When Your Debug Statements Expose Your Maturity Level

The eternal struggle between primitive and proper debugging techniques. Sure, a debugger exists, but why use sophisticated tools when you can just carpet bomb your code with print() , console.log() , or System.out.println() statements? It's like having a perfectly good hammer but choosing to bang screws in with your forehead instead. The sheer chaotic joy of littering your codebase with print("HERE1") , print("HERE2") , print("WHY GOD WHY") is apparently irresistible. The funniest part? We all know those print statements will somehow make it to production. Because nothing says "professional software engineer" like users seeing DEBUG: ENTERING LOOP ITERATION 47 in their console.

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This is the perfect visualization of eventual consistency in distributed systems! The sign claims 236 people drowned, but somehow 237 weren't wearing life jackets. That off-by-one error is basically what happens when your database nodes haven't synced yet. "Don't worry, the data will be consistent... eventually™." Just like how this lake's tragic statistics will probably get fixed in the next write operation. Or maybe they're counting a future drowning victim who's already decided not to wear a life jacket but hasn't fallen in yet. Talk about pessimistic locking!

Content 9:41 A I ON 3 92 38 last seen today at 9:19 am looked into React today to broaden my general design knowledge. Just wanted to get an idea of what I can ask of devs. First time I've done any coding for three years.. Jeez, even getting started was an assault course. OK, need a code editor - download Visual Studio Code. Advice is to then download multiple extensions to improve syntax. Next, apparently I need Yarn. But I first need Homebrew to install Yarn. Download and install homebrew. This takes a while. Install Yarn. Apple then tells me it needs to update xcode. I let it. OK, cool, we're cruising... So I want to view some components. Apparently now I need to install an NPM library, but first I need to download node. I continue typing things into terminal, the meaning of which, I know not. Nearly 45 minutes has passed by this point and I have no idea what I've just done. I'm at literally step one of a tutorial. I go for a run instead. 5:16 pm V haha! fee like a screenshot of that message would get a lot of upvotes on r programmerhumor 5:18 pm Type a message

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