Experienced JavaScript Developer Meme

The classic "age is just a number" platitude gets a perfect programmer's twist. In JavaScript and many other languages, what looks like a number is often silently converted to a string when you least expect it. That smug face in the third panel is every backend dev who's spent hours debugging why 18 + 1 = 181 instead of 19 . Type coercion: ruining perfectly good calculations since 1995.

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Content Is programming all about copy-pasting these days? Vladislav Zorov, programming enthusiast. Answered 19h ago No, man, it's about pulling in 200MB of NPM packages for a function that pads a string to the left. And another 200MB for a function that pads it to the right. Then adding React, Angular and VueJS, because you couldn't decide which one to use, running that crap through WebPack, and deploying some sty website that needs more RAM than a triple-A game. 3.6k Views View Upvoters View Sharers . Upvote 214 Share 0

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Content The Nikola fraud trial has been interesting, but it was this particular claim from a few years ago had me and all my buddies rolling: "The entire infotainment system is a HTML 5 super computer. That's the standard language for computer programmers around the world, so using it let's us build our own chips. And HTML 5 is very secure. Every component is linked on the data network, all speaking the same language. It's not a bunch of separate systems that somehow still manage to communicate." Sentencing is November 28th.