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Programming Is...

15 days ago 64.3K views 0 shares

The perfect definition doesn't exi-- Welcome to the twilight zone of software development, where you've read 37 Stack Overflow posts, watched 14 YouTube tutorials, and somehow your code still fails spectacularly for reasons beyond mortal comprehension. That magical moment when you remove a semicolon and suddenly everything works? Pure sorcery. The next day you'll add that same semicolon back because now the code doesn't work without it. Computer science degrees should come with a free therapy session voucher. "Nothing works and we don't know why" isn't just a punchline—it's our daily standup meeting.

Couple Bytes

Programming

17 days ago 71.5K views 0 shares

The eternal struggle of CS students reaches new heights! Student claims "my dog ate my homework" – the oldest excuse in education. But the punchline? "It took him a couple bytes ." Pure programming wordplay genius! The dog didn't physically consume paper, but rather "ate" some binary data. And since computer data is measured in bytes, this student weaponized a terrible pun as their excuse. The professor's silent response is practically audible through the screen. Every programmer who's ever lost code to a corrupted file is quietly nodding in sympathetic amusement.

POV: You Just Graduated In CS

Programming AI Algorithms

23 days ago 86.4K views 0 shares

Ah, the classic LinkedIn resume time-travel paradox! This CS grad with a 4.3 GPA from Columbia somehow managed to intern at NASA, OpenAI, and Google before graduating, then immediately pivoted to their dream career... flipping burgers at McDonald's in May 2025 (which hasn't even happened yet). The chronological whiplash is giving me serious temporal complexity issues. It's like they implemented a reverse-sorted linked list of career achievements where Big O notation stands for "Order of fries, please." This resume perfectly captures that special moment when your algorithm for career progression throws an unexpected exception.

What If I Told You Random Isn't Random

Programming Security Algorithms Math

27 days ago 84.7K views 0 shares

Taking the red pill of computer science truth here! Every developer thinks they're getting true randomness, but peek behind the curtain and you'll find deterministic algorithms with sneaky biases. That's why your dice roll simulator keeps giving 1s, your shuffle algorithm clumps similar songs together, and your procedurally generated maps have suspicious patterns. True randomness? In this economy? The machines are just pretending, and Morpheus here is dropping the hard truth that would make any cryptographer sweat.

The C++ Baptism By Fire

C++ Programming Debugging

1 month ago 95.8K views 0 shares

That moment when the professor announces "Now, we are going to start C++" and you can practically feel your remaining sanity evaporating. Those innocent students have no idea they're about to enter a world where memory management errors will haunt their dreams and segmentation faults become their new best friends. Ten weeks from now, half the class will be questioning their life choices while debugging pointer arithmetic at 3 AM. The other half? Already updating their LinkedIn to "proficient in HTML."

The Paradox Of First-Try Success

Programming Debugging Testing

2 months ago 83.0K views 0 shares

The universal law of programming uncertainty: when your code works on the first attempt, it's not a victory—it's suspicious . Just like successfully plugging in a USB on the first try, it defies the natural order of the universe. That momentary pause where you question reality itself... "Wait, no compiler errors? No runtime exceptions? No stack trace from hell?" Seasoned devs know this feeling all too well—success without suffering feels like a trap. The debugging instinct kicks in harder when things actually work than when they don't!

From Dog Photos To Digital Deities

AI Programming

2 months ago 110.2K views 0 shares

Remember the innocent days when AI was just about identifying cats and dogs? Fast forward to now, and suddenly we're in an arms race to create sentient beings. The escalation from "look, my model can tell a golden retriever from a tabby!" to "we're literally creating consciousness before our geopolitical rivals" happened so fast I got whiplash. Venture capital really took "move fast and break things" and applied it to the fabric of existence itself. Next quarterly goal: playing God with better ROI than the competition.

Deep Research Indeed

AI Math Programming

3 months ago 121.2K views 0 shares

Ah, the classic "spend 2 minutes and 2 seconds to count to 10" problem. ChatGPT just turned basic geometry into a research dissertation. That's the same energy as developers who write 200 lines of documentation for a function that returns true or false. The best part? It's clearly a heptagon (7 sides), but ChatGPT's counting each "distinct corner" like it's being paid by the vertex. Next up: AI spending 4 minutes explaining why 2+2=5 with "reasoned thinking."

Passwords, How Do They Work? (Conversation With A Guy Who Has Been A Developer For 5 Years)

Security Webdev Programming Backend

3 months ago 130.2K views 0 shares

Passwords, How Do They Work? (Conversation With A Guy Who Has Been A Developer For 5 Years)

This conversation is what happens when you skip the "boring" security lectures in CS class. Our green-text hero thinks decrypting password hashes is just another Tuesday feature request, while orange-text is having an existential crisis trying to explain one-way functions. The best part? Five years of development experience and still wondering why we can't just hand out passwords like candy. That final "I can look it up anytime" after completely misunderstanding basic cryptography is peak developer confidence without competence. This is why your bank account gets hacked, folks. Because somewhere out there, a dev is thinking "who cares if you have the decryption algorithm" while building your financial app. Bruh indeed.

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