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The modern tech stack visualized as the world's most precarious Jenga tower! At the very bottom, we have "ELECTRICITY" holding up literally everything - because let's face it, without it we're all just cavemen with MacBooks. The foundation includes Linus Torvalds, IBM, TSMC, and "K&R" (Kernighan and Ritchie, the C language creators) - you know, just the people who INVENTED MODERN COMPUTING, no big deal. Above them, C developers writing dynamic arrays because apparently we still haven't solved that problem after 50 years. Then we've got AWS, libcURL, and the Linux Foundation supporting everything while "unpaid open-source developers" hold up critical infrastructure. Meanwhile, Rust devs are off in their own rocket doing "their thing" while that one C++ project based on "undefined behavior" somehow keeps things running. The middle is pure chaos - web devs "sabotaging themselves" with an ever-growing tower of frameworks, a random Angry Bird labeled "whatever Microsoft is doing," and the cherry on top? A literal cloud labeled "lore accurate cloud server." And somehow this Frankenstein's monster powers everything from nuclear plants to "cookies for fish." The future is now, and it's terrifying!

When the deadline's breathing down your neck and your manager screams "It's time to deploy!" but your rational coworker suggests checking the plan first... we all know which option wins. Hitting that Terraform button with zero testing is basically playing infrastructure Russian roulette. Who needs a test environment when production is right there? Nothing says "Friday afternoon deploy" like watching your entire infrastructure crumble while frantically typing terraform destroy with shaking hands. The cloud providers thank you for your business!

That magical moment when you stop torturing your poor laptop CPU and finally spin up a proper GPU instance. Your machine learning model that was crawling along like it's stuck in molasses suddenly transforms into a speed demon. The performance jump is so absurd you're left wondering why anyone would even bother with CPU training anymore. And yet here we are, still running local experiments on our MacBooks like peasants because cloud costs are... well, let's just say they're "motivating" us to optimize our code first. The real kicker? You could've saved yourself 3 days of waiting if you'd just bitten the bullet and paid for that GPU time from the start.

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Content What are the 7 deadly sins of programming? John Purcell, Creator of CaveOfProgramming.com Updated Dec 2, 2017 Upvoted by Les Howie, Software professional for 40 years. and Hasib Al Muhaimin, IOl participant '13, '14, '15, ACM-ICPC World Finalist 2016 Author has 5.9k answers and 9.3m answer views 1. Using spaces instead of tabs. You should always, always use tabs, not spaces. 2. Using tabs instead of spaces. You should always, always use spaces, not tabs. 3. Not using auto-formatting. Forget all that tabsspaces rubbish, what's wrong with you - auto-format your code and then people won't have to look at vour weird ideas about brackets and spaces. 4. Using IDEs, which have features such as auto-formatting and nicely- coloured buttons. All code should be written in vi or Emacs, thus ensuring the purity of the programming experience. 5. Not using IDEs. No-one wants to pay for all the time it's going to take you to type things that you could have done at the click of a button, or scroll up and down using some ridiculous key combination invoked using LISP. 6. Failing to learn C and C. It's really important to learn the two absolute essential languages. You think Java is just as good? Fine, write me a real- time control system for racing cars in Java and I'll believe you. 7. Learning C or C when you could be using something modern like Java instead. Admit it - all your schedules involving C or C overrun by five years. And even then the software turns out to have critical flaws that Java would not even have allowed you to create. 8. Overrunning the end of an array. 356.1k views View 11.9k Upvoters View Sharers

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