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When You Created C But Still Need To Prove It

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1 year ago 452.3K views 2 shares

When You Created C But Still Need To Prove It

Imagine creating an entire programming language and then being asked to prove you know how to use it. The sheer audacity of HR making Ken Thompson—the literal father of C—take a C proficiency test is peak corporate bureaucracy. It's like asking Picasso to pass a coloring-within-the-lines test or making Einstein solve basic algebra before letting him work on relativity. "Sorry sir, company policy—everyone needs to demonstrate they can print 'Hello World' before accessing our codebase."

Ferris Wheel One Looks Too Intense For Me

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1 year ago 375.6K views 0 shares

Ferris Wheel One Looks Too Intense For Me

This meme hits right in the nostalgia bytes! It references RollerCoaster Tycoon, that legendary game where we'd spend hours meticulously building theme parks pixel by pixel. The joke here is that someone coded an entire theme park simulation in Assembly language - which is basically programming with your bare hands at the CPU level. And with "a box of scraps" no less (that's an Iron Man reference)! Fun fact: The original RollerCoaster Tycoon was actually written almost entirely in Assembly by Chris Sawyer, making this meme historically accurate. It's like building the Eiffel Tower with tweezers and toothpicks when everyone else is using cranes and power tools. Absolute madlad energy.