The Documentation Paradox

Who needs a $100k computer science degree when Stack Overflow exists? While lawyers and doctors spend years in prestigious institutions learning their craft, developers just frantically Google error messages at 3 AM and somehow ship working code. The best part? We're getting paid roughly the same salary to essentially be professional Googlers with impostor syndrome. My diploma is just a curated collection of search queries that accidentally resulted in functional code.

Content An average programmer's main job is to track down and fix bugs that shouldn't exist inside software that shouldn't exist build on frameworks that shouldn't exist for companies that shouldn't exist solving problems that shouldn't exist in industry niches that shouldn't exist.

Content python 85 0 Add a topic O Search a 11:16 AM joined python 11:22 AM Has anyone had difficulties with ibmiotf? I get an errormessage: "importerror: No module named ibmiotf". Suspect that it might be because of different paths, but haven't been able to solve it yet. 11:29 AM If you type python in the terminal and press tab a few times you should get a list of all Python installs you have. Try running them all to see which one you installed the module at I think virtual environments is a good idea when stuff like this happens 11:44 AM which tab should i press? You have more than one?

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THE AUDACITY! 😱 Developer thinks they're being sooo clever testing their API on localhost, only to have Postman drop the ultimate truth bomb: "You need the internet." GASP! The look of utter betrayal in that last panel is sending me! It's like finding out your coffee has been decaf all along. HELLO?! The whole point of localhost is that it's LOCAL! It's literally in the name! The crushing realization that your API testing tool needs internet to test something that doesn't need internet is the definition of irony wrapped in a burrito of frustration. The circle of tech life: thinking you've outsmarted the system only to be outsmarted by it. 💀

The eternal battle between Big-Endian (BE) and Little-Endian (LE) processors, illustrated perfectly by... people walking upside down? For the uninitiated: endianness determines how bytes are ordered in memory. Big-endian puts the most significant byte first (like reading a number left-to-right), while little-endian puts the least significant byte first (reading right-to-left). The comic shows a BE person trying to communicate with an LE person who's literally upside down, speaking in reverse syntax: "Processor? Central the to way the me tell you could lost. I'm" and "Much! Very you thank." After 15 years in systems programming, I still have nightmares about debugging network protocols between different architectures. Nothing like spending three days tracking down a bug only to discover it's a byte-order issue. Endianness: the original "works on my machine" problem.