Interviews Vs Reality

The career progression of a CS grad who never quite made it. Algorithms? Blank stare. Database systems? Dead inside. But show them a joke about semicolons and suddenly they're a technical genius. It's the programming equivalent of only understanding sports through memes about referees being blind.

Content Anonymous 050122(Sun)04:09:27 No.68444767 be me go to coffee shop order a hot chocolate with marshmellows overhear two women are talking at the other table pick up programming words like "while 64 KB JPG loop" and "cu" like programming stuff approach their table confidently "Hey guys, are you talking about programming?" they look at me I repeat myself they kinda just nod, they don't continue whatever they were talking about, guess they don't think I will understand I tell them I'm a programmer (gestured at myself with my hands for emphasis) one of them is like "sorry, we're talking about work" (paraphrasing) they seem to be trying to get rid of me I insist and ask her what their conversation was about it takes a while but the other one is like "we were discussing blah blah something about optimization" I have no idea what the fuck she just said, it didn't make any sense to me at all change the topic quickly and ask what programming language she uses she says it's C I say "C is an old language, you should use something cooler like javascript" (that's what I'm learning) they talk to each other quietly (I can't hear what they are saying) one of them asks "anon, where do you work?" I tell them I don't have job, I do programming as a hobby the conversation doesn't continue they leave a few minutes later Where did I do wrong?

Content using drake meme using diffs

Content Debugger print("beep") Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture. Programmers made with mematic ProarammerHumor.io They're the same picture.

Content Airport WiFi: Expires Me: Changes my MAC -address Airport WiFi: I've never met this man in my life.

Deciphering regex is exactly like being an archaeologist trying to translate ancient hieroglyphics with nothing but a magnifying glass and sheer determination. That cryptic pattern of slashes, dots, asterisks, and parentheses might as well be sacred texts carved by a civilization that communicated exclusively in escape characters. The worst part? You wrote it yourself six months ago and left zero comments. Now you're squinting at ^(?:(?:\w+:)?\/\/)?(?:[\w-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,}(?::\d+)?(?:\/\S*)?$ wondering if it's validating a URL or summoning an elder god.