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Yesterday was Friday the 13th, so here is a list of my worst dev nightmares without order of significance:

1) Dealing with multithreaded code, especially on Android

2) Javascript callback hell

3) Dependency hell, especially in Python

4) Segfaults

5) Memory Leaks

6) git conflicts

7) Crazy regexes and string manipulations

8) css. Fuck css.

9) not knowing jack shit about something but expected by others to
produce a result with it.

10) 3+ hours of debugging with no success

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  • 37
    Client tested the code on an older version of IE.
  • 13
    @Michelle Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with those people, just let that unfunny browser meme die already
  • 17
    @legionfrontier
    It's not a meme, it's true.
    A client tested the code on an older version of IE. She thought I didn't do what was asked, so I lost the sale. It was annoying because that project took a month to complete.
  • 3
    @Michelle wtf... then again I have never wasted my time doing those coding jobs because I cant deal with retard clients (used to work as a SysAdmin)
  • 12
    Dates across timezones
  • 1
    @olezhka
    Most devs have no life and work all night so I don't see it as much of an issue
  • 4
    I don't mind CSS at all. Then again I'm a front end developer so I do work with it all the time πŸ˜„
  • 11
    Game engine networking

    It's a combination of multithreading, networking and synchronisation (across clients, as well as threads)
  • 4
    Also, NAT

    Useful whilst we only had IPv4, but now that IPv6 exists PLEASE GO DIE IN A HOLE
  • 5
    Third party APIs. Shoot me.
  • 4
    Laptop Battery Low in middle of 'stfu,dont disturb,I am writing a very complex code block' situation.
  • 7
    @legionfrontier You wouldn't believe this, but I have worked on a project that still supports IE 9 in fucking 2017. Thank God I got moved to another project πŸ˜…
  • 2
    @avitron SharePoint, my bread and butter. Nice to meet you πŸ˜…πŸ˜Ώ
  • 1
    @Thanyil Currently joined a new team and the CTO is clinging like hell to SVN.. She says Git has too big of a learning curve 😐
  • 1
    Possible race conditions.
  • 2
    Bootstrap. Really, it can go fuck itself up one end with a pineapple and the other with a cactus.
  • 2
    @gitcommit why can't you figure out your own conflicts!
  • 0
    @gitlab sorry...?
  • 1
    @gitlab He's too busy dealing with @gitpush ( Ν‘° ͜> Ν‘°)
  • 0
    leaving my house in general. 😬
  • 0
    wpa supplicant
  • 1
    Array Index out of Bounds
  • 4
    The legend says that css becomes harder every time someone says "fuck css"
  • 1
    Internet outages, repeating roughly every 2 hours. Telekom must've fucked up their timing though because they just keep going even though it's the 15th now.
  • 2
    I ate some pizza.
  • 1
    I'm sorry but I ABSOLUTELY love Regexes since i learned about If-clauses
  • 0
    I had a sweet dream last night... I don’t usually have good dreams so m happy πŸ€—
    It actually started as a bad dream but ended up being sweet n cute 😊😊
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