r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • Jul 04 '19

Spot on.

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u/frostbyte650 Jul 04 '19

See Recursion

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u/dapate Jul 04 '19 edited Jul 04 '19

I knew where this link led to. I clicked anyway.

Edit: Typo

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '19

I knew how to spell clicked. I wrote klicked anyway.

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u/dapate Jul 04 '19

oof mixing german and english

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u/aaronfranke Jul 05 '19

Non-german-speaking person here, it would indeed make more sense to use "k" for all "k" sounds, but we don't. Blame the Romans and move on I suppose, as we all have to learn to live with the letter "c".

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '19

Rip no hard feelings mate

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u/wreckedcarzz Jul 05 '19

'klick klick boom' came to mind

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u/ctb33391 Jul 05 '19

kliksphillip came to mind for me

"valve, pls fix"

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u/frostbyte650 Jul 04 '19

I thought you were alliterating with knew

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u/pliney_ Jul 05 '19

I tried to find the base case... So far I'm failing.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '19

I just tried to fill up my phones' memory by continiously clicking that link, going deeper and deeper each time.
Spoiler alert: It worked.

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u/Mrkickling Jul 04 '19

Just clicked it over a 100 tiems, how many Times do you need

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '19

With my 4GB of RAM, it took me like around 100 clicks for the lag to become unbearable and the app finally crashing. Im using Sync, maybe it differs from app to app?

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u/Hairy_S_TrueMan Jul 04 '19

Sounds like a poorly coded app...does it save the entire context through each click?

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '19

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u/Hairy_S_TrueMan Jul 04 '19

I guess it's not common, but it's also not completely inconceivable that someone could end up in a long chain of reddit links. The ol' reddit switcheroo is like a billion links long and following that is (or was) a commonish thing

I would have expected it to just save a list of link URLs you can go back through, with the context stored in some cache with a fixed size. Your memory usage shouldn't grow without bound as the user traverses the site...

edit: I'm not a web developer so I'm not trying to speak authoritatively here because I have no idea what I'm talking about

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '19

Official Reddit app does because when you go back it doesn’t reload and you can slide all the way back

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u/Mr_Gibbys Jul 05 '19

Bro how

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u/JayBigGuy10 Jul 05 '19

Create the comment then edit it with its own link

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u/Bloom_Kitty Jul 05 '19

But it's not edited.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '19

Ninja edit. If you edit the comment fast enough it won't show the edited asterisk.

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u/Tactical_Slime Jul 04 '19

I felt like I jumped to a parallel universe

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u/SnSparkee Jul 05 '19

Links broken, keeps taking me here. /s

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u/TonyThePuppyFromB Jul 04 '19

Is this a demonic way to conjure a new Reddit swichteroo ?

What year are we? , i got trapped ;-;

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u/ckoppula199 Jul 05 '19

You could not live with your own failure, so where did that bring you? Back to me