The Oxford Dictionary Of Developer Truth

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The infinite recursion of tech support. Even the most brilliant engineers have that one friend they text at 2AM with "hey, my thing is broken." Follow that chain long enough and you'll eventually find some mysterious bearded figure in a basement who still uses Vim and hasn't updated their OS since 2003. That person? They just Google stuff like the rest of us, but somehow their searches actually work.

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Content When you try finding an error on stack overflow and find out a whole code for the thing you are doing. I came looking for Copper And I found Gold

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The sign that says "THIS IS A STOP SIGN" under an actual stop sign is basically every junior developer's commenting style in a nutshell. Why write int counter = 0; // initialize counter to zero when you can state the blindingly obvious? Nothing says "I'm new here" like commenting every single line with its exact function. Next up: adding "// end of if statement" after every closing bracket. The senior devs reviewing this code are dying inside, one redundant comment at a time.