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Fashion designers create clothes. Programmers literally create dress code. This skirt is what happens when you wear your JavaScript minified in production. Sure beats the boring office attire—nothing says "I know what I'm doing" like wrapping yourself in hundreds of functions that probably don't pass code review. The ultimate power move is explaining to your date that your outfit has more nested callbacks than their entire codebase.

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The genius of this joke is that it's a meta-commentary on internet terminology! "POV" (Point of View) is notoriously misused in memes—it's supposed to show what you'd see from your perspective, not a third-person view of yourself. But here, the original poster actually used POV correctly in the most technical sense: we're seeing exactly what you'd see if you were looking at a CS student who managed to talk to a woman—because they're usually too busy debugging their side projects or arguing about tabs vs. spaces to develop social skills. It's like finding a bug that's actually a feature. The rarest of occurrences in software development.

Using toLowerCase() or toUpperCase() in your conditional logic? That's some big brain energy right there. Most devs just slap these methods on strings for case-insensitive comparisons without a second thought, but the real ones know this is a minefield of locale-specific chaos waiting to explode. The Turkish İ problem is legendary: in Turkish locale, the uppercase of 'i' is 'İ' (with a dot), not 'I', and lowercase 'I' becomes 'ı' (without a dot). So your innocent if (userInput.toLowerCase() === "admin") suddenly breaks when deployed in Turkey. There's also the German ß that uppercases to "SS", and Greek sigma has different lowercase forms depending on position. Unicode is wild, and these methods respect locale by default in some languages. Pro tip: use toLocaleUpperCase() or toLocaleLowerCase() when you actually care about proper linguistic handling, or better yet, use case-insensitive comparison methods that don't mutate strings. The lion knows what's up.

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