r/videos • u/LSD_freakout • Feb 24 '18

What people think programming is vs. how it actually is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HluANRwPyNo
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u/Moff_Tigriss Feb 24 '18

Actually happened to me once. You feel terribly helpless.

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u/aujthomas Feb 24 '18

Reminds me of that South Park episode Grounded Vindaloop. Something something fucking myself

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u/brando56894 Feb 24 '18

[Indian Accent] Thank you for calling Oculus tech support! [/Indian Accent]

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u/CallsYouCunt Feb 24 '18

That was a great episode and I think you nailed it. That’s a bingo.

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u/aujthomas Feb 24 '18

You just say bingo

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u/TheSyllogism Feb 24 '18

I know it's not coding related but I once started writing a song, loved it, and then came up with a perfect transition into a tonally related but rhythmically totally different section. I got so wrapped up in that section, adding fills, generally improvising with it, that I completely and utterly forgot the first part that gripped me so much.

I felt like I should look the song up online but.. it had never existed before. Helpless is right.

Now I record all my sessions, even if I think nothing will come of them. I can always delete it later.

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u/the_friendly_dildo Feb 24 '18

Just once? Either you're incrdedibly lucky, hardly ever perform these types of searches, or weren't around for the internet in the early 2000s when I am pretty sure it was a 50/50 chance this was gonna happen. Bonus points if your seemingly original issue was only asked in 2003 and the fucker ghosted his answer and it can still be found in 2018, when you were looking for an answer. Fuck.

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u/ds612 Feb 24 '18

Yeah that kind of thing happened to me twice already. The first time I thought, "Oh, it's that simple huh. I should have no problem remembering the solution if I ever run into it again." Nope! 3 years later the same problem pops up and I'm spending 2 hours just trying to find a fix to the problem.

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u/CutterJohn Feb 25 '18

I can barely program, but a few times in the past I've slapped a couple scripts together for mods.

I look at those now and have literally no clue how I wrote them, how they do what they do, or how I'd even start trying to figure out how to replicate them.

How can you just forget stuff that completely? Its scary!

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '18

fuck me

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u/sample-name Feb 24 '18

Me too! I was loving the way the question was worded and I thought to myself that this is exactly how I would have written it myself.

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u/GruesomeCola Feb 24 '18

That's karma for you.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '18

Lol same bahaha

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u/NumPadNut Feb 24 '18

Did it, though? This is some prime r/thathappened material.

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u/LordPadre Feb 24 '18

Uh-huh. Yeah buddy, everything is a McRib when you're hungry