Tomorrow I'll have my first interview, any 'helpful' tips?

The dev job market in four emotional stages: 1. Mild confidence : "I know 6 languages? That's decent, right?" 2. Excited overconfidence : "30 GitHub projects?! I'm basically a 10x developer at this point!" 3. Nuclear meltdown mode : *Frantically scrolling LinkedIn* "Wait, they want 12 years experience in a 5-year-old framework?!" 4. Existential despair : *Staring into the void* "10,000 applicants... one position... my resume is probably being used as digital scratch paper." The tech hiring funnel: where your impostor syndrome gets validated by actual numbers.

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The bell curve of programming wisdom strikes again! At the far left, we have sweet summer children who think "computers are magic" because they've never had to debug a race condition at 2 AM. In the middle, the enlightened souls who understand the fundamental truth: computers only do exactly what you tell them to do, no more, no less. Then at the far right, we circle back to "computers are magic" – but this time it's the grizzled veterans who've seen so much unexplainable behavior that they've transcended rational explanation. "Why did restarting the server fix it? No idea. Magic. Ship it."

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The ultimate showdown: Error proudly declaring "You can't defeat me," while Thor admits "I know, but he can," pointing to the true superhero of the coding universe – the humble comment (//). That double slash is the silent guardian of sanity in codebases everywhere. When your code is a flaming dumpster fire and Stack Overflow has abandoned you, sometimes the only solution is to just comment that nightmare out and pretend it never happened. Problem solved... technically.

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