Just Keep Coding, We Can Always Fix It Later

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The religious fervor of C programmers is no joke. While some worship at the altar of the sacred C language with its pointers and manual memory management, heretics who dare question its divinity face swift retribution. The non-believer gets literally vaporized for blasphemy against the programming deity. Next time someone tells you C is outdated, remember - segmentation faults aren't bugs, they're divine punishment for your lack of faith. Memory leaks are just your penance for not properly honoring the malloc() ritual.

Your brain at 3 AM is the ULTIMATE BETRAYER! There you are, desperately trying to catch some Z's before another day of debugging hell, when your traitorous brain decides it's the PERFECT moment to contemplate the Stack Overflow homepage layout! NOT the solution to world hunger, NOT your crush's phone number, but the EXACT SHADE OF ORANGE on those upvote buttons! And suddenly you're WIDE AWAKE wondering if the navbar has changed since yesterday. Sleep? Who needs it when you can mentally reconstruct a website you've visited 47 times today already?!

The absolute TRAGEDY of our industry in one image! 😭 Up top we have the American "Senior Dev" making a cool $480K with a GitHub contribution graph that looks like they're on permanent vacation - a measly 69 contributions all year! Meanwhile, the Indian freelance junior dev is HUSTLING with 4,303 contributions while making less than the cost of a decent gaming chair ($780/yr)! The global pay disparity is so ridiculous it hurts my soul! This is what happens when your salary is based on your geographical location rather than your actual output. That contribution graph difference is the digital equivalent of one person casually watering a single houseplant while the other is frantically maintaining the entire Amazon rainforest!

Ah, the classic "beginner's paralysis." Remember when learning to code was just picking up a book on BASIC or Pascal? Now it's like walking into a pharmacy with 47 different cold medicines when all you wanted was something to stop your runny nose. The tech industry has perfected the art of reinventing the wheel every six months, leaving newbies staring at a buffet of languages and frameworks with absolutely no idea which one won't be obsolete by the time they finish the tutorial. Pro tip from someone who's been coding since punch cards: just pick one and start. The second language is always easier, and the twentieth barely registers as new. Meanwhile, the industry will keep churning out shiny new options like a slot machine that only pays in technical debt.

Content Coderl: How's it going? Coder2: Terrible. I've been working on this thing for two days and don't know what's wrong. First it does this, then it does that, and then it... um... oh... ok... I know what it is. Hey, thanks for your help. Coderl: No problem.