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Sometimes things do go your way (feddit.de)
submitted 9 months ago by bleistift2@feddit.de to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/7998794

cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/7998742

Meme transcription: 4 panels of Vince McMahon reacting increasingly ecstaticly to:

  1. Your software isn’t working. Vince McMahon looks curious.
  2. The bug is in a library. McMahon smiles.
  3. There already is an issue on Github. McMahon makes an orgiastic face.
  4. They published a fix last week. [I don’t know how to describe the face McMahon is making.]
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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 45 points 9 months ago (1 children)
  • The bug is from a library
  • There are 5 dozen related bugs on GitHub
  • The last commit to the library was 3 years ago
[–] bigboismith@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago
  • Library is a read-only repo
  • last commit was 10 years ago
[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Another version of this is unexpectedly finding some niche, single-developer software tool that does precisely the thing you need, all because some genius angel stranger (strangel?) from the internet happened to encounter the same problem, and somehow knew how to fix it.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 14 points 9 months ago

And then you wake up.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Your deadline is tomorrow

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 10 points 9 months ago

Time to write a ‘Known limitations’ section.

[–] Dempf@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Time to compile it myself.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

I'm tired, I thought it's published next week

[–] superfes@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

This has happened to me once, in 20 years of development.

That's pretty good.

[–] Luvon@beehaw.org 6 points 9 months ago

The bug is in the library of a library that the library owns. They fixed it and published it in the library of the library but the library hasn’t been updated in 2 months.

[–] Michal@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

And the library update isn't published for 6 months

[–] 4z01235@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I just went through this exact process (not for the first time) two weeks ago with a bug in the golang standard library. Fun times. Deep in the dependency stack of a container build my team doesn't own so who knows when I'll get a fixed version.