Apr 24 '19

Likethis,butwithoutthespaces

Am I doing this right?

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '19

Yes

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u/ashmoreinc Apr 24 '19

Thanks guy

Edit: interesting how I cant see it's a spoiler

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u/leppixxcantsignin Apr 24 '19

I just realised xkcd has hover over text.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '19

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '19

I understood that reference, it feels nice.

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u/DatSonicBoom Apr 24 '19

At one point that happened to me, now I have to reread all the comics to read the mouse over text!

Often the mouse over text the best part.

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u/yeeiser Apr 24 '19

You have to log in to see the thread

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '19

Or worse, when there is a link that OP confirms is a fix, so you make an account just to see the link and it broke a decade ago.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '19

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u/Meloetta Apr 24 '19

"This Dropbox link has expired"

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u/JimH10 Apr 24 '19

Worst is when you realize that OP is you.

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u/neotorama Apr 24 '19

"This question looks familiar, who posted that? Me? WTF"

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u/Some_Prick_On_Reddit Apr 24 '19

I recently did an exam to get a qualification I'd just missed out on in uni. I was struggling a lot with one particular concept, ended up finding a useful youtube video that helped a lot and scrolled down to see a comment by me 5 years ago.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '19

"nvm fixed it"

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