hannes3120 ( @hannes3120@feddit.de ) 9•1 year agoExcel wrongly assuming the year 1900 was a leap year for their timestamps is my favorite bug that will never be fixed because everyone has built workarounds for this already
tjhart85 ( @tjhart85@kbin.social ) 4•1 year agoDidn’t they do that intentionally to be compatible with Lotus 123?
they did
tjhart85 ( @tjhart85@kbin.social ) 1•1 year agoThanks for backing me up :-)
A link from MS as well, backing us up :-)
johnhansarick ( @johnhansarick@kbin.social ) 7•1 year agoReminds me when I was working with a guy and he named a database table
recieved
. I had adapted my code to that, and then one day without warning he renamed it toreceived
- and it took us an hour to figure out why everything broke. gbhorwood ( @gbhorwood@kbin.social ) 3•1 year agohad a co-worker once who called the variable holding the first record in a complicated workflow “rec1st” and the last record “reclst”, unaware that in every font used by every code editor except his, a lowercase l and number 1 look identical.
i spent a day debugging that after he quit.
japps13 ( @japps13@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year agoMaybe he wasn’t really unaware that only his font choice differentiated the names.
No good code font would make
1
andl
look identical. Character differentiability is like the most important thing.Look, JetBrains did it right.
freundTech ( @freundTech@feddit.de ) 1•1 year agoThis reminds me of the HTTP referer header, which started as a misspelling of referrer, but because everyone just went with it is now part of the standard.
Black616Angel ( @Black616Angel@feddit.de ) 0•1 year agoOur Python virtual environments at work on all Linux-servers are in the directory /opt/vens instead of /opt/venvs so when some intern corrects that, we will be screwed!
PiedPipetter ( @PiedPipetter@kbin.social ) 4•1 year agoI wrote code for industrial automation years ago (think assembly line machines). I was reviewing production code and found a stupid bug and fixed it, then reinstalled. The motors moved incorrectly - I don’t recall if that was the time it smashed glass everywhere, but “fixing” the code definitely broke the program. I could not figure out why…but due to time constraints I sadly had reinsert the bug to put the machine back in production.
Some nights that still bothers me.
tal ( @tal@kbin.social ) 3•1 year agohttps://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth’s webpage states the line was used to end a memo entitled Notes on the van Emde Boas construction of priority deques: An instructive use of recursion (1977)
mcmxci ( @mcmxci@lemmy.one ) 2•1 year agoThere are a bunch of comments in this thread on kbin.social at https://kbin.social/m/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml/t/26213/XKCD-1172 but none here at lemmy.one. Every time I think I understand federation I get thrown for a loop
supersheep ( @supersheep@lemmy.one ) English3•1 year agoHmm, I’m also registered at lemmy.one and having the same problem. Really curious on how I can make sure all the comments are shown or how this works. Maybe the instances still have to sync or something?
db0 ( @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English0•1 year agoThe fact that they mention using EMACS makes it even funnier
lowleveldata ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) 0•1 year agoGlobal warming must be fun for this guy