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Content 90s High school students after creating a static HTML website. Entripenur

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Regular humans: *uses == to check equality* Programmers: *scoffs at ==, uses !== instead because type coercion is for the weak* Enlightened programmers: *monocle gleams* "I exclusively use the != operator with a logical NOT before my expression to assert truthiness while simultaneously inverting the result, thus proving my intellectual superiority." The evolution of operator snobbery is the true mark of a developer's journey. Next level: writing custom equality functions that take 27 parameters.

Content Employee: asks for raise due to long years of experience and well founded knowledge Company: Best I can do is "Senior" title

Content HTML isn't a programming language. It's a markup language!1 It's not turing-complete!!1 You are not a real programmer!!1 34 34 HTML is a programming language. 14 0.1 10 score 55 2 70 85 100 115 HTML is a programming language because it is declarative instructions meant to be executed by a computer. Turing-completeness does not determine whether a language is a programming one or not. Does that mean that data formatting standards, such as XML, LaTeX, Roff etc. are really programming languages? Yes, because ultimately a programming language is an artificial abstract categorization we setup to refer to different rules and data. CSS, Conway's game of life, REAL life and digital electronics are all turing complete yet most people wouldn't call them 14 programming langauges. Why? Because it's 2 0.1 semantics. Either way, most people who laugh at "HTML isn't a 130 145 programming langauge memes are brainlets.

The circle of life in tech! Designers who can't code are now using AI to generate code, while developers who can't design are using AI to create visuals. It's the ultimate tech symbiosis where both sides are just frantically asking ChatGPT to do the part of the job they've been avoiding for years. Next up: AI using humans to generate more training data. The snake eats its tail!