The Mentor's Dilemma

Content can you make a joke about programming? Sure! Here's a programming joke for you: Why do programmers always mix up Halloween and Christmas? Because Oct 31 equals Dec 25! I don't get it Oh, I'm sorry! The joke is a play on the fact that in many programming languages, including C and JavaScript, you can represent dates and times as numbers, using a system called "Unix time." In this system, the number '25" represents Christmas Day (December 25th), while the number '31 represents Halloween (October 31st). When written next to each other, 'Oct 31 and Dec 25 look similar, and the joke is that programmers, who often think in terms of numbers and code, might mix up the two holidays because of the way they're represented in Unix time.

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The entire open source revolution—GNU, Linux, Firefox—all born from the collective rage of programmers who couldn't get their printers to work. Nothing motivates innovation like the silent fury of watching a printer smugly display "PC LOAD LETTER" while holding your career hostage. Linus Torvalds probably created Git just to version control his printer troubleshooting attempts.

The eternal struggle of terminal warriors everywhere. You know you've typed that command a hundred times before, but suddenly your brain decides to play hide-and-seek with basic syntax. So you frantically tap the up arrow key, scrolling through your command history like you're digging for buried treasure. And after passing through 37 variations of git commit messages and that one curl command you copy-pasted from Stack Overflow six months ago, you finally spot it—that beautiful, simple command you needed. The rush of dopamine when you find it is better than any compiler successfully running on the first try.

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Nobody wants to hear "it's a piece of crap" during code review. But saying "it's just a proof of concept" grants you immunity from criticism while still shipping the same garbage to production. The sacred incantation that transforms technical debt into "visionary architecture" without changing a single line of code.