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According To My Experience
Hardware Programming Debugging
3 hours ago 37.0K views 0 shares
According To My Experience
Oh, the AUDACITY of family members who think your programming degree doubles as a CompTIA A+ certification! Just because you can debug a recursive function at 2 AM doesn't mean you magically know why Aunt Karen's printer is possessed by demons. Sure, you COULD probably figure it out—turn it off and on again, check if it's actually plugged in, sacrifice a USB cable to the tech gods—but let's be crystal clear: your ability to architect microservices has ZERO correlation with your desire to troubleshoot hardware from 2003. The real plot twist? You'll still end up fixing it anyway because saying no to family is apparently harder than solving LeetCode hard problems.

You Must Be Good At Math
Programming StackOverflow Debugging
4 months ago 182.9K views 0 shares
You Must Be Good At Math
Every CS grad knows the pain of relatives thinking we're tech wizards who can hack NASA with a toothpick. In reality, most of us are just frantically Googling Stack Overflow while pretending we remember how sorting algorithms work. The awkward smile in this meme is the universal "I mostly just know how to look things up and occasionally make computers do stuff" face that every developer wears at family gatherings. Four years of education to become professional Googlers with impostor syndrome.

Abort Unless Comp Sci
Programming
5 months ago 181.9K views 0 shares
Abort Unless Comp Sci
Classic tech parent logic: "My son isn't following my prescribed career path, so I'll just... *checks notes*... hack his social media and threaten digital dismemberment." Because nothing says "I support your dreams" like threatening to glue your kid's fingers to a keyboard. The true "Hello World" of parenting - print("disappointment"). That 833.2K like count suggests a disturbing number of people thinking, "Hmm, forcible CS education... not the worst idea I've heard today."