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Stop Using The Word "Bricked" If You Don't Know What It Means
Hardware Programming Debugging
13 days ago 58.7K views 0 shares
Stop Using The Word "Bricked" If You Don't Know What It Means
The tech community's version of natural selection: watching newbies confidently throw around terms like "bricked" without realizing they're essentially announcing "I permanently destroyed my device" rather than "it's temporarily not working." Nothing quite like the silent judgment of seasoned engineers watching someone declare they've "bricked" their laptop because the battery died.

The Cunningham's Law Exploit
StackOverflow Programming Debugging
29 days ago 83.4K views 0 shares
The Cunningham's Law Exploit
Exploiting the human compulsion to correct others – that's psychological warfare at its finest. Post a wrong answer to your own question and suddenly everyone's a helpful expert. It's like watching moths to a flame, except the flame is someone saying "actually, you should use a ternary operator here" instead of just answering the original question. Cunningham's Law in its natural habitat.

From Prison To Programmer: The Ultimate Career Change
React Webdev Javascript Programming Frontend
2 months ago 116.0K views 0 shares
From Prison To Programmer: The Ultimate Career Change
Nothing says "career pivot" quite like going from prison to React developer. The conversation starts innocently with someone worrying their 44-year-old brain can't handle learning React by 50, and ends with the most extreme backstory reveal in tech forum history. This is basically the dark universe version of those LinkedIn posts where people brag about learning to code after switching careers. "From convicted felon to frontend developer - anything is possible with determination and a good IDE!" And they say the tech interview process is brutal. At least no one's asking about your axe-murdering skills anymore.