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Content When it's your wedding but you've got a production bug to fix real quick towernter

Content Me fixing my code Me fixing my real life problems

Content DevOps Dan scripticles 3s IF everything I am hearing about Twitter is true and IF Twitter engineers are leaving en masse, then every developer out there should be praying that Twitter crashes within days ( 13 ) 1 17 DevOps Dan scripticles 1s If there is no significant system interruption at Twitter after their staff gets Thanos'd, it will spell bad news for every other engineering department across the globe because the executive are paying attention to what is happening here. (23) 17 DevOps Dan scripticles 1s If Twitter can survive with a fraction of their workforce, so can we, every other software company CEO will start to think. And the grasshoppers will start firing the ants. (33) 17

Content WHEN MY CODE DOESN'T WORK AFTER HOURS OF DEBUGGING Kyle kvleve Computers. What a mistake 11:11 AM Sep 20, 2022 from San Francisco, CA Twitter for Mac

Content I spent 4 hours debugging a multi-threaded lock contention bug in a CLI tool. Then I watched 2 rockets land up right on their assigned landing pads at the exact same time after launching a vehicle in space. I quit. T 00:08:02 STAGE 2 TELEMETRY SPEED ALTITUDE 23155 kmh 178 FALCON HEAVY TEST FLIGHT STARTUP MAX-O MAIN ENGINE CUTOFF LIFTOFF BOOSTER ENGINE CUTOFF FAIRING DEPLOY SPACEX

Ah, the classic bait-and-switch of programming education! Kids think they're entering a magical world of creativity with drag-and-drop blocks and cute animations, only to discover their future involves staring at terminal windows for hours debugging merge conflicts. It's like expecting to become a chef by playing cooking games, then discovering real kitchens involve mostly dishwashing and knife sharpening. The gap between Scratch/educational programming and "rm -rf node_modules && npm install" is the greatest plot twist in tech careers.