The Three-Headed Dragon Of Developer Tools

Content How to fix any computer Windows Step 1. Reboot Did that fix it? Nor Proceed to step a Step a Format hard drive. Reinstall Windows Lose all your files Quietly weep Apple Step 1. Take it to an Apple store Did that fix it? No? Proceed to step a Step a Buy a new Mac Overdraw your account Quietly weep Linux Step 1. Learn to code in C. Recompile the kernel. Build your own microprocessor out of spare silicon you had lying around Recompile the kernel again. Switch distros. Recompile the kernel again but this time using a CPU powered by refracted light from Saturn. Grow a giant beard. Blame Sun Microsystems. Turn your bedroom into a server closet and spend ten years falling asleep to the sound of whirring fans. Switch distros again. Abandon all hygiene. Write a regular expression that would make other programmers cry blood. Learn to code in Java. Recompile the kernel again (but this time while wearing your lucky socks). Did that fix it? No? Proceed to step a Step a. Revert back to Using Windows or a Mac Quietly weep

Content Repos at Megacorporations We put all of Windows in We put all 2 billion lines of All 20 million lines of the one git repo so developers our webservices in a single Linux kernel are in one git only need 1 PR to make repo to make life easy for repo so every developer can changes. developers. have their own copy. Repos at small, cargo culting companies Added a function to a Changing one thing needs Having everything in its Every library and executable library? Bump the sever PRs into 5 repos with 2 own repo will enable code should have its own repo for and make a PR into every approvals each. reuse (AKA legacy crap that scalability. repo that depends on it to This is just how it's done will never die). update the requirement. in the real world.

Windows setup: "Almost done! Just need to finish configuring your system..." Me: *breathes in relief* OneDrive: *emerges with knife* "Did someone say they wanted their precious C:\ drive contents automatically synced to the cloud whether they like it or not?" The eternal struggle between wanting to just use your computer as a computer versus Microsoft's desperate need to assimilate your files into their cloud borg collective. The knife is just there to remind you that resistance is futile.

Ah yes, the 1980 Microsoft logo. Back when tech companies thought heavy metal band aesthetics would somehow make database management seem edgy. Turns out Bill Gates was secretly a metalhead all along. The logo screams "We're not just going to revolutionize personal computing, we're going to melt your face while doing it." Microsoft's early identity crisis – torn between business software and opening for Metallica.

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